While watching college footbal today, I saw a most horrifying sight.

If you watch any football, you're familiar with the yellow line they superimpose on the field to indicate the yardage needed to attain a first down. I think this is a great idea. However, as with so many great ideas, this one has been put to evil usage. Today, along with the first down marker, they used this technology to put a big advertisement across the field. Is nothing sacred?

The gulity party: CBS.

By request, I'm posting a link to this article from Wired magazine. I had already read the article, and I have to say I didn't really like it very much. I really hate when people start calculating the probability of life existing in the universe. What they are really computing--or trying to anyways--is the probability of life as we know it coming about. On our own planet, we continue to find life in places where we didn't think it could exist; deep in the ocean, in the polar ice caps, etc, etc. Yet, despite this, people continue to insist that they know the correct conditions required for life.

My prediction: life does exist on other planets. If and when we do find it, it will be so different from what we consider "life", that we will at first not recognize it as such.

If you like art, and weird stuff in general, then you'll probably like this short film that comes to us in a Flash format.

It appears that in Texas, it's illegal to be caught with a vibrator. However, if this same woman would have been pulled over with guns in her car instead, she wouldn't have been breaking any laws. Ah, Texas, what a state.

Perhaps the ladies in that state should start making "devices" that are shaped like guns but are used for "other" means?

The guy is this story must have been writing a very engrossing report. How could you not notice that you are slowly burning your self in that particular region?

Of course, the question now will probably turn to who gets sued. The computer maker is an obvious target. But the maker of the pants may be partially to blame. Not too mention the maker of the battery.

My question about this is, were they arguing because they wanted to win, or because they want to lose this contest. Even stupider, there was no need to get violent since a contest of this sort can easily be determined with an impartial (and most likely, very drunk) observer.

All of the O'Reilly books have an animal on the cover. This spoof, uses Hello Kitty as its cover animal. The table of contents is pretty darn funny.

I have to warn you that if you follow the link in this post, you'll be subjected to a picture of Michael Jackson taken during his on-going court case. Since the picture is on Yahoo! News and comes to them from Reuters, I have to assume that this is how he really looks. And boy, does he look bad. The guy hardly looks human.

Yesterday, there were several news stories that called my attention to the fact that, as a whole, people are pretty stupid.

To start, 60% of people approve of Bush's handling of the economy. Excuse me? So far as I can tell, the economy is in the crapper, and he hasn't done a thing about it. He's been to busy distracting us with Iraq.

Next, a survey is released showing that 17% of the people who consider themselves to be in excellent health, are obviously unhealthy (grossly overweight, booze hounds, etc).

Now, to top it all off, there's this guy who thinks he's Mary Poppins. Can a lawsuit be far behind?

If you're prone to getting dizzy, you'll want to avoid this page of optical illusions. If you like getting freaked out, then you'll want to go there pronto verde.

Yo, yo, yo! If y'all like me, you be thinkin there's nuttin more dope than gold caps for the teeths. But shet man, those bad boys cost big dead pres, and when my homey Da Bullet got his caps, he said that it be hurtin for weeks. But slap my ass and call me Sally, there's now be a better way. Mr Bling. This bad ass mo' fo' be sellin custom caps that you can put in and out. Got gold, diamonds, this shet looks dope and cost whole lots less.

Ahhhh, there's nothing more fun than reading the lunatic rantings of a paranoid psycho.

My cell phone is dead. It's been killed by the most unexpected of murderers; a Reese's Pieces. I kid you not.

While at a tailgate party this last weekend, I had occasion to eat a pack of the innocous candy in question. When finished, I put the wrapper in my pocket; the same pocket containing my phone (cue the music that foreshadows doom). Unbeknowst to myself, one of the Reese's Pieces had escaped consumption and remained in the package. That's pretty much all it took.

When I later took the phone out of my pocket, the opening in the phone for the charging cord was completely packed with Reese's Pieces pieces. It wasn't pretty. Although the phone was clearly in trouble, I attempted to revive it by removing the impacted peanut butter with a straw. Sadly, the phone did not survive the procedure. Several of the traces on the board delaminated leaving me with a dead phone.

So sad.

But meet my new phone. Smaller, lighter, and just plain better than the previous model.

Here is a transcript of an interview with Jon Stewart concerning the media and this year's election. It's funny. If you've never seen his show, The Daily Show, it's funny too. He's not quite as funny as Craig Kilborn was when he hosted it, but he does lend the show a relevance that it lacked before.

Jen and I just got back from a weekend in South Carolina. I had never been there before and I must say, it's amazing how different things are in the south.

We flew into Charlotte North Carolina, and from the time you leave the airport on Billy Graham Parkway, there is no doubt that you are in the Bible Belt. This was further driven home when we went to the Gamecock's game on Saturday and had to sit through a sizable prayer before the game.

Other observations about South Carolina...

• People support their farmers by smoking like there's no tomorrow.
• BBQ is a very popular item. Unlike every BBQ sauce I've seen before, most of the BBQ sauces in SC are mustard-based and therefore yellow. It's a little odd looking at first.
• No front license plates are required. Must be nice not having to worry about photo radar.
• They really like their state flag. You see it everywhere; on signs, cars, buildings.
• They have no sign laws.
• They really like those Gamecock's. Looking at the mascot, it looks like less a rooster and more like a midevil dragon. But you see it everwhere too. Usually not far from a state flag.

Sadly, the Gamecock's lost to Tennesse. But it was a fun game and there was plenty of good tailgaing to make up for the disappointing performace on the field.