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My, Brit, that was tasteful

April 4th, 2006 No comments

BritBrit hired some dwarves midgets little people as props at her idiot husband’s birthday party.

Pop star Britney Spears has been slammed as “wicked” and “sick” for hiring dwarves to entertain her husband’s guests at his recent birthday bash.

Spears has been criticized by a host of foundations representing the interests of smaller people, who have branded the stunt at last month’s (Mar. 21) surprise event utterly tasteless.

At the party, hosted in a Las Vegas, Nevada restaurant, two female dwarves were reportedly employed to carry in Kevin Federline’s 28th birthday cake, while another dressed as a miniature Sonny Bono alongside a Cher look-alike.

Categories: Crappy Ideas, Pop Culture

No, this isn’t troubling at all

March 30th, 2006 No comments

Hunter-killer drones and remote CIA assassinations coming to a town near you

Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists.

Now UAVs may be landing in the United States.

A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday heard testimony from police agencies that envision using UAVs for everything from border security to domestic surveillance high above American cities. Private companies also hope to use UAVs for tasks such as aerial photography and pipeline monitoring.
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“We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory,” Michael Kostelnik, assistant commissioner at Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau, told the House Transportation subcommittee.

This is Hoover’s America, not mine.

Oh, joy

March 22nd, 2006 No comments

Windows can run on intel Macs. Why anyone would want to pay the premium for Apple hardware and industrial design while also putting an inferior OS on said hardware is beyond me.

Up next: how to mod your Jaguar into a Toyota Camry

From the bad ideas file

March 21st, 2006 No comments

Comes a new series, brought to you by the man who can’t write covering the interregnum between the odious and the sullied, Lucas presents to you, a 100-episode Star Wars TV series.

The TV series spin-off of the Stars Wars film franchise will run to at least 100 episodes, according to producer Rick McCallum.

He told BBC Radio 1 the writing team would soon be meeting to start on the project, which would begin filming in 2008 and be ready the same year.

“Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody’s excited and watches it we will keep on going,” said McCallum.

The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga.

It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers.

Here’s the thing: Jesus’ son Luke’s first 20 years? Were spent being a moisture farmer on Tatooine. Ex-CIT-ing.

I hope this works out better than the claw-your-eyes-out awful holiday special.