Archive for April, 2006

Here’s a great idea

Rubbersidewalks

Sidewalks made from recycle automobile tires. This is the best use for this stuff that I’m aware of besides grinding them up and using them for playground equipment mulch.

Greek Hope

What do you think? Cool tattoo? I like just the word, not the whole tree all the way up the arm.Originally uploaded by adcreech.

Dead Lobster Crawling

A restaurant in Italy was fined $855 for displaying live lobsters on ice. I’m sure many of you have been to your local Dead Red Lobster and seen the tank full of lobsters with their claws rubberbanded shut. It turns out that someone reported this restaurant to the a national animal protection group.

“They said that the lobsters, laying on the ice, suffer…
They compared them in court to other animals, like cats and
dogs.”

A court in the northeastern city of Vicenza ruled the
display was a form of abuse dooming the crustaceans to a slow
death by suffocation.

Do these same people understand what happens if someone orders one of the lobsters? Do they think getting boiled is like some warm, soothing bath? I’m sure if we could ask the lobsters themselves, they’d let us know, “Hey, that’s okay….I’ll stay right here on this nice pile of crushed ice!”

Read on: Italy restaurant fined for “cruel” lobster display

Akismet Update

For anyone that’s been on the edge of your seats wondering how my spam turf-war was going, things are back to normal I guess. Akismet seems to be grabbing the majority of everything, with Spam Karma 2 filling in the gaps.

My only problem (and I use the word “only” loosely) is that I don’t have enough people commenting with legitimate stuff to say to test things out.

So, unless you’re interested in telling me about phentermine, penile dysfunction/erection/growth, the lastest news in Paris Hilton’s life, or HerbaLife for that matter. LEAVE ME A COMMENT.

If you leave a comment and don’t get a response let me know. I want to make sure that my two bouncers aren’t mislabeling things.

And for anyone counting:

  • Spam Karma 2 <> Total Spam Caught: 6989 (average karma: -60498.25)
  • Akismet <> Akismet has caught 23,993 spam for you since you installed it
  • Legitimate Comments <> 120

What Dick Cheney and I Have in Common

We both seem to have a talent for shooting our hunting partners.

Jason Bean thought he was shooting at a coyote when he fatally wounded
his hunting companion in a Peacham field on Nov. 13, according to
police affidavits filed with Caledonia District Court.

Okay, just kidding that’s not really me, but we do share a name. I mean if I were that person, I don’t think I’d be blogging right now about it in jail.