I heard rumours (exciting rumours!) about this a while back:
Autoblog - Fiat Abarth 500 makes a comeback!
They could have made it just a teensy bit cuter… It does look rather… Well, like all those Japanese cars, really. But hey, I’ll still buy it.
Bubblehead better watch out, or I’ll have him cornered on the secret Soviet underground submarine base links market! Oh yes!
Architecture Portal News - Soviet Underground Submarine Base
Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Balaklava was one of the most secret towns in Russia. 10km south eas of Sevastopol on the Black Sea Coast, this small town was the home to a Nuclear Submarine Base.
Looks a bit like a bunker I was once in in France. But, uh, wetter.
Very weird, like something from Myst USSR Kdition. Still it explains why Balaklava was off limits.
Couldn’t you make the coolest resort swimming pool out of that? I can just see where they’d put the bar…
You may have matched me on base links, but I still lead in cute polar bear pics…
Looks a bit like Blofeld’s place in “You Only Live Twice”. All it needs is a white cat and some piranhas.
Seriously. But think what some colourful Mediterranean tiled murals could do for the place! With some potted palms…
Not just hookers in those rolodexes: Heidi Fleiss hookers.
The Inquirer - Piracy worse than child pornography: Society’s new perspectives
Details of the upgraded [Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)], which has the blessing of the music and film industry and the Bush administration, are now coming to light. It appears that the DMCA will have a maximum sentence of ten years inside for the crime of software and music piracy. It will also give the FBI the powers to wiretap suspected pirates.
…assaulting a police officer will get you five years, downloading child porn will get you seven years, assaulting without a weapon will get you ten years and aggravated assault six years.
So in other words if you copy a Disney CD and sell it you will be in the same league as a paedophile who is distributing pictures of sexual attacks on children.
If you copy Craig David’s CD you get ten years, but if you punch him in the face and pummel him into a seven day coma you will only get six. You are more likely to get the respect of the prison population with your six year sentence as well.
Now that’s influence.
Peter says:
Jesus.
How out of touch can one possibly be.
Leetspeak has NOTHING to do with any of the crap they wrote about. First fricken hit on Google had they bothered to actually try and verify any of this:
The article, accompanied by a picture of a couple smiling little white kids standing around a friendly glowing computer screen with their smiling mother leaning lovingly over them:
CBS - Online Language Keeps Parents Guessing: Parents’ Guide To Computer Slang
It’s called Leetspeak - the online language kids use to speed up communication and keep their parents guessing. The code has developed a dangerous edge to it.
Thirteen-year-old Michael Kennedy says BFF means “best friends forever” in an instant message from a friend. It’s how kids communicate online, and it can be fairly innocent. OMG, for example, is “oh my gosh.”
But Leetspeak, the secret code of numbers and letters, is changing and Internet safety experts want to warn parents about it.
Dun dun dunnnnn!
Peter’s discovered another example of CBS getting a story so wrong it’s embarrassing because they’re too lazy or stupid to check their facts, which would ordinarily be a big deal around this corner of the blogosphere, but I doubt this time Michelle Malkin’s going to get behind it since she’s probably on their side this time around.
This is absolutely wonderful! And I absolutely insist all of you watch it with the audio on.
Amazing! Anyone see the one in which the various components of a car sort of activated themselves in much the same way to start the engine of a car? The name of which escapes me. Might have been a VW. That’s advertising creativity for you.
That’s cool!
Autoblog - Saturn previews Sky Red Line ahead of New York debut
Saturn’s getting all …nice to look at.
Nice, but where are you going to put the twins?
But this is Peter Recommends.
OK. I’m with Peter.
If I installed my paypal, would you people give me $45,000?
Those human verification things just got a lot cuter:
KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals.
Brilliant!
Update:
Those Joooos sure are canny:
FOXnews (video) - Force Field, by Mike Tobin
Peter says:
Man, those Israelis sure know how to make crazy military stuff.
I can certainly see it for a nursery. And yes, I did very much enjoy paint-by-numbers kits. Especially when I was sickly and being forced to watch the World Series whilst I wuz home from skool.
Shoulda used Norways finest - them guys are too cute.
Peter used to have a rat, and I used to spend my bio lab with the lab rats sitting on my shoulder. Used to freak the hell out of the girls, which was an added bonus, unrelated to the cuteness of the lil’ guys.
This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be
01:02:03:04/05/06
Look out for it.
That’s a month away for us in Oz. We use DD/MM/YY. But good “heads up”.
I had the radio on this afternoon and the guy was talking about this (after I posted it) and he was laughing that he got all these emails from listeners saying “This will only happen once ever!” and he was all “Am I missing something or is it not going to happen in a hundred years.” But anyway some guy called up and said it would happen next month too in Europe because they do the dates the wonky way around. But he didn’t seem interested in that.
Well it’s something. Not as important as piDay of course.
April 28th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Abarth! Abarth! Abarth! What Cooper was to Minis Abarth was to all sorta weird little F.I.A.T.s Fun cars. Drove an Abarth engineered Alpha GTA once, I offered me Sunbeam Tiger and $500 for it. No go.
I bleed Ferrari red, but I have an inner Alpha.
April 28th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Heh heh.
Yeah, Peter emailed it to me with a “I think Fiat just outdid Mini”.
August 7th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I live at 26782 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?