Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Spotted in Toronto, where I spent part of last weekend - while George Bush is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Time Canada’s “Newsmaker of the Year” is Maher Arar. It makes for an interesting juxtaposition.
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 6:16:27 PM -
Opportunists
and Self-Described Victims vs. Any Available Deep Pockets For the stupid and
the dead, there's the Darwin Awards. For the opportunistic and the alive,
there's the Stella Awards. The Stella Awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In
1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee onto her lap, burning
herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages. And of course it wasn't that
simple, but the brief descriptions of the various cases make for entertaining reading. Serious
legal geeks can have full case reports mailed to them, or check out and post to
the site forum.
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 6:08:19 PM -
While we're talking about Memeorandum, there's some other news sites out there:
Ten by ten. News in pictures.
Findory. Learns your interests as you read and makes a better newspaper for you.
Newsmap. The bigger the square, the bigger the news.
Press Display. Links to tons of newspapers around the world.
Newspaper Direct. Tons of newspapers links too.
Where do you get your news?
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 6:04:53 PM -
"Sushi pants" and other
stories... Possibly not the "best of the web", but not political and damn
funny. Of late I have been enjoying a number of "story"
sites recounting the kind of tall tales of
questionable accuracy you usually only hear from genuinely funny friends. Many,
many chuckles to be had out there. Some of the stories seem superficially mean but are
actually interesting looks into difficult
situations you might otherwise never glimpse. "A few days later he put a
tarantula in my bedsheets while I was sleeping. Thankfully I wasn't bitten, but
I was freaked out and still sometimes jump out of bed in the middle of the night
for no reason and attack my sheets." - from thingie.net
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 6:04:16 PM -
