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Allegations of hazing at CMU Kap Sig. That syrup thing had to hurt. Thanks to JT for this one.

Bubba Bubba Bubba is one the prowl. At least he could have changed it to Buba Bubba Bubbe, like Toni Tone Tony. Thanks to Shek for this one.

Anti-pron leader arrested for soliciting a prostitute. Cue Nelson Muntz. Thanks to Sperl for this one, who points out that if you replace the name of the guy with someone else, the story is funnier.

Turkey Day 03 There was a race. There was a tree hunt. There was a visit from the Kanes. There was a visit to the Old Port.

bhendrix.com page of Misc. I've been fooling around with a couple new programs, and behold the result. I get RSS feeds from several comics and news outlets. As an added bonus, there's a list of the top posters to the Comments. It's all updated as soon as the feeds refresh. 164 represent.

The Tartan on the 'heist' to steal Andrew Carnegie. Tremendous story. Where's Dave with a Crime and Incident re-enactment? Thanks to Sperl for this one.

Iraqis got stiffed by Kim Jong Il on missiles. If you can't trust a psychotic dictator for weapons knowledge, who can you trust? Thanks to JT via Fark for this one.

Marzipan's answering machine. Awesome. Thanks to JT via Fark for this one as well.

Top 25 Worst Albums. The distinction being that these are from people who produced good albums at some point. Vitalogy should not have been included. That said, the rest is pretty good. Thanks to Fark for this one.

How Michael Eisner is ruining Disney... by Roy Disney. Particularly interesting was the slamming of the Miramax and Pixar relationship-screwing.

iPod Battery for $99 The video I posted a bit ago was pretty misleading, apparently. After the vid was made, Apple announced a program to replace batteries and increase the warranty. So, go consume.

McClaren tests new car. The other new car. They built and tested a new car last year all year, but it never raced. So they built another new car. Here's hoping Kimi and DC can pull it off this year. Or Kimi and JPM in a couple more.

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson living it up. Anonymously. It seems like C&H has been all over lately. Maybe because people are still waiting for something that doesn't suck. "Note to all Comic Strips: Please stop." - T Hendrix - 11/30/03. Penny Arcade, Mr. Trudeau, and Mr. Adams, you are not included.

Tourism in North Korea. Man, is this ever strange. Thanks to Shek and his Wal-Mart lovin' ass for this one.

Huge Picture Guy This guy creates huge pictures of interesting subjects by 'stitching' together smaller images. He just got his ass Slashdotted, so the site's running really slowly. But if you're looking for some good wallpaper, check it out.

NY Times article about where the iPod came from. An okay article with lots of fluff. But it does prove once and for all that Steve Jobs is one ego-maniacal douche bag that got picked last. A lot.

Diamond expose. Yet another bhendrix.com rant on diamonds. Read. Live it. Love it.

Curse of the Asian Man. We don't think about blondes 30% of the time. It's equally divided among all hair colors. Don't be hatin', dude. Good for a laugh, anyway.

Google search for 'miserable failure'

Like Jailbait? Keep your volume down. And try not to laugh too hard. Thanks to Jeanine for this one. And, as and added bonus from Jeanine, try these at home. 2nd one not safe for work. 1st one not so much either.

Segway development at CMU Thanks to Rick and Shek for this one. Be sure to check the pic. Skynet goes on line next year or something.

Dane Cook is 'Stuff' Comedian of the Year Reading this article, I can see why. Thanks to Chad 'Pimp Daddy' Harper for this one.

Woman trampled getting $29 Wal-Mart DVD Player. Store offers to put one on hold for her. Ahhh, the holidays. Bring on the love.

Sex offenders registry. I didn't realize all this was on-line. We are living in the information age, to be sure. Via Fark.

I'm on Friendster. Be afraid. brian@bhendrix.com Update Link Fixed.

Thanks to naj for this one.

German dude eats other dude. Claims it was consentual. Truth is stranger than fiction. Thanks to Shek 'That guy' Mitra.

Turkey Day 03 - Pittsburgh Style. A mini-throwdown in the burgh from Burch.

Paltrow knocked up. Chris Martin is off the market. Chad and Andy to hold vigil. Thanks to Andy for the link.

Low tech ways to solve actual problems. Who would've thunk it? I'm guessing Powerpoint and Excel are not involved.

UPenn Students looking to flex political muscle. The Electoral College is complete BS. Discuss. Thanks to Shek for this one.

Bhendrix.com FAQ I compiled a FAQ. A while ago. Then I forgot to post it. So now it's here. Any other questions? Post 'em.

Wonderful Days Trailer Not a big anime fan. Have no idea what this is about. But I want to see it. Thanks to Joel for this one. In other 'movies that are animated but make me question reality' news, check out the teaser trailer for 'Polar Express'.

Homer Simpson: A LEGOŽ creation by Sean Kenney. Anybody got $4500? It really holds a beer. Be sure to check out the rest of this site as well.

My Pron Name.com Good for a laugh. Thanks to Andy for this one. This is actually safe for work.

Thanks to Amy for this one.

Casket Furniture.com Need a Pet bed made from a pet coffin? You're in the right place. Thanks to Emily for this one.

NYU stops filming of sex scene in class. Man, this is odd. Censorship is bad. Best quote of the article is this one - "Lisa Estrin, 19, a sophomore, said she made a film showing simulated sex between two stuffed toys, Minnie Mouse and Lamb Chop." She'll be hearing from the Disney Corporation soon. I expect to see this on The Daily Show asap. You listening Stewart?

Fat Asian kid gets Photoshopped Some of these are pretty good. Thanks to Sperl for this one. I feel like it originally came from Fark, but who knows?

Possible Space race with China. "You've got the Chinese saying they're interested -- we don't want them to beat us to the Moon. We want to be there to develop the sweet spots," Republican Senator Sam Brownback says. Because, you know, we haven't been there already. Thanks to Bobby D for this one.

Republicans want to replace FDR on the dime with... wait for it... Reagan. "Reagan's conservative, anti-communist administration ushered in society as it exists today." Because FDR was a total pinko. Lick me, all of you.

Spreading Santorum.com Ummm, yea. This is probably the grossest thing you're gonna hear about for a while. Dan Savage has a really funny write-in advice column, and that's where it all began. You heard it here first. Probably not a great idea for work.

Chemical-based eye implant may provide sight to the blind. Will we see a remedy for visual impairment by 2050?

Movable Type vulnerability. Patch now. Click on the link. Get the download. Put it in your /mt directory. Carry on.

Child molesting priest beaten to death. This time it was in his house, whereas the other guy was jumped in prison. Remind me to cry about it later.

Engrish.com Because making fun of speech impediments is always funny. Of particular note is this shirt. Thanks to Marendrix.com on bhendrix.com for this one.

The Trojan Condoms Olympics. Definitely not safe for work, but I almost peed myself I laughed so hard. Thanks to Arjen for this one.

Hummer H2 is tax deductable. If you own a small business or are self-employed. The law is meant to make things like dump trucks and heavy duty trucks write-offs for construction or landscaping, etc. Problem is, this thing is so huge it qualifies outside of normal passenger car regulations. They don't even have to post the EPA sticker on these. Now that's a truck. Thanks to Burch for this one.

CMU nerds battling desert with robot car. A little light on the details, but this ain't Monster Garage.

Japanese national Yo-Yo championships. Pretty unbelievable.

Not all Americans are stupid The Quiz.

Jimmy Fallon and Ms. Hilton trade quips. Going out to Gabriel. Apparently, there is also footage of the exchange. They should have shot it in night-vision. And Hilton should have stopped in the middle to answer her phone, with Fallon berating her about it.

Strong Bad e-mail 91. Great form. Brothers Chaps do it again. I would have recommended RB&V, but hey, it's a family show. Thanks to JT for the heads up.

Schumacher to race a jet. No, really. Michael goes head to head on an air strip. It's not quite Man vs. Beast, but what is? Via Fark.

Metafilter links regarding the 'Walk a Mile' program. Public officials try to survive on food stamps. They fail. My absolute maximum food stamp allotment in Wisconsin is $139 per month.

New Poll - Best fake president. Thanks to Wilke and Charper for this one. Andy took the last one by a 7% margin. Congrats to him. Update As Seth pointed out, Jack Ryan wasn't president in Sum of All Fears. He becomes President in Debt of Honor, which is still a book. Since 3 people have voted for him anyway, I'll leave him up. Today's lesson: Don't make polls when taking 'Wal-fed'.

Things are working correctly. I lost all the posts that were published yesterday as well as any comments made. Not sure what's going on with that, but hopefully I'll get it squared away. If you see anything else that looks like it's broken, please let me know. Thanks.

Brookings report on rebuilding PA. Good profile of the state with breakdowns of cities. Thanks to Shek (again) for this one.

George Clinton busted with coke and crack pipe. Guess we know where all his PCU royalities went. Thanks to Shek (again) for this one.

Know your grammar. 9/10. That lay/laid thing is tricky. Thanks to JT for this one.

PGH Convention center in trouble. That sound you hear is Shek doing his best Nelson Muntz over in the corner. Thanks to him for this one. And in other news, Pittsburgh may be declared Officially Distressed.

Sex Bracelets thing a hoax. If this was Fark, I'd pull out the obvious tag. Thanks to Shek for this one.

New Mersenne prime number found. 6.3m digits later, guy has no hope of getting laid. I posted about this a long while ago, but if you're gonna waste the electricity, try Folding at home. Thanks to Joe for this one.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin wed. Chad and Andy seek each other for comfort.

HDMI is coming. One cable for each component. Beautiful. It doesn't do recording, which seems like a pretty big problem. If it did, you could integrate TiVO into the receiver and the receiver could then control all of your media functions.

Mayor strips in office. Pictures circulate. Her kids' friends stole them off the computer. It's called password protection. Look into it.

Tag this picture. This one's pretty ripe. Thanks to Sperl for the suggestion.

Create and download Ring Tones. Get 'em while they're free. Thanks to Joiner via Sperl for this one.

I've reached the end of the internet, and this is what I found. Thanks and good night.

Researchers realize how messed up nursery rhymes are. Don't the Canucks have better things to do? Thanks to JT for this one.

Google can now track packages. Just type in the tracking number and you're in. Is there anything it can't do?

Re-creating Wright brothers' replica a challenge. Interesting blurb on how hard it is to make a 1903 Flyer fly. Via Fark.

GAD 2.5 - Austin 03 II Pics from Bharath. Thanks to Ren for the hosting.

We're all Paris Hilton. First, the lead story he mentions is a hoax. The $29 Wal-Mart DVD player lady is a fraud.

Second, I like watching 'Rich Girls' because like all other reality TV shows, it makes me feel better about myself. At the end of my worst days, I can always say "At least I'm not them." Also, I like laughing at people who wear trucker hats that cost more than $4.95. The other thing that people can't believe about the rich chicks is their complete disconnect from anything resembling the average person's reality. I do shop at Wal-Mart. I know how to pump gas. A big part of the fascination is that somehow these girls have grown up in a bubble.

Am I Paris Hilton? Compared to someone in Niger, Togo, or most any other country on Earth, yes. I don't know how to make bread, slaughter an animal, or provide any of my own food. As anyone moves up in socio-economic status, an individual can use money to eliminate the need to perform routine tasks, like meal preparation. That's a given. With enough money, you can have others take care of all of your needs and leave you to concentrate on that which you deem most important that only you can do correctly. Unfortunately, for the Rich Girls and Paris, that is limited to shopping, feigning concern about others, and nailing other famous people on tape. Me, I'd just go snowboarding. To each their own.

PowerPoint Makes you dumb. I'd rather someone give me a 15 page document explaining something and just let me read it than listen to them play Tony Robbins for an hour and show me 30 slides full of crap and thought fragments. Hell, I'd rather gouge my eyes out. Ah well. Here's my original posting on this bane as well as Dave Byrne's cool art.

Metafilter stuff on Saddam. I vote for a reality TV smackdown. Maybe Man vs. Beast II - Saddam fights a polar bear, or maybe ill-tempered sea-bass.

Toss Santa. Click once to start moving. Click and hold to wind up. Release to fling. 334.3 is my best.

Rolling Stone Top 500 One Page. This is a re-post of the list. I've been sitting on this for a while, but I compiled the list on one page without all the crap. I also did a re-compile of it and turned it into the Top 500 by Artist Ranked by total albums included.

Lion-Hyena Smackdown. If you've got 3.5 minutes, they've got some animals tearing each other apart. Not safe for work if your boss is a vegetarian/vegan.

Saddam Capture = good war. "More than half of those polled -- 54 percent -- said they were very confident or somewhat confident that the elusive chemical and biological weapons would be found." Right. We found Saddam because he actually exists. See the disconnect? Arg.

Mike Moore weighs in on Saddam. I know everybody loves him, so I feel it's my duty to post this. As a patriot.

Computer Generated Lord of the Rings fighters run away. This came up during the last movie, but it's pretty funny anyway. I think it was also on Slashdot at some point.

It would appear as though Nicholson 'won' the poll from last week. I need to get a better polling system. Anyway, I'm gonna do a run-off with him and the winner for this week. So submit your own personal favorite president. So far I've got Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) - Deep Impact, President Lindberg (Tom Zeus 'Tiny' Lister, Jr.) - Fifth Element, William Harrison 'Bill' Mitchell (Kevin Kline) - Dave. Who else?

Police probe 'check-out rage'. What is PA coming to? Really.

Sleep Eating next big thing. Thanks to JT for this one.

Return of the King tracking 100% Fresh. Best review clip - "If you were to play dungeons and dragons for twelve hours straight, eat a wheel of brie and knock yourself out with a hammer, your dreams might look something like this."

Afternoon moment of levity. Thanks to JT for this one.

Winamp 5 out now. Winamp 3 blew the llama's balls. Winamp 2 is awesome. Winamp 5 is all that was good about 2 + all that was good about 3. Yea. Go download it.

MTV Movie Awards Lord of the Rings Parody. Jack Black is the man. Again.

DNA tests can be done in 12 hours. So there you go. Huh.

U Maine jumps head first into the Pool of information."It's all about imagining a society where sharing is productive rather than destructive, where cooperation becomes more powerful than competition." In other Maine news, shoe company get $1,000/year bonus. Cool. The one-syllable, one-border state represents.

How to make a trucker hat from garbage. This falls under the $4.95 limit, so you would not be laughed at. If you own a trucker hat, please give it to a homeless person. Or at least stop wearing it and pissing me off.

Free Speech example A. Has sound, but is safe for work.

How Christmas Lights Work. Going straight out to Seth and the firemen who will ineveitably be rescuing me and my co-workers from our self-constructed fire trap.

Fill out this 'poll'. From another blog: "So, the AFA is running this opinion poll on gay marriage - well, more like a petition really. They plan to take their results and parade them around the House and Senate. Since this is a "very unbiased poll" run by the American Family Association, an organization that has religious and conservative ties all over the place, let's help out and give them a better representation of what the populus thinks about gay marriage than their usual readership would." Fill it out however you want. Voting is like having a kid and raising it up right, it's taking part in evolution, according to Mr. Vedder.

Ashcroft guilty of breaking campaign laws. He's so lovable.

Ghetto fabulous wedding. Reality TV comes to the web. Thanks to Arjen for this one.

Sony robot can run and jump. One more time: Run and Jump. As in, whoa. I posted about this guy before but man, this is cool.

Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes is a fake. You may need to read a bit of the thread, but here's the meat of it: "The guy used an emulator, not an NES to play. When he played the emulator, he moved mario frame by frame. He saved every frame of the game, so if he made a mistake he could just go back to the previous frame and correct it. Or, in the case of the hands that come up and snatch you as you pass over the boxes, he just removed the frames of him getting snatched." Sorry I bought into it. Cool animation display, I guess.

Sex Lingo dictionary. Definitely not safe for work.

Super cool drawing thingy. Thanks to Jaiman, who puts it best - "artsy fartsy but really cool".

Broken Lizard's Club Dread. From the Super Troopers guys. Excellent.

Jin Tha MC interview. Shek saw him on MTV2. Apparently he's good. He's got rhymes like: Ask your girl/ She had my egg rolls and my dumplings in her mouth Beautiful.

Paris puts a smackdown to George in the ratings. As Joe L. puts it "in the battle between spoiled rich kids who are incompetent at completing any job, america has spoken..."

Dueling Banjos Flash I still can't figure out why I laughed. Thanks to Brian E. for this one.

Vote for football team. Donate soup. The Packers are beating the crap out of everyone. Get in there and vote for the Titans, for the love of god.

Man survives .722 BAC. You read that right. Drunk driving is .08.

Trust in Bush. Maybe not safe for work, but probably okay. Go to the rest of the site for the other embarrassing stuff.

I'm toiling away in Maine for the next couple weeks, so there will be very limited site updates. Feel free to post any cool links in the Comments. Cheers.

Airlines to sell tray table and overhead bin advertising. Here's my solution: When this starts, I'm going to launch a massive letter writing campaign to anyone stupid enough to buy these ads. It's bad enough I have to be crammed in with comic book store guy on a commuter jet from detroit to maine.

Farm Subsidies need to go. Larry Lessig will have an article in Wired soon about this, but here's a peak at the meat of it. Unfortunately, in the US these are about as big a third rail as Medicare and Social Security. Also, there's that whole Iowa with the first caucus thing keeping Ethanol alive. Politics rules.

Some nifty computer utilities. Free. PureText app seems neat.

Graphical ZIP Code thing. What will the mit nerds think of next?

Harry Caray's Restaurant buys Bartman ball. To be destroyed. I don't mean to brag, but apparently great minds think alike. Thanks to Joey Leopold for this one.

Wiggaz.com Wiggaz.com, your online source for wiggers, white rappers, gangster and wigger culture. Word.

Beauty queen mauled by hippos. Just plain weird. Thanks to That Guy for this one.

Jaiman's ex-neighbor stabs boyfriend 170 times. Goes home for holidays. And on my birthday of all days. Thanks to Jaiman for this one.