• Clan: McTiVo

    Hmm. Ringer?

    Of the various Amazing Race teams, Dennis and Erika seem the most interesting of the “models and beauty queens” set. After all, nekkid skydiving is quite an accomplishment for a girl. Over at TWOP, we’re wondering about this photo, which was taken at TARcon3, the fan-and-racers party that took place the night of the TAR3 finale in New York (yes, that’s right, the Racers show up – some of them come straight from the CBS party as soon as the winners are revealed). As we’re coming up on the fifth season, TARcon5 will be held in New York for the…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    People…G-O-P People

    Salon (subscription) reports the special version Barbara Streisand sang at the recent fundraiser for John Kerry. It’s too good to cut… it may go down the memory hole, so here it is: Here are the lyrics as transcribed by the press pool reporter at the fundraiser. All together now: People I mean G-O-People Who’d believe there’s such people in the world Bush sees a Lotta Condoleeza They’re dividing the planet’s oil According to Richard Poil And they’re all just trainees Of Cheney’s Now Rumsfeld We must get rid of Rumsfeld He’s the spookiest person in the world As for Powell…

  • Wonderful Spam, Beautiful Spam

    Not exactly spam, but…

    There seems to be something of a flap on in the spam/spyware/hackware category: Chicago Tribune | Experts Study Developing Internet Attack We ran Ad-Aware just now because everything was running slowly, with a lot of unknown activity. AOL Communicator and AOL were going nuts. Hmm. I ran Norton after David left because I ran across this somewhat more authoritative article in the Trib than some of the blog entries I noticed about the problem. May be something in it.