From the monthly archives:

December 2002

Colossal Colon

December 20, 2002

Kids love to take the mad scramble over polyps and other terrors of the colon.Colossal Colon Kicks Off 20-City Tour

Don’t miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to crawl through the Colossal Colon when it comes to a city near you in 2003. The 40-ft. long replica of the human colon is on the road, courtesy of the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, to raise awareness of early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer.

Visitors who crawl through the 4-ft. wide colon or look through the viewing windows will see healthy colon tissue, Crohn’s disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis, polyps and various stages of colon cancer.

Increase your knowledge of colorectal cancer facts and win prizes! At the end of the Colossal Colon experience, you make a pledge to talk with your family, friends and doctor about the disease, not just about crawling through the colon …

The Colossal Colon is the latest and most extreme example of a traditon of health awareness campaigns employing gargantuan organs — including walk-thru hearts, monolithic teeth, and looming bloodshot eyeballs.

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Hosting Controller

December 19, 2002

Hosting Controller looks interesting. Anyone have any experience with it?

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Visine Warning?

December 17, 2002

A bleary-eyed notice from TeamBilly HQ:

No more Visine. Doc’s exact words: “Unless you’re an actor and need a quick fix, don’t use the stuff. Use artificial tears or something better. But not Visine.”

Apparently the quick fix you get from tetrahydrozaline works, but when it wears off you go right back to swollen eye blood vessels, and it becomes a vicious cycle. He used the word addictive, but not in the physiological sense.

Weird. I have three bottles of it in my car, two in my travel kit. Who knew?

Now … if only I could get someone to advise me about my dangerously spiraling Sudafed / Coca-Cola / Allegra / Vicks / Budweiser / Altoid habit …

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Eat a Football?

December 16, 2002

Here is probably the strangest thing I’ve ever seen posted on craigslist:

Eat a Football on Network Television for Fame and Money (Los Angeles)
Reply to: picohoove@aol.comFor Real! A strange new variety series that will air on a major network seeks a professional competetive eater who would be able to eat an entire NFL regulation leather bound football on television.

Auditions starting immediately. This is a paid position. Please send email with photo and bio. We would like someone who has experience eating large volumes of food or has done things like this in the past.

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Saint Aardvark

December 10, 2002

Some things just deserve a link:
The Church of Michael Bolton of Latter-Day Saints @ Saint Aardvark the Carpeted.com

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3-Column Layout

December 10, 2002

Is there really such a thing as a tableless, CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout?!

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Cookies

December 5, 2002

It just took me two hours of programming and slamming my head against the desk to realize that Cookies get saved according to the exact URL of the site. I kept trying to delete the cookies of domain.com when I needed to delete the cookies of www.domain.com.

That is annoying.

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Gregg Easterbrook

December 4, 2002

If you’ve been trying to find Gregg Easterbrook’s column on Salon and you can’t, it’s because he switched to ESPN.com’s Page 2. From now on, you can get your weekly doses of TMQ right here.

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Vick

December 2, 2002

After watching highlights of several of his runs from yesterday afternoon, I’ve come to the conclusion that Michael Vick cannot possibly be human.

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The Sporting Scene

December 2, 2002

In basketball, Spurrier averaged almost two-thirds of the points scored by his high-school team, led them to their local championship twice, and was selected to the All-State team in 1963, his senior year. That same year, he also played shortstop and pitched his team to a second state baseball championship, an accomplishment that Spurrier says is “the most fun I ever had as a player in any sport.” As quarterback, he gave his football team a comeback victory in their final game - the Exchange Bowl - overcoming a 21 - 0 halftime deficit with four touchdown passes.

from Attila’s Headset: Steve Spurrier Takes on the Pros
The New Yorker, November 11, 2002

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Singing Horses

December 2, 2002

There’s nothing in the world quite as much fun as a quartet of singing horses to brighten your Monday morning.

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