Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

A short work week and a quick Friday Funnies - First off - the DARWIN Awards for the most creative way of skimming the Gene Pool. 2005's top winner. A 24-year-old Swiss second lieutenant picked up an award for learning a lesson Indiana Jones taught us long ago in Raiders of the Lost Ark: Don't attack with a sword if your opponent has a gun. While trying to demonstrate a surprise knife attack on an armed soldier, the lieutenant grabbed a bayonet and leapt at an unsuspecting young man nearby. The surprised soldier had just finished target practice with live ammunition; he had recently been trained on how to quickly release the safety catch and ready his weapon. The unsuspecting soldier used these newly honed maneuvers to save himself by preparing his gun and firing at the lieutenant with deadly accuracy. The lieutenant didn't get any posthumous medals from the Army, but he did receive a Darwin Award. Chimney Cleaning Grenade "He happened to have the perfect object. It ...

The folks over at Digg.com are going on about a "photo" of a Simpsons style image of Leo Laporte expressing his dissatisfaction with some of the aspects of Windows. Well here it is.   It actually comes from one of the guests on the old ScreenSavers TV show. They had a guest on that was showing how cartoons are being created on PC's. The guy (who's name escapes me right now) had worked on the Simpsons and did this pic up as a gift to Leo. They had it posted on the old Screen Savers site a long time back, and on Leoville.com for a while, but I've just kept it in the image file. Now I'm setting it back up here so the folks who have zapped the site from the Digg Link can see it. Enjoy. Notice how Gates looks a lot like Montgomery Burns?  

Ever wonder what would happen if you dressed up as OBI-Wan Kanobi and tried to buy a car? Well this guy decided to find out........

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I thought I'd put a little movie up on why I don't always get the blog updated on a regular basis. As you can see - there's a helpcat that isn't very helpful.

For the first post of the New year this article from Lorne Gunther. Lorne Gunther Expains Media Bias A crosspost from his Blog.