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Which isn’t really the case. Distracted is more like it.

• WifiSeeker
• Galaga
• PHLAK

Damn - I’m in NOLA and they never have the addresses of these places on CL.

CBS 2 Chicago: Illinois Wire

Jeri Lynn Ryan charged during a custody hearing that Ryan took her on surprise trips to New Orleans, New York and Paris in 1998, and that he insisted she go to sex clubs with him on each trip.

gamesindustry.biz - Development section

Wow - I’m shocked. You would think MS of all people would have recalled the whole “PS2 will play PS games so don’t buy a Dreamcast” thing of a few years back. I’m amazed. They just killed the sales of the current XBox and a lot of the games.

More here.

It would also do well to remember that in fact, PlayStation 2 didn’t have first mover advantage in the last generation; that dubious honour fell to Sega’s Dreamcast, which launched well ahead of its Sony competitor and was completely crushed by a combination of consumer anticipation for the Sony console, and publishers being perfectly happy to stick with PlayStation 1 and wait for its successor. Two years later, Sega was out of the console business for good; and while that seems unlikely to happen to Microsoft, a defeat on that scale in the next generation would be a crushing blow to its ambitions in the console space.

Damn MS - I just got R thinking that it was not too geeky to have three consoles in the house. A fourth one? Fsckers. It ain’t gonna happen.

So I’m driving back from the beach and Roberta noticed that some guy got a Hummer for Fathers’ Day. Sure enough, when we caught up to his Camry, we did notice this was in fact the case. Nice gift!

(Insert gas guzzling joke here)

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Because They Could

But one thing you can say for Bill Clinton: His “Who’s gonna stop me?” Oval Office power surge produced a much lower body count.

So I’m a little (well a lot) tired of hearing about GIPO and GMail, but hell WWdN’s a good read and this is one of the more interesting GMail deals out there.

WIL WHEATON DOT NET: support our troops — send them your GMail invites!

The folks on ebay are pretty fscking funny (in that laughing at you, not with you sense).

Excellent zing…

The New York Times > Books > Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a Presidency, Imitating a Life, in 957 Pages

The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull - the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.

I see this and this and I’m thinking with the help of a few neighbors I could be enjoying some real bandwidth (and for that matter, so could you!)

My program has a homepage. And hey, it’s my building.

Okay all you self righteous folks who got pissed at Clinton for how he parsed his words. Where the fsck are you now?

CNN.com - Bush insists Iraq, al Qaeda had ‘relationship’ - Jun 17, 2004

Bush reiterated that the administration never said that “the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated” between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. “We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda,” he said.

Huh?

“I have reluctantly concluded, along with other coalition leaders, that only the use of armed force will accomplish these objectives and restore international peace and security in the area. I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. United States objectives also support a transition to democracy in Iraq, as contemplated by the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338).”