Eric Covener’s Journal

http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/gibsons-anti-semitic-tirade-alleged-cover-up/

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, “You mother f****r. I’m going to f*** you.” The report also says “Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he ‘owns Malibu’ and will spend all of his money to ‘get even’ with me.”

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: “F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Gibson then asked the deputy, “Are you a Jew?”

The deputy became alarmed as Gibson’s tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, “What the f*** do you think you’re doing?”

A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?”

Hizbollah fires long-range rocket into Israel

About 103 rockets were fired into Israel on Friday, the army said, hitting at least six towns in the north and wounding at least six people.

103 rockets wounding six people? Aren’t rockets supposed to be, you know, kind of dangerous?

I can’t possibly imagine hurling anything 100 kilometers and haveing it be less lethal!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060727/pl_nm/bush_predators_dc_1

Let these assholes register at Bed, Bath and Beyond just like the rest of us… tell me where I’m wrong.

`N Sync’s Lance Bass says he is gay

In a related story, Forrest Whitaker has announced that he’s black.

The couch bit

http://www.misers.org/blog/2006/07/25/competitive-speed-stacking

I posted the wrong link this morning! Sorry if anyone clicked through to the crazies talking about the rapture without expecting it

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
my $path;

while(<>) {
   if (/^Index: (.*)/) {
     close(DIFF);
     ($path = $1) =~ s#/#_#g ;
     open(DIFF,">$path.diff") || die "Error opening [$path]: $!\n";
   }
   print DIFF;
}

EDIT: OMG OMG pasted the wrong link — this link was from an aborted post I was gonna do about these Jesus freaks chatting on the internet about the rapture.

Reminds me of the competitive Rubiks cube stuff I had read about when the last Beauty and the Geek aired, which turned out to be surprisingly mechanical.

Wrong link: http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=265144
Right Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Fc1_RxHDsQ

Saw a documentary about these call centers, and there was a sign hanging in one of them that said “38 = 11″. When asked what it meant, they said to treat a 38 year old American as you would an 11 year old indian boy.

edit: Since the comments probably aren’t read much, here’s shayne’s contribution:

salary of 38 indians = salary of 11 americans

Just days after the announcement of the ‘native’ notes 7.0.1 for Linux, wine has fixed the two outstanding bugs that was preventing the Notes 7 GA from running!

http://wiki.winehq.org/LotusNotes

IMO the two versions are a toss-up, the workplace-based Notes seems to be much more resilient to hanging on network errors but of course is slower.