A frustrated Teesside hacker who planted a message on a cable TV company's voicebank telling customers to f*** off has walked free from court.

This article touches on so many subjects, it's amazing! Hacking. Law enforcement of technology crime. Crappy incumbent telecom carriers. And obscenity law. All in one event!

Now it's F for freedom

] Young white men get the most 100-mph tickets. Nearly
] three-quarters are younger than 30, nearly two-thirds are
] white, and eight of nine are male.

] Three-quarters of the high-rollers are in cars, most
] commonly Hondas, Fords and Nissans. An additional 12
] percent were on motorcycles, and the rest were in sport
] utility vehicles, vans and pickups.

hmmm... guilty, I guess. What about young white males in suped up Kraut-rockets?

I guess I disagree with the premise of this article to some degree. I mean, I've had my license suspended. A lot. And I can tell you that the bureacracy and unmitigated extortion that happens when you just get a ticket is unbelievable. I've had pretty much every situation you can imagine happen to me in this regard, from people of trust and power lieing to my face, to being trapped in some kind of Kafka-esque nightmare trying to clear my license because the computer system at the Department of Safety for TN had an error in my record (resulting in my arrest!).

If you tallied up all the time, frustration, and real money that's been extracted from me (lost wages, insurance fraud... I mean premiums, fines, fees, etc), then I feel that it's ample compensation. Yes yes yes... people always talk about the 'danger' aspect of it and that I'm potentially risking people's lives. I suppose that's true statistically speaking. But given that I've been forced to take literally dozens of hours of driving classes, and I actually do my own track time on both bikes and autos, then I feel as though it's a calculated risk. Granted, the street has innumerably more variables and a much higher degree of unpredictability than any track, but that's what reflexes are for, right?

100-mph drivers often get just a slap on wrist

For Python fans. And to think I turned down the LiveVault franchise for Nashville. sigh.

Institute for Backup Trauma

] Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say
] Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who did
] not support President Bush. Nine members were voted out
] at a Monday church meeting in this mountain town about
] 120 miles west of Charlotte. Forty others in the
] 400-member congregation resigned in protest.
]
] Chandler told WLOS-TV in Asheville on Friday that
] the actions were not politically motivated...

Thought you'd get a kick out of this.

N.C. Church Kicks Out Members Who Do Not Support Bush

] It's no surprise then that we can now confirm what the
] super-intelligent if somehat wobbly hacks at Vulture
] Central have known for years: alcohol makes you cleverer.

I'd like to accept this Nobel prize on behalf of my friends at Guinness and Bass...

Beer makes you clever: official

Genius. I love the step by step graphics on the top of the page.

Shakeskin.com - a gallery of shaken faces / Shaken

] CONGRATULATIONS Jami Anderson for your beautiful
] creation.

ooh! lookie! a picture of Jen in her TP wedding gown. Nice to see how great she'd look all in white!

Wedding Contest

] ''About 2½ hours. Jennifer (Knight) kept getting
] light-headed because she drank wine on top of sinus
] medicine, so we had to fix it a couple of times. It kept
] ripping whenever she sat down to put her head between her
] knees. Luckily, she is a size 4, so all those extra
] layers I had to wrap around her hips didn't end up making
] her look like the Michelin Man.''

ah... my ex-girlfriend finally finds her wedding dress!

And the bride wore double-ply

] A British motorist, driving home from work with his car
] window wound down, had his nose broken by a flying frozen
] sausage

If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard this story...

Motorist Injured by Flying Frozen Sausage

As if being Mr. T wasn't funny enough...

Be nice to yo Moms FOOL!