Tuesday, August 22, 2000
QOTD: “We are tired of seeing blonde blue-eyed women used to sell make-up to black women, of a 14-year-old girl selling anti-aging cream that a 60-year-old woman will buy.”
-- Isabella Rossellini, pitching her new line of cosmetics, ManifestoShe's every woman ... it's always she. (b/w net.Headlines) (Posted by BoyCaught)
Men programmed to fall in love (Ananova)
"Men who fall in love when they reach 50 may do so because they're biologically programmed." What a relief. BoyCaught's still got plenty of time for a lot more casual sex with many anonymous partners while experimenting with mind-altering drugs in a consequence-free environment. Yeah, baby! (Posted by BoyCaught)Monday, August 21, 2000
More Taking Than Giving on the Web (NY Times)
"Two scientists at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center have surveyed the behavior of anonymous music downloaders on the Internet and have found that ... most Internet users are only taking files and not giving any back to their electronic community." BoyCaught's parents used to say: 'All you kids know is: gimme, gimme, gimme.' Who knew we were ahead of our time? Contrast with this recent take on the situation, or read the actual paper. (Registration required for NY Times.) (Posted by BoyCaught)
Woods joins history with third major (ESPN)
"The steely determination in his eyes. The sweat pouring down the side of his face. The way he charged after putts as they fell into the cup, and pumped his fists like never before." BoyCaught's not much of a bandwagon jumper, but with that riveting and dramatic (well, dramatic for golf) finish at the PGA Championships, now he's starting to believe in the Tiger Woods legend. How original. (Posted by BoyCaught)Sunday, August 20, 2000
You Know You're at a Ghetto Movie When... (in the interim blog)
Blogga Miss Elisabeth lays downs the rules for going to see a black movie with a predominantly black audience. BoyCaught concurs. They keep on talking about interactive movies, and whatnot, but African-Americans have been interacting with movies since the days of Oscar Micheaux. BTW, here's some more humor 'bout da hood. (Don't click if you're easily offended.) (Posted by BoyCaught)Web site offers to sell U.S. presidential votes (CNN)
"A new Web site promises to 'bring capitalism and democracy closer together' by auctioning votes in the 2000 presidential election." BoyCaught thinks that the philosophical merits of this concept really need to be examined. If politicians are bought by monied interests, then why can't individual citizens sell their votes on he open market? (Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968)BoyCaught would like to remind all greedy folks: save a little somethin' somethin' for the next guy, or there won't be anything left for anyone. (Posted by BoyCaught)
Friday, August 18, 2000
Get some crack at Amazon
Kottke humorously points out that if you search for a term like crack cocaine on Dictionary.com, you can buy it at Amazon. BoyCaught just loves the Net. Also available, among a cornucopia of hedonistic choices: strippers, forties, and blunts. Let's have a bachelor party! Amazon wants to be a superstore so bad that they'll even sell you some ass. :-) (Posted by BoyCaught)Men's Poor Health, Women's Fault (ABCNews)
"It's all the fault of hard-working women that the men in their lives are in poor health. That's the conclusion drawn from a survey of 3,000 U.S. couples." Take all of your male-is-the-superior-gender theories and punt them, high and far and long. BoyCaught want mommy, waaaaaaaaaaaah! Mommy! (Posted by BoyCaught)Ex-NFL teammate says Romanowski offered stimulants (ESPN)
"Romanowski 'expressed his feeling that the white athlete had to do more to compete with the black guy in a mostly black sport.'" This was the same guy who spit in JJ Stokes' face — it was a big fat loogie, and Stokes is black — in front of millions on a Monday Night Football broadcast in 1997. Back then, he denied it was racially motivated. But BoyCaught knows life is better now, in 2000, because we live in a society where the color of your skin doesn't matter one bit. It's the color of your uniform that's the problem. (Posted by BoyCaught)Couple Names Baby After Web Site (USA Today)
As part of an Internet publicity stunt, one Kansas couple has won $5,000 — for naming their baby after a Web site. Wait until the kids at the playground find out how little Iuma got his name; the parents better put him in karate class now. BoyCaught can't wait till someone names their baby Yahoo! ... with the exclamation (!) point. (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, August 17, 2000
Blog Club, Redux
The first rule of weblogging: don't blog about weblogging. The second rule of weblogging: don't blog about weblogging. And then, there's Jaffo's Rules for Weblogging. Uh-huh. (Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “It's as if Mickey Mouse had declared war on Donald Duck, each trying their damnedest to seem unlike the other; sure, one's a mouse, the other's a duck, but they're both cartoons, both owned by Disney”
--Kendell Clark, of MonkeyFistBlog, writing on the comic attempts of the Democrats and Republicans to distinguish each other during this presidential campaign.BoyCaught loves cartoons, but when you put it like that, they become less enjoyable. (Posted by BoyCaught)
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
The Name Campaign
Watching DNC on C-SPAN tonight, from the comfort of his overpriced, oversmall apartment, and not from some Los Angeles County jail cell, BoyCaught thinks that if the campaign was based on the first names of the first ladies, the Democrats would win hands down: BoyCaught will take a Hadassah and a Tipper over a Lynne and a Laura any day. But of course, politics is more than just name dropping, or name calling. Isn't it? (Posted by BoyCaught)Bonobo Sex and Society
"At a juncture in history during which women are seeking equality with men, science arrives with a belated gift to the feminist movement ... the bonobo [chimp]." Whoah! Laugh while you can, monkeyboy, cause this is a woman's world. (b/w randomWalks, always a great place to crib links.) (Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “I say America, stay out the Bushes, stay out the Bushes!”
--Jesse Jackson, speaking at the DNC... cuz we don't need no water, let the m*&*f*cka burn! BoyCaught thinks that only Jesse can get an arena full of intelligent, politically-minded people chanting grammatically incorrect slogans. That's called moving the crowd, but what does it say about the quality of American education? (Posted by BoyCaught)
O.J. Sues in Bid to Stop CBS Miniseries (Yahoo!)
"O.J. Simpson is suing one of his former lawyers as part of an attempt to block an upcoming CBS miniseries about his trial." Apparently, O.J. is pissed that he can't play himself. And BoyCaught knows what happens when O.J. gets pissed. If you don't know, you better recognize: just ask him yourself. (Posted by BoyCaught)Cannabis may make you a safer driver (Times UK)
"Researchers found that the mellowing effects of cannabis made drivers more cautious and so less likely to drive dangerously." But BoyCaught figures that such drivers are also more likely to stop at convenience stores for munchies, eventually leading to increased incidences of malnutrition and bad teeth. Don't you know that you can never win? (b/w Unknown News) (Posted by BoyCaught)Tuesday, August 15, 2000
