Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz has been quoted as saying:
“God bless Tiger Woods. This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place. It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral.â€
Yes, Carol… the news of Tiger Woods banging an entire harem of starf*ckers is better than someone dying. Even Michael Jackson.
Carol Bartz is basically saying that the absolute destruction of a family being played out day by day before the eyes of the world turns her on more than the death of a legend. That’s nice. Perhaps next week we’ll get some fantastic news of a plane full of nuns plummeting from the sky and crashing into a hospital, devastating the children’s cancer ward and everyone inside it. Then she can be all excited about death again.
Now that I think about it, that would only make headlines for a day or two. Let’s change it to a plane carrying Lindsay Lohan crashing into a whorehouse containing Tila Tequila having a secret affair with the entire cast of Twilight: New Moon.
That scenario actually excites me a bit.
source: The Lunch Time Sports Round Up [The Daily Discharge]
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Remember several months ago when a video popped up online showing a wondrously nude Erin Andrews doing butt flexes in her hotel room? I sure do.
As boner inducing as that video was (not that I ever saw it or anything), it was also illegal as hell and the man behind the video has plead not guilty to interstate stalking in the case. Authorities believe that a 48 year old creepy obsessed dude named Michael Barrett rented hotel rooms next to Erin Andrews on three separate occasions last year and altered the peepholes to film the beauty.
Yesterday FBI agents served search warrants to both Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc., in part to make Yahoo turn over a video of another nude woman that was posted in June to a Flikr account (Yahoo owns Flikr) possibly owned by Barrett.
I hope they nail this guy to the wall, personally. I’m all for hot naked chicks steaming up my monitor, but stalking and illegally videotaping a woman is going way too far. To me it’s a crime that is nearly as serious as rape, which hopefully Michael Barrett will learn all about if he goes to prison.
source: Search Warrants Served at Yahoo, Google in Erin Andrews Stalker Case [Fox News]
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In 1999 I made my first webpage on GeoCities. It was so I could trade concert tapes with strangers on the Internet. Now I’m sad to report that GeoCities is finally dead. So let’s reminisce.
If you’re like me, you may be surprised to hear that GeoCities still existed in any form—but it does, apparently, hosting flat HTML pages and dithered GIFs for free just like it’s been doing since ’94, before anyone knew anything about the word blog, or Google, or much of anything.
Yahoo just quietly pulled the plug; no new accounts can be registered, and those with pages still being hosted will receive further instructions on how to save them from the fire this summer.
I was debating on whether or not to show you my original Geocities page, but it’s kind of late, so what the fuck. Here it is. Like my first phone number I still remember its awkward, faux-geography-based URL by heart.
Yes, revel in my hilariously precious high school writings on Magnolia, seeing REM and other bands I worshipped play around the Midwest, and trading concert tapes. Yeah, concert tapes. You kids today may not remember, but back in the old days it took like 45 minutes to download a single 96kbps MP3 on a 28.8 modem over Napster. And Lord knows I couldn’t tie up the phone lines that long. Also note my overuse of the semi-colon; I love it to this day! I must say though I was kind of way ahead of the curve in terms of the mixed-typography-size, minimalist-web-design tip. And boy was I funny.
I’ll miss you GeoCities, you were my first. Now that I’ve shown mine, commenters, show me yours! This will be the first and last time I ever ask anything resembling that question ever.
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