According to Afterdawn.com: Xbox 360 shortages causing lagging sales?..

By Alexander Toldt It seems like Wii is unbeatable. Shortly after the NPD Group released its data about the gaming sales in US during February, Media Create revealed that Nintendo Wii is the champion in Japan too.

Jim dandy!
Violent crimes down. Urge to punch people in the face over standard TCP/IP still rising, however.

CNNMoney.com

Bomb squad asplodes suspicious package with water cannon. In other news, if you've lost a wrapped package containing raw chicken parts, the Nashua Police Hazardous Device Unit can point you to the splash area.
This is weird!

Yeah, I just read this good story.
Rise in picnic-basket theft in Maryland prompts first bear hunting in 50 years.

I 've just found this fantastic stuff.
Toddler rescued from minivan after being buried by landslide for four days.

One could expect this.

ZDNet features this good article.

Peoria will never live down its reputation as a cowtown as long as its police force is chasing 1,200-pound steers through the streets with shotguns and Glocks.
Darin mailed me this

This amazes me. Cuba offering six years of medical school free -- including tuition, room and board, books and spending money -- to American students. Cigars still can't come home with you.

Just saw 'The Fog'. Anyway it is an awfully bad movie.
The direction was just cheap. Tom Welling and Maggie Grace are very overrated.

The lack of chemistry was appalling.

CNNMoney.com

Judge throws party for man before sentencing him to life in prison. Festivities included cake, balloons, tossed salad.
I just received this weird link from Tom.

Jet fighter accidentally drops 25-pound bomb on Pennsylvania hiking trail.
This is strange!

This really scares the shit out of me.
New plague-like disease caused by glowing insect.

Such asses.

Today my spiffy geek toy arrived: a Motorola RAZR V3m Silver Phone! It is hard getting used to the phone though - learning all of the buttons.