The Adriattic

I hardly knew ye!
CompUSA, the computer retailer that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owned since 2000, will shut its doors after 23 years, succumbing to competition from Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Restructuring firm Gordon Brothers Group LLC bought the chain for an undisclosed sum and will sell or close its 103 stores after the [...]

A simple telephone call got a 16-year-old high school student from Iceland in a bit of trouble recently. Vifill Atlason somehow found President Bush ’s secret White House telephone number, and called him.
The student left a message for President Bush saying he was the President of Iceland, and that he just wanted to chat. He [...]

HIV-positive Navy priest accused of sexual misconduct
An HIV-positive Navy chaplain and Catholic priest who allegedly had consensual and non-consensual sex with other military men without disclosing his condition will face a court-martial, military officials said Tuesday.  Full Article

Six Apart sells LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP. I don’t know about you but I didn’t tap till my shoes filled with blood just to hand LJ over to the Reds. Actually, I don’t care what happens to LJ. The usability of this place sucks ass.

Dog The Bounty Hunters phone call to his son and his apparent disapproval of his black girlfriend.Apparently he was worried about her taping them using the word “nigger” and sending said tape to the National Inquirer and ruining their careers. You can listen to his tirade on the National Inquirer website. Irony! Oh and if [...]

Cops cleared in ‘Don’t Tase me, Bro’ case

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has released a 300-page report on the infamous zapping of University of Florida senior Andrew Meyer, whose rowdy actions, catch-phrase and police Tasering during a John Kerry town hall forum made international headlines.
”Don’t Tase me, Bro,” Meyer, 21, squealed after police put [...]

Hooker Mom Snorts Cocaine Off Baby’s Stomach While Breastfeeding
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Thank god the mother chose to keep those children. Aborting them would have been a terrible idea. How inhuman it would have been to deprive those children of god’s wondrous gift of life… in the back seat of a car, watching their mom blow some [...]

We’re Not In This Together Now

NINE INCH NAILS will split after the release of their forthcoming album YEAR ZERO REMIXED, frontman TRENT REZNOR has revealed. The current lineup of Reznor; drummer Josh Freese; guitarist Aaron North; bassist Jeordie White and keyboardist Alessandro Cortini, played their last gig together in Honolulu in September (07) - and [...]

Radiohead to give away new album
In a break from industry tradition the UK band famous for hits including Creep, Paranoid Android and Karma Police, has told fans “it’s up to you” what they pay to digitally download the album.
This isn’t the first time that an artist has opted to charge nothing for its album, but [...]

“The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air,” Tony Perry reports in Monday’s edition of the LA Times. “The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the [...]