So, of course, there has been a lot of media coverage about Britney shaving her own hair off, and now going into rehab. The broadly accepted view is that this is some kind of cry for help, but I have another theory. One of the lesser known things about hair is that it can be used to do drug tests. As hair grows out, chemicals in your system get ...

I was driving back from Tucson listening to the Tom Leykis Show on FreeFM. Tom is a talk "shock jock" and ever hour he'll have some topic/theme that is often controversial and usually racy.This hour his topic was about a Reality TV show being made in the Netherlands which will be a kind of dating show for paraplegics or people with ...

A four day holiday ... what can I do? I know - I'll make a homepage skin for my shiny (well, actually kind of dull-black) Motorola Q. I just got the new Q in black. Its really nice - I like it a lot better than the original Q, though in this case the differences really are only skin deep. The black Q comes in this rubbery casing that is ...

I recently got the audiobook version of Steve Wozniak's autobiography "iWoz". It provides an interesting "other side of the story" the the Steve Job's biography "iCon" by Jeffrey Young. Both books seems to agree that Jobs is an opportunist while Woz is the real brain behind Apple.It is interesting hearing ...

Hehe ... yeah, maybe I'm worried that PS3 will be a success despite its limitations and Sony's anti-the-world behavior (root kits, exploding batteries, no PS3 in Europe until next year, no rumble on the PS3 controller etc.) Still, I went to Best Buy this evening to see if I could get either Miami Vice or Ant Bully on HD-DVD, and both had sold ...

There's a grass roots movement to finally Deep Six Blu-Ray and encourage studios to see the light and move over the HD-DVD. You can find the petition here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/HD_DVD_Studio_Support There are also some interesting stats here: http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm The stats are built from Amazon.com sales ...

I wondered if that wasn't some of it, but all the folks asking about it in the store looked pretty darn nerdy ... I'm thinking they were keeping it for themselves.

When I went to Best Buy in search of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, there were something like 40 people camped outside with their blankets and deck chairs, waiting for the PS3 to come out. It was the same story at Wal-Mart. Apparently that Wal-Mart has 10 PS3s coming, but again, 40 people or so outside. I guess its some kind of Fan-Boy Endurance ...

My HD-DVD add-on drive finally arrived today for the Xbox 360. Amazon.com had delayed it twice, so it is an understating it to say I was looking forward to getting it.Sadly all was not well. The HD-DVD drive's box was just sat inside a regular Amazon.com box with no additional padding. Worse than that, though - when I took the drive out of its ...

As mentioned earlier, Big Tobacco was on the ballot in three election initiatives in Arizona:Proposition 201: "Smoke-Free Arizona Act" to ban smoking in the workplace and in all restaurants and barsProposition 203: "Childhood Development Fund" paid for through an 80 cent (68%) increase in tobacco taxProposition 206: ...