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AHHHHH! Roald Dahl’s BMW is for sale! Willpower, don’t fail me now!

Wow. Just came across some great new LOTR images that somebody found hidden on the site…

This mad cow thing is getting out of control. Now they’ve found it at an Italian slaughterhouse that supplies beef to McDonald’s restaurants all over Europe. Ugh. I suppose this is why Mickey Dee’s has the McChicken sandwich on special this month.

I found this really cool website called the Urban Explorers Network where people can send in maps/photos/logs of their expeditions through campus steam tunnels. Notre Dame has an entry, but so far it’s just rumors of places on campus that supposedly contain cool stuff. Anybody ever been anywhere they shouldn’t have been?

Ooh, Kim at Fresh Hell links to a story about the failings of Dawson’s Creek. I agree with all of them, but I don’t agree with the conclusion. I watch the show because it sucks. It fulfills the same purpose for me that cheesy romance novels do for other women. There are only so many good programs out there, and if you’re gonna watch crap, you might as well make it good crap. And besides, a sucky show just makes for more prolific fan fiction writers!

British Telecom is urging Britons NOT to use cellphones. No, not because of cancer or anything semi-serious like that. BT is pissed that they’re earning less and less money from payphones. Well, they should be. Americans think that the red London phone box is quaint and fun, but in reality they’re dirty, expensive, and broken half the time. Most of them are also covered inside with flyers for prostitutes and escorts, which makes using them a rather uncomfortable experience (for me anyway). And besides, using a “mobile” is damn fun. I’m a text-messaging fool.

ND BEATS UCONN! HOLY COW, WE BEAT THE #1 TEAM! Riley played with a sprained ankle, and Siemon played with a broken hand. That big #1 will be going up on Grace, just wait! 🙂

Overheard in a chat room five seconds ago…

lizziemckillopie (21:00:55): You guys, I had so much fun on Sat night – me, court, Jack, Abby, and my neighbor a super fun guy and these friends of Jacks went Bowling – we got ABSOLUTELY WASTED and ended up taking our shirts off and bowling in our bras

This from a CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER. (Love you Pants!)

Here’s an interesting article from InfoWorld Magazine about Notre Dame’s ResNet infrastructure. Yeah, yeah, I know it sounds boring. But for anybody who graduated before 1996, it’s probably going to be an eye-opener. The one statistic that really surprised me was that supposedly 95% of student body brings a computer to school. Can that possibly be true? I’d guess maybe 95% of dorm rooms have a computer, but not students. I graduated less than two years ago and I wouldn’t have placed it higher than, say, 60%. Can any current students verify?

Now that I have an iMac, my desktop environment is very important to me. I need it to look pretty all the time. I can’t stand looking over at someone’s PC and seeing an ugly wallpaper covered by 600 jumbled icons. That’s why I looooove this site: Kaliber10000’s desktop gallery. Now you can see what real web designers look at when they fire up that G4. Ultimate nerd voyeurism…