So last night as I was making my last power flip through the channels I caught 5 minutes of Phone Booth.  Somewhere near the beginning I think.  Not interested in watching (besides, it was already midnight) I turned it off and went to bed….

Where I laid for 30 minutes trying to place the caller,s voice.  Drove me nuts.  It was like a song I couldn’t remeber the chorus to but was never the less stuck in my head.  Thank you IMDB for helping me to rid myself of that nagging tickle in my cerebelum (or wherever such tickles occur).  The mystery guest was Kiefer Sutherland. 

 All blessings for the Internet.  Solving the world’s dilemas since 1992.

 What’s that Flipper?  You say you’ve repeled the terrorists and protected democracy from foreign baddies?  Good work, here’s some tuna.

Why does this story make me think of Jonny Mneumonic?

Armed attack dolphins loose in the Gulf of Mexico? –

You know, sometimes we lose things here and there — a key, the toll slip on the interstate (damn!), our wallet (double damn!). But the U.S. military — they’ve one-upped us by losing some armed attack dolphins. Apparently 36 of the U.S. Navy’s trained cetaceans have gone missing in the Gulf of Mexico, could be wearing special harnesses carrying “toxic dart” guns (can’t be good), and have been trained to shoot at divers in wetsuits simulating terrorists in exercises. Their coastal compound was breached during Hurricane Katrina, sweeping many of the mammals out to sea, and though the Navy isn’t confirming it, sources close to naval intelligence confirm that perhaps now is not the time to take that underwater pleasure diving excursion in the Gulf — not that it’s exactly the place to be, anyhow.

[Via Futurismic]

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Samsung i300 – Listen, to What the Samsung Cellphone Sings –

Samsung probably didn’t think anyone would notice that its original i300 Smartphone was released way back in 2001, but we’ve finally got some leaked info this weekend on the new incarnation of the phone. Certainly sleeker and more attractive, the i300 has a 3GB hard drive, 64 MB of RAM and is being run off WM 5.0. It is also being positioned as the "first world musical smartphone." Slim and light for what it is, it includes a 1.3 megapixel camera (with flash) and a new wheel control. The side of the phone has four control buttons and a loudspeaker and two light indicators (for battery charge, bluetooth, reminders and alarms and showing you when you no longer have GSM coverage) are placed right above the screen. You also get a Micro SD slot, which is nice considering the huge hard drive. For music, you’ll be bummed there’s no 3.5 mm jack, which means you can only use the standard Samsung headphones. But there is USB 2.0 and it supports "Plug-and-Play Files to go" and you can play music off included Windows Media Player. Plays MMF, MIDI, WMA or MP3 files and should be running around $550.

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 I owned an i300 for a couple of years.  I got it cheap because they were being discontinued by Sprint in favor of newer phones.  You can have your Treos I’ll take the i300.  Best phone/PDA combo ever.  It is slightly larger than a standard "candy bar" style phone and the screen is slightly narrower than a standard Palm screen, but the marraige was just right.  Fits in your hand and your pocket, color screen big enough to read easily.  No mechanical buttons on the face to get gummed up.  Took abuse like a champ.  Ad in a camera, media player, and 3 Gb HDD and this thing becomes a world beater!

I hope they keep something close to the original form factor.  If they do, I will be lining up for the first ones.  Even at  $550 its a steal. 

 Sometimes sports is what we all want it to be.  Very touching story about a little boy who just wanted to see the Irish play football.

Weis grants little boy’s dying wish – ‘Montana would have been very pleased’

by Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Charlie Weis doesn’t usually let anyone else call plays on offense. He made an exception for 10-year-old Montana Mazurkiewicz. The Notre Dame coach met last week with Montana, who had been told by doctors weeks earlier that…

(Via ESPN To Stories)

 Mario is a cultural icon for childen of the 80s and I suppose it stands to reason that something like this would happen.  But when our children look back on what we have done with the icons of our youth, its going to make Disco look positively hip and groovy.

Super Mario Brothers as light opera – Cory Doctorow: The Super Mario Brothers Opera is just what it says on the tin: a fan-scored and -performed opera based on Super Mario Brothers — complete with trailer video and catchy soundtrack download site. Link (via Monochrom)

(Via Boing Boing)

 I can still remember when Fox first started up and was showing Married With Children as their flagship sitcom.  Now UPN, long the butt of TV jokes is making progress against the big networks.

I suppose I shouldn’t be suprised.  But it still just sounds so odd. "UPN beats NBC in ratings". 

Peacock Flies Lower on Thursday (Los Angeles Times) – Los Angeles Times – Not so long ago, such a feat would have been unthinkable: the underdog UPN television network beating the mighty NBC in a crucial Thursday night slot.

(Via Yahoo! Top Stories)

 Thank you, I’ll take a dozen.

Seriously, skin mounted displays?  How can this not be cool?  Or maybe I am just a little to close to realizing my Borg realities? 

Animator envisions sub-dermal displays –

Note to Hart and Huntington tattoo shop: you guys so need to hook up with Gina Miller, a designer and animator who is looking to make your business totally obsolete. Obviously seeing a bright future in implanted devices, Seattle-based Miller, with help from nanotech author Robert A. Freitas Jr., has finished her concept-animation project that envisions a dermal display system consisting of billions of nanobots that can self-assemble and emit photons to form text and graphics directly on the skin. While user-changeable tattoos are the most obvious implementation of this technology, Freitas proposes the more “practical” deployment of using pixelbots to display info gathered from the army of healthbots that will one day run amok in our bloodstreams. The futuristic system also promises to be touch sensitive, allowing you to send a message back to your nano-friends telling them to get the hell out of your prostate.

[Via Medgadget]

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 Putting this one under "too much time on their hands" department.

Kinky nano Thong –

Sure, your iPod nano is sleek and sexy, and you love it. But there comes a time in every digital audio player relationship when you need to "re-kindle the moment." That’s where the iPod nano leather thong comes in. How much will it run you? $34.95 and a withdrawal from your embarassment account. Coming soon: iPod nano wrist restraints and nipple clamps.

iPod Nano Thong [iPod Street]

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No, its not another rebuild.  Green Scissors will be migrating to a new host tonight.  I don’t expect any problems and the only impact you should notice on the site is that the aggregator cache will be emptied prior to migrating the database.

Should have everything squared  away by tomorrow.

One Hurt, Two Arrested in Drill Team Brawl (AP) – AP – One person required stitches and a mother and son were arrested after two drill teams began brawling during an impromptu "dance off," Wichita police said.

(Via Yahoo! Oddly Enough)

 Right here in Kansas even!  Seems two "drill teams" decided to act out West Side Story.  Now, I saw You Got Served (don’t ask, it was after midnight in a hotel room.  These things happen, we just try to move on) but I assumed that spontaneous street dancing competitions were just something in movies to make suburban white kids feel like they understood urban life.

Apparently in Witchita, they never got the memo.  I hope that everyone involved in this feels like a total loser this morning and gets a grip on their life.