Ooooh, did you see that hit?! Good thing she went with that 600-fill down feather pillow. She really turns that bag over! A true pillow fighter with skills and tenacity to look for throughout the rest of the season!

Are we going to start hearing commentary similar to that as pillow fighting becomes a more widely accepted sport? More information on the New York Post and images at the China Daily [via].

An unfortunate death for a California woman who attempted to drink as much water as possible without relieving herself. Proves the point that water intoxication is definitely something that can take your life. The lengths that parents will go in order to win a Wii console for their children.

A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

Check out the Wikipedia entry on water intoxication – also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning (kind of reminds me of X-Men). Water intoxication is a “disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a very rapid intake of water”.

Additional fatal example of water poisoning involving a Cal State student killed during a fraternity hazing including massive amounts of water consumption & calisthenics.

Oregon Democrat David Wu, who’s head is obviously in space, accused that Vulcans have secretly infiltrated the White House, in a public session of Congress.

Here is the transcript of his “speech”:

Now, this President has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek, who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren’t Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own.

Don’t led faux Klingons send real Americans to war. It is wrong.

Hey, Ted, we have a match for you!

I believe that being woken up with something like the Sonic Boom alarm clock might actually do more harm than good. Does anyone else share the same belief? Wasn’t there a study that proved that your day would probably be better off when started with a soothing alarm clock rather than a 113 dB eardrum jarring alternative?

I mean, if waking up with a splitting headache sounds like your kind of morning, by all means, do check out the Sonic Boom Alarm Clock [via]. The beats will definitely rock your mornings – and not in the good way. The damn thing even comes with a 12V bed shaker just in case the car horn like blast has no effect on your deep sleep patterns.

I think I’ll pass on this one. I’m the type that prefers to wake up when I’m damn well ready to wake up.

Due to the fact that I am free of working in any type of corporate environment which requires the use of Microsoft Outlook, I can not admit to being directly affected to the following discovery. However, I am well aware that there are Outlook users amongst our readers to the news is definitely applicable and worth noting.

Recent news conveys the horrid truth that Microsoft has decided to replace Internet Explorer with Microsoft Word as their rendering engine for HTML emails. As I am sure you are all aware, Internet Explorer is an internet browser. Microsoft Word is a rich text editor. Internet browsers understand CSS rules like float:left or float:right. Microsoft Word, no. See where I’m going with this? Background images, margin, padding… All out the window.

If you’re stuck in Corporate hell which requires the use of Outlook, prepare yourself for some very ugly emails – internal and external sources. All praise Microsoft!

According to a statement under the “Observations & Assumptions” section of a document stating the future of Firefox, Mozilla hints towards a future which includes the Safari web browser on Windows.

Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. Buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox is a statement under the “Observations & Assumptions” section that reads:

“Apple may have Safari on Windows with likely ties to iTunes & .Mac”

I for one will surely welcome [with open arms] an official port of Safari for the Windows platform. Is anyone else looking forward to such a day? Obviously the key ideas here are “rumor” & “speculation”.

I’m not 100% sure on the benefits of such a move – porting Safari to Windows. Much of the functionality that I enjoy using Safari as my default browser is the fact that the application is tied into the actual OS X operating system. I doubt anything close would be offered on the Windows side – the only advantage being the functionality of

The “Brown Mafia” has created quite a stir in the Lowell area school district. Apparently, the mafia has given locals such a hard time that schools are banning the color brown from campus.

Darren Sawyer was given a choice at the beginning of school yesterday: Change out of his brown clothes or go home.

Brown clothing was recently banned at the Molloy Alternative High School, where Sawyer is a sophomore. The ban came about from the emergence of the Brown Mafia, a new teenage gang in Lowell whose members wear the color brown, school officials said.

The offending outfit: “chocolate Aeropostale hooded sweatshirt and American Eagle T-shirt”. Oooh. Officials should be shaking in their boots anticipating next Fall’s clothing catalogue.

Two of the worlds richest men – Bill Gates & Warren Buffet – were presented with Hooters VIP cards which *hold your breath* provide the two men with free meals. As if those two really needed a little help in the dining department. An obvious publicity stunt for Hooters to turn heads which promoting its breasts.

While they surely don’t need the help, the world’s two richest men can now eat for free at Hooters restaurants. On Friday October 20, 2006 Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were presented with Hooters VIP Cards at a Hooters Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. The Cards entitle the gentlemen, who currently rank numbers 1 and 2 on the list of worlds richest, to free food at any of the chains 435 locations in 46 states and 20 countries exclusive of tip and alcohol.

Does reading this remind anyone of how long its been since they’ve visited a Hooters? It sure did for me… The last and only time I ever checked out a Hooters “restaurant” was back in high school. A long time ago.

Hurry! There’s still time to get to Macworld. Assuming you’ve got this bad boy sitting in your garage, you may very well manage to get to the conference without missing too much. Powered by two jet engines, this Toyota MR2 sure looks like a beast. I can’t imagine the noise and racket those pair of bottle rockets kicks out. The car can be yours [via], so long as you land the winning bid on eBay.

A French prisoner confessed to having killed and eaten his cellmate. The details sound a bit gruesome. Cutting out the fluff, the prisoner decided to dine on his cellmates chest muscles and a portion of the left lung. Not surprisingly, news sources open their pieces with “tearing out his heart and eating it”. You know, to add a little more oomph to the story.

Oddly enough, there seems to have been a third cellmate who swears he slept through the incident.