niteHawk's spot - March 2004 Archives

March 2004

Tuesday 30 March

Best Anti-Spam tactic I've ever heard of... (10:30) - According to the BBC (and about a hundred radio station DJs this morning). AOL has decided to auction off a Porsche Boxter... previously owned by a spammer that they won a case against... since the guy cried poverty, they took... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 29 March

Schweet! - Family Guy Coming soon (12:12) - Yeah yeah yeah, it's old news that Family Guy is coming back, but it's now been made official. According to a press release from Fox Work has begun on at least 22 new episodes of the former Fox TV show.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 26 March

And for the 12yr olds in the audience... (15:31) - While looking at the following website for work: Business Objects... I ran across this snippett of text that gave me the giggles... yes.. I have the mentality of a 12yr old.... A BI product is only as useful as the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

SMG not in the last few Angel's (13:04) - Sarah Michelle Gellar will not be resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the finale of The WB spinoff series Angel after all, TV Guide Online reported. Gellar was reportedly asked to appear in the second-to-last episode, airing May 5, but... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

100 posts.. and just now we get to the breast milk... (12:22) - Steve, Don't Eat It! Vol. 5 Until now, the foods I've sampled for this section have all come from the supermarket. Then one day I realized that a perfectly viable "Steve Don't Eat It" candidate has been sitting right under... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 25 March

Teen Titans Tower playsets :-D (12:10) - Really Really REALLY sweet! Teen Titans Command Centers - These packages of two mini-playsets represent different areas of the Teen Titans headquarters, such as jail and each Teen Titan's command area. One playsetin each pack features lights and sounds. Collect... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Seth Greene and Cartoons (12:00) - Seth Green is executive producing an animated series greenlighted for the Cartoon Network. The cable channel has ordered 20 episodes of the untitled project, a stop-motion cartoon that depicts iconic toys acting out satirical vignettes. For instance, superhero action figures... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

SpiderMan 2 (11:57) - Super-Hero Hype (SPOILERS) is reporting that the second SpiderMan movie will be out 2 days earlier.. and the big news? SpiderMan 3 is scheduled to come out in May '07.. everyone has already signed... how can you plan that far... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Emily Strange Eppi SG Guitar (09:32) - The newest Emily Strange Contest is to win a Limited Edition Eppiphone SG-Style guitar.. tres cool... hell I almost want one :-)... now to convince my Neice the singer that she could disguise a Christian song into one about Emily...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 24 March

County in OR refusing to issue ANY marrige licenses... (10:12) - CNN.com - Oregon county bans all marriage - Mar 23, 2004 In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages -- gay and heterosexual -- until the... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

WoTC Pranks (09:44) - "You see, back in the day, we used to have Nerf wars on a regular basis." Short writeup from Wizards of the Coast's R&D Department.... these are the same guys that create Magic, New D&D Modules, etc... fun stuff....... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 23 March

Peeps... lotsandlots of.. Peeps (13:28) - More Peeps Than You Can Shake a Stick At "One advantage of being right after Easter is that tons of stores want to offload their leftover peep packages. We went all over town wheeling and dealing, often getting 3-packs of... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Cold Heat Soldering Iron... (12:47) - I need on of these for working on paintball guns, especially with animals and my son running around th ehouse.. instant on/off soldering :-) Perhaps wifeHawk will be reading this and get the int for the next holiday :-P... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

On the road again.... (11:24) - "We will follow Angel to hell ... or another network." (Second Link)... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Yep - End of the world... (10:57) - Zap2it - TV news - Simpson, Lachey Party with Puppets on ABC So, Jessica Simpson is slowly becoming the Cher of our decade... although not the sexy half naked Cher, but the Cher as in "Sonny &". Best snarky comments... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 22 March

Anime Designed Ferry.. (15:30) - The 114-ton Japanese water-taxi 'Himiko' was designed by anime artist Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamoto) "to appeal to the younger generation." It does this by being awesome. How cool is this?... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Xork over IM.. yep.. HERE's a big ol timewaster while at work :-) (13:47) - Waxy.org: Daily Log: InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger If you have an AOL Instant Messenger account, send an IM to InfocomBot or InfocomBot2. This is an automated bot to play classic Infocom text adventure games from your favorite IM client,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Confessions of a Mid-List Author (13:45) - The confessions of a semi-successful author: "I've published several books, won adoring reviews, and even sold a few copies. But I've made almost no money and had my heart broken. Here's everything you don't want to know about how publishing... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 18 March

Work Sucks (09:54) - Yeah - no entries until I can I can figure out how to do it from work....... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 13 March

hehe.. Cordy Boobies... (23:52) - Half way down the page... CHARISMA POSES FOR PLAYBOY Former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" star Charisma Carpenter has picked a public way to celebrate her newly svelte figure after giving birth -- by posing nude in men's magazine... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 12 March

NYC Tales (08:18) - You never know who's Old Cell Phone Number you'll get. LAURA: Hello? CALLER: Is Chris there? LAURA: [Puzzled, with curiosity immediately piqued] Uh, Chris... who? CALLER: Chris Rock. LAURA: [Incredulously] Chris Rock!!? As in Chris Rock? As in, the Chris... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 10 March

Aly's review of Harry Met Sally (14:32) - This is the first review I've seen of Aly in "When Harry Met Sally" on stage in London... translated from German, so it's hard to read in parts (and the formatting sucks) but still...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

More Buffy Toys (14:27) - Two new figures announced! Darla and Spike! Scheduled for release late 2004/early 2005, Diamond Select Toys will be releasing Darla and Spike action figures. Darla (played by Julie Benz on the former hit series) will be produced in both human... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Dawn all grown up (14:24) - Michelle Trachtenberg is no longer the innocent young girl from Buffy A great discussion withe the Writers/Director was on Aint It Cool here. It actually makes me want to see it... Jeeze... she was only 17 when she did this...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Angel a no go on UPN (14:13) - Sources within Mutant Enemy have confirmed to IGN FilmForce that the UPN network has passed on the option to pick up Angel.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Buffy (toys) Live (14:12) - Official Buffy Action Figure news from Diamond Select Toys. Whee - they are continuing the line :-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Anya Figures :-) and Varients (14:05) - SALEM, NH (March 1, 2004) - CineQuest.com announced today that it will be producing an exclusive Anya Variant figure as part of Diamond Select Toys' next release of figures from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The variants include a Demon Anya... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Joss and Bruce Campbell on NPR... (13:58) - Is your circle of friends limited to people who speak Klingon? Is there a Xena costume in your closet? Did you cry during the last episode of Buffy? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you've been... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

TVGal likes Wonderfalls (13:53) - If you thought Joan of Arcadia was testy, wait until you meet Jaye of WonderFalls.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Neat new CD Labeling Technology (13:45) - HP has invented a new technology to label your CDs and DVDs which uses your CD/DVD burner’s laser to create a professional looking label. When you have burned a disc you simply just flip the disc over and burn the... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 9 March

Nostalgia.. Wacky Packs? (17:19) - In May, the Topps Co. will re-release Wacky Packages hehehe coooool... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 8 March

The Batman Previewing on WB (13:59) - According to Comics Continuum THe new "The Batman" cartoon will be previewed on Kids WB this coming Saturday.. now how the hell do I set up the Tivo to record that??... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

New DS (11:06) - www.dieselsweeties.com... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 6 March

Wonderfalls (14:15) - "We like to think of it as the night that we promote 13-episode DVD sets..." One of the most critically lauded pilots of last spring, "Wonderfalls" stars Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye Tyler, a 20-year-old, cranky, overeducated but underachieving gift-shop clerk... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 5 March

Yo. (13:29) - Sometimes you get something emailed to you that cracks you up... this is one of them...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

No more Vikings either... (13:27) - AKA--The Low Pressure Experts March 1st, 2004 AKALMP, Inc., Low Pressure Experts, has reached an agreement in the lawsuit with Smart Parts, Inc. AKA is not a licensee of Smart Parts and the terms of the agreement are strictly confidential.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 3 March

Spoliery Angel Stuff (14:03) - Jeff Bell, co-executive producer of the WB's recently canceled vampire series Angel, told SCI FI Wire that upcoming episodes will focus on ******* and ****** Do you really want to know?l... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wheee - Firefly movie is a GO! (14:01) - Wheee!! Universal Pictures has green-lighted Serenity, a feature film to be based on the short-lived Joss Whedon television series Firefly, according to Variety.... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

SMG changes her mind (13:59) - SMG seems to have changed her tune... Her Angel decision was "a really common misconception that people have written a lot about," Gellar said. "They had asked me to do Angel, and it was a very bad time in my... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments