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Sunday Google switched their logo from the colored letters G-o-o-g-l-e to a father in an armchair receiving gifts of a tie.


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6/16/2002


A provokative collection of posters promoting a Britney Spears TV special -- after they've been defaced by actual New Yorkers.

This exhibition of folk criticism asks two questions, according to the site's webmistress.

[W]hat kind of society have we become. Who are we choosing to idolize and what images are we telling our children and ourselves to aspire to?
And...
[I]f one puts up a sultry poster, do they think about the ramifications of unleashing that into the public arena where markers abound?


Link found on FilePile.



6/16/2002


Bedlam. Chaos. A celebrity was knocked to the ground and, according to one witness, "crushed."

The celebrity was Michael Jackson, raising money for charity. And the eye-witness was (a publicity-seeking?) Uri Geller, the psychic who bends spoons with his mind...


Article also notes that when Jacko spotted the throne at Britain's House of Parliament, he announced to his entourage: "I want that."



6/16/2002


Oldest known Steely Dan song discovered...


*snicker*



6/16/2002


Why didn't Britney sing? Maybe because she couldn't. "Britney Spears' concert packed more technical wizardry than Harry Potter," one reviewer wrote in 2001, "but almost no actual singing."

Every reviewer says the same thing -- and Britney's fans are getting a little tired of it. "She can't sing and do her dance numbers at the same time," one fan wrote the San Francisco Chronicle. "That would be impossible!"



6/16/2002


They can't keep the lights on at Texas Tech.

Wait, it gets better. There was a concert being given there by Britney Spears, and the power got overloaded by her special effects for "Oops I Did It Again."

Then Britney stands on the stage, expectant fans staring up at her disappointedly. Did she sing an a capella version of "Silent Night" or "Amazing Grace"? No. One of her management team came onstage and told the crowd to go home. Britney couldn't perform without all the additional technology.

Boooooo, the audience shouted. "Please don't boo," Britney tells the audience. Boooooo, they continue....



6/16/2002