Rightfully So

Lock the Library! Rowdy Students Are Taking Over - New York Times:

Every afternoon at Maplewood Middle School’s final bell, dozens of students pour across Baker Street to the public library. Some study quietly.

The Baker Street library in Maplewood, N.J., near a middle school, will soon close from 2:45 to 5 p.m. Others, library officials say, fight, urinate on the bathroom floor, scrawl graffiti on the walls, talk back to librarians or refuse to leave when asked. One recently threatened to burn down the branch library. Librarians call the police, sometimes twice a day.

Lousy kids. In my day we only played in the neighbor’s yard.

James gets first haircut in 10 years | Metro.co.uk:

A schoolboy has conquered a ten-year fear of the barber and had his 69cm (27in) hair chopped.

And no, it’s not some redneck, he’s actually English (although the 27in hair would’ve made a mean mullet).

Four in grueling ‘couch-potato’ contest - Yahoo! News:

[…] the Ultimate Couch Potato Contest against three challengers after watching for 30 consecutive hours a year ago.

Now if only they would have a sleeping title. Although I believe they let the contestants off a little too easily. They get a 5 minute break every hour. They shouldn’t let them have any breaks, including bathroom.

Wild Starz | Hollywood Gossip | Celebrity News:

Britney Spears, who was reportedly paid a whopping $300,000 to party down at Caeser’s Palace, rang in the new year being carried out of the party by her gnarly bodygaurds.

Although her manager paints a different picture:
Manager: Spears was asleep in club, ‘not drunk’ - CNN.com:

“By about one o’clock, she was just done, so we took her out,” Spears’ manager, Larry Rudolph, told The Associated Press Monday. “She was not drunk. She was just tired and falling asleep.”

I guess we’ll be seeing how she puts all this partying to work when she releases her new album this year.

Winona Daily News - 6.0:

For the first time since high school, I used a communal shower, without the security of a curtain. Not as in “Girls Gone Wild” as I alluded, but it was still a big deal for me, as it is for a great number of women.

It’s so weird that she is just now overcoming her fear. If I learned anything in college, all it took was some alcohol for most women to loose their fear of just about everything.

Blogosphere maven “Gozar” of the famed RightfullySo.com website has managed to keep his New Year’s resolution going for five straight days now.

Initially proposed as a gag during a New Year’s Eve bender, Gozar found himself on the hot seat on January 1, 2007, when, with a splitting headache and vomit-encrusted cheeks and lips, his wife reminded him of his drunken proposal.

“Gozar, honey… do you remember your resolution?” she asked.

“Uhmmmm. Wh…”

“You promised to lose weight, sire another child with me, and post interesting bookmarklets to your web site.”

“Ohhhhhhhhh. That. Look, dear, all I meant was HOLY CRAP DOES MY HEAD HURT.”

“Yes, honey?” she replied, with saccharine condescension, to which Gozar responded by falling asleep on the couch.

* * *

Gozar’s previous New-Years-resolution-breaking record was set in 1985, when he resolved to drink only sugar-free pop. That resolution lasted until January 13, when, after four scoops of Rocky Road ice cream and six pieces of cake, he said “the hell with that shit” and his birthday celebration turned into a Pepsi-fueled festival.

Stay tuned to this web site for details on Gozar’s 2007 progress.

StandardNET/Standard-Examiner:

Kolton Mahoney was shocked when he put the Madden NFL 07 game in his new Xbox 360 console Christmas day and an explicit image popped up on his television screen.

This story is hard to believe. What 14 year old boy would immediately turn off porn and get his parents. It also doesn’t state what kind of porn was contianed on the disc, although I shudder at the thought of John Madden popping up on the screen naked.

The Post-It Note Jaguar - a photoset on Flickr:

What we did to Walt’s Jaguar on Friday (not that I was there or anything…)

And productivity at the office drops to zero now that they are out of post-it notes.

PC World - The 25 Worst Web Sites:

The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new “friends” quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.

And here I thought pink text on a purple background, flashing, was the zenith in web page design.

Can Snoring Kill You?:

People with sleep apnea have short periods during sleep where they stop breathing. These periods last anywhere from 10 seconds to 40 seconds and can occur as many as 400 times per night. If you do the math, this means that the average person with sleep apnea spends more than three hours a night not breathing normally or not breathing at all.

Some of the symptons in the article include:

• Falling asleep during the day
• Trouble with memory and attention
• Irritability
• Decreased libido

Unfortunately, this describes a majority of the people that I know… At least I can feel safe that death might be knocking at their door.