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Microsoft flips America the bird. Farrah is dead. Michael may or may not be. Happy Thursday!

June 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Randomness, randomness, randomness is the order of the day today. So, random ramblings and links. CNN is reporting that Microsoft has announced they are giving a limited number of American consumers a limited opportunity to obtain cheap upgrade copies of Windows 7. After that date American consumers will have to pay full price for the OS that Vista should have been. As per usual, there will be a slight price break for those upgrading from the previous OS, and it looks as though they are extending this pricebreak to those who decided not to downgrade from the perfectly usable XP to the broken Vista. However holdouts using older versions of Microsofts Windows OS will need to pony up a little extra for the full version. Unless of course they are in Europe … Read entire article »

Filed under: Economy, England, Feature, Globalism, Health, Internet, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, Music, News, Thursday

Toledo won’t be outdone!

June 22nd, 2009 | Add a Comment

On Thursday of last week we here at Anomaly Magazine commented on several odd run-ins with the law taking place in the state of Ohio. Not to be outdone, Toledo’s mayor has two odd stories in the news this week. The first involves the 70 year old mayor, Carty Finkbeiner (and no, we didn’t make that name up, but we wish we had) breaking up a fight between teenagers in the park, even going as far as to call one kid back with “Come here fatso.” The other story, one that we can’t believe we missed for the Thursday round up of “don’t Buckeye police have anything better to do”, involves the mayor and the city ticketing folks who parked in their own gravel driveways based on an odd law against parking … Read entire article »

Filed under: Community, crime, criminals, Economy, Elections, Feature, Government, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells

This is a nice game… for me to THURSDAY ON!

June 18th, 2009 | 3 Comments

So, we missed the “because it’s Thursday” feature last week. Sorry about that. I had a whole thing on weird law enforcement planned, but I read Mack’s articles on the tasering of grandmothers and thought to myself “this is too serious an issue to dilute with frivolous arrest stories.” But this week we’re back, and leading off with the neatest free, educational game I’ve seen in a while; Wolf Quest. I mean, where else are you going to find a game that encourages kids to “harass grizzly bears with your mate” and pee on things? You can check out the promotional video here. Now, on to the pre-empted police insanity; it seems that cops in Ohio really have too much time on their hands. I mean you’d think that with a failing economy, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Advertising, Community, crime, criminals, Economy, Elections, Feature, Gaming, Government, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, News, Politics, Science, Technology, Thursday, Uncategorized, video games

Update on Travis County Taser Story: “He Didn’t Break Nothin’”

June 9th, 2009 | Add a Comment

Update on the Travis County Taser Story: Sgt. Major Gary Griffin, Travis County Constable’s Office Precinct 3, applauded Deputy Chris Bieze’s actions by saying he “didn’t break nothin’.” (LINK) You got that? Bieze didn’t break nothin’. That’s good. I’m glad he didn’t break nothin’. We’re all glad. Would’ve been too bad if he’d broke somethin’. When Griffin said this, he was making the point that the woman should be glad Bieze used a Taser instead of a nightstick. People get hurt by nightsticks, you see, whereas it don’t hurt people none at all to get hit by a Taser. Don’t break nothin’. It is revealed in the same story that Bieze is the Taser instructor for Precinct 3. Presumably, then, as the precinct’s resident authority on Tasers, he is aware of the potentially harmful … Read entire article »

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Roadside Torture: Official Policy of Travis Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

June 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments

SPECIAL REPORT from Mack White I defy anyone to watch this video (above) and give me one good reason why Travis County Deputy Chris Bieze was justified in Tasering a 72-year-old grandmother during a traffic stop. Yes, she was argumentative. Yes, she failed to comply with the officer’s order. But does this justify use of the Taser? Originally, Tasers were intended to be used by police only in situations where a gun might otherwise be used–that is, in situations where lives might be in danger. Rule of thumb: If a situation doesn’t require a gun, it shouldn’t require a Taser. And yet, increasingly, police are using the Taser not in dangerous situations, but simply to enforce compliance. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Austin, Feature, Mack White, News, Technology, Texas, Torture, Video

Thursday’s Child has far to go

June 4th, 2009 | Add a Comment

Here at Anomaly Magazine, we’re learning to love our “Because it’s Thursday” features. We all hold down full time jobs. This is a labor of love for us. But because it isn’t our job, it’s easy to let it slide when things start getting hairy. The Thursday feature reminds us, at least once a week, that we’ve got this red-headed step child sitting over here waiting for some of our attention. Plus, Thursdays have held a soft spot for me since college. My alma mater, Shawnee State University, was on the quarter system instead of the semester system. This meant they were always tweaking the scheduling, trying to find the most efficient arrangement. At one point classes were scheduled either on Mondays and Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, with lab and … Read entire article »

Filed under: Art, Austin, Community, crime, criminals, Events, Feature, Jeremy D. Wells, Jeremy Wells, Thursday, Uncategorized