From the Associated Press:

Roy Colette and his brother-in-law have been exchanging the same pair of pants as a Christmas present for 11 years - and each time the package gets harder to open. This year the pants came wrapped in a car mashed into a 3-foot cube.

The trousers are in the glove compartment of a 1974 Gremlin. Now Collette’s plotting his revenge–if he can get them out.

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For those of you interested in creating your top ten movies of 2004 list, here’s a complete list of the movies of 2004, sorted by date of release, that includes how much the films cost and how much they’ve made so far.

The Army and Air Force “Hometown News Network” made it possible for soldiers serving overseas to record holiday greetings videos for the family back home.

Here’s my sister’s, Captain Meister, holiday greetings video.

As you can probably see, I added a countdown to Spring to the top of the journal.

I created it as a self-taught lesson about creating dynamic images through PHP and the GD library. When the page is accessed, the web server reads in the script that generates the image and then contacts the NOAA weather site to get the current temperature for the Cleveland lakefront area. The server then calculates the number of days between now and the first day of Spring and finally creates forty random snowflakes and scatters them across the image. Once all that is combined with the background picture, the resulting image is sent to your web browser.

If you refresh your browser window, you’ll see the snow change.

A nearly useless waste of computing power, but still fun none-the-less.

The first teaser trailer is up.

From comingsoon.net:

Steven Beck will direct a big screen adaptation of the popular sci-fi TV series Babylon 5. The movie, titled The Memory of Shadows, is intended for theatrical release and was written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski. Production Weekly reports that the project starts filming this April in the UK.

In “Shadows,” the technology of the ancient and extinct Shadow race is being unleashed upon the galaxy by an unknown force, and Earthforce intelligence officer Diane Baker, whose brother was recently killed in a mysterious explosion, it out to find out who is behind the intergalactic conspiracy.

Joining her is Galen, a techno-mage who has been charged with keeping the technology out of the hands of those who would abuse it.

Described by some as the “absolute worst movie trailer you’ll ever see”, witness for yourself the awe-inspiring special effects of the 1997 classic Battle of Zantor