So much for man's best friend. Here's a story about a dog who smashed a truck into a store. Apparently, he didn't pass the Driver's Ed portion of doggie school.

Since the story didn't say, I'm free to embellish: The dog, a labradoodle named Oopsie, was seen sitting in the driver's seat, intently focused on store clerk Josh Hopper. "Here are some auto parts for your damn store," the dog allegedly barked as he kicked the accellerator and raced into the building. Oopsie's owner stared in disbelief. "I thought he was joking when he said he had a vengence against Hopper Auto Parts," Henson said. "I never thought he'd act on it." In hindsight, "dominance/aggression" is listed as one of the labradoodle's tempermental issues, so really, this story isn't much of a surprise.

After being taunted by the dog, Sgt Turnbough decided to issue a citation to Oopsie after all, for impared driving (aggression) and driving during dog-driving off-hours.

Welcome to Boston in the winter! In this game, especially created for Boston.com, you drive a plow around town after a nor'easter. Try to dig up as many asphalt patches as you can, and only plough streets that
look like they might not ever be used!

Not to be scooped again, an questionably reliable source indicates that Steven Spielberg is producing the Transformers live action movie, scheduled for Summer 2006 - 20 years after the original Transformers: The Movie.

This link will probably be more interesting to my co-Blogger Dave than anyone else, but here you go.

Lego Star Wars - The Computer Game

Looks cool! Three geeky hobbies for the price of one!

I initially met the news of the upcoming Willie Wonka remake with fear and trepidation. If ever there were a near-perfect fantasy movie, the existing version certainly qualifies. Anyway, there's a teaser trailer (.mov) out now, which gives me some hope that it may actually be a good movie. While nothing will ever replace the original, perhaps there will indeed be room in the world for both. I doubt anyone can match Gene Wilder's utterly unique blend of charm and ever-so-subtle creepiness, but you know Johnny Depp will try his darnedest.

Trivia Time: The original movie was named "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" instead of the book title "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" because "Charlie" was slang for the Viet Cong, who happened to be causing some grief around the time it was released.

Perhaps one of the best office pranks ever.

Dave's recent post reminded me of one of the freakiest "body modification" stories I ever read. It works out like this:

- Guy (Joshua) abducted by aliens
- Guy "mind melds" with alien
- Guy convinced he's now alien trapped in human body
- Guy gets series of body modifications to look like alien

There's nothing visually obscene or disgusting on the page telling his story, but it will definitely freak you out. Example:

"I cut them off. It was not hard".
(regarding how Joshua's ears were "modified")

Creepy.

Once Again, London Britches Falling Down.

I don't even know what the article is about, but that's a great headline...

Meet Katzen and Enigma. Yes, those are horn and whisker implants.