How could my first update in a month and a half be anything other than things I love about America?
* I love the fact that sites like Internet Gossip exist. It's like the New York Post's Page Six, only instead of reporting on rich people with successful careers, it follows the drama surrounding webmasters. (Saves us all the time of reading a lot of crap.)
* I love that sites like blogdex uses technology to quantify popular web content, so I can spend less time hunting down something interesting.
* I love the fact that the Internet is an endless trail of information (and misinformation), including a database of resignation speeches and letters throughout history.
* I love that an "invisible condom" may soon hit the market. Apparently, it's a gel that acts as a barrier for man juice. Get Carrot Top a case of this stuff ... quickly.
* I love ESPN.com's Page 2, the best online sports page. Get your scores and highlights from TV, but this page is all about what makes sports fun to follow — debates, commentary, humor, and a treatment of the industry for what it is: entertainment.
* I love that Playboy shows us how to open a beer bottle without an opener. Now if they'd only show us how to convince hot chicks to get naked.
* I love that there's an article explaining how you can make your own DSL connection. What, and not pay Verizon $40/month? Heaven forbid.
* I love that FHM is holding a Miss Net contest. USA! USA! USA!
* I love that I can prevent annoying pop-ups that nobody clicks on anyway.
* I love that the Hell's Angels of NYC are selling T-shirts (and presumably will kick anyone's ass caught wearing one).
* I love that fact that one can buy stink bombs online with an SV of 12. For those not in the know, SV means "stink value." Those who have been with me at Taco Bell know I can crank it up somewhere between 13 and 130.
* I love that CBS SportsLine has a weekly online NFL crossword puzzle, 'cause I sure as hell can't finish any of the ones in the paper.
* I love Google and, especially, Google Image Search. Need a picture of American flag, or want to reflect on how the World Trade Center used to stand tall. The people at Google are so smart — fast and effective, that's what web users want. You'll never see PaulKatcher.com present Flash intros or navigation that confuse, rather than help, the user.
* I love the fact that no matter how weird you are, you can find people with like interests by searching Yahoo!'s member database.
Every time I talk about the attacks on my hometown, I think of three words. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.
I went through a period of disappointment with the media, the industry in which I work, thinking that sensationalism was petruding. (Thank goodness ABC has banned its news programs from showing the crashes unless it was critical to the story.)
But I can't look away. Nor should I. So I'll share some links that I'm glad to have found, though it doesn't necessarily mean the content makes me glad.
* A beautiful picture from the top of the World Trade Center's observation deck. What a gorgeous sight in a wonderful city whose population is represented by every walk of life.
* Here's a chilling article in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar online, dated December 13, 1999-January 17, 2000. Headline: "Gary Hart warns of impending attack on U.S. mainland"
* Yahoo! created an entire directory of web pages containing first-hand photos of the morning attacks and destruction of the buildings. Some of the best are not professional galleries by photographers looking to capture history. These are people who took shots from their rooftops, from parks, from across the city, where the World Trade Center was always shone as a beacon of strength.
* Jane's Information Group offers military-related news analysis and commentary that brings clarity to the war rhetoric.
* Here's a picture of the World Trade Center burning, as seen from Hoboken, N.J. My girlfriend, as so many other friends, live there. I was in that very park just the other day, and all I could do was stare at the skyline that will never look right to me again.
* I found a spellbinding 45-second video clip of people jumping from the towers. I cannot blame you if you don't want to watch. But I can't blame you if you do. This was evil, and it was real.
I know people who saw these scenes in person. I saw smoke from my office building. Three of my friends are missing. This was an attack on my home. I'll never, ever forget Sept. 11, 2001.
* Some of you fans of The Man Show might want to download yourself some Juggy wallpaper.
* I don't know what I was doing in October 200 when the Pimp 'n Ho Halloween Ball was held, but I bet I didn't have this much fun.
* FHM has 11 pics from a new Carmen Electra pictorial. Carmen, as you know, is starring in my buddy David Eric's Brenner's directorial debut, "Rent Control," set for release in 2002.
* Another pal, Kevin Fitzpatrick, has recently posted tons of pics of gals on the NYC bar scene.
* Here are some stills of Aria Giovanni jumping around in a bikini.
* Eneida is a new bikini model with a large portfolio. We wish her all the breast in her career.
* Basically, there's like eight million chicks in bikinis on this site.
1. Jump into the anonymous message board and share some funny, weird, sexy links. Over 1,000 people visit this site each day. If only a small percentage post every now and then, there will be enough content to keep this site active every day.
2. See what you missed in the archive.
