BRAINPUPPY is INTERACTIVE LIFE.

No, this is not a test. This is an actual post. No promises of repentance or regret, nor renewal of vows for anything. Just a shameless claim of the first published use of what will one day be a household term: Super Poll Tuesday.

You read it here first.

I think.
- js

Meet the latest recipient of 15 min. fame - The Bus Uncle has become a celebrity in Hong Kong for his lengthy rant on a bus. His repetitive diatribe including “I’ve got pressure” has caught on as the latest ringtone craze out (Far) East and has been set to Adagio for Strings. td

Thanks to our friend over at salon.com for turning us on to this do-it-yourself site where you can find home productions of all kinds including Bareback Mountain, Hot Girl avec friend and many other entertaining/disturbing clips. - td

In the land of high taxes, folks are finally getting something for their money - check a lesbian out for an hour (oh please god let her be hot) and learn how the other half thinks. - td

Chess is not just for nerds anymore - td

Chinese bathhouses are the new “in” place to sleep for China’s burgeoning class of business travelers and backpackers in the know. $10 for a bed, massage and hot bath…or…$100 for a decrepit government institution - you do the math. This is so new there are no links…you heard it here…(and I heard it in today’s WSJ), vive le print media - td

PCCW of Hong Kong has connected the big three of digital home invasion: voice, data and TV. Now you can pay for what you want to watch instead of what the cable behemoths decide is good for you. Bye bye UPN…hello Oxygen Channel! A North American competitor (SBC avec MSFT) shouldn’t be up until…2006!!!…leaving plenty of time for some go-getters to…uh…go get. - td

Rx has been biting George Bush’s lyrical stylings on the down low over at thepartyparty.com for a while now. But the secret is out in the current issue of Newsweek. Now that he’s famous, I hope he will forget us when the Feds com knockin’. - js

John Cheever wrote that, “all literary men are Red Sox fans”. Hart Brachen, pseudonymous author of the comic strip Soxaholix, now blends the best of the Canon into the musings of a few Bahston fans. - td

Truman said his foreign-policy aparatus was replete with people who, “were certain I did not know what was going on in the world and [they] tried to keep me from finding out”; in reponse was born the CIA. Nixon would later fume about it, “They’ve got 40,000 people over there reading newspapers”. In his new “Burn Before Reading”, Stansfield Turner takes a look at the Agency and its bosses up through W….a must autumn read. - td