General
News Archives for March, 2002
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Would
You Like a Doggy Bag?
Today
in the Syndicate Press, writer
Chris Clark peers deep into the food and beverage industry and their
seemingly nonexistent standards on portion sizes. From the smallest
of the small to the biggest of the big, from the fancy yet absurdly
tiny dishes that drain your wallet to the massive slabs of meat
that cost less than a stick of gum, discover all you've ever wanted
to know about how restaurants serve up their helpings in Portion
Frenzy.
In
other news, reports today have shown that the Syndicate Forums project
has been resurrected. It's been a long wile since the forums were
a thought in anyone's head but now it appears that it soon may become
reality. Keep checking the Syndicate front page for updates.
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"Snazzy!"
One Visitor was Heard to Remark
We
all know Flash is a wonderful thing. Now, with the release of Flash
MX (the newest version of this delightful software) we were finally
able to clean up the ugly little JavaScript spotlight section on
this very page. Have a look. Snazzy is the only way to accurately
describe it.
In
other news today, it appears yesterday we hit our 128th article.
If you're counting in binary, that would be our 10,000,000th article!
What a milestone!!! I was happy when we reached a hundred,
but ten million? All I can say is wow.
For
now, relax and enjoy the first day of spring with a hot cup of boiling
sulfuric acid. You deserve it.
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A
Near-Coffee Bean Experience
After
narrowly avoiding certain mild discomfort thanks to last week's
GREEN invasion, I was driven
into a frenzied state of activism, and desperately wanted to do
my part to save the world from the various evils involved in the
consumption of warm beverages. However, since I have no idea how
to go about that, I decided instead to release the second in the
How To Drive... series, cleverly
titled "How To Drive:
Part II!"
Please,
enjoy this film responsibly.
In
other news, Chris is currently finishing up the incredibly stylish
new Spotlight feature, which will be bestowed upon this highly deserving
website in the very near future.
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18, 2002 |
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Curing
the Color Crisis
Thankfully
the server has now been purged of the terrible wave of GREEN.
Back to our trademark happy blue, we can all get on with our nondescript
and meaningless lives. Also, we now have much better knowledge as
to this "GREEN" and
how it works. Last year it was only startling, but this year we
had a death toll of almost 1. See, Jason almost dropped some
really hot coffee on his lap when seeing the GREEN.
Okay,
so he probably wouldn't have died or anything. Still, the GREEN
was scary.
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| March
17, 2002 |
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Attack
of the Green!
The
GREEN is back! Run for your
lives! Wow, what a coincidence. That's twice the GREEN
has struck, and each time on St. Patrick's day. I must say though,
the advantage of this entire web site being immune to pinching hardly
outweighs the stress toll that this horrible GREEN
takes on our servers. While we try to clean up this festively colored
mess, please have a happy St. Patrick's Day.
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| March
16, 2002 |
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It
like... Bends light, Man....
Drug
trafficking is something we must come to grips with here in our
material world. The economy of mind altering substances is always
growing though, and as Chris Clark reports in today's latest Syndicate
Press article, a new wave of "light bending" substances
has hit the streets. Known as Narcoptics, they'll make things appear
smaller or larger, sometimes even backward. Learn all about how
you can spot them in use in Dangerous
Narcoptics.
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12, 2002 |
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Learn
How To Drive All Over Again
Continuing
the trend of media-frenzy here at the Syndicate, a literal barrage
of new movies has been released to the public! Marvel in the wonder
of this instructional video, "How
To Drive A Huge Black Pickup Truck," dealing with the
intricacies of driving such a vehicle. Bask in its radiant glow
here.
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2, 2002 |
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The
View's Much Better From Here
Kicking
off year three for the Reality Syndicate is Chris Clark's latest
addition to the Film and Radio section.
This provocative and confusing film is set deep within some random
mountain range, and stars a silhouette that has yet to be named!
Seriously, this is a film that will leave you scratching your head,
and not because it switched out your dandruff shampoo for Folger's
Crystals. Check out On Top of the
World.
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