A Wisconsin paper has a story about a guy who, while being transferred from Brown County to Milwaukee Secure Detention got away when the van stopped at a rest stop. "Bonilla is a convicted felon, having been found guilty of robbery and theft in Milwaukee County. Bonilla was handcuffed and without shoes when he took off from the rest area, heading towards Lomira, according to reports."

He then managed to remove the handcuffs while on the run, and had to remove his pants because they "got wet." He was caught 3 hours later because he went door-to-door at 6pm in his boxers and asked for directions to the nearest McDonald's and to use a phone. What a way to lay low after just escaping.

Tonight, Season 3 of Arrested Development begins on FOX at 7pm CST. If you haven't seen the show, you're missing some great comedy. It's beyond hilarious. It's intelligent humor, but fast-paced so it might take a little to get used to. From a rollover on their site: "Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier, the Bluths are back and they're still bananas on the season premiere!" Bananas, indeed. There's also a streaming video on Fox's main page which is great. So don't miss it!

There's an article at Yahoo about a guy in Australia who was wearing a woolen shirt and nylon jacket which, as a result of rubbing together as he walked, built up a charge of 40,000 volts.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet. "It sounded almost like a firecracker," Clewer told Australian radio Friday. "Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt."

Employees, unsure of the cause of the mysterious burning smell, telephoned firefighters who evacuated the building. "There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise -- a bit like a whip -- both inside and outside the building," said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

This is ridiculous. If only you could zap things at will after building up such a huge charge.

After months of building anticipation, Nintendo finally revealed the controller that will appear with their next system, Nintendo Revolution. And, as hyped, the controller really is a huge step in a new direction. (Click here if you want to jump to a big picture of it)

One major difference is the controller looks like a remote control. It even has a power button to turn on the system wirelessly. The biggest change to gaming comes from the control. The remote detects tilt and distance. So if you're playing an airplane game, you simply tilt the controller in the direction you want. If you're playing a shooting game, you can move the controller towards the screen to zoom in and away to zoom out. And apparently if you point and shoot, the controller is quite accurate at shooting in the right spot.

IGN's list:

• 3D Pointing. Sensors understand up, down, left, right, forward and backward.
• Tilt Sensitive. Controller can be rotated or rolled from side-to-side.
• Buttons Included. Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad.
• Multifunctional. Has an expansion port which can be used with different types of controller peripherals. Analog stick with two trigger buttons planned for left hand.
• Wireless. Totally wire-free. Currently there are no details on the max distance, source or power, or otherwise.
• Rumble Built-in. Included as a standard in all the controllers.

Read on for pictures and more detail.

If you want to read other articles about it, look here (CNN), here (IGN), here (Macworld), and here (MSN). And there's video here (IGN).

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David Spade's new show The Showbiz Show with David Spade airs tonight on Comedy Central (at 9:30 and again at 11:30 CST). It's been described as The Daily Show meets Access Hollywood. Another description: "kind of like an expanded version of that snarky Hollywood Minute feature Spade used to do on Saturday Night Live." Yeah, that was so snarky. Snarktastic.

Hosted and produced by Spade and produced with his long-time creative partner and Emmy Award-winning writer Hugh Fink, "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" is a half-hour, topical, comedy series about Hollywood, celebrity and the entertainment industry.

The new show will have fun with all of Hollywood's self-importance, hypocrisy and mediocrity by using actual footage, clips and on-location field pieces, along with celebrity guests and comic personalities who appear as critics and correspondents.

Proving that they truly are "America's Finest News Source," The Onion reported on the newest Gillette razor over a year and a half ago, while the rest of the media just caught up today.

From The Onion, back in February 2004:

...we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.

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From Yahoo, today:

Gillette Co. fired the latest shot in the blade wars Wednesday, introducing a new razor for men which features five blades, one more than competitor Schick's model.

"The Schick launch has nothing to do with this, it's like comparing a Ferrari to a Volkswagen as far as we're concerned," said chairman, president and chief executive James Kilts, who has been using Fusion for about a year.

"There was never a plan to go to four," said Peter Hoffman, president of Gillette's blades and razors business. Instead, it jumped to five blades, or six including the trimmer, and will sell Fusion-branded shaving gels and after shave balm.

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There's an article online about how several Alamo locations in the UK have all sorts of weird stories regarding their rental cars. Excuses people have for damage and late returns, and strange things left in the car upon return.

Customers can be very creative but sometimes the events are so far fetched they must be true – as in the case of a lady phoning in Birmingham for replacement keys after a "magpie swooped down and stole them off the car roof." Luckily Alamo staff went the extra mile - and delivered the lady some new keys.

Strangest reasons for damage:
• A customer in Bristol said: "I hit a cow crossing the road."
• "I didn’t see the wall until I’d reversed into it," offered a customer in Oxford.
• "A pheasant came out of nowhere and got stuck in the grill" was the reason given by another customer in Edinburgh .
• "I just woke up one morning and it was there" was the explanation given by a man in Newcastle who returned a car with caved in wings, doors and wheel arch.

Unusual Reasons for returning a car late:
• "I was running late for the plane."
• One customer got lost for 6 hours driving around Leeds - she called the branch in tears several times and eventually a member of staff went out to collect her.
• "I didn’t realise it had to be back."

Surprising items left in the car:
• False teeth • Black leather whip • A false leg • A cat in the engine • G-string in the sun visor • Wedding dress.

There's an article at Yahoo about a German brewer creating the world's strongest beer:

A German brewer has concocted what he says is the world's strongest beer, a potent drink with an alcohol content of 25.4 percent that is served in a shot glass.

"Everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic. It tastes like a quirky mixture of beer and sherry," said Bavarian brewer Harald Schneider.

Schneider, who lives in southern Germany where beer is a tradition, said his beer fermented for 12 weeks for an alcohol content twice that of Germany's other strongest beers.

"People will only be able to drink two or three glasses, otherwise they'll drop like flies," he said.

Schneider expects the holders of the world's strongest beer, the Boston Beer Company, to put up a fight. "I'm pretty sure the Americans have something up their sleeve."

You're damn right we got something up our sleeve...I can't wait to try some 80 proof beer. It'll definitely shorten those power hours :)

According to CBS News, a high school in Pennsylvania is running a "Stop the Bop" campaign, where they won't stop playing the Hanson song "MmmBop" until they have raised $3000 for the hurricane victims. The song plays during passing periods and lunch. The school has about 650 students, and they've raised $2300 so far. "Student Council President Meredith Cox and Vice President Maria Landi, both of whom are seniors, came up with the idea."

In other news, the school's suicide rate is up 1000%. Seriously, how somebody didn't get aggravated enough to pony up the cash after about 5 minutes is beyond me.

"Kids have said, 'If I give you a blank check, will you stop this music?' " Cox says. "People are just, like, some people give twenties. You say, 'Thank you very much.' They say, 'No, we just want it to end. Even though it's for a good cause, we just want it to end.' It's rather funny."

Yeah, hilarious. Think of the children!

In a major surprise to absolutely nobody, the Director of FEMA Mike Brown has resigned, citing the interests of the Bush administration and FEMA as reasons, according to Yahoo.

His decision was not a surprise. Brown was abruptly recalled to Washington on Friday, a clear vote of no confidence from his superiors at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security. Brown had been roundly criticized for FEMA's bearish response to the hurricane, which has caused political problem for Bush and fellow Republicans.

"I'm turning in my resignation today," Brown said. "I think it's in the best interest of the agency and the best interest of the president to do that and get the media focused on the good things that are going on, instead of me."

Brown, who said he last talked to Bush five or six days ago, said the resignation was his idea. He spoke on Saturday to White House chief of staff Andy Card, who did not request his departure, according to Brown. He said he feared he was becoming a distraction to FEMA's relief effort.

I wonder if the adminstration thinks that this will divert attention from their lack of response, because it won't.