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Can you believe that this image got the cartoonist a visit from the Secret Service? What’s especially ironic is how intensely conservative the cartoonist is. He intended this homage to Vietnam War journalism to indict the media frenzy for turning this into an anti-Bush thing. (Not saying which side of the fence I fall on, since it’s irrelevant to this subject.)

I can’t believe I agree with Michael Jackson on something.

There apprently is a bill in the House that would make it a federal felony to download copyrighted music off the internet. So, is it a federal felony to steal a CD from the store? Didn’t think so.

When you look in on your child sleeping, and he looks so cute and angelic, do you ever feel like saying, “Liar! I know you’re a monster!”

Me neither. 🙂

From the Last Mile:

Top 11 Signs your ISP has given you up to the RIAA as a dangerous KaZaA user:
11. All the files in your favorite MP3 play list are now “Lars Ulrich sings ‘Feelings'”
10. Your KaZaA rating changes to “Defendant”
9. Eminem insults your mother in his next single
8. Recording Industry Association of America president Hillary Rosen sends you e-mail messages with embedded .wav files of heavy breathing
7. All the spam in your inbox is from Motion Picture Association CEO Jack Valenti
6. You get a bill retroactively charging you 99 cents per downloaded track. Total bill: $29,700
5. A Tommy Mottola screen saver suddenly pops up on your computer
4. Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer picket your home with signs that read, “Piracy don’t pay my bills”
3. You receive a request from someone using outdated hacker wannabe slang claiming a friend said you could “hook me up” with the latest Snoop Dogg album
2. You suddenly have numerous songs from someone named Avril Lavigne
1. CD-shaped crop circles appear in your backyard

Police called to Congress. Is our legislature turning into the Taiwan legislature, with fistfights coming soon?

Only in Las Vegas…

Naked ‘Bambi’ hunts spur outrage

It’s not illegal to hunt nekkid chicks who volunteer to run around the desert waiting to be hit with paintballs. The women are paid more money if they avoid getting hit, so they have kind of a double incentive to be difficult targets.

Just playing with the new version of w.bloggar. Maybe this one will stop giving me timeout errors. yeah, right. Hunh. Guess it works. That’s cool.

Cafepress will soon let you publish books for free (free to the author). This is in contrast to other print-on-demand services such as Xlibris, which costs at least $500 to have your trade paperback or ebook published.
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According to CNN, Rosarito horses wear diapers. Um, yeah. Gringo, any chance of getting a photo of this phenomenon?

Apparently Rosarito has grown insanely since they filmed Titanic there. I remember a sleepy little town with a few restaurants and a lot of empty beach. Now, they seem to have so many horses the sea is filling with manure. Yummy.

I was talking with someone at work today and discussed news. In particular, the change at work from CNN Headline News as the default channel in the breakroom two years ago contrasted with the default now of Fox News. I have a hard time not calling Fox News Faux News, considering how blatantly slanted their news is. My coworker mentioned the liberal bias of CNN, which I can certainly agree with. However, CNN Headline News doesn’t have the time to be blatantly biased, with their 30 minute recycle rate.
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If anyone out there in geekland can help me with an XP problem, I’d be much obliged.

Sometime after installing the latest patches, IE has decided to stop running Javascript at all. No amount of fiddling with security settings has produced any change. Unlike previous versions of Windows, though, I can’t just forcefeed a new IE setup by re-installing IE 6, because the installer claims I’ve got a newer version already installed. You can’t roll back to an earlier version of IE, because it’s the only version ever installed on the machine.

So, what DLL do I need to mess with, where must it be, and what Registry Hack must I perform?

Thanks for any help.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

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From The Onion, Bush Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Fight War On Criticism

Probably the most interesting political sign I’ve seen in a while. Really makes you think. Read our lips

Finally saw the much-discussed Memento last night. Wow, what a mind-twisting movie. I know the narrative style is what most people talk about, but there’s a bit more to it than just telling the story in reverse.
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the friday five

1. How are you planning to spend the summer? Much as I’ve spent every summer since I graduated high school 15 years ago – working.
2. What was your first summer job? Same as my first non-summer job.
3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go? Spanish Morocco.
4. What was your worst vacation ever? Can’t think of a truly bad vacation, but maybe I’m not enough of a pessimist.
5. What was your best vacation ever? I’d have to say a week in Rosarito and San Felipe is toward the top of the list.

In response to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, today is hereby declared National Blomee Day. It can also be considered National Asphuk Day. Not that this will actually encourage any sort of this behavior, but if something were to happen, it is now legal. So let’s get our freaks on, yo!

The Washington Dispatch – Opinion
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