I decided to clean out some of our kitchen cabinets. Just found 811g of Nestle Carnation Instant Breakfast powdered drink mix. Expired Sept 2001. Never opened. I guess we really don’t like this product.
I40 east and west at a stand still
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Stupid Lawyers DMCA Comedy Central Clips on Youtube
Colbert joked about needing a check for $700million since roughly a third of all movies on YouTube were from the Colbert Report at the time of YouTube’s $1.6billion sale to Google. "Jon Stewart and Daily Show Executive Producer even encouraged viewers to watch the show on the Internet."
I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. [Source]
When will the lawyers and the RIAA et al realise that the distribution of clips on mediums like YouTube only create benefit and popularity for the program, artist, album and so forth. Can old dogs like Senator Stevens just not learn these new tricks.
Irritating Game
This game (click the British flag for English) has two balls and two paddles. As you move your mouse left and right the short paddle moves horizontally while the long paddle rocks left to right. The goal is to keep the ball on the long paddle from rolling off while not letting the bouncing ball past the small paddle. Very challenging!
From the mouths of babes
Noah: "Dad, have you ever heard that song ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’?"
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Don’t believe ANYTHING on the Internet
Fake picture — Real pciture The fake site might be work safe as long as you don’t want to see the photo without the blur. If you don’t want to click the links, the fake picture shows Donald Duck "accidentally" pulling down Christina Aguilera’s top to reveal a pierced nipple on her right breast.
Faker’s site is not work safe! Includes nudity.
Just remember, use Snopes and other resources to confirm information. Photoshop in the hands of a skilled artist can make almost anything look real. Learn to laugh.
The sky is crying
The rain is beautiful today. I love its pitter patter. Rain brings a calm.
Today’s Irony
Nearly one million bank workers in India are on strike…wait it for it…because they don’t want their jobs outsourced!
The unions are against outsourcing of bank work and a government proposal to merge 27 state-run banks to compete in the global economy. [Source]
This tidbit brought to us by Knoxviews and Michael Silence.
Allowable Distractions
I think it is time to glaze a cake.
Update: Cake glazed. Perhaps I made my glaze (a vanilla glaze) too runny and I guess I didn’t have to use all the glaze but it looks good.
Airport Security Is Useless
Now anyone can go past the airport security gates.
Update: FBi issues take down order for site then seizes computers. See Boing Boing for all the details including the seizure and questions of legality. Schneier on Security has some excellent comments.
What is red?
The Devil is red. Blood is red. War causes bloodshed. Negative things are red like stop signs and "don’t do that" signs. Angry people turn red. The button Bush keeps his finger on is red. Raw meat is red. A misleading story is a red herring.The 48 continental are red 
. WHhhyyyyyyyyy!
Ebooks for Halloween
Oh, I’m sorry. You call that Harvest Festival now don’t you. The thought of encouraging your children to partake of a Pagan celebration is a little a scary I suppose. Wait. Isn’t Halloween supposed to be scary?
The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Pope Gregory III moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day to November 1 to give Halloween a Christian interpretation. [Source]
Wasn’t another holiday rooted in Pagan tradition?
…winter festivals that are believed by some to have influenced Christmas include the pre-Christian festivals of Yule [1] and Saturnalia, and many of the traditions associated with the holiday have origins in these pagan winter celebrations. [Source]
Regardless, even if you are trying hard to use non-scary costumes and take your children only to the funny haunted houses, this is a time of year for scary stories. Google has made several available as ebooks. Enjoy!
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’awl’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
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[Source][Vincent Price] had a choice between taking a percentage of the album sales or $20.000. Price was well along in his career, so he took the $20,000. He was good-natured about it when Carson told him he could have made millions off of the royalties due to the vast number of copies sold even at that time. Price laughed heartily and said: "How well I know!"
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Unfortunate Job Assignment
This looks real. {image source]
Apparently he is a local report in LA.
…thats marc brown he does the local news in HD here in LA. poor guy – he’s actually likeable… [Source]
