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Create your own error messages.

The Great CD Duplicator Trouble of Aught Five. And it’s a pretty slow news day anyway.

An excellent fisking.

Dobson has more on his duel with Spongebob.

The future is now.

It’s been done before, but standing athwart of freedom is seldom a good idea.

Depending on how involved this funeral today is. And how long it takes me to figure out exactly why one of the monitor amps decided to freak out last night. Oh, and install that nursery speaker.

As she continues to move to the center. As noted here.

The baby named Yahoo was a hoax. Darn. I keep telling people to name their kids “Google”.

And free

This can’t be true. If it is I begin to understand why spyware works.

via Slashdot

I still hate blogads, but there’s some serious money in them. And should this humble blog ever take off, you can bet I’ll sell out. And should any polititians be wishing for me to push some policy that I already agree with for a small financial consideration, just drop me an email.

They’re just like tangelos, only bigger and slightly tougher. Save your money and buy tangelos instead.

The long, dark tyranny of John Ashcroft’s reign is over. America has survived his attempt to bring back the Dark Ages and build a new Holy Roman Empire.

And speaking of the tyranny of the Justice Department…

Global warming again. Standard 10 years till all heck breaks loose. I’m skeered.

Yes the temperature on the earth is going up. So what? We’ve only been tracking weather for 150 years. Maybe it’s all part of some big climate cycle. Maybe the earth is supposed to do this. Maybe mankind has nothing to do with it. Maybe an Ice Age is coming and there’s nothing we can do about it. Maybe we should all invest in some Thinsulate and move inland. Maybe nothing will happen. Somehow, we’ll get by.

Georgia worried that counties would stop patrolling interstates if they don’t get to keep the money. Safety first!

via Fark

Attention Jessica Fellenberg, who lost her second tooth on December 1, 2003 at age 6 in Sandpoint. I have your dollar bill.

Idaho, at least we’re not Wyoming.

I got a bad feeling Idaho is going to go with the Liger.

via Fark

Tonight at 11.

via Fark

Whoa. I don’t plan on blogging about Idaho legislators because potato legislation isn’t that exciting to me, but that’s pretty impressive.

But I thought it was funny.

While “tolerance” does tend to mean “tolerating everyone but Christians and the Taliban”, Dobson has me a bit baffled why he singled out Spongebob. Is he confused as Nile Rodgers says, or is he taking on the entire cartoon world?

Other opinions: Michele Malkin, Instapundit

I found out today that I have a cavity. It’s my first. w00t!

I can’t wait until the whole “meme” meme dies off.

Who says Idaho is a backwater state.

Hillary Clinton is getting all religious on us.

Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza, Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, “I’ve always been a praying person.”

She said there must be room for religious people to “live out their faith in the public square.”

Of course, without defining some of these terms, this means nothing.

Okay, driving on ice sucks, but 7 hours to drive 9 miles? That’s excessive.

Segregation seems to be making a comeback. I think it’s ironic, but Alanis has me confused on that whole irony thing.

My next DVD player. No more getting up to change DVDs.

It’s a good idea.

Work, blah, blah, blah, posting to resume later.

How the Democrats can win. I think FSM (can I call you FSM?) has a better idea.

Since they are apparently drilling through metal with a duck in the ceiling above me, I’m not going to get any editing done, I’ll just provide some links.

US prosecutes UN Food for Oil Scammer.

Online Latin Drills.

New Sharp Zaurus I heart my Zaurus.

Canning comment spam. Fantastic. (via Slashdot)

JibJab’s Second Term. Not for the small of bandwidth (via Michelle Malkin)

Cascade Fresh yogurt. Really good, but really expensive.

Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper is Mr. Pibb. Don’t bother.

Unless you like Mr. Pibb and don’t want anyone to know.

Next time Apple releases a gadget I am buying some, waiting for them to run out, and selling them for a tidy profit on Ebay.

On women not being as good at the hard sciences. Jonah Goldberg. Scrappleface.

It builds character.

Keillor’s best reflection on winter is called “Good Enough,” and like all great truths of the universe, is pithy enough to be printed on a coffee mug, and so, of course, it is. This excerpt should be required reading for Fairfax County administrators, and maybe the bus drivers, too:

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is as cold as you, so you shouldn’t complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, “It’s only a little frostbite. You’re okay.” And thus you learn to be okay.

I did not grow up in a place that has winter. Therefore, should it get cold again, you’ll hear me complaining about it. Of course, the fact that I don’t think 40 degree weather is cold is vaguely disquieting.

Opinions on NY Times’ IraqtheModel piece. Why the Times ran such old news is beyond me. I thought this was all behind us when they visited the US a few weeks ago.

The FBI is keeping up with the Joneses.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the bureau moved to popular commercial wiretap software because it was less expensive and had improved in its ability to copy e-mails and other communications of a targeted Internet account without affecting other subscribers.

Just when it was getting good.

Iran says it can hold off the US militarily.

When you win a million dollars on national television, you should report that to the IRS.

At least someone liked Alexander.

Who looks to the federal government for dietary advice anyway?

via Instapundit

Fox is worried American Idol is fading.

Watch the opening credits for Ernest Goes to Jail and then watch an iPod commercial.

Weird, huh?

If a Freeper and a DUmmy meet would they cancel each other out and disappear in a puff of political smoke? And which side would be the first to blame it on a government conspiracy?

Bill Gates

Rye bread with cream cheese: innovative cuisine or sin against mankind? Either way, I’m scared to try. At least until I get hungrier than I am now.

Frank asks the questions I have been wondering.

You know… that one. And what others are saying.

Personally, it’s the stuff like “We skimmed along under a sky the color of worn denim, ” that drives me nuts. Ack! Blue sky, it was blue. And nobody cares what color the sky was, this is an article about the mysterious Red-Stater in its natural habitat. Save it for your Great American Novel.

Okay, I admit it. I enjoyed the shoveling my vast acreage today. Getting some fresh air and a little exercise.

However, it better stop soon, because I won’t enjoy doing it twice. I don’t want that much exercise.

To clarify: I don’t want this much.

Stephen Seemayer had the first Pong video game system on his block. A decade later, the Echo Park artist was the first in his neighborhood to get a personal computer. And in 1996, he was so inspired by the World Wide Web that he created a series of small paintings for viewing over the Internet.

Now the 50-year-old Seemayer is once again on the cutting edge: Sick of spam clogging his in-box and spyware and viruses crashing his system, Seemayer yanked out his high-speed connection.

Not cutting edge enough to get Firefox, Spybot, AVG, and Sygate though. It’s not that hard to avoid the crap.

But people just look silly talking into their PDAs.

Hello, Computer!

Henny Pennies.

Even the most pessimistic forecasts of global warming may now have to be drastically revised upwards.

That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable.

Let’s just check back and see who’s right in a few years.

They have the death penalty, don’t they?

There’s always a way around the restrictions. Heh.

Debunking myths about blogs.

I hope it’s good. And I hope there’s lightcycle toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals when it’s promo time.

via Slashdot

More on calling Michelle Malkin names. Make sure you follow the links.

Frank J.

No, wait; they didn’t have HDTV back then. I don’t think they had blogs back then either, but, if they did, it would just be the Glenn Reynolds quoting scripture and commenting “Forsooth.”

Parents name kid “Yahoo”. I see an acting career ahead of him.

USB nail polishing. Fantastic!

Mr Mercer argues that this “higher hurdle”, which the Crown would have to clear before starting a criminal prosecution, reflects the test used in the civil courts when burglars try to sue residents who injure them. (emphasis added)

I see the problem right off.

Private money. Leave them alone you bunch of whiners, and donate 40 million of your own if it bothers you so much.

While the partying is being paid for privately, there have been some mutterings about the scale of the celebrations at a time of war and natural disaster.

Now that’s a headline.

via Dave Barry’s Blog

Hey, if they don’t want us, leave them alone.

Speed limits and their flaws.

While he brings up some good points, what are the alternatives? Completely arbitrary tickets, it seems to me. At least now the cops have to come up with some reason for pulling you over.

Which part of “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” confuses this guy?

So wrong.

Should you happen to have a iPod and are wondering if you need an iShuffle, here’s some help.

Attacking a Satanist a hate crime?

“If the accusation was that he was black or Asian or Latino or Jewish, it’s one thing,” he said. “They see this as a religious practice. It’s a dispute between kids, the same way you have the nerds, the jocks, the artsy kids and the teacher’s pets. What’s next? Someone being accused of attacking a preppie, or a nerd?”

Why, yes, that will be next. It’s not like you can make hating certain classes of people illegal and not expect everyone to want in on the game.

via Drudge Report

An optimistic view. I certainly hope they are right.

The government, propaganda, and the media.

Cool, but no screen? I dunno. I wouldn’t turn down a free one though.

“They are trying to demonize me with negative attacks,” Mrs. Clinton continues

Ha. Like they need negative attacks. Is it demonizing if she actually is hellspawn?

Link

Okay, really guys, we mean it this time…

More than 50 internal UN audits of the Iraq oil-for-food programme show that millions of dollars were squandered in suspect overpayment to contractors, mismanagement of purchasing and assets and fraud by its employees.

Imagine if they had an external auditor.

Remember Sandy Berger and his overstuffed pants?

via Instapundit

Stalking “meeting” Frank J and sarahk. What a touching story!

FedEx has had my package in Coeur d’Alene since Friday. They didn’t deliver Friday because it was “not due for delivery”. Yesterday they left a little ticket thingy for me to sign—dated Friday—on my door. Just throw it on my doorstep and drive off already! UPS has them so beat in this department.

UPDATE: Door ticket thingy still on the door, no package…this could get ugly. Oh, and now they have Jan 7 listed as “customer not available”. Never mind, they just got here.

But cool!

via Slashdot

Lileks

I can’t say “get a Mac!” or “get Firefox!” because many of you are at work, and in the thrall to IT guys who have job security patching the shambling undead gibbering monsters belched out by Microsoft.

Go to Golden Palace. Make sure you have your speakers on. Hilarious.

Knoppix to the rescue. I’ve been using Knoppix at home since my hard drive fried in, um, a couple months ago. To be fixed this week, should FedEx deign to deliver my package.

I particularly like #7.

via Instapundit

Iraq, Mexio, Vietnam, and the War of 1812.

Your Rathergate update is here.

Why do we hate us?

Jeez, man, would it kill you once in a while just to send a box of chocolates and a card saying “Thank you, you infidel sons of whores and pigs”, and leave it at that?

Cox & Forkum on the Washington state election.

So, I left the gym, I go up 2nd to Wallace, turn left onto Wallace, and cruise toward Government. A Idaho State Police car turns down 1st behind me. I get to Government, turn right and then get into the left turn lane to go down Garden to Northwest. On Garden, facing Government was a sheriff. Coming down Government toward me was another sheriff. And the ISP had circled the block and was now sitting at the intersection also. What the heck? Were they all looking for good parking places or something? Combing the area so no one shoots the judges? Anyway, I continued on my merry way so as to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.

Also, a note for Flying J. Your billboard on I-90 looks like you are advertising the Sars cafe. I’m not convinced that is the look you are going for.

Whoever it was that was wishing for snow, well, I wish they were here to help shovel the beauty out of my driveway.

And why, oh why, did I decide that I wanted to buy a house? What is throwing away money compared to not having to shovel?

Palestinians riled by Richard Gere’s recent ad.

Yes, it is a parody

via LGF

VDH

Meanwhile we await the arrival of the Charles De Gaulle and its massive fleet of life-saving choppers that can ferry ample amounts of Saudi, Chinese, and Cuban materiel to the dying — emissaries all of U.N. and EU multilateralism.

New York Times is thinking about charging for online content.

N.Y. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was quoted in the article as saying: “It gets to the issue of how comfortable are we training a generation of readers to get quality information for free. That is troubling.”

Yes, I can see where that would be troubling. Only crappy information should be free.

via Drudge Report

The annual Vaporware Awards.

…3D Realms, the (so-called) publisher of the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever. After years of waiting, in 2003 we gave the company our Lifetime Achievement Award just to get it off the list.

Thudguard.

There’s all sorts of neato stuff over at Endgadget

They still make percolators. So wrong. Unless you are a cowboy of course.

One to two inches, my eye. We’ve already got three inches and it’s not stopping.

Natura’s Horchata is a better drink than Klass’s.

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Up and coming TV technology. I won’t be able to afford it until it’s been on the market a few years, so I guess I won’t hold off my TV purchases until then.

If the mayor wants off the top of the list, he should just close down fast food places. Duh.

Top 11 geek break-up lines.

Microsoft unveils its new anti-spyware thingy. Personally, I use Firefox.

Yes, for those of you following closely, I have switched to Firefox from Opera.

via Slashdot

An orphaned baby hippo found a friend.

via Fark

The UN is ready to complicate take control of tsunami relief efforts.

Unusually for such a disaster, no one has suggested there is an immediate shortage of funds, and diplomats say the challenge over the next few months will be to coordinate the delivery of aid rather than to raise more money.

Louis Michel, the EU’s development Commissioner, who is touring the affected area, said there was too much emphasis on money and not enough on longer term projects.

Aren’t there non-Patriot Act laws to charge the guy under? Has it been legal to blind pilots with lasers until the Patriot Act was passed?

Stiffer Sentence For Cheese Sandwiches

via Fark

*title by Farker StrikitRich

I took “cheap” off the blacklist, so feel free to use it in your comments.

Unless the comment spam takes off and I have to squarsh it again.

The martian rover, Spirit, is one years old.

America sucks, there’s no other way to look at it.

“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the U.N.,” she told the BBC. “Only really the U.N. can do that job. It is the only body that has the moral authority.”

Baloney.

I’m really trying to avoid buying new tires, but if I could get airless ones, I’d be more inclined to plunk down the cash.

The Fossil PDA watch is finally here.

Avista is installing service for the new marine storage place next door. There are 10 trucks there (2 are to the right of the photo). That’s a lot of electricty.

UPDATE: They brought in another truck and tractor.

It’s just a figure of speech.

Am I younger?

The Bush administration is focusing on a Social Security proposal that would allow younger workers to invest up to 4 percent of their payroll taxes in private accounts, with contributions limited to about $1,000 to $1,300 a year, an official said Tuesday.

Better yet, could they just let me keep my money?

That’s just funny.

I won’t ever win the lottery, there is a deafening silence inside my head.

I believe, but cannot prove…

“I believe that human consciousness is a conjuring trick, designed to fool us into thinking we are in the presence of an inexplicable mystery.” — NICHOLAS HUMPHREY, Psychologist

…

“Strangely, I believe that cockroaches are conscious.” — ALUN ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist

“Your mind may arise not simply from your own brain, but in part from the brains of other people.” — STEPHEN KOSSLYN, Psychologist

Because when I play video games I want to learn something.