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Judge Sues Cleaner for $65M Over Pants

The Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The Chungs, immigrants from South Korea, realized their American dream when they opened their dry-cleaning business seven years ago in the nation's capital. For the past two years, however, they've been dealing with the nightmare of litigation: a $65 million lawsuit over a pair of missing pants....

A survey of the age old question. How do you use your toilet paper?

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From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/


The whole story can be read here.

I've always had mixed feelings about Imus. I feel the same way about him as I do Howard Stern.  They both "cross the line" every so often, but I otherwise enjoyed listening to them. I'm not a "fan" of either and rarely listened to them, but did every so often.

On the other hand, my opinion of Imus has been changing over the past few years.  I keep weird hours so I saw his show on MSNBC every so often (It starts in the middle of the night here with the time difference) and I found myself getting annoyed with him more often. Not just because of his insults but he just comes across to me as "high paid trailer trash".  He's a hick. I'm not into hicks.

That combined with a number of his "over the top" insults began to change my opinion of him. But this latest fiasco (the Rutgers Women's Basketball team insults) was the "straw that broke the camels back"  It was flat-out racist, period. I have zero tolerance for racism.

At first MSNBC said his show would be "suspended" for two weeks (they didn't mention anything about his pay though) and I thought that was bullshit.

I admire NBC management for changing it's mind and canceling the simulcast.  I was most impressed with how they were most concerned with the rest of the employees of NBC and the example they were setting.  The "suspension" was bullshit and I'm sure management got an earfull from the employees.

I was reading up on Imus on Wikipedia today and was reminded of his success, charity work and his 1989 induction into the Radio Hall of Fame.

While his accomplishments are admirable, his racism is just the opposite.  As far as I'm concenred, it "cancels out" the successes.

I hope CBS (parent of WFAN the radio station his radio show originates from) follows suit. Imus doesn't belong on the air, anywhere.

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Circuit City, I’ll never shop you again by ZDNet's Russell Shaw -- "Over more than two decades, I've bought my share of small electronics, computer and telephony equipment, and even a few tvs at Circuit City. From the show floor to the loading dock to my front door, I've always been pleased with their service. I've looked forward to subsequent shopping experiences there. But no more. Not [...]"

Yup! Circuit City can go to hell

I always liked Best Buy better anyway, but occasionally I did shop at Circuit City.

Now I never well.

I really think this strategy is going to backfire and their profits will plunge even more.

Good riddance....

FAIRFAX, Virginia (Wired News) — Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling’s Beijing duplex. She’s cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He’s been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it’s a technical issue. This is the day he learns he’s wrong…….

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Update for Mac OS X includes a number of fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities released as part of two high-profile bug-hunting campaigns.

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be funny or not, but I found it funny myself.

(found @ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/6/23fleming.html)

1. Break it in half with your hands (very easy to do) and use the glass viewing screen's broken edge as a razorblade to slice the jugular when they are looking the other way.

2. Take off one sock (a dress or tube sock; pantyhose will work in a pinch), place the Nano in the sock, swing it around as fast as you can (being careful to not hit yourself), and whack the intended target right on the temple.

3. Take the reflective shiny part and catch the sun's ray and shine it in a vehicle driver's eyes, or if you are at a rock concert and the lead singer is prancing around on a center stage that protrudes into the audience like a phallus, you can use the same technique.

4. The cord on the earbud headphones can be used to strangle someone. A knee in the back can give extra leverage.

5. Dig a pit about 5 feet deep, then take about 15 3-foot-long stakes 2 inches in diameter and sharpen one end to a fine point, like a very sharp pencil. Jam the sticks at least a foot into the ground, with the sharp ends pointing up. Cover the hole with pine boughs, grass, and leaves. Treat the Nano like a slice of cheese pizza in a deep, hot oven and place it gently in the middle.

6. Carefully unstaple a tea bag and pour the contents on a plate. Break into the lithium-ion battery pack and saturate the tea with the battery's poison, then dry the tea in the sun (or with a hair dryer if you are in a hurry). Put tea back in tea bag and bend the staple back to its original position. Put the tea bag back where you got it.

7. Download to the Nano "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters. Tell someone you will give him or her your Nano if they listen to that song a hundred times in a row.

8. Hide the Nano in a bowl of lutefisk, then take it to the annual Norsefest Lutefisk Eating Competition in Madison, Minnesota.

Humm...I guess I never thought of killing someone with an iPod Nano.....

Whoa...

Now I really know why school sucked.  It was bad enough that we didn't have computers back then but we also didn't have.....

Middle School Girls Gone Wild!!!

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It's just not fair, dammit.

In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

For more info visit: bancomicsans.com

Download and print a copy of the ban comic sans flyer.

Sign the ban comic sans petition.

Download free fonts.

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with it's upcoming Windows Vista.

Here is a short video by geek columnist and author, David Pogue, which proves it.

Lit Match Prompts Emergency Landing 

By Martin Weil

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 6, 2006; Page A08

A jetliner from Washington made an emergency landing Monday in Nashville after passengers smelled matches being struck, a Nashville airport spokeswoman said.

Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for Nashville International Airport, said that a passenger on the Dallas-bound flight, which had originated at Reagan National Airport, had been striking matches to mask evidence of a troubled digestive system......

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The Heart Attack Grill — a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard — is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu..

It is because of the waitresses' naughty nurse uniforms......

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I dunno, personally, I'm most interested in being pushed out to my car in a wheelchair after finishing my meal.  This "service" is offered to their "best patients".  These "patients"  are those who order and finish off a Triple or Quadruple Bypass Burger.To me the triple bypass burger looks obscenely big,. The Quadruple is simply unthinkable. I'm not sure if I'd be up to the challenge of the Triple, let alone the Quadruiple..

So I guess I'll have to forgo the wheelchair and just get a double bypass.

Fortunately that will be easy. The Heart Attack Grill's one and only Location is just under 19 miles from me.  I'll have to check it out soon. It had somehow escaped my newshound mom's radar as well as mine (till now that is).

The burgers and fries sound awwesome. I've never found the food at Hooters to be anything special. And the "nurse" theme at The Heart Attack Grill is much more clever than the Hooters Girls.

..(or in lust anyway)!

 I was looking at the list of recent visitors to my Zorpia site and this one caught my attention:

*Just in case anyone thinks I'm serious, this it to inform you that I'm not at all serious. :-)

Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well or....

Well done?

I reeeealy want a notebook (laptop) computer.  I don't need one at all. I just want one.  To be specific, I want this one:

Or if I were to win the lottery, I'd get this one instead:


They're both great inside and out (the latter having a faster processor, different operating system and being much more expensive, however).

And both of them have very slick looking cases (the former being a high gloss black and the latter being brushed aluminum).

And speaking of good looks, hell would freeze over before my notebook would end up looking like this one:




Heck, I'd spare even ths shittiest notebook that indignity.  Do people actually think this looks good?

I see this shit all the time. It boggles my mind.