Online music swapping legal: court

"Making files available in online, shared directories is within the bounds of Canadian copyright law"

Hooray! Metallica still sucks. Napster.ca has a nice ring to it!

Apparently file sharing isn't a threat to record sales anyway. What's all the fuss about? Some fat cat music exec may not be able to afford a gold plated toilet seat.

Check out Condi Rice is Angry!! I don't know what Jackson sees in her frankly.

Now there's written proof printed on the label.

Message to the chicks in those dumb commercials: Don't talk with you mouths full.

Now I can listen to Beavis do his thing whenever I like by clicking away at The Great Cornholio Soundboard.

Do you have TP? TP for my bunghole?

Check out The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman. Jackson scores again.

I love The Evil Pictograms. I must get a T-Shirt. Specifically this one.

Elliot sent five things that sucked about Lord of the Rings.

Carol and I were talking about this site the other day as she has interviewed people who have had to move from Chernobyl. so I thoughtThe website is not the best designed one ever but if you can struggle through it's oh-so primative contruction it's well worth a look. Ghost Town photographically chronicles a woman's motorcycle ride through the Chernobyl area. It's rather strange to see large apartment blocks completely deserted. It's so very post-apocalyptic. Like scenes from Escape from LA or a zombie film.

I guess I will. Since that's what you're ordering me to do.

I came to work this morning and my boss had put this copy of Playboy containing Girls from the Big 10 colleges in the US on my desk:


Why? For 'research purposes' of course. We are about to do a photo shoot for a swimsuit calendar, which may see me going to Costa Rica as Art Director on the project. The magazine has the type of girl we would like to see in our calendar. Not so much skin mind you, but the same look and build etc. I 'have to' look at softcore porn at work. What a drag... not.

Also, upon my arrival this morning, I noticed I now have dual LCD monitors on my desk. The dual head video card kind of sucks but after a minute or two of ranting it looks as though we'll be getting better cards later on today.

Did I mention that we're having a bonus party at Capone's Restaurant & Live Jazz Club next Wednesday? No? We are.

On top of all that, the other projects I've been working on are really fun too. Especially one Jackson and I did. You'll all see it soon.

Someone has to do these kind of jobs. It might as well be me. I'm such a martyr.

By da lard tunderin' Jaysus! Have a look me son. It's LTV aka lobster trap video! You need to put that there quicktoime onto yer computer ta see it roight. Looky dem fellers go...

A gas station in downtown Arendal, Norway was robbed around 5 a.m. Tuesday by a person dressed as a Japanese ninja, armed with a sword and a knife. He took off on a bike.

This reminds me of another story from my oh-so checkered past. Some other guys I knew when I was younger were busted after they broke into a local school and stole some computers. They were caught because they pulled off the caper dressed as ninjas. Then, instead of using the noted ninja stealth they walked down a busy highway carrying their booty out in the open for all to see. Someone called 'the man'. You know the rest...

They all went to jail. Morons.

There seem to be a lot of anti-cat types who frequent my site. Joining Pauly and Jackson in their mistrust of the feline race is Donnie Mac with this bit of conspiracy theorist's bunk.

The photo was obviously doctored. Cats don't have thumbs. How could he hold a rifle? Let alone the fact I don't think they make them that small. I do not believe this cute little kitty was anywhere near Dealey Plaza that day. Poor cat should sue for defamation of character.

Once again, a link from Jackson. Check out Oral Disco. Not exactly attractive nor what I expected, but fun all the same.

There's a part in your mouth and everyone's invited!

... Suspended for Mooning Students.

You can all than Jackson for this little gem.

I wonder why I'm still hungry after eating almost the whole thing?

Thanks to Lance for the link.

40 things every drunkard should do before he dies. Remember A man is, ultimately, the sum of his accomplishments.

Check out the 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words from yourdictionary.com. Carol is a big stickler for the correct pronunciation of words, especially words like library and pumpkin (which is not on the list). I have a few pet peeves as well like Old-timer's disease, nucular and Febyuary. Yet, it appears, after reading the list, that I'm guilty myself.

Personally I have said: supremist, spitting image, parlament, Tijuana, masonary, preemptory, persnickety and perogative. Hopefully I have learned something and will speak properly from now on.

Expecially there will be no more punkin and mannaise samwitches at the nucular plant whilst watching a fillum in Febyuary. Irregardless of whether or not the battries in my flashlight supposably flounder.

Microsoft: Europe 'iPod Killer' Debut in 2nd Half of '04
This sounds kind of cool. I like the whole idea of being able to take my entire music collection with me. I can now with my laptop, but it's kind of hard to jog with a computer slung over your back. Not like I ever jog. What the hell am I talking about?

Dress code: Pants optional
This story about a man being released from jail in just boxer shorts after a night in the slammer reminds me of another tale.

What I am thinking of is a man (and you know who you are oh reader of the blog) spending the night in the tank for suspected DUI in nothing but a green speedo and flip flops. Apparenlty the drunk tank's floor is cold and people are not nice to you when clad thusly in such a situation. ;)

It's St. Patrick's Day today. I've got my green sweater on. I don't plan kissing the Blarney Stone or drinking any green beer. I guess I'll go looking for leprechauns and watch Spongebob (who looks as though he needs a pee) dance a jig instead. Thanks to Jackson for the Spongebob link.

Here's a wallpaper I did that you can download and use too:


Click on the above picture or right here to download your copy of the 1024x768 version for your desktop.

Now you can use a webcam and this piece of software to solve your Rubick's cube in 20 minutes or less. I guess if you want to you can cheat at everything. *sigh*

Check out the Tipito Chili Beans site. Make sure you have the sound turned on. Refresh to hear it again and again. Be sure to click around the site. You'll be pleasantly surprised, especially with what appears to be a recipes page. There's even games to play. The site's in Finnish so don't expect to be able to read it, but you'll understand pretty much right away. That is unless you're deaf or don't think flatulence is funny.

Speaking of flatulence. Maltitol is is bad. We had maltitol (a sugar substitue) chocolate bars for dessert tonight. It makes us fart uncontrollably. The house smells like a sulphur mine and sounds like a whoopee cushion factory.

We're growing so fast here that we had to move offices for the second time in four months. Above is my space. Finally, a window!

This guy has the longest ear hair in the world according to Guinness.

You can thank Elliot, the newly returned, for this grim link.

MSNBC - The 10th planet? Ice world revives debate
Sedna may be solar system's most distant observed object

That's kind of cool. Very cool actaully. The temperature never gets above 200 degrees below zero Celcius. Not a place to park your car without a block heater. I guess it would be like Edmonton.

Check out this story from 1998 about a flame thrower option on South African cars. Can you say BBQ'd car-jacker? I knew you could.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to live in a place that requires one to have a flame thrower built into their vehicle. Don't tell me that it's because of the weather.

I guess it's all in how you pose when snapping that picture.

This little flash movie is obviously not for kids. If there are no little ones around turn it up.

Thanks to Jackson for the link.

Check out this ad. Thanks to Holly J for the funny video. Shades of a life past...

Carry on!

Note to self: Walmart doesn't take counterfeit one million dollar bills.

I wonder if the woman in the above story had gotten away with it before? She had another three of the fake bills in her purse.

Thanks to Lance for the original link and to Angel for the reminder.

This all reminds me of a story. When I was just 19 my friend, also 19 got a settlement from a car accident he had been in injured in as a child. He cashed the check and asked for six one thousand dollar bills only. The first thing we did was go to the local McDonalds drive thru in my shitty little car to buy two 45 cent ice cream cones using a thousand dollar bill. The people working at the restaurant were not amused but they managed to make change for us anyway. They had to go downstairs and open the safe to do it but they did it anyway. After that we drove back to the slummy apartment that my buddy, Ian, was living in. We saw the creepy dope smoker lady from upstairs just getting into her dilapidated Omni Horizon with no floor (like Fred Flintstone's car). Wanting a car, Ian bought it from her on the spot for $400. We were partying quite heavily at the time, and even though $6000 is still a lot of money today, it was even more 16 years ago. Still we managed to blow through it in a little better than a week and not two weeks later the car was in the junkyard. I'm not sure Ian ever insured it.

Those were the days. LOL!

Check out The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA). I just hope none of my stuff shows up there.

Yahoo! News - D.C. Sniper Muhammad Sentenced to Death
Just to cheer you all up. :/

Carol sent this. No she didn't write it. Yes it's a joke:

Opening Ceremony: The opening ceremony will feature a re-enactment of the history of the government of British Columbia, performed by a professional clown troupe and a used car salesman. A flock of peace doves will be released to celebrate Canada's freedoms. The doves will then be available in local ethnic dining establishments, shortly after the ceremony.

Next will be an exciting display of synchronized SUV parking, and then the SUV's will be stolen.

This will be followed by a large variety of performances celebrating the diversity of Canada's culture. Riot police will be in attendance to keep the performers apart.

A separate, simultaneous opening ceremony will be held in French. This event will be lavishly funded by the federal government, and will receive extensive coverage on CBC. It is expected to have a total of 7 viewers.

Check out Ming the Merciless. It's pretty weird stuff, but worth a peek all the same.

A man has admitted to cutting up and selling the parts of at least 800 cadavers used in UCLA's research department to large medical research firms.

Over a six year period Ernest Nelson went to the university's body freezer and hacked off body parts to sell with his trusty handsaw. He collected "knees, hands, torsos and other body parts needed by his corporate clients, which he said numbered between 80 and 100." Ugh!

After admitting to the actually doing he claims, "It was not done in secret." He also said cryptically, upon further investigation, "my name will be cleared."

Regardless of that, selling body parts is pretty low. Lower I think even than working in Internet sportsbetting. ;)

The Exorcist in 30 seconds (and reenacted by bunnies)

Where do you get your news? From blogs? It may not be the best idea as most bloggers (including myself) are full of poop.

Homeless couple uses sex demonstration to protest lack of Stockholm shelter
Yuck!

Thanks to Matt for the disgusting link.

I miss tortillas. The low carb diet I'm on has left me wanting the odd taco. Now I can have one in the form of a flaquita. The claim is that they only have 2 per cent of the carbs a regular tortilla has, so I could have a couple and not blow up like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon again.

Thanks to Jackson for the link.

What a cute cartoon Happy Tree Friends is. Or is it?

NOTE: For big 'kids' only!

After the recent spending sprees that our Governor General has been on I think a Monarchy-Free Canada is on a lot of people's minds. Also, the Citizens for a Canadian Republic site is interesting as well. Please don't think I'm endorsing the ideas presented on either site I just find them worth looking at and thinking about.

Our next door neieghbours are gearing up for an election. What happens in the US always seems to affect Canadians as well so I can't help but take an interest. I've watched George W's TV ads. Some people are up in arms over the fact that his campaign has used images of the 9/11 tragedy, but I'm not so sure it would have made sense to leave it out. It happened during this term of his presidency and, for better or worse, he did rise to meet the challenges presented by that awful day. I'm not exactly turned on by the administration's foreign or domestic policies. They're a little too far right for me especially of late. However, I don't believe the alternative in the form of John Kerry could be much better. How would he have handled the same events? Would he have what it takes to make the tough descisions that Mr Bush has?

Thanks to Vince D for what I hope is the last picture of the Nova Scotia snow storm aftermath I'll be getting. It pretty much says it all. It looks like this guy made the best of being completely snowed in:

Now that the whole planet is super-sized on massive serviings of sliced potato and sugared carbonated water McDonalds is admitting supersizing ain't such a healthy idea. So now they're dumping supersize portions.

Why do you think that is? Is the corporation is genuinely concerned for their patrons? Uh, no. It's more likely the fact that people, like myself, who have taken an interest in our health have stopped eating what they offer. I can come up with no better way to lure us back than with feigned 'concern' for our health. Balderdash I say! If you haven't yet read it and continue to gorge yourself with Wretched Ronny's junk food you could check out Fast Food Nation. I haven't thought the same way about food since.

Interesting news regarding findings by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, announced today. Could it be that this is only the beginning of findings on the red planet? Is there still any water in liquid for left on the planet? I guess we'll find out as NASA explores further. The possibilities for future findings are exciting.

All the pictures here are safe for work, but imply something else entirely.

WARNING: Don't bother with the "Other excellent stuff" links they are the real thing. Ugh!

With the popularity of Mel Gibson's movie Aramaic is making a resugence. You can learn some Aramaic phrases for yourself right here.

One of my faves:

Baseem, ellaa saabar naa d-etstebeeth yateer b-Lebeh d-Gabaaraa!
Not bad, but I think I preferred Braveheart.