Intellectual Poison

So I've been listening to a new song a lot these days and its not another Wiggles song. Nope, this one's actually recorded for adults. Its a band called Arctic Monkeys and the song is Fake Tales of San Francisco. Its got a strong beat (that does make my boy shake and dance) and has a little Modest Mouse/White Stripes feel to it. Very good stuff.

I've also been digging on the Kaiser Chiefs some of late. Not as much as the Arctic Monkeys, which is really just fun to say. These days, ANYTHING with monkey in it is going to be a winner with me. In fact, I referred to what we do at my company does early today as data monkeying.

And a question, what's your ringtone? This comes from a thread over on MetaFilter about ringtones and I'm just curious.
Tags: arctic monkeys, kaiser chiefs, the wiggles, ringtone

Gangsta Gadgets will show the world you mean bizness!
Yes friends, your life has been woefully incomplete if you aren't surfing the web with a Ba-Donka-Donk Mouse on your Laptop Lowrider grooving to the latest R. Kelly love ballad on your iPod Spinner serving up the bass to your bitchin' Boombox Hightops and working your digi-photos over with the Redman Redeye filter.

Speaking of R. Kelly, after you're done working, go and have a shower under the R. Kelly 24k Gold showerhead with built-in 5 megapixel camera to capture those special moments under the suds.

Also, be sure to check out Not Coming to an Xbox near you and the Smartphone Showdown.
Tags: bling bling

Nope, not the coming of the Lord (though I'm pretty appalled that Pope John Paul is going to be sainted) but the continued improvement and healing of my eyes since last week's LASIK.

I now see as well or better than I did before with the corrective lenses. Only now there are no corrective lenses anymore. My eyes are still tender to the touch and I have to be careful not to rub them.

I still use drops in the morning to sort of pre-lube my eyes and hope to avoid scratching my already tender cornea.

But truly, overall, I couldn't be happier with the procedure and would recommend it to anyone looking to ditch their glasses and contacts. But do some research on who you select to perform the surgery, all doctors are not created or trained equally. And really, are you interested in saving a few bucks and risking your eyesight? I didn't think so. Some things are okay to cut corners on and go for the least expensive option but eye surgery just seems like a really bad thing to add to that list.
Tags: LASIK, update

Check out Rag Doll Physics (flash) and watch your productivity go right down the drain. Mesmerizing and painful, this is pretty incredible. Be sure to click and hold on her and launch her in any direction for high speed collision mayhem. You can also grab her in various places so she'll dangle from her ankle or hand or head, its creepy but highly addictive.

And its only slightly disturbing. I'm not sure why they went with a blond woman in a bikini for the rag doll. It would be lightened up considerably with the addition of a soundtrack and funny sound effects though.
Tags: ragdoll physics, ragdoll, geeky cool, flash

The Aquaskipper, 24 pounds of water-hopping hydrofoil chicanery (wmv file).

[Update: The Aquaskipper's got some speed foil competition in the form of the FoilKayak's Flyak which broke 15 miles an hour and it looks totally cool too. Though it should be noted that the guy paddling to 15 miles per is a world class kayaker and your top speed may differ significantly.

A commenter on MeFi mentioned, quite rightly, that they messed up the marketing and could have made the up and down action a feature by utilizing bikini clad beauties to bounce around on it instead of the frat boys they did get.]
Tags: aquaskipper, hydropfoil, flyak

Whilst a searching for books and DVD's I came across this part of Amazon with Free Music Downloads from some really great bands. I picked up some new songs and have found a couple of new albums that I will probably end up buying. Like a censored copy of the Dropkick Murphy's Pipebomb on Lansdowne St. and a new Sleater-Kinney, well new to me. As well as several new kids songs that Graydon should get some pleasure out of.

Gotta love free AND legal! Though I should note that not all of the mp3's for download are complete versions and they are all radio edits so if you like the swears (and really, who doesn't like some boogey down jams with a few f-bombs tossed in for flavor?) then you will be disappointed.
Tags: mp3, free mp3, Amazon, download

A random pic from the weekend that has seen my little boy gain more and more confidence in his ability to two foot it around the house.

He wouldn't actually sit with the hat on his head, he'd always try to pull it off quickly so I would put it on and shoot a shot or two before he pulled it off and started to chew on it again.

This was a good weekend for the house. Some nice improvements that needed to be taken care of before the birthday party next weekend. P had prepped the front yard area and then laid down fresh sod on Saturday so where once was dirt is now a dark green lush lawn! A vast, vast improvement over the dirt.

Last week we also changed both lights in the kitchen from one gargantuan four tube flourescent (which was pretty much the bottom of the style barrel) and one chandelier that was just very dated and ready for some upgrading.

Plenty plenty more left to do still but its nice to come home and see the changes taking place. But a big week ahead at work with two of the three bosses back from vacations. And by big week I mean it will almost certainly such very badly and I'd be surprised if we make it through the week without someone losing their job.
Tags: sweat equity, home improvement

Yankees Derek Jeter and Gary Sheffield embrace after they scored some runs in a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, one of the teams with the lowest payroll in the league, one sixth of the Yankees ridiculous $208 million payroll.

Nice work, boys. You beat the holy shit out of a team of guys you should be beating by a factor of 6 each time you play them. But you don't, having just lost another 3 of 4 games against them, and haven't, only winning three games in three series, and will very likely go down as the most underachieving bunch of All-Star studs ever. Which would be fine by me. Especially if they don't even make the playoffs behind the Orioles and the Red Sox in the American League East.

Go on, Shef, give ol' Jeet a big wet one right on the lips, it certainly looks like that's your intent as you look deeply and soulfully into his eyes while touching his butt. Not that there's anything wrong with it but don't you boys normally reserve that sort of thing for when the cameras aren't taking your picture?
Tags: unachieving, Yankees, Orioles, Red Sox, baseball, gaydar, Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield

The missing girl story that just won't go away, Natalee Holloway's been missing for well more than 3 weeks now and the chances of her safe return diminish with each moment. I feel terrible for her family and her friends but I really wish they would keep to news instead of reporting every tiny mote of information coming out of Aruba.

For instance, the mother of one of the accused teens, the Dutch one, has gone on record as saying her son is innocent. Now, does she have some special insight into his whereabouts during the night when the girl went missing or is she just spouting the typical parental defense of "My child could never do that"? I'm leaning towards the latter.

Not helped by the arrest of her husband for some lies he told during the investigation either. Which, by the way, the arrest of the husband is news, it is moving forward. Maybe not in the right direction but its more reportable than a mother defending her child without any greater insight. I understand the sentiment but there isn't any news there.

I would be happy if they did find her safe and alive. I think that would be a great ending to this saga but I would also like some of this massive media attention spotlight to maybe be directed at some of the other missing persons cases that don't happen to involve a pretty white teenager from Alabama. Unattractive, older and persons of color people deserve to be found too.

As an aside, I have no idea what the hell is going on with the formatting right now. For some reason, Blogger's inserting about fifty page breaks between the tags and the comments. I'll work on it later on today but please just bear with it for now. Stupid Blogger.
Tags: missing

Its a done deal. My eyes have seen the coming of the laser of the doctor and the laser goes TACK-TACK-TACK-TACK as it blasts layer after layer of unneeded corneal tissue from under the little flap they made. I didn't need to do the wavefront LASIK, just the regular LASIK, which was just fine, it costs alot less.

I didn't think I'd end up being as nervous as I ended up being but I had a very strong urge to bolt like a rabbit in a Skinner box when they had me lay down on the table. But the doctor was very good, he explained every step he was doing, nice and quiet but informative. And, before I even knew it, he was moving the goodies to the left eye and getting ready for a 35 second laser blast there after a 40 second blast on my right.

Its not the easiest of procedures but they do a really good job of making it as easy and quick as they can. It was less than 10 minutes from lay down to get up and out. Impressive really.

The most difficult part for me was listening to the mini buzz saw slice the flap on my cornea. Pretty unsettling to think about the whirring blade that close and not being able to see it because of the gear they'd mounted on my face. But I never felt it, not even the pressure of it on the eye. Just the sound and I avoided breathing through my nose while the laser was blasting because I'd been warned that the odor of laser blasted corneas is not anywhere near as nice as the smell of burning tires. Its probably not that bad but I was avoiding as much nasty as possible.

The first few hours after the surgery is not much fun either. I was given some Advil to help dull the edge of the pain but nothing except darkness was helping with the light sensitivity. I couldn't even have the television on with my eyes closed because the flashing was too much. And that was even through the stylin' sunnies they give out which are, truthfully, about fifty times nicer than other giveaway eye protection shades. I won't be sporting them on the Riviera later this summer but they were definitely not the cheesy crap ones.

One really nice aspect of the procedure was that we were given a night's stay at the Hilton across the street. Instead of having to drive home (which would have sucked with my eyes as sensitive as they were) I just went and laid down in a blacked out hotel room. And it was worrisome really to have such soreness in the eyes for the first few hours, combine the pain with vision that was only marginally improved over my non-op vision and its mildly disconcerting for the first few hours. But, hours later when the irritation is more or less gone, and I could look out the window without feeling like a hot knife was being plunged through my face, and I could focus and see several hundred yards away pretty clearly, that was cool. It was nice to look out this morning and watch the traffic buzz by.

I had my first follow up this morning and things look good so far. I've got to avoid swimming for a few weeks, no rubbing for a few months and antibiotic drops and anti-inflammatory drops every four hours for the next week. But it was worth it and I am really just excited about the prospect of donating my glasses to charity and throwing out my contact lens stuff.

And kind of cool to think I had the same doctor fix my eyes who did Terrell Owens' eyes as well as Bill Walsh's and a whole bunch of other folks in the Forty-Niner organization. His name's Scott Hyver and here's his site, ScottHyver Visioncare. Give him a ring if you want to see the whole world better. His staff was superb, the support has been great and I would very highly recommend him.
Tags: LASIK, post-op, ScottHyver, Scott Hyver

Grandfather kills leopard with his hands, how you say? Well, it bit him and he dropped his machete to reach into its mouth and rip its tongue out.

Damn!
Tags: leopard, attack, kenyaNever Underestimate the Elderly

The 11 year old boy who was lost for four days but was just found today? Yeah, his first request was to play video games on one of his rescuers cell phones. Not food, not water, video games.

Sorry, son. You're still lost. Oh wait, this Wired News article says he was given some food and water and THEN asked to play video games. Phew.

Oh yeah, he also heard people looking for him but had been so indoctrinated against talking to strangers that he didn't reply to them. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he was found safe and sound but he certainly didn't make it easy on the searchers since he went uphill instead of down and avoided searchers because he didn't know them. But, all's well that ends well and at least he wasn't running away from a pending marriage with his googly eyes and a half million dollar book deal in the offing. But I'm sure someone's going to offer him a book deal, it seems like anytime anyone makes it into the news, for whatever reason, they get offered money to tell their story again.

And no, I still couldn't be bothered to give the first damn about Jennifer "Googly Eyes" Wilbanks and her book deal to retell her "story" of fraud, deciet and undying love. Bleh.
Tags: lost, boy scout

The timer's running, I'm putting antibiotic drops in my eyes every four hours and I'm ready to get the show on the road. In a few hours I'll be heading over the hill to get my eyes fixed via LASIK and its kind of hard to really concentrate on getting any work done because, well, I'm jacked up.

We get a night away from home because of an early followup appointment tomorrow morning and Nande gets a sleepover at her boyfriend's house. Oh yeah, and I can throw away my glasses, contacts and cleaning supplies. That will be SWEET!
Tags: LASIK

Graydon is mobile these days, really mobile. Between his high speed scuttle/crawl and his waddlin' toddlin' walking action, he is everywhere.

But the best thing is when he walks and flaps his little arms like a bird because he's so tickled to be walking. His joy is contagious and his smile is the best reward. It gets even better when he's walking, flapping and laughing because he's coming to his momma or poppa for some loving. Seeing that little toothy grin coming at me fills my heart with joy and deep love for him.

Now if we could only get him to stop treating Nande's chew toys like his own chew toys then we would be set. Oh yeah, we also need him to stop trying to eat her kibble and use her dog door too but we'll tackle one issue at a time. Nande is incredibly sweet with him though, won't even get upset with him if he takes her chew toy out of her mouth! She did get snappy with him twice before when he did it but she and I had a long talk and she's realized that he's too small for that. Her only defense against him is to either lick him until he gives up or get up move.
Tags: growing up, fatherhood

From Tuckle this morning,


Tags: Tom Cruise, moneyshot

You know what's really not going to elicit much sympathy? When big fat people are complaining about how much it costs to fill up their big fat SUVs. Boo-hoo, you drive a friggin' rolling tank and now you want 40 miles a gallon too? Are you completely and totally unaware of the laws of reality? Does the concept of inertia totally slip right by you without even so much as a hint of comprehension? How about the reasons why it costs more in energy to keep a larger mass moving than a smaller mass? No?

Okay, here's this then. You drive a huge rolling hunk of steel. I ride a much smaller hunk of steel that's faster, more efficient, more agile and cannot haul forty-two bags of groceries. My bike costs, at most, $14 to fill up and gets somewhere between 40 and 50 miles a gallon while allowing me to laugh at DFS (dead fucking stop) traffic by slipping between the lanes. You get to sit and fume as your already awful mileage goes down more and more by sitting and idling in traffic and squeeze out 15 miles a gallon, if you're lucky, to haul your big fat ass around. It costs you at least three times as much to go the same distance and takes you three times as long. Who's the idiot?

How about this? How about giving people who drive rolling warehouses tickets for not using the vehicles more intelligently? Why not give them an under-occupied ticket and force them to use some of that space to transport people instead of their own chili-cheese expanded backsides?

Or better yet, legislate ridiculous road hog, gas sucking, ego-stroking SUVs off the damned road altogether? No wait, how about demonstrate the need for an oversized SUV before being allowed to purchase one? Or would that be too much like communism for our red blooded, self-esteem-challenged red neck comrades?
Tags: SUV, gashog, gas guzzler, congitive dissonance

Someone's funny because they thought up the Tom and Katie Amazon Wedding Registry which includes such gems as My Husband is Gay: A Woman's Survival Guide and Adjust-a-Lift Heel Lifts as well as the Peter - Flexoflesh 8" Realistic Dildo.

The intarnets are funny for spoofing on rich and famous and oh-so-pretty people.

That said, I was impressed with Cruise's composure after some wanker interviewer sprayed him in the face with a fake microphone/squirt gun over the weekend. I'm getting kind of sick and tired of people trying to get famous by being assholes to the famous. Its sort of a dog eat dog path to fame, no?
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Tags: wedding registry, fake wedding registry, Tom and Katie, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes

I'm stuck behind my primitive old plastic lensed glasses until Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday afternoon I will have a computer aided laser reshape my eyes so that silly old corrective lenses will no longer be required. I've been wanting to get it done for as long as they've been doing it and now the timing works so its getting done.

The cool thing is that the place doing the procedure is in Santa Clara and, because its a bit of a hike from our house, they are putting us up overnight at a nearby hotel so that we can get back in for the follow up appointment easily. Which makes things much easier and gives us some extra sleeping time which new parents can always use.

So I have just a few days of living the Clark Kent look and no ablity to ride my motorcycle until after the surgery is done. The cost is quite a bit less than expected which is really nice though it won't be hard to find somewhere else to spend that cash. In fact, another important development is that we are nearing the close of the purchase of our first business. Nothing overly extravagant but it will be a nice start for us and I'll get more into it once the process has really gotten under way and I'm not counting unhatched chickens.

But for now, I get to feel smarter because of the glasses and it seems like there hasn't been a cloud in the sky since Saturday because I don't have any sunglasses that fit over the glasses, yet. I am going to be getting some granny covers soon or I'll go blind.

And we get our Escape back today after having to suffer with a Camry all weekend because they sent the wrong wheel bearing and the Escape's still in pieces at the shop. The Camry feels enormous when you're driving it, its a combination of the cockpit ergonomics and dashboard, it just makes the car feel about six feet longer than it is. Not a bad car at all, just feels bigger than it is.

Just a couple more days and then I can finally, finally throw away my glasses and contacts. I really cannot wait!
Tags: lasik, eye surgery, small business

Count me among the people who couldn't give a shit about Tom and Katie's announcement. The cynic in me is thinking its all hype for free publicity for their new movies or whatever. But honestly, I just don't care. Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, a vocal one, and that's enough for me to not give the first damn about what he does. Scientologists are fucking irritating cultists.

Good for them, I'm sure the media will be just as breathless when they announce their seperation and pending divorce.
Tags: gossip, Tom and Katie

From Morford's latest column, the Gillette : Venus Vibrance - if there were a dildo that grew a razor out its butt, this would be it.

Best bit? "one of them placed the new Vibrance razor on the conference table and turned it on and they all watched it buzz and bounce around like a sorority girl on Red Bull".

Um, hello? Why is the vibrating part in the wrong end (see the men's version) if this isn't a cheap stupid vibrator? Whoever greenlighted this joke razor should be fired and then forced to use one of these ridiculous pieces of shit.

I'd really like to ask them just what they were thinking or what they were smoking when they decided to actually produce this. Its a razor, its a sex toy, its a self inflictable cliterectomy device. And this is a truly dangerous sex toy if you've been drinking, that's for sure. You could wake up with a completely re-landscaped "secret garden".
Tags: vibrator, bad marketing, razor vibrator, secret garden

Retagging on the Debra Lafave hump-a-doo story about a school teacher caught in flagrante with a 14 year old student, she's now getting her fair trial before they toss her kid humping ass in prison.

But I do have to say that she's cleaned up pretty nicely since those original photos. She's still a kid screwing nutjob but hey, look at Mary Kay Latorneau and her once underage humper. They're married now that she's been released from prison. But it looks like she's cutting a deal though I'm not quite sure what kind of bargaining power she's got since she was caught red cootchied. But it appears that she's going with an insanity defense, which might work.

Maybe it really is love? Yeah, probably not.
Tags: pedophile, Debra Lafave, insanity

ReganMedia Acquires Rights to the Jennifer Wilbanks-John Mason Story for a half of a million dollars. A half million for cold feet and lying to the police and leading the nation on a cross country search. Profit from deceit, it's the new American Dream.

I'm uninterested in her "story" and would hope that they lose every damned penny they paid for this schlock crap. Are you interested in what made this idiot bug eyed moron run away from her redneck moron fiance and then lie to the police that she'd been abducted? Do you want these idiots to make a half million dollars for being utter fucking idiots?

I know I sure don't.

Fuck, Deep Throat's only gonna make a million for blowing the lid off of one of America's greatest coverups of all time. His story is only worth twice this schlock crap faux-romance? Bullshit.
Tags: stupid, runaway idiot, runaway bride, bed precedent

Yes, your precious sleeps with kids while drunk superstar freakshow Jacko was found not guilty of molesting yet another child. Celebrate your "victory" and watch him return to his freakish ways at speed. Though I'm sure he'll be alot more careful about who he chooses to victimize the next time. Maybe he'll slip him some Ruphies in his liquored up Gatorade to help aid the mental wipe process.

You didn't win anything, he won nothing but his freedom though he doesn't deserve it. Alot of money, high priced attorneys and crappy prosecuters doesn't mean he's innocent. It just means that they weren't able to convict him this time. But once a pedophilic kid touching douchebag, always a pedophilic kid touching douchebag. They'll get him eventually. He'll get another kid drunk and fondle him and his family will come forward.

I read an interesting comment about this case which, to paraphrase, went something like this. Any parent that is irresponsible enough to leave their child alone with Michael Jackson has an agenda that they're hoping to serve by allowing the freak to molest their kid, therefore, leaving their child alone with him is a form of entrapment. Which presupposes alot but is, essentially, pretty accurate. And a lovely defense against future allegations of sexual misconduct with children.

Is it possible that all these charges are just a horrible misunderstanding and Jacko's just a child-like character anyway and there's really nothing sick or amoral going on? Sure, its also possible that my farts smell like roses.
Tags: jacko, michael jackson, pedophilia, sexual misconduct

Its not really a rhetorical question because the lid from my Trader Joe's Spicy Thai Pasta Salad, with a very tasty spicy peanut sauce/dressing, flipped over onto my keyboard.

Oh well, all the keys seem to be still functional. No real harm, no real foul and now it smells good too.

Also, I have tried Acai several times now and have come to the conclusion that it tastes like ass or what I would think ass tastes like if I were to taste it. There's something distinctly unpleasant about its flavor, even with mango juice attempting to cover it up. Acai is nasty even if it is fantastic for me. I'll go back to my TJ's Defense Up or Mango Anti-oxidants thanyouverymuch.
Tags: oops

When we go running in the morning, the wheat in the field we run in is in full bloom right now with all of those millions and millions of little hangers on that are brushed free by the action of Nande sprinting through them.

And she comes out with a head covered in the little things. Sometimes its pretty funny but other times, its a little gross. Like when she comes out and there are four or five of them resting in the middle of her eyeball and she doesn't notice. She just wants more rocks to chase into the brush.

It doesn't seem to bother her but it sure does look weird.

And what's with all the dog attacks recently? Another pit bull attack last night in the Bay Area after last week's fatal mauling of the 12 year old and there was another minor event last week outside our house with the two mop dogs down the street and a 96 year old lady walking her two dinker hounds. They charged, hers retreated and she was dragged down to the ground pretty violently. P brought her some ice for her elbow as it was swelling quite badly. But she also saw her again yesterday, out walking her dogs again so it appears that she's okay.
Tags: dog, dogs, morning walk, dog attacks

A new favorite picture from this past weekend under a huge, huge, huge banana plant at a pal's house.

I love the coloring in this, I love the subtle texture of the leaf and the lighting of the sun trying to get through just makes it wonderful. Looking at this fills me with a sense of peace and happiness.

My own little private green room. Oh yeah, here's the large (1024x768) and extra large (3072x2304) versions of it.
Tags: green, banana plant, beauty

New to the office but an old master at the First Person Shooter? Then perhaps you would do well to read through, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Video Games, Part One.

Many good points, the best of which is to stay to the walls and keep moving. People think you're busy if you're always moving.

And do not end each sentence with "That's what YOU think!". That doesn't go over especially well. Oh yeah, and don't get drunk at lunch unless you're sure you have no meetings in the afternoon.
Tags: first person shooter, fps

Did you hear the news, did you? One of the three men being held for Natalee Holloway's disappearance said "something bad happened". Something bad. And he said this on, what, last Thursday? So what's happened between then and now? NOTHING. No news. So what have CNNFOXMSNBC done in the meantime, play the same fucking news clips again and again and again. Showing what a pretty teenager she was, showing how upset her family is, showing the same guy being led away in handcuffs. For five days now.

And, in that time, dozens and hundreds of other people have gone missing but not very many of them happen to be good looking white girls, do they? And so, no one is supposed to give a damn about them. Just the pretty white girls who get to to go to Aruba for graduating high school, get drunk and then go off to party party with three strange men but its cool because its like a little island and stuff.

Sorry, I feel bad for her family and for her. No one deserves to suffer for naivete or whatever really happened. But it is pretty fucking rude to focus such an enormous amount of attention on ONE MISSING GIRL when there are thousands of other people who are missing. Come on now, economies of scale and all that.
Tags: natalee, natalee holloway, missing, aruba, pretty white girl

I'd really like to get a couple of minutes with one of the advertising executives who came up with the Employee Discount Program for Everyone campaign. Why not just lower your prices across the board? Why would you give my an employee discount when I don't now and won't ever work for General Motors?

This campaign is stupid. Why would I be getting an employee discount? By what bizarre stretch of the mind would GM be giving me a discount based on my employment with them?

The only possible explanation I can come up with is that GM wants to try and incorporate everyone in America into their "family" so that people feel some strange obligation to buy a GM car instead of one from any of the rest of the car companies. But they went about it the wrong way. Why not call it the GM Welcome to the Family Plan? Why not call it the GM Here's a few thousand off our crappy cars Plan?

I wasn't planning on getting a GM anytime soon and this marketing campaign won't change that in anyway. I wouldn't mind one of those spaceship looking Cadillac's but I'm not dropping $60k on a car anytime soon even with my "employee discount". Somebody over there dropped the ball on this one. Find a better name for it and you might get some better traction, as it is, you're just confusing people.

Tags: employee discount, GM employee discount, dumb marketing

This is an Intellectual Poison Public Service Message, as mandated by the terms of my parole.
Some folks are getting a lovely new spam with a nasty asshole filled center, the Jackson suicide spam hides a virus within a link to the "story". Here's a good idea, DON'T CLICK THE LINK. It will transport you to a site that purports to have news about a Michael Jackson suicide attempt in the wake of all the stress he's been suffering under during this latest molestation trial. The site will then tell you that it is slow because of all the hits its getting but is, instead, downloading the virus to your PC which will then be turned into another zombie in some asshole's army of computers they want to use to send out millions of messages about penis pills or Rolecks watches.

Watch your PC be infected with a variant of the Borobt-Gen trojan that effectively hands over control of your computer to the dark side that's populated with spammer scum, malware monkies and viral vixens. So DON'T CLICK THE LINK, okay?

A pox on all mal-ware creators. And on the bullies who picked on them in high school and made them so angry at the world that they are using whatever means they can to transfer their angst into spams, trojans and viruses. Lay off the geeks, jerkos, you're part of the problem here too.
Tags: virus, spam, Jacko, trojan horse

Less skin is back in for young Americans but apparently Britney "Why Didn't Everyone Love My Stupid Reality Show" Spears didn't get the memo.

I guess she was going for sassy, sexy and cute but ended up with low budget trailer ho slutty. Nice try. Well no, not really. And why am I reminded of the old saying, you can take a girl out of the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl? I wonder.
Britney Spears, Britney, trashy

Fox News star Bill O'Reilly's week-long Caribbean cruise with a theme of "The Battle for American Values" has been cancelled because reservations fell "well short" of the anticipated 800 passengers. The cruise would have included a symposion on "How to Combat the ACLU."

It seems that Al Franken was one of the few who'd booked a reservation. That would have been fun to watch.

But then, if they couldn't get 800 of his rabid fans to pony up for the cruise then maybe there really is hope for us after all?
Tags: shut up, falafel, Bill O'Reilly

Morford's latest column is out, Hideously Skinny White Girls and he details the anthropomorphication of anorexia (Ana), bulimia (Mia) and eating disorders (Ed).

Girls getting together online to figure out how to be like Ana, the wispy waisted, non-eating queen of supposed hotness. And a really dangerous and damaging role model for impressionable young women to be exposed to, much less look up to as an ideal.

To any young person reading this by chance, don't allow someone else to dictate how you feel about your body. Anorexia is a really dangerous and damaging illness that can cause permanent damage to your body. Love yourself for who you are. If you want to look better than exercise and eat sensibly, consult a dietician, talk to a trainer at a gym. Please don't fall into the trap of intentionally starving yourself for some bizarre false ideal that Hollywood propels by showcasing scrawny celebrities. Love yourself.

I dated an anorexic girl while I was overseas many years ago which, I think, gives me some insight into the vicious nature of a corrupted body image that results in eating disorders. She was beautiful and in great shape but would freak out if she ate more than a couple of pieces of liqourice in a day. She also was completely unable to accept a compliment without knocking herself down in the process. A handful of popcorn was an extravagance for her and she had been hospitalized four times for kidney failure in the two years before we met. It sort of made twisted sense, in the end, when she dumped me to go back to her boyfriend who beat her even though it about broke my heart. She needed to have her illness validated by his violence and that was about the worst aspect of my time in South Africa. Oh yeah, aside from all of the violence, running machine gun battles through the townships and general friction between classes and races.
Tags: anorexia, bulimia, Mark Morford