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An interesting discussion on Apple’s digital rights management efforts, and whether their new ‘upgrades’ to iTunes are resulting in less value.

(categories: mac food4thought)
How to Get Manboobs

Heh. Weird as hell, but quite funny, nevertheless.

(categories: weird as.hell funny)
“Microsoft isn’t planning to go the whole way and make IE 7.0 fully CSS2 compliant.”

Which led to the Firefox development people having a weeklong bash this weekend …

(categories: geekery stupid microsoft)
“He showed clips from the original ‘Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope’ and the most recent ‘Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones’ that had been ‘dimensionalized,’ or converted into 3-D.”

(categories: cool movies)
“Yeah, but you focus on the ass. Does the ass want to be the moment?”

(categories: sexy girls iraq funny)
“I’ve been threatening to rewrite the script and send it to the office anonymously. I finally have rewritten it, and I’m sharing it as an example of what can be accomplished by listening to your own communications from your customer’s point of view.”

(categories: funny geekery interesting)
3M tells you how you can use its duct tape to make yourself a wallet.

“Most people agree that Duct Tape can save you money on costly repair bills but did you know that you could create a wallet to hold all of the money you’ve saved?”

(categories: funny cool reference interesting)
“Joss Whedon begins the long, difficult task of casting ‘Wonder Woman.’”

(categories: funny as.hell comics images)
New York Times: “He said theater officials rejected the film because of its brief references to evolution, in particular to the possibility that life on Earth originated at the undersea vents.”

America. Scratch the surface, and we’re not too far removed from the Puritan assholes who landed on Plymouth.

(categories: stupid sad censorship movies)
“Ulrich says he believes that cover bands, mash-ups, and the right to re-interpret art on the internet are things worth fighting for.”

Huh. Hell just froze over. I’m surprised. Very surprised.

(categories: music interesting)
“I just saw this new (I assume it’s new) thing on Amazon moments ago, and I’m blown away. I ran across SIPs on the Gonzo Marketing page, where two ’statistically improbable phrases’ are listed for the book, to wit: ‘public journalism’ and ‘market advocacy

(categories: goodideas interesting cool)
“Former mobster-turned-chef Henry Hill, whose gangland experiences inspired the movie ‘GoodFellas,’ has been charged with felony drug possession.”

(categories: movies amazing)
“The legislation — which must be voted on by the House and the Senate — would allow Schiavo’s parents, who have been waging their legal battles in state court, to take their case to the federal court system.”

It’s sick that Congress is doing that. It’s absolutely, frighteningly, theocracy-style sickening.

(categories: horrifying censorship politics government neocon)
Metaphilm does an amazing job building an argument that “Fight Club” is what happens to the cast of ‘Calvin & Hobbes.’

“‘Jack’ is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s true. Norton portrays the grown-up version of Calvin, while Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal, Hobbes, reincarnated as Tyler Durden.”

(categories: amazing funny movies cool brilliant)
Aural Sex: The 30 Hottest Things You Can Say To A Naked Woman

(categories: reference funny sexy)
“I think that every American in this country should also be outraged that this government is trampling all over a personal family matter that has been adjudicated in the courts for seven years.”

(categories: politics dumbass)
“Wanted … a tall, well-built woman … “

(categories: funny)

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