Musings of a Chicagoan

• Ananova - Mum worried about love life of daughter
  “They had to tell the 92-year-old German mother that her 68-year-old daughter’s love life was none of their business.”
• Good rant on why MySpace is Bad.
  “It encourages elitism over the socialistic nature of Internet publication, and the result benefits News Corporation, which, in turn, benefits a plethora of conservative causes in addition to the direct propagation of the conservative agenda via mass medi
• To the tune of “Mrs. Robinson” …
  “Al, won’t you please run for President? / People love you more than you will know (whoa, whoa, whoa) / God bless you Al—run for President! / The country needs a leader—one with brains. / (Hey, hey, hey…hey, hey, hey)”
• “A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.”
  What the FUCK?!
• CTA tattler: Riding the El with Frank
  “Hey, this is Frank. I’m on the Brown Line and there’s a delay northbound. Someone should be making an announcement about there being a power outage at Armitage.”
• waiterrant.net » SNAP
  “I take my free hand and slam my palm down on the erect straws which, of course, SNAP.”
• ABC News: Hillary Rips Climbers Who Left Dying Man
  “David Sharp, 34, died apparently of oxygen deficiency while descending from the summit during a solo climb last week. More than 40 climbers are thought to have seen him as he lay dying, and almost all continued to the summit without offering assistance.
• Wired News: What If They Gave a War…?
  “In short, where the hell is everybody? [...] Bread and circuses. The government and the corporations are giving us bread and circuses to keep us sufficiently distracted so the powers that be can pursue their agendas.”
• “In the event that a customer’s entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception.”
• Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0
  “Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources.”
• Sign up with Citibank’s online-only-statements to avoid getting mail … and get a monthly notice anyway.

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