] ASPEN, Colo. Feb 21, 2005 %u2014 Hunter S. Thompson, the
] hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts
] of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person
] form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in
] Las Vegas," has committed suicide.

ABC News: Writer Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

] And why? Why is the adorable yellow sea sponge suddenly
] considered to be contributing to the mental and spiritual
] and genital degradation of millions of innocent children?
] Because he's a hyperactive none-too-bright
] short-attention-spanned spazzball of lovable
] non-sequiturial nonsense who induces rabid devotion among
] children and gay men and straight adults alike? Why, no.
] Not quite.

SpongeBob, Evil Gay Heathen / How sad to be a right-wing Christian in a world full of homo cartoons and scary nipples

I feel blessed that I never really have to deal with this at my company:

A recent survey of 120 American corporations reached a similar conclusion. The study, by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training.

What corporate America can't build: a sentence | CNET News.com

Orkut.com, a popular social networking Website which has attracted the attention of the some of the Internet's biggest names, was revealed today by its creators to be an elaborate "reality Internet" project to form the basis of a master's thesis.

"We figured we couldn't keep it secret much longer anyway," said Orkut Buyukkokten, after whom the distinctive blue-colored meet-and-match site was named. "I didn't think we could do it this long in the first place, actually

Orkut - A master's thesis

A judge has given R&B star R. Kelly permission to attend the Grammy Awards, but told Kelly that he had to stay away from his one-time collaborator Michael Jackson

R. Kelly Isn’t Allowed To Be Friends With Michael Jackson

Fyodor of nmap fame came to speak at SFOBUG last month. I believe we had more people than ever before. 20!!!

We need more speakers, so if anyone has ideas, let me know!

SFOBUG - Fyodor Article

] Cyan Callahan, an employee at San Francisco interactive
] marketing firm Mindshare Design, signed up for the
] national Do Not Call List the very first week it was
] announced in late June. Like many Americans, Callahan was
] receiving an average of three or four calls a day from
] telemarketers and was fed up. More than 45 million irate
] citizens have signed up since then. Though the list
] doesn't go into effect until Oct. 1, Callahan says she
] has already had more nights of total peace and quiet. "In
] the last two months, I've come home and thought: 'Wow, my
] phone's not ringing. I like this.'"

They spelled her name wrong!

BW Online | Where Do Not Call Does Not Count

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nice!

but it must get crowded with so many people in it together.

it seems like a pretty big bed