CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT
18 USC 2257

Yes, that is correct. The wonderful things that used to be here, the very funny things that you want to read, have been made retroactively illegal by the US government, in a side-handed attack on the pornography industry.

We might mention that the material here isn't even pornography as you normally think of it -- this site is just adult humor, in essay format, with some illustrations. The government is mandating that we meet certain bookkeeping requirements, ones impossible to meet for this site. Never mind that those requirements do not actually gain the public anything. This is the strongest attack on free speech since the passage of the CDA, and oddly, the media seems to have hardly noticed. The penalty for not abiding by these bookkeeping requirements is five years prison.

The regulations were promulgated by Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General appointed by George Bush. If you voted for Bush, this is your fault. If you think this country is free, you are sadly mistaken. No nation has freedom when it is run by religious zealots.

Regulations effective 24 June 2005.

The Gaping Maw - rotten.com Editorial

"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies."

An interesting scattering of great quotes. I have seen the vast majority of these films, and yes, the lines stay with you.

Why does it feel dirty to read the ones with Tom Cruise's voice? He didn't have many of them, but he did have some.

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

All remaining decisions of the Supreme Court's current Term will be announced on Monday, the Court's public information office said on Thursday. Six cases remain to be decided, unless, by chance, some are put over for reargument in the Term starting Oct. 3. That does not appear likely at this point.

Another weekend until Grokster.

SCOTUSblog

Ultimate Antarctica is a voyage of diving discoveries; an incredible 3,300 Nautical mile journey through the Southern Ocean. This 20-night adventure, with a group of only 44 guests, will depart from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina on December 27, 2006. From there, we head for the Falklands Islands and South Georgia, then through the South Orkneys (time permitting) to the Antarctic Peninsula. We return to Ushuaia on January 17, 2007.

Wow. What a trip. Wonder if I could come up with the money by then...

Ultimate Antarctica II, 2006 - Ice, Scuba Diving, Amos Nachoum, photography, expedition, penguins, whales, seals,adventure

Land of OpportuniTV is Entourage told from the point-of-view of Jeremy Priven's character -- except our 'SuperAgent Ari' is the early favorite to be the next Bill Gates.

Land will be set at The Opportunity Services Group (OSG), a a startup provider of customized education and career services (CECS).

It is a TV show pitch, it is a business plan, it is a startup launching by television show, it is ... wtf. Slick, at least.

Welcome to LandOf.OpportuniTV.com

I think we're going to have a lot of smaller films to watch soon:

Wellspring's Guirgis is all for the change — but it's not without drawbacks, she maintains. "Fifty percent of the population under 25 wants to make a film," she said. "It's far more of an ambition than writing. "While it's good to make the means of creation more accessible, a lot of the material won't cut it."

Hacking NetFlix : The Age of Independent Films

A REMINDER THAT THIS IS A SURVEY OF 250 PEOPLE WHO AREN’T SMART ENOUGH TO LET THE ANSWERING MACHINE PICK-UP.

-Joan McCullough, East Shore Partners

The Big Picture: Quote of the Day: U of Mich (prelim)

So, is this scientific vindication of what your mother always used to tell you—that breakfast-eating is crucial to academic success?

Not exactly. There is an alternate—and perhaps more compelling—explanation for why breakfast-eaters do relatively well in school while breakfast-skippers may have a tough time: The skippers are also the ones whose bodies rebel against early-morning activity. Their circadian clocks are telling them that it's still nighttime, or they're plain exhausted and need the extra zzz's. Taken together, the scientific literature on breakfast and sleep suggests that making sure kids get enough shut-eye will probably do more for them than dragging them out of bed to eat their Wheaties. Yet the authors of the new review article—like most nutrition researchers—overlook the literature on sleep, which seems to exist in a separate, academic bubble. That's too bad, because differences in kids' sleep patterns may underlie the questions about cognition and academic performance—as well as health effects like obesity—that the breakfast club is most interested in answering.

Shooting Down the Breakfast Club - Why you shouldn't wake your kids up to eat their Wheaties. By Amanda Schaffer

Which brings us to the Touch Toy. Wood says that the project was prompted by the idea of exploring ways of communicating with each other than just texting or phoning.

The Touch Toy is a small, key-fob sized device that has some kind of input mechanism, and some kind of output, Ken Wood said. At the moment, the input mechanism is giving the toy a gentle squeeze, and the output is a vibration.

(You can see where we are going with this already, cant you?)

The Touch Toy relays the input to your phone, connecting via bluetooth. Your phone then sends an instruction to another phone, which relays the signal to that phone's touch toy. The second touch toy then vibrates. Or, as Wood put it: "I squeeze my touch toy, my wife's vibrates".

MS boffins use bluetooth for love bites | Channel Register

I really like reading Expeditors' SEC 8-K filings. It is a very
shareholder friendly company that uses the 8-K to answer all
questions, publically. Not only do you get a nice snapshot of a
very well run business -- that tends to reflect globalization
trends, to boot -- but you also get a great tone of voice.

Such as this Q&A, discussing their competition. Expeditors is
a shipping logistics company -- their customer wants to get their
inventory from place A to place B, and Expeditors buys the
capacity to do so. They pride themselves on being asset-free,
that is, they own no air or ocean freight vehicles themselves.

18. Are you seeing more intense competition from other supply chain solutions companies which own assets, particularly aircraft? Do they have a competitive advantage that Expeditors does not?

As to more intense competition, the answer is no. The sort of competition we are currently seeing has always been there. It's just another flavor of the dancing circus bear. The outfits may change, the routine gets upgraded and the music may be different, but at the end of the day, a dancing asset bear is still a bear in a tutu. Brown bear or grizzly, it is really just the same act. Popular in Europe, but still the same act. They may try to present an image of refinement costumed in a supply chain outfit with a flashy IT wig, but you are still just watching a bear dance. Some say it is just not natural.

With respect to competitive advantages, sure, being a bear no doubt has some competitive advantages, although we question whether improvisation or flexibility could be listed among them.

EDGAR | Expeditiors 8-K, May 31 2005