Tough-guy actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.

Penguin published "The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World's Greatest Human" in November. Author Ian Spector and two Web sites he runs to promote the book, including www.truthaboutchuck.com, are also named in the suit.

"Some of the 'facts' in the book are racist, lewd or portray Mr. Norris as engaged in illegal activities," the lawsuit alleges.

"Defendants have misappropriated and exploited Mr. Norris's name and likeness without authorization for their own commercial profit," said the lawsuit.

Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure - Yahoo/Reuters

Join the battle against Cylon tyranny! Show your true colors and support the cause by displaying these posters in the common areas of your ship. Officially sanctioned by Fleet Operations, each poster contains critical messages from the Colonial Ministry of Information that will help recruit, inspire and inform your fellow Colonial citizens.

So Say We All | Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters

To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are.

But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.

The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.

Freddie's efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi's online gallery.

People are idiots.

Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings | the Daily Mail

ONCE it was only revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro who could seize a Caribbean island. Yesterday it was Google, the internet giant, that took control of Necker in the British Virgin Islands for the wedding of Larry Page, its co-founder.

There was a price: Sir Richard Branson, the island’s owner, was ready to step up as best man for the marriage of his fellow multi-billionaire.

Google boss’s Virgin wedding

As much as people I know complained about how crappy CompUSA was when it was still in Atlanta, people defiantly notice when it is gone. All the Microcenters and Fry's are spread out into the suburbs, and all the mom & pop stores are sparse and scary. The "Gotta have ____ right now" has me going to places like Office Depot, Best Buy, and the urban (read: "reduced sized") Wal Mart ... with Office Depot tending to have the best selection. Fry's (one on I-85 in Duluth) is just to far to roam for small part and pieces (traffic can get bad during those times of the day); but a late afternoon pilgrimage with friends to Fry's followed by hitting up one of the nearby boxed franchise restaurants can turn into a decent nerdy social night outing (Maybe even some quick tailgatting and pregaming when we get there).

RE: Last CompUSA Stores to Close

ahem...gee...I wish a holiday was coming up in which people exchange gifts to show that they care. Because if there was, then I am positive that geeky chicks everywhere would want a set of these. Hint.

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Software maker Adobe Systems Inc and Internet company Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday they will offer a service to let publishers run advertisements in Adobe's popular document-reading format.

The new service, Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo, presents publishers with an alternative to conventional subscriptions, which, if widely adopted, could open up a new model based on free, ad-supported publishing, analysts said.

Advertisers gain a distribution channel that can reach highly specific audiences based on their reading interests while allowing them to track how specific ads perform. The approach is akin to how Web-based, pay-per-click ads now work.

The text-based ads are displayed in a panel adjacent to the content with no moving or flashing elements. Each time the PDF is viewed, ads are matched by Yahoo to the content.

In terms of relevance to advertisers, such ads could rank above Web-page banner ads in terms of targeting capacity, but below specific keyword-based Web ads, Teresi said.

Adobe and Yahoo test running ads inside PDF documents - Yahoo! News

Now comes a scheme some researchers say amounts to extortion: One site's threat to disable visitors' computers with relentless pop-up ads if they don't pay for a subscription they were automatically signed up for after a free trial.

The threats, reported this week by researchers at security vendor McAfee Inc.'s Avert Labs, affect people who visit the Web site and download software to access a free three-day trial membership.

Visitors do get free access for three days, but the download includes code that then generates a stream of pop-up windows, when the user is online and offline, demanding payment of roughly $80 for 90 days' worth of additional access.

Once the fees are paid, the software can be removed with a special file.

Hidden dangers in visiting porn sites - Yahoo! News

The two games in question are possible Tech bowl games. They are the Chickfilla bowl in the GA dome on the 31rst, and the Music City Bowl in Nashville Consider this maybe also a new years eve pre party. Is anyone willing to be part of a ticketing block in either city. If you are, lemme know, and which city (as you can chose atlanta, nashville, or both). A commitment card is due this Friday. Most likely teams winning championship games know exactly where they are going Saturday, the BCS folks will work out the rest of 10 teams on Monday this next week, and everyone else figure out by Wednesday.

If you don't want to commit now, but think it is still a good idea ... a block can be bought in a lesser section after this magical friday date. More info about that will come via replies.

Pre-game and Post-game festivities can be discussed if there is enough interest.

dc0de wrote:
Yeah, but UGA still won... :P

So, how much does it cost to get a SEC ref to call two safeties "touchbacks" instead?

RE: What's the good word?