"A man has been jailed for 50 days for dissecting his daughter's guinea pig believing it was a government spy."
""It's not often you have someone this paranoid from using drugs that they think a guinea pig is spying on them for the government," Deputy District Attorney Tom Connors said. The paranoia was apparently a byproduct of Zavala's methamphetamine use, not mental illness."

Its the government I tell you... They're in it with the hamsters and the mice!!!

Man jailed for killing guinea pig he thought was a spy

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An armada of small, faded
] ] yellow toy ducks is expected to make landfall in Britain
] ] within weeks at the end of an epic 11-year voyage from
] ] the Pacific Ocean.
] ]
] ] They are the survivors of a consignment of 29,000 bath
] ] toys washed overboard from a container ship in 1992 that
] ] have since floated across the ocean, round the United
] ] States, through the Arctic and past Greenland.

Amazing that these could remain floatsam for 11 years... Coming soon to an Ebay auction for you.

LB

RE: CNN.com - England braces for rubber duck invasion - Jul. 26, 2003

] "The action we are taking is intended to protect the
] privacy rights of our customers," SBC spokesman Larry
] Meyer said.
]
] "It's about the fact that anyone can without any effort
] obtain one of these DMCA subpoenas," said Meyer,
] referring to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

SBC Sues RIAA to stop subpoenas

] How would you like to own Twiki from Buck Rogers, or even
] better one of Erin Gray's hot spandex pantsuits from the
] show? You can have your own Cylon, Commander Adama's
] uniform, or a Colonial Warrior helmet from the
] never-filmed second season of BG.

SWEET!

Buy your command!

] Nearly everyone on the planet has spotted the Sluttis
] webcamus (aka Cam Girl) but so few know the inner
] workings of this attention-seeking creature. Well, we
] seem to have unearthed the very essence of what makes the
] Cam Girl popular. Please, use this for good... not evil.

Hilarious.

Cam Girl Tips

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to it, this is the largest resource of foreign languages swear words and phrases and their English translations ever compiled. Here, you will learn how to insult, swear, cuss and curse in 108 languages.

SWEARSAURUS ::: How to swear in 108 languages!

] In a 2001 survey of 1,000 drivers for Exxon, more than
] 70% of drivers say they eat while driving, up from 58% in
] 1995. Some 83% say they drink coffee, juice, or soda
] while driving and a few even say they'd love a microwave
] in their car.

Microwave in the car... yea... I suppose the shit I stash in the glove box could go elsewhere to make way! :p

What I'm waiting for is the day when they have telephones in cars. Can you imagine how cool THAT will be?

Laughing Boy

MSN Money - 10 most dangerous foods to eat on the road

Dementia wrote:
] ] The following questions and answers are being presented
] ] as a public service of RattleHead Records, to help people
] ] understand the New World Order as it is being created by
] ] the Universal Artists Group. The questions below seem
] ] irrelevant only because it is not the current reality;
] ] but sometime in the very near future, if these people
] ] remain unchallenged, it will be the reality.
]
] Anyone want to comment on how true these statements may/may
] not be?

He said it best...

"The only thing a label sells is copies of music made by other people. Don't ever forget that. If copies are free, they're out of business"

But I'll do him one better - if copies are avaliable online as well for a reasonable COST (iTunes, buymusic.com, MP3.com et al) the recording industry is out of business.

Not only do labels sell copies of music, they also up till very recently had an absolute lock on distribution. Unless a band is going to set up a REAL indie label and hire a team to work their asses off, it is virtually impossible for an artist to distribute their own work in traditional retail channels and compete with the big boys - even locally. Unless you find a store with a very cool manager, selling local bands on consignment is something most of the big record chains wont even touch because the small number of units moved doesn’t justify the hassle for them. So just about the only place you are going to be able to sell your own CD is at the "mom and pop" record shops. National/international distribution? Forget about it. There was the necessity of the big labels.

Enter the Internet. If an artist can set up their own website and sell their music direct to their fans - totally bypassing the greedy middlemen, AND retain complete control of their copyrights, AND net 50% or more of the gross, who needs big record labels anymore?

So... you have an industry that is fighting tooth and nail to hang on to its obsolete and antique business model. Oh yes - expect the labels to put up a fight to the bitter death, including lobbying ridiculous copy protection measures like SDMI. But don't forget - its "all in the interest of preserving the artists rights".

CoughBULLSHITcough.

Laughing Boy

RE: SDMI and You

] Kansas really is flatter than a pancake, U.S. geographers
] reported on Monday.
]
] A scientific comparison of the topography of Kansas to a
] pancake shows the state, known for its vast, even fields,
] is in fact really, really flat, geographer Mark Fonstad
] of Southwest Texas State University and colleagues found.
]
] "While driving across the American Midwest, it is common
] to hear travelers remark, 'This state is as flat as a
] pancake,'" they wrote in their report, published in the
] Annals of Improbable Research.
]
] "Simply put, our results show that Kansas is considerably
] flatter than a pancake."

Your tax dollars at work.

Study: Kansas is flatter than pancake

] With the record labels at war with online song swappers,
] PC users who wanted to go straight and do the right thing
] had no inexpensive, easy-to-use way to buy songs
] legitimately until today.
]
] Online retailer Buy.com, which sells computers, books,
] gadgets, CDs and DVDs, adds downloads to its mix today.
] BuyMusic.com will stock 350,000 songs for as little as 79
] cents each, though most sell for 99 cents or $1.19. All
] can be transferred to portables or burned to CDs.

Apple just missed their launch window for iTunes on the PC...

Laughing Boy

Unlimited downloads are now PC