Isn't it ironic, dont'cha think? ;) I thought hip hop family tradition was based very closely with using someone else's music w/o permission ie vanilla ice, Puffy and hordes of other digital samplers.

DETROIT, Feb 24, 2004 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Rapper Eminem's music publisher is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company used one of the hip-hop superstar's songs in a television advertisement without permission.

Eminem's Publisher Sues Apple Over Song

careful not to go blind.

The 10 worst Album Covers. Ever.

Decius wrote:
] ] As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an ancient
] ] pattern reemerges: the eruption of desperate, all-out
] ] wars over food, water, and energy supplies. As Harvard
] ] archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over
] ] resources were the norm until about three centuries ago.
] ] When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a population's
] ] adult males usually died. As abrupt climate change hits
] ] home, warfare may again come to define human life.

Deja Vu and it's Mad Max / Road Warrior all over again. It must be pretty difficult to numerically model an apocalypse on the Cray.

RE: Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario

Phewww! That was a close one. I was only betting on 29 billion years.

The new findings support Einstein's cosmological constant, which modern cosmologists say implies that dark energy should not characteristically change over time. If that's right, the universe will continue to expand at an accelerating forever.

The new results suggest that even if Einstein and modern dark energy theory are both wrong, dark energy will not destroy the universe for at least 30 billion years, Riess and his colleagues say.

"Right now we're about twice as confident than before that Einstein's cosmological constant is real, or at least dark energy does not appear to be changing fast enough, if at all, to cause an end to the universe anytime soon," Riess said.

The universe is presently 13.7 billion years old.

Universe Has At Least 30 Billion Years Left

Add one if it will help. Haiku venting makes me feel so much better. The theme of this meme is All work and no play make Jack a dull (and tired) geek. Maybe I was dull before and never noticed ;)

Engineer Burnout
Too Many Tasks To Juggle
rm dash f star

] PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has
] sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a
] nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
]
] "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed
] and that they be released into their natural habitat,"
] the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its
] weekend strike.

Still makes me laugh to think about....

CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000

bucy wrote:
] ] Today, the big issue is Java. Sun's insistence on
] ] continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged
] ] Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the
] ] language in the open-source community, ceding the field
] ] (and probably the future) to scripting-language
] ] competitors like Python and Perl. Once again the choice
] ] is between control and ubiquity, and despite your claim
] ] that "open source is our friend" Sun appears to be
] ] choosing control. Sun's terms are so restrictive that
] ] Linux distributions cannot even include Java binaries for
] ] use as a browser plugin, let alone as a standalone
] ] development tool.

Said Eric Raymond (Moses) to the Pharohs of Egypt (Sun):
"Let my Java Go!"

RE: ESR to Sun: Let Java Go

watch idiots try to pull a car out of a ditch.

That bumper was only adding weight to the car anyway!

Do not try this at home folks...

Hook it to the frame, ppl

Send an Anti Valentines Day Card to someone!

Valentine's Day is upon us once more: that special time of year when chocolate manufacturers and greetings card companies encourage you to demonstrate the extent of your fondness in cold, hard, cash (or the satin-hearted equivalent) on February 14th.
This year, celebrate or commiserate by sending an anti-valentine. Send it today, tomorrow, or any day you damn well please. This year, say it with bile.

Just in time ~ the Anti Valentine

Conan O'Brien is probably glad to be leaving Canada. And, really, who can blame him?
...
But, clearly, O'Brien was not firing on all comedic cylinders thanks to the controversy of the previous night. That's when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a vulgar and recurring character on the show, "pooped" on Quebec with a virulent assault on French Canadians.
..
The politicians wringing their hands yesterday, condemning the segment as racist, demanding to know why public money was used to subsidize such "hatred" and "filth" should start watching satirical comedies.
...
Because, in the end, the reaction to Triumph says more about Canada than America.

The Quebec'ers are an easy target to lampoon. Maybe if they would finally get over themselves, they wouldn't be so funny.

Toronto Star | We're acting like doggone wussies