A sad and shocking news item about a 6 to 8 week old puppy that suffered brain damage after being used as a football by a gang of youths. How can people do things like this? It’s totally beyond comprehension. [via]
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Fo’ Shizzle Yizz’all
The origins of “izzle” finally revealed. From the mouth of Snoop Doggy D-O-Double Gizzle. “It’s a way of speaking that’s been around for years. It originated in Northern California.” So now you know… [via]
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Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Ivan touches down in Alabama and we’re due to get heavy wind and rain and some tornado watches as part of it… In fact, spot Georgia, if you can…
And to make things even better, a fourth hurricane, Hurricane Jeanne, is on the way.
Happy happy, joy joy…
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RIP Johnny Ramone
Johnny Ramone dies aged 55. With Joey, Dee Dee and now Johnny dead, only Tommy remains… They’ve been dropping like flies these last few years.
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More iPod Guilty Pleasures
Out of the 77 songs that make up the Unofficial Kottke.org iPod Guilty Pleasures iTunes Music Store playlist, I nominated 8 of them. Though I will confess to owning 31 overall…
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NHL Put On Ice
It’s official, the forthcoming NHL season has been put on ice. Not a good situation for the players, the owners, the league or the fans…
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25 Reason Why Futurama Was the Best Show on Television
25 reasons why Futurama was the best show on television. No argument there… Well, except possibly “Family Guy.”
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iPod Guilty Pleasures
Inspired by Jason Kottke’s post on naming and shaming people’s iPod guilty pleasures, I’m going to list all of mine here…
In alphabetical order (italic comments are my own thoughts)
2Pac – California Love (featuring Dr Dre), Changes, Hit ‘Em Up & Until the End of Time
I think Tupac is a weak MC, but I can’t help myself50 Cent – In Da Club
Same as Tupac, weak MC but the song was everywhere and I couldnt help myselfThe Atari’s – The Boys of Summer
It’s a good cover songAvril Lavigne – Both CD’s
I’m sorry… I’m really really sorryBachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Classic Rock cheesinessThe Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Redneck humour… Git-R-Done!Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk CD
Yeah, they sold out, but I still like itBloodhound Gang – Hooray For Boobies CD
So childish it’s unbelievable, and I love itBritney Spears – …Baby One More Time, Toxic & Oops! I Did It Again
I know I should hate these, but I don’t… Toxic especiallyC.W McCall – Convoy
This here’s the Rubber Duck and I’m about to put the hammer down…Dixie Chicks – Top of the World Tour CD
I confess to not liking the Dixie Chicks til I heard their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide, now I’m hookedJosie And The Pussycats Soundtrack
Again, another I’m programmed to hate, but I don’tLimp Bizkit – All the CD’s
Yeah, I still like Limp Bizkit, so what?Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Hard NOT to like…Shania Twain – Come On Over & Up! CD’s
I hated country before I came to Georgia, now I can’t get enough, so add Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Terri Clark to this list too
Ween – Piss Up A Rope
Just a great song…That’s all your getting…
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Meg Hourihan Finds Her Calling
Meg Hourihan finds joy in the simpler things in life. “I’ve learned a lot this summer during my sabbatical but it all can be summarized in three words: follow your heart.” Amen…
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Comment Spam
It’s times like these I love WordPress and it’s nifty built-in comment moderation. Some asshole has tried to comment spam each and everyone of my posts over the last few days and it’s caught them all no problem, a few quick clicks and the comments disappear into the ether. Sweeeeeet… I dont want anything to do with your tramadol online texas hold ’em casino crap thankyouverymuchly.
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Firefox 1.0 PR Changes
These are some of the changes I’ve spotted in the few hours I’ve been using it:
Live BookmarksA little RSS icon appears at the bottom right hand of the browser when RSS feeds are available, this allows you to save them as bookmarks, a folder of the site and individual entries as individual bookmarks. A nice idea, but I still prefer the RSS reader extension…
Popup Blocker
This notifier has moved from bottom left to bottom right, a banner also appears on the page.
A much better way of letting you know popups were blocked and if you want to unblock them.
Secure Sites
The address bar now turns yellow and the padlock icon appears on the right of it as opposed to the old bottom left of browser (where everything appeared)
I’m sure there is more I’m missing, but this is just initial thoughts.
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Firefox 1.0 PR
Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. Full 1.0 is just around the corner…
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Catching Up
Seeing as I’ve been a post whore today, I may as well do my weekend catch up tonight as opposed to some point in the future as yet undetermined.
Well, Friday evening was another trip to Turner Field, would my 100% record remain intact? Well, yeah, the Braves beat Montreal Expos 4-3 to move me up to 4-0 (1.000) with 2 wins over the Florida Marlins and 1 over the San Francisco Giants and Montreal Expos.
Anyways, it was an enjoyable evening at the ballpark, Robyn was able to score free tickets from her new job but Phil and Erika werent able to make it so she invited her friend Charles and his cousin Victor, and we had a fun time.
On Saturday, Phil, Erika, Robyn and myself went around Lake Lanier looking at houses ranging from the fantastic to the dilapidated… We came across one really fantastic one by accident (we were looking for another in the completely wrong area) so we went back for a closer look on Sunday, then Phil and me had our heads shaved with help from Erika and Robyn.
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A Step Toward Universal Computing
A step toward universal computing. “A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.” Interesting… Veeeeeeeery interesting.
