Running From Camera

The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.

Sports Talk

Congratulations to DT's Brother and DT's Brother's Brother on the success of their Bears. I feel it is my responsiblity to note that Seattle recruited their secondary from the Portapotty line in the parking lot before the game, lest the brothers DT wax too enthusiastic in the light of their victory.

On a more personal note, I hereby renounce the heretic Chargers and their perverse imp of a coach, Mary Shittenheimer. I will no longer root for my team in the playoffs until the suits exorcise said imp, with or without the help of Max Von Sydow.





(side note: my god, look at that disgusting 70's blanket! It looks just like the blankets at both my grandparent's houses. *shudder*)

EMI Europe abandons DRM

via boingboing.

Crippleware makes sense from a very narrowminded corporate perspective, but in the long run it just creates more 'pirates'.

I mean, which option sounds more appealing to you:

Spend 15+ bucks on a CD that won't let you rip it or make copies

or

Downloading the CD for free in an easily tranportable digital format

I've downloaded a ton of stuff I own just because it's faster and simpler than wrangling it off the disc.

Nice that one of the corporates is waking up to the fact that reducing customer flexibility isn't a smart business model.

NUT

The Wife Explains

Why she doesn't read fantasy or SF:

"It's all like, 'he met with the Gremlin and they spoke in the language of Ur'...I don't need that shit!"

ATTN IVAN

Angel Dolfyn has a challenger!

file under Wicca/Magick/Personal Empowerment.

best part may be the author bio:

(the author) has been interested in the magickal arts since childhood. She's a Wiccan Priestess, director of the International Wiccan/Pagan Press Alliance- and the mother of four young witches.

Look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair.

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super awesome BONUS LINK.

Are you a solitary practitioner who wants to experience the support of others who are on the same path? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a Coven, but had no luck finding one where you live?

Why not join an iCoven™ right here online with your friends?

Trademarking iCoven...that's what I call brass balls!

final edit:
Weak!
the latest edition has a lame new cover.

booooo!

January means LISTS

list of the year's ten best lists (how meta is that!)

Best Week Ever's 10 best list

10 Gayest Moments of 2006

Alternet's ten best top tens

Letterman's Ten Signs you're not one of the most fascinating people of 2006

Pitchfork's top 50 albums of 2006
and
top 100 tracks of 2006

Metacritic's best reviewed films of 2006
and
games
and
books

Top Ten Rules for a Top Ten List

ESPN's fights of the year
(an excellent list that nails all the high points)

Five Hackers who left a mark on 2006