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Holy crap.

Text message surgery saves teenager's life - CNN.com

So let's say that this would actually work.  Am I the only one that thinks that there may be a side effect we don't know about?  I mean these massive storms churn up the water they pass over, not to mention the land impacts.  Stopping them might not be the best idea...

Weather Control: It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets

WTF is this crap???  The RIAA is trying to say that if I buy a cd and then rip that disc to mp3...you know...say for use on my own mp3 player...that I am breaking the law.

From the brief:

"It is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies of Plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings on his computer ... Virtually all of the sound recordings on Exhibit B are in the ".mp3" format. ... Defendant admitted that he converted these sound recordings from their original format to the .mp3 format for his and his wife's use."

Where ever these things live...well, I'm never moving there.

It's bad enough when we have extremists in the world (of every shade and color, mind you) playing the whole "my God is better than your God game", but at least those views came from the fringe elements...not from the very top.  link

If there is any justice in the world, this will be where the pendulum starts to swing back towards common sense.

Exonerated defendant sues RIAA for malicious prosecution

Granted, rampant piracy isn't good for anybody, but personally, I can't count the number of cd's I bought because a friend recommended me something that I later downloaded from Napster.

And people wonder why I rant about drivers in the Pacific Northwest.

Driver makes two U-turns on Interstate 5 - Yahoo! News

Anyone who knows me knows I've been working on getting one of these built...and here it is.

Mail Tribune - At last, a solution - February 9, 2007

If you try to install Acrobat Reader 8 on the retail version of Vista, you'll need to read this...




http://buckwheats.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/installing-acrobat-reader-8-on-windows-vista/

Seriously?  Have we become this touchy as a society?  Whatever.  Guess what?  I'm not buying any GM cars anytime soon either...you know why?  Because they suck.

GM's Super Bowl robot ad draws criticism - Yahoo! News

But Lisamarie Miller, 39, of Palatine, Ill., said she'll never buy a GM vehicle after seeing the ad online. The member of a the Chicago-area chapter of AFSP found out about it from the foundation — and has been sharing her disgust online as well as with friends, family and co-workers.