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In another move that shows that the United States Government knows what's best for this grand country, they are passing a bill that would allow the MPAA and RIAA to be permanently exempt from antitrust litigation.
Boy, I sure can sleep better at night knowing that the good people of the MPAA and RIAA can take away our rights to own stuff we buy without fear of any reprimand.

Looks like the Lord of all Tools has gone from conflict and resolution to angry and ambivalent...

I bet you can't wait for that new Thunderbirds movie to come out. Well, you may watch a terrible Flash trailer of that movie.
Get ready to feel the thunder!

As I tried to say in an earlier comment, maybe the spam problem is one that will eventually take care of itself...

It looks like Natalie Portman has been typecast as a sci fi babe. I, for one, don't have a problem with that.

The House passes an antispam bill. Does anyone actually think this will help? Maybe they need to say pretty please too...

Yeah, That'll work. But only if you say pretty please.

"The experience in some ways is similar to taking a nap while playing a Kraftwerk album." Meet Peeg, the mobile digital brain charger.

Hey chopper_d, I wanna jack into your iPod

"Production is about to start on 3001, a live-action movie about a man who awakes a thousand years in the future to discover that the world is so dumbed down that he is its smartest inhabitant" Sounds like a normal day at work to me!

I'm going to start something new on this blog: Tool of the day. The first official Tool of the day is Hayden Christensen. He gives away the following spoiler for the upcoming film "Star Wars Episode 3: No One Cares": "'Yes,' Christensen told the newspaper. 'You'll hear the breathing.' He added, 'I might get in trouble just for saying that." No, really? You can't mean that Darth Vader will be in the film. It's only the last movie in the series - why would they bother trying to complete the story? Why don't you go ahead and ruin the rest of the movie by saying "there will be conflict and resolution." Hayden Christensen, you are a Tool.

It's time to pull out the plastic and do some online holiday shopping. Who wouldn't want one of these?

Foxtrot demos the l33t spell-checker. Look for a Sourceforge release coming to a download site near you...

FIREFLY! The DVD web site is now up. Browse, buy, and enjoy!

Cruise Has M:I3 Doubts. Really? Just about M:I3? We had doubts about the second one, but that didn't stop you from making the movie. Note to Mr. Cruise: If you MUST make the film, please try and leave flying motorcycles out of it. Also, embedding the plot of Face:off is not a good idea. Get it? Face... Off. Face:off.

Want a way to constantly monitor RSS/XML news feeds and further make your time at work more unproductive? Try FeedReader. Its an open source project, so it has to be good!

Well, well, well. Mircosoft is releasing thier XML-based Office file formats so that third-party applications can work with them. Word is already outed, and Excel will soon follow.
One soft return comment: I'm actually looking forward to boning up on XML now. It would be nice to have something like, say a PHP web page, strip out the relevant information in a Word 2003 document and format it for the web. Without all that stupid MS CSS crap.

SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN KANE MEETS WILE E. COYOTE
Some fun nonsense for Friday.

All-Dwarf KISS Cover Band To Appear On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' MINI-KISS, an all-dwarf KISS cover band, will be the featured musical guests on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday, November 17. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs in most markets at 12:05 a.m.

Microsoft tries to be fashionably late but instead ends up missing the party. Seriously now, is there any browser other than IE that actually allows pop-ups? I guess we'll have to wait until service pack 3 to get tabbed browsing...

R2-D2 finally gets his props.

Five reasons not to buy an iPod. How 'bout adding these to the list: 1.The firewire cable won't fit in my floppy drive. 2. I NEED more buttons. 3. I get hypnotized watching my thumb go in circles. 4. I'm just too much of a tool to own something that rocks that hard!

Opie and Anthony notes on what happened to the women from the Sex for Sam incident that got them fired, Spread the Virus and get these guys back on the air...

Eurogamer.net is reporting that America's Army 2.0 has been released! Download and enjoy!

Dear George, its about time. Mark down the tenative date of September 2004, geeks and geekettes, for the mighty Star Wars original trilogy will be released on DVD.

Popular rumor suggests that the DVD box set will appear like an Ewok, with psuedo-fur and random chirping sounds.

Wachowski Defends Matrix Idea. You may have created the idea for the Matrix films before you married your ex-wife, but did you create it before William Gibson wrote Nueromancer? I don't think so... cough rip off cough.

Aren't you glad that someone finally set up a virus-hunting fund? In the spirit of bounties, I'd like to start a grass roots effort to get an annoying manager relocation fund going. Send check or money order to...

Star Wars: Clone Wars | Clone Wars....Something to view from Stars Wars world that hopefully won't suck.

Here's a follow story of the Novell purchase of SuSE -- putting it all in perspective.

The overall reaction I've been seeing is that this purchase and RedHat moving towards server support only shows that Linux can be profitable on just the server level now, with a major play towards the desktop market several years down the road. RedHat's CEO basically came out and said this.

Microsoft's Longhorn release better be spectactular, or else the Linux fires will be fueled.

Tired of Microsoft having no competition? So are Novell, SuSE, and IBM. Now that Novell has acquired SuSE Linux, these three companies can provide top-notch servers, workstations, server OS, workstation OS, and network services. If Microsoft wasn't scared before, they should be now!

CNN's Breaking News -- Internet is filled with dead sites. In other news, DUH!

Looks like the Internet could use a janitor. My friends think that I'm the Internet Janitor for our university. Maybe WC3 will hire me and pay me $150,000/yr to send out "update or die" emails from my home.

Microsoft Manager to Microsoft employee: Feel free to use the internet for anything you like. That is, except for posting pictures of a truckload of Mac G5's being delivered to the Redmond campus!