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As many blogs as there are that don't credit the other blogs they steal stories from (including this one), why would you want to treat a big media company like CNet any different?

Why? well like many bloggers I?m sick and tired of scoops and other stories being stolen from blogs by big media. It not only happens occasionally, it happens all the time. As a meta-blogger I monitor most of the big media sites on blogging related stories, and there has been one regular site that has the ability to run stories, without credit, from a number of blogs including the Blog Herald.

Who cares? A story is a story. You didn't invent the story. Why make a big deal over what amounts to nothing?

I steal, you steal, we all steal. Sometimes we credit when we feel like it, sometimes we don't.

...the blogosphere will not be messed with...

Big media don't credit one-another, either, in case you haven't noticed.

Stupid elitist bloggers with their cocks in each-other's asses.

I can think of a few of the popular blogs that 'stole' a story (as if I owned it) from HNTB and didn't credit me, probably because they don't want anyone else to know they read HNTB. As long as they don't cut and paste the text, what do I care?

Stealing images is just as easy. If it's not specifically copyrighted, it's free pickins. If you don't want your images all over the internet, don't post them.

Hypocritical nitwits.

How the fuck do you run one of the most popular websites on the planet, the #1 search engine, and your site is down for 15 minutes? I start shitting my pants after 5 if one of my ecommerce sites is down. Obviously, they don't give a shit.

Googling stopped for 15 minutes on Saturday. The world's leading internet search engine shut down from 6:45 to 7 p.m. eastern time, according to Google spokesman David Krane.

"It was not a hacking or a security issue," said Krane. He said the problem was related to the DNS, or Domain Name System, though Krane did not elaborate. The DNS translates domain names for computers.

They really do suck balls.

PantiesPantiesPanties is one of the more tame posters of photos on Flickr. Their photos are of clothed women who are wearing... panties.

The new Flickr, now owned by Yahoo, is being a bitch for asking them to, essentially, take down their photos from public consumption.

I talked about this on March 28 in "Flickr isn't really a Yahoo family-type site, is it?" but I was thinking about the photos of penises that were next to photos of clowns. (Or clowns with penises.) Marking it as 'adult' is all that should be done.

Flagging photos as being adult is a good thing to do for Yahoo. Censoring the photos completely (and photos that are more "PG-13" than "R") is a fucking dumb idea. Kids have seen worse things on network television.

Seems like the whole nation is turning into a churchgrounds. Not because most people are so religious, but because people are becoming too afraid to do anything. Censorship is facism's best friend.

Black* and latino families, it can be argued, have long had strong familial ties. All sour jokes about single black and hispanic mothers aside, I think black and latino families are strong and weak at the same time.

A big problem with black and latino families is that they generally don't like their gay and lesbian family members. Black and latinos are basically too fucking religious to give a damn about their bi- or homosexual family members. They're too busy thinking about going to hell to care.

I think a major reason why black and latino families are strong is because of their strong religious affiliations. Because their beliefs are so strong and, obviously, the religions that are practiced aren't going to change anytime soon it's more a matter of them overlooking the fact that their son or daughter (or other relative) is gay.

If ma can ignore pappy's midnight rendevous with their daughter they can certainly bring back their gay son into the house. If the family can ignore their daily transgressions or "sins" (the brainwashed fucks) they can certainly ignore a minor technicality, a flip of the switch that caused their son or daughter to prefer same-sex. Why is it okay for Johnny to jack off quietly in the bathroom or mama to eat like a freaking pig every day but they haven't seen to their daughter in 3 years because they think being gay is a sin?

Black women should ask themselves why they are 20+ times more likely to contract HIV than their white counterparts. Is it because black men are afraid to live openly as gay men in their community and so go on living a lie with some woman they're not even attracted to? Maybe.

How many gay black and latino men are forced to be "hard" and "manly" when all their gay asses don't give a shit? I can't recall how many gay black and latino thugs, for example, I've seen in metro areas that would have been more comfortable dressed in something more stylish and talking about something other than street shit. Some guy with a Starter jacket and cornrolls looking like a 'gangsta' while repeatedly looking at me through the corner of his eyes like the queen he is is just too damn funny. I don't think it's much different for the working class - the experience at home or on the street I'm sure is much worse than just being gay. The proof? So many closeted homosexuals in black and latino communities.

"Keeping it real" my ass.

(*No, I don't mean "African-americans". I mean black people.)

from the NeW York times...

Apple Computer has retaliated against the publisher of an unauthorized biography about Steven P. Jobs, its chief executive, by removing dozens of other technology books sold by the publisher from Apple stores around the world.

Apple removed the books last week from all 104 of its stores after failing in a monthlong attempt to persuade John Wiley & Sons not to release "iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," which is to go on sale within the next six weeks, the publisher said.

The book's author, Jeffrey Young, said Mr. Jobs had nothing to fear from "iCon." It is a chronicle of Mr. Jobs's rise as an innovator and entrepreneur and includes details about his personal life, like his divorce and fight with cancer, he said.

"I thought the book was pretty positive and laudatory," Mr. Young said. "It covers his personal life and there is something about his illness. I wouldn't call any of it outrageous. I'm totally bewildered."

Mr. Young said Wiley & Sons sent a manuscript to Apple two weeks ago and the company responded by demanding that the publisher halt the release. Wiley & Sons decided instead to stand behind its author.

An Apple spokesman, Steve Dowling, said company executives were declining to comment.

Lori Sayde, a spokeswoman for the publisher, said the company would publish the biography in its entirety.

"We're hoping that they will re-evaluate their position because we have worked very hard to establish a good relationship with Apple," Ms. Sayde said.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., is known for aggressively protecting its intellectual property, as well as its image.

In December, Apple sued 25 unnamed individuals, presumably Apple employees, who are supposed to have leaked confidential product information in violation of nondisclosure agreements and the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act.

Apple then subpoenaed the Internet providers of three online journalists who wrote about the secret products, seeking to identify their sources.

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emusic.com actually paid someone to do this? 1) A teacher who tells students to go to the emusic.com website from a computer that isn't plugged in; 2) some guy with a suit and tie burning a shitload of music CDs instead of working; and 3) a couple old people who don't really look like they like any kind of music, much less know how to download

Shut the fuck up about the End of Oil. The end of public access to water is the real concern.

Are the racist Minutemen (Minutepersons, Minuteholes) still welcoming dark people into the country? How funny.. theives don't like to be stolen from. Who do they think will support their asses in their old age? Uhh... the population needs to grow, dumbfucks. They know this, but don't want people that aren't white populating their future. The future is colored, my friend, unless your learn to love your wife's fat ass and engage her more often instead of surfing for internet porn, and end up having more babies because of your pursuits.

Fucking divide Iraq into two parts already and get the hell out of there! What could be a more graceful exit solution, as there truly would be no end to the "war".

Who in power gives a real shit about deficits? Most of us are doomed anyway, economy or not. Best thing they can do is milk the system for all it's worth. Way to go!

Nice move, RIAA. Create a virus that targets music-lovers by deleting MP3 files on their computers. Er... piss off people who love music? You're so fucking stupid. Next, you'll conspire to raise CD prices. Then you'll be using bittorrent to distribute your products, just like your brothers in the movie studios are now starting to do. Is there anybody upstairs? You know which teet to suck on, bitches.

Women and men would each be lost without the other sex. A planet of women would be a whole world of bitching and competitive back-stabbing. They'd fucking go nuts! But they probably wouldn't kill each other off in 3 days like a planet full of men would. Thank goodness for the balance that the other sex provides, and for the canceling effects that homosexuals, bisexuals, and asexuals provide (without whom we'd probably have hundreds of millions more people).

Wow. Exactly 10,000 fugitives caught. All on the same day. You expect me to believe that shit?

The rich this.. the rich that. Top 1%. Bottom of my ass! Do something with your life more than picking your fucking nose and watching television shows. You can masturbate and write poetry all fucking day if you use the first 5 years out of the gate making millions of moolahs. You should know money makes our world go round and round. Or did you miss out on that lesson?

What.. is the new pope immune from investigation of his Nazi background? Somebody please wake up. I'm all for a good end-of-the-world scenario but you gotta balance out an evil man in a high position with some good. Like in the fucking movies! Rent Star Wars if you want to see how to defeat the mofo.

Would Bush and his co-conspirators come clean regarding the World Trade Center demolition? Nah.. they don't have to. Most people are so fucking stupid, they can get away with pretty much anything. They don't even have to make much effort to hide it.

Yes, Dorothy. Some people want bad things to happen to them. Just take a look around. Great learning experience, but they think "things just happen" to them. Totally out of touch with their emotions. A noble cause, if only one knew. You must have read too many fairy tales as a child, Dorothy.

War is becoming normalized. Great condition-marketing, assholes! Why don't you find a different set of friends in publishing and start a new campaign to stamp out declining rates of literacy and common sense? Oh, wait. There's more money in war. Nevermind.

The Vatican, along with its associated trash, are evil. Cover up sex abuse (ie, permit sex abuse) but tell the flock not to use condoms or have abortions under any circumstances, even in marriage? The only hell is the one they create.

What fucking idiots! Risk passengers' lives to appear on a damn television show.

"The captain acted completely appropriately, with his No. 1 interest being the safety of the passengers and crew. We were not rushing anywhere."

Dear Marc "Macromedia" Canter. Shut the fuck up!

You sold the company and made your millions. Buy the shit back if you want it so badly. Stick with names like Broadband Mechanics, the most confusing one of your new ventures.

While you're at it, use one of Marcomedia's WYSIWYG products to design yourself a new Drupal template. Your website sucks!

Shipments of dealy virii via FedEx have been occuring for years. I personally know a FedEx packaging supervisor who claims that all kinds of improperly-packaged and dangerous shipments are sent out through the carrier. Not only that, the employees open many such shipments without proper protection.

Here's an article, by the Associated Press, about the safety of such shipments.

Every day, deadly germs are shipped across the country and around the globe, right alongside the books, gourmet foods and birthday presents sent through FedEx Corp. and similar couriers.

Often their journeys can be circuitous, too.

Follow, for instance, a single vial of the potentially deadly flu virus causing a world health scare because it was included in test kits sent to more than 4,000 laboratories. It was grown in a Virginia lab, spent time in a Cincinnati freezer and passed through a small medical company on the Mexican border before it finally arrived at a Milwaukee lab.

The article continues...

Last month, a FedEx truck carrying five boxes of samples of anthrax, flu, tuberculosis, salmonella and E. coli collided with a car in Winnipeg. None of the dangerous germs escaped.

In 2003, a FedEx package containing West Nile virus exploded at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio. Firefighters suspected dry ice caused it to burst open. No one was injured, but 50 workers had to be evacuated.

...

As it turns out, most of the Cincinnati company's test kits with the 1957 bug were ultimately assembled and shipped via FedEx and DHL by Proficiency Testing Service, a tiny Meridian subcontractor in Brownsville, Texas.

Further, the article states "FedEx said its employees and customers are "rigorously trained" to handle dangerous biological material and federal laws and company policy mandate packages be clearly labeled and properly packaged."

That's simply not true.

These shipments were sent over 5 months ago. A couple of countries (no telling how many shipments) say they did not receive the shipments. Don't FedEx and DHL offer international tracking? Wouldn't they be able to track a package of peanuts sent from the US to Lebanon or Mexico over five months ago?

I almost shit myself when I saw the list of nominees for the next Webby Awards.

Flickr is nominated in the Best Blog category. Flickr is not even a blog.

Google is nominated under the "Best Practices" category. That's funny...

Google is also nominated in the "Best Navigation/Structure" category. They have no navigation. There's no one way to navigate to all of their sites and modules. They still want simplicity over usability, even though you'd be hard-pressed to access their products directly from their main page.

Fortune is in the Best Financial Services category. Their site is not a financial services site. Their commodity is information.

And I didn't know AdCritic and Alternet.org were magazines. They're nominated in the Magazines category.

Does anyone at Webby Awards think about this stuff or is Jake and his girlfriend running the shit from his garage?

Awesome.. here's one way to rid the world of lots of people. Kill 'em all! The Pope's tomb will soon be open to tourists. Fuckers hold nothing sacred. If they're doing it the true Italian way, they will charge an admission fee. What else to do with a church that's quickly losing relevance in modern society? Milk it for what it's worth. Perhaps the next black Pope will bring the soul back to the church. People are funny. Lexis/Nexis has enabled quasi-public access to their massive database of consumer names, addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, criminal records, and other juicy details for years. If you worked in a law office, accounting office, or any other office with access you could literally find out anything on anyone. I have discovered that most people don't give a shit about much of anything. They have never learned how to use their brains. Sad. Somebody is too damn lazy to fix "the lazyweb". Get off your ass and stop the horde of blank posts. Yeah, but people are still too polite to take a shit while talking on the phone. Really, I'd rather hear a strange echo than listen to you breathing heavily, sweat dripping all down over the receiver. Would Jackson please kill himself already? That's the story we're all waiting for. Are they fucking suprised? Idiots. I'm actually hoping that one and the Lake Toba supervolcano will go off shortly. Perhaps then we'll all stop Ok. So the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sucks. So what? It's not your movie to begin with. Come up with your own damn work of art. So now the bitch is a prolific Amazon affiliate. At least the books don't suck like the website. Funny, people still want to kiss his ass. Or, is it shock from being raped? Where's my porn podcast? I wouldn't listen to any of it but it's the only way internet technologies will rapidly evolve - cause people are more enthusiastic about having an orgasm than improving the internet landscape for the sake of it. (Fucking web elitists.) You actually read this shit? Do you expect me to wipe your ass and cook your dinner? Get off the fucking internet and go outside before they close it down! You don't want to be like these dumbfucks who think being on the web is an obligation. You'll still be cool if you don't know what's going on this very second.

People are so funny when they get angry at this blog (like the good folks at Threatwatch*) for being this blog.

The purpose of HowNotToBlog is to not think like other blogs, not blog like other blogs, and not make merry like other blogs. If you want just another blog there are plenty to choose from (8,436,170 by Technorati's count). If you're looking for someone to more or less agree with your position (or at least be modest if they don't) and rock the boat only rarely and slightly, then this is not the place to validate your existence. Anything else would, to me, be a waste of time.

I want to bust your system wide open, you passive biased keyboard-hugger. If you don't want to use your brain give it to someone who will. You should want to re-create your world, too, and introduce some chaos into the mix. Without chaos, there is no evolution. We'd all look the same and be cursed with millions of diseases, each. Unfortunately, your egos, cliques and protected communities get in the way of timely change - you all blog the same. Most bloggers are too busy kissing one-anothers' asses and being polite. I call it blog incest. You have too much invested in current methods to rapidly realize new ones. So, when you see something new and/or different you automatically group with the community mindset - if the communities in which you are involved are ignoring it then you are very likely to ignore it, too. It works for you, but where is the original thought?

I'd rather shit 100 times and have 2 rubies come out of my ass than just be constipated with no insight other than what other people are thinking. It's no wonder that this article was popular - because so many people agreed with it. It's gotten so bad that most people just assume that if you blog you are a white male around a certain age, living in the US or UK, who blogs the same as do they, would link to the same locations, and pretty much thinks along the same lines. The funny thing is, no one sees anything wrong with this. It's like television in the 1950's. It breeds the kind of environment that produced what my original post was about.

Many great and wonderful things are born out of chaos, the unexpected, and the simply different. I will continue to fuck things up where you refuse to because you're too damn comfortable.

If every blog were like this one, the blogosphere would surely be in bad shape. But if there were no blogs like this one, the same holds true.

*it's a good community blog that I read several times a day. That would make me a member of the Threadwatch community, by their definition. I'm sure, though, that they think that all of their readers share the same views. But they would never be able to see it this way, which is why no universes will be birthed under their watch.

Is Google really wasting so much time on 'cool projects' like RideFinder that are ultimately not useful?

Could the service be any more useless than it is? Sure, the concept is a workable one. But get it right. Don't just show me a small portion of available taxis. (There's no way that Chicago has only 100 or so taxis, all of them on the North side of town.) And it's impractical to show taxis in New York, so it shows shuttles. What about showing buses and trains, something even more useful than a few taxi locations? Heck, you could even show buses and trains in New York.

Google's sneaky advertising will get them in trouble. It can't be more than a few bucks they're getting from the taxi companies. If they're trying to develop something that the internet community actually needs, they're not succeeding. In a desperate attempt to outshine Yahoo, they've recently doubled storage capacity for their GMail service. They could easily outshine Yahoo or Hotmail even more by making GMail available to the general public, rather than just the web elite. (GMail turns 1 year old in April.) If they're keen on continuing to distance themselves from everyday people (such as Yahoo isn't), they could at least start to love RSS.

The other projects in Google Labs are at least worthy of some development. But to use PhD brainpower on how to best find a few taxis in Phoenix rather than how they're going to kick Yahoo's ass is plain stupid.

In continuance of the Jason Kottke saga*, today we find Elliot Back's analysis of just how lazy the dude has become.

The "now-a-full-time blogger" is actually posting less than he was when he was only a part-time blogger.

As I've been saying all along, folks, it's all a sham. Milk users' pocketbooks for his pathetic cause then introduce "friendly" advertising in a month or so after. Do people really expect him to "experiment" with blogging full time, surviving only on the kindness of user donations (which, by my calculations have added up to a little over $20,000 for this begging season - it'll be much less next season), and still being able to keep up with his Manhattan digs and life in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

*the blogger who quit his job to blog full time. See:

Kottke looks to BoingBoing for inspiration
The Kottke Saga part IX-573
Kottke's Begging Goes Corporate...slowly
Begging... I mean blogging

If Yahoo! wants to maintain its family image past its purchase of Flickr, then it should do something about all the x-rated photos on the site that are easily-accessible.

Meanwhile, my photos (as a new user) are still waiting to be approved. They're checking to see if I'm posting x-rated photos and/or advertising!

Here's the bullshit:

Russell Crowe's new album has failed to gain a position in the midweek charts, after selling just 156 copies in the UK.

His record company says Crowe had not wanted to make a big marketing push for the release of the album, Clarity, by his band Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts.

A spokesman for his label Resolution/Gruntland Records said Russell is not interested in over-hyping or marketing his music.

Didn't want to market it? A talented actor that's also entirely full of himself? Maybe it didn't sell because the album sucks. Albums from the 1920's outrank his newest at Amazon.

See for yourself.

Story from Ananova

de.lirio.us is a del.icio.us clone, announced by Steve Mallet.

What's really sweet about this is that you can include a long
detailed note with each post in addition to a one line description. That becomes your blog post.. if you want or just leave it for folks to read.

Can't anyone think of anything new?

The April '05 issue of Wired magazine wonders, "What If Every Kid Had a Computer?"

The article goes on about how a $100 laptop would be so good for the world's kids. The is a project being worked on by MIT Media Lab, AMD, Google, and NewsCorp. The $100 Laptop site at MIT and the article itself talks a lot about specs, and not enough about fundamentals like, who really wants this crap? These people are so enamoured of their own technology and spreading their genius across the world that they haven't bothered much to think their dream through.

They say:

Why is it important for each child to have a computer? What's wrong with community-access centers?
One does not think of community pencils?kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics. A computer can be the same, but far more powerful. Furthermore, there are many reasons it is important for a child to "own" something?like a football, doll, or book?not the least of which being that these belongings will be well-maintained through love and care.

How can so many supposedly smart people think of such stupid shit? I knew Google had to be involved somewhere.

Littering the world with cheap laptops will create a hell of a lot more problems than it solves. Nevermind the toxic waste from discarded computers (there would be a countless number of old and broken computers - have you ever given poor children a high tech device?), the support logistics would be near-impossible on such a bound-to-break-soon device. And who would translate the OS and other apps into their language? Or does every child in this dream speak English?

Their assumption is that kids who would benefit most from these computers "have their own pencils", have a reliable supply of electricity (and the money to pay for the extra usage), and are actually interested in such devices. Many of the "1.8 billion children" don't even know how to read and write, much less have the mental architecture, a lot worse than uncle George, to use a computer. And many kids do not have access to writing instruments, much less books. I suppose they'd just automatically know how to use a laptop if it fell into their lap. Have they actually spent time in poor communities and done their market research?

Or do their superior asses assume that every child would want a laptop and use it for whatever it's intended for (or have they figured that out yet?)

Cultures such as ours that are based on technology assume, without thinking, that everyone else could use what they benefit from.

Here's the secret... Poor people in developing countries don't want laptops. They don't really give a shit about high tech wizardry. Outside of those who might use technology for business, they actually don't want high tech. They want to be like the rich, white people they see on television. It's sad, but it's mostly true. The mindset is so bad, black-colored gadgets don't even sell well compared to their lighter counterparts.

If you're talking about black and latino kids in the US and their poor white cousins, that's a different story. But much of what I'm saying holds true in their case, too. (What do I know? I've worked and lived with them.)

Have you ever been in an internet cafe in a third-world country? I have observed hundreds of mostly unsupervised kids on computers. They don't 'surf the net' or 'discover knowledge' or 'send email'. They play games. They all play lots of games. All day if you'd let them. And these are kids that can actually afford the $1 or so per hour for computer usage. The poorer kids don't even go to school (usually, their parents can't afford the direct or indirect costs). So, they basically work the greater portion of the day. Did these guys fit that into their equation?

"Poor" and "Knowledge seeking" does not compute. Some great learning is happening in many poorer communities, some revolutionary, but they're the exception.

Most poor kids wouldn't know what to do with a laptop. In under a month, it's almost guaranteed that half the shit would be lost, stolen, or broken. Laptops are extremely sensitive devices that need constant repair. Nevermind the lifecycle of a battery, where would a poor child keep a laptop safely?

Bill Gates seems to be the only one with some original sense. His foundation actually wants to help developing countries where its needed most. What good is a child on a laptop (with no electricity, perhaps) if they're not going to live past 20? What good is a "$100 laptop" if it's $95 too much, or the child doesn't even know how to read?

Why don't these companies just admit that what they really want to do is ready the next generation of consumers (from developing countries, now that the rich world is saturated) with their products?

If you're that concerned with spreading the God-given right to technology to the unblessed, then build some cellular networks where there's little phone or transportation service. People will rent, share, or purchase their own cheap phones, provided the market is liberalized. The users' economic status will grow over time. Then, they can decide for themselves what kind of technology would most benefit their kids. I'm guessing it would be the kind of education that isn't done via computers.

What.. does Wired feel obligated to have a "blog", since it is at the forefront of offline online reporting?

Is it just me, or is the server that their blog subdomain rests on always slow? If it's not slow, it surely is pathetic. Have only their writers (or, ghostwriters?) Leander Kahney and Bruce Sterling not forgotten about this place?

Besides that, the wiredblog.com domain was dropped a few days ago. It was picked up by someone through the Pool.com backordering service for $60+. Wired could have had a happening tech blog & community there, but I guess they'll have to settle for their weekly porn updates.

They say:

...As a new site feature, these blogs will grow and develop into living, breathing areas for the exchange of links, thoughts, and information.

As time goes on, we'll be adding new features, blogs, and authors, so come back often to find out what our writers are up to!

Bullshit.

That would be like this blog promising to enable comments and become a 'real' blog. (What am I, crazy?)

I have lost all respect for Gizmodo, Nick Denton's popular gadget blog.

Since receiving $75,000 from Sony late January for a 3 month sponsorship deal on Lifehacker, Nick's other blog, Gizmodo, has never been the same.

Sony-related articles on Gizmodo already number 21 for March, and there are still 11 days to go in the month. Last month, the count was 19. January showed 15 and December showed 9. And that's not including the non-article advertising.

In comparison, Gizmodo has 8 Apple-focused articles, 6 Nokia, and 4 for Windows & Microsoft.

Is Sony really that good? The articles seem to suggest that. But, really, the company has lost its bearings. The only good thing going for it is its game console and portable coming out. They are actually revolving around pretty-stupid, in my onion, and can't seem to figure out much.

I've visited Lifehacker once, and once was enough. A tech blog sponsored by a billion-dollar tech company just doesn't seem right.

Gizmodo is the slut that tastes funny. Read more about Nick selling out to corporate interests. (Too bad he couldn't even secure his own name as a dot-com. And dot-slut isn't yet available.) Get some style, Nick.

Engadget is a much better site for gadget/tech. At least it doesn't make your eyes hurt.

I've always wondered why the old women to old men ratio was so high. Obviously, it's because women generally live longer. But why?

A longevity expert recently said that women are almost six times as likely to live to 100 than men because of their bleeding out iron when they menstruate. (Article)

"Iron is a critical factor in our cell's ability to produce those nasty molecules called free radicals that play an important role in ageing," Dr Perls, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University, said outside the conference. "It may be as simple as having less iron in your body."

So, actually, my recommending to my girlfriend that she take iron supplements to make up for its loss during menstruation could actually be shortening her life! Excellent. I don't want anyone else sucking on her wrinkled breastisis when I'm dead. The doc didn't do a study on men with iron-poor diets, like Peter Pan, to see how long they usually live. I wouldn't be surprised if people like that lived to be 130.

A guy with a good book says that Women invented the concept of time. It is quite natural that they would have a better relationship with it that men do.

It's a fucking conspiracy, I tell you!

Terry Schiavo.. who the fuck cares???

Why doesn't Trump stop over-promoting himself and admit that he's been bankrupt since I was 20 years old? Tacky bitch has no sense of style.. gold everywhere. Shit, save some money and shut the hell up. Who is he trying to impress? He actually looks better with his toupee on.

Speaking of rusty toupees.. you would think Bill Gates could afford a better toupee. It looks pretty darn good from the front. Just don't look at it from the side. That's a dead giveaway that no one ever mentions because we're all in awe of his vast fortune.

Did you ever stop to wonder if the Japanese originally came from another planet? I mean.. their bodies are shaped so much differently (look at their legs). And everyone knows that Tokyo is really a city modeled after their technologically-advanced homeworld. Or maybe it's us that are the aliens with big glands from planet Alphabet Soup 9.

Black comedians: shut the fuck up about being black. Fat comedians. Same to you. We know you're black or fat. So what? Are you that uncomfortable? Tell me something original.

I swear.. if you look into Bush's eyes you'd think you were looking at a psycho crackhead. Are his eyes crossed, or something, or is he just that high on schizo meds?

People's televisions should automatically self-destruct if left on for more than 3 hours at a time.

Forget about charity for poor children in other countries. Eat me! That's the breaks. That kind of charity just encourages poor societies as a whole to not be responsible for their offspring. If you saw the way they treated their own kids, you wouldn't give shit, either. If you can't provide for your kids, don't have them. Your roaches aren't my problem. Let's think about poor grandma and grandpa next door who we seem to have negleted in favor of those cute little dirty kids in foreign countries. Many of them live in horrible conditions and are physically abused, not to mention starving. Let's not treat them too well, though. We don't want to encourage society to put out more of them.

Ben Affleck is going to be penniless in 10 years. And I'm going to laugh my fucking head off. Bling bling!

Where's my Virgin Galactic lottery ticket? I don't mind paying $20 for a chance to win a trip to outer space. Dumb-ass entrepreneurs, always waiting for someone else to think of good ideas.

Cousin Arnold. You and your wife, Maria, have been planning your 2008 presidency ever since you two met. I admire your long-view approach. But stop using language from your fucking films. This isn't Hollywood anymore.

Following up to the article yesterday about how Google should include more of its offerings on its main page, apparently they had this up in their Google Labs for a short while, according to tuaw.

The bottom of the page read:

"Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you."

Is it really that hard for them to come up with something original, or are they really not copying Apple but Microsoft?

While we await blogger-turned-beggar Kottke to psyche everyone out and announce his advertisers, we must first congratulate him on being #4 Yahoo result for "begging blog". (When he's sleeping his ranking falls to #6.)

As Jason "Sally Struthers" Kottke mentions in the note section of the PayPal form:

In considering an amount, try $30 on for size. It's $2.50/mo. over a year and it'll qualify you for one of the nifty gifts being given away. For you, $2.50 is a coffee in the morning, a magazine at the newsstand, or a beer at the pub but in the aggregate, it will help me immensely. But any amount -- from $5 to several hundred million dollars -- is welcome and appreciated.

So, anyone searching for a begging blog will surely find him.

I'm surprised my dirty mouth hasn't inadvertantly made HNTB the #1 result for "asshole blog".

Come to think of it.. Google needs to go back to its "beta" days. It needs to figure out how to be smart again.

blog comment spam
they can't seem to figure this one out. Duh! Ignore the 'name' part of the comment. A billion-dollar company shouldn't suffer the same problem as a Daypop or a Feedster.

autolink
...still not communicating to the webmaster community, and the internet community as a whole. As I mentioned before, signs of Google's self-destruction. Why would you simply not care to uphold and maintain the integrity of your near-perfect reputation? That is googolistically illogical.

irrelevant results
somewhat excusable, considering the hard work is a machine's job. but how about a Craigslist-type "relevant?" feature on the results page (a tiny button would work) that lets the community filter out spam or simply irrelevant results?

the 3 month wait
new websites generally have to wait 3 months to be shown in Google's search results. They've gotten a bit better at this, but there's still a long way to go. This site is already visited by over 100 people per day and isn't even 3 weeks old yet. By the time it shows up on Google I may have retired already. There are lots of other websites worth visiting that you won't know about until a few months from now. Yahoo is a new site's friend. Being #1 and #2 for a mis-spelled search term isn't bad, indeed.

fear of clutter
because Google wants to stick to its clutter-free look, you actually have to dig for many of the services that Google offers. Not only is there this but there's also this. Not to mention Zeitgeist They forget that most users aren't geeks and haven't memorized all of its useful functions. Mom doesn't know about any of it. Neither does little Johnny, for that matter.

the competition
kicking ass. Yahoo will prevail, simply because of its more human element. (The element that makes everything more useful.) To me, Google is just a faceless machine with no personality. Google is just inspiration. Nobody uses the Betamax anymore.

Hundreds of PhDs at Google. I guess 95% just sit around all day picking their noses and jacking each-other off.

Google needs more than just Adwords as a cash cow. Yahoo has figured this out, fortunately. The market may not be so forgiving of Google if its Adwords revenues take a dive when its first-it-is-laughed-at replacement comes along. I'm sure most advertisers won't like its new format. I know I won't.

Send Google back to its own labs for a re-work. Let me know when it's ready.