August, 2007

Baby Snakes

Does this baby food packaging depict some kind of lizard baby? Is that a baby snake tongue flicking out? Is it sensing danger, or its prey? I'm going to have nightmares.

On the upside, it led me to rediscover the song that taught me what SMPTE stands for.

Techdirt: Law Firm Freaks Out That Ridiculous Corporate Song Leaked Out To Blogs

Thanks to Brian for the link. Techdirt: Law Firm Freaks Out That Ridiculous Corporate Song Leaked Out To Blogs:

I must admit that there's something fascinating (in the 'train wreck' sense) to me about corporate songs and anthems. It's amazing how many of them there are out there, and I'm disappointed that ZDNet UK gave up its old chart that supposedly tracked the popularity of those songs. While these songs are both awful and entertaining at the same time, you really wouldn't have expected there to be a copyright battle over one of them showing up on a blog... except, of course, if the song was about a law firm. Denise Howell points out that the Above the Law blog posted a horrifyingly awful song from the law firm Nixon Peabody. While you might think that any firm that would create a song that bad must have a sense of humor, it appears that Nixon Peabody not only didn't mean for the song to be funny, but they're taking the matter so seriously they're threatening Above the Law with copyright infringement. Of course, as the guy who runs the site notes, he has a pretty strong fair use defense on using the song (which the folks at Nixon Peabody apparently go to great lengths to claim is not a 'theme song' since it bizarrely goes against New Jersey's rules of professional conduct for lawyers to advertise themselves with music).

Funniest Sad Thing (Saddest Funny Thing)

I have discussed it with each member of the LM/AT/sg household and a panel of foreign policy experts, and this is the saddest thing on all of the internets: [It's the hardest call a little boy ever has to make.]

God has a Posse

Minister calls for death prayers over IRS complaint | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Religion:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A California minister who used church stationery and an Internet radio program to endorse former Gov. Mike Huckabee for president is asking his followers to pray for the deaths of those who filed a complaint against him with the Internal Revenue Service.

Bad News, Indeed

One hopes, of course, that by the time sg reaches...


One hopes, of course, that by the time sg reaches an age at which the contents of this website hold some interest for her, the citizens of the world will have learned how to behave themselves on the internet. If so, this image is presented as a brief summary of the contemporary state of affairs.

Net Monkey's Notes

Net Monkey

It's a Mean Thing to Say; Is It True?

Compiler - Wired Blogs:

Facebook, Netvibes and Meebo all launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites this week, and all three of them are very nice. But wasn’t one of the promises of the iPhone that it offered “a real web browser?” If that's so, why all the iPhone-optimized sites? And why are these sites being optimized for the iPhone specifically and not just “mobile optimized?”

The iPhone is Internet Explorer 4 all over again.

Don’t Dream It’s Over : Left Unsaid on Offsprung.com

You know why LM and AT are lucky? They're lucky because in this internet age there are so very many high quality parenting resources on the web.

Don’t Dream It’s Over : Left Unsaid on Offsprung.com:

Hey Kids,

There 2_a6c802c0e91846724d4c6893a80a885aare some things about that new CD we’ve been playing in the car that I haven’t told you about. Yeah, that’s right, the new Crowded House. For one, I didn’t mention that you actually know their drummer Paul Hester. He played Paul the Cook on The Wiggles! He seemed like a really fun, wacky guy. But then he killed himself. With a rope. That’s called suicide, and it’s a drag.

Or maybe it is sg who is lucky.

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Ray's Balding

I'm like, "This ain't nothin'. I can comb it here and there, the spot's small, I can cover it no problem." But that's denial.

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  • aquariumdrinker: @sgazzetti what's the recurring criminal activity? (If you don't mind my asking.)

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  • aquariumdrinker: I Am Russia, and My Parties Are Legendary http://ff.im/-5f3e

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  • aquariumdrinker: @sgazzetti I think that's the secret to getting kids into just about anything. Works for Christianity, anyway.

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  • aquariumdrinker: "Georgia ranks next to last in the nation in spending on programs to discourage children from taking up smoking... re: http://ff.im/50GJ

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  • aquariumdrinker: IT has my Blackberry Bold, but it's being held captive while being tested with the system. Antsy.

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  • aquariumdrinker: Sex! Drugs! Exploitation Comics! http://ff.im/-3ntg

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  • aquariumdrinker: @RobertP Repeat after me: "it's anthropology; I'm doing anthropology."

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  • aquariumdrinker: listening to "Cough Coughing - Menomena" "Be careful who you tease;... http://ff.im/-36dN

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  • Cough Coughing – Menomena
    "Be careful who you tease; there's an easy chair on the chopping block"
    Listen to it at blip.fm

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  • aquariumdrinker: Will I ever be called on to justify Death Cab for Cutie playcounts to my daughter? Would I be able to?

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  • aquariumdrinker: @RobertP Taking the battery out is magic. It fixes everything. Rebooting takes a while.

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  • aquariumdrinker: Retweeting @erikras: This is just what the world needs: an Obama poo doll. http://is.gd/6u1B [so it's a compliment or something?]

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