heh, server side <blink>. (via the Brain).

a heavily-loaded web server may not be able to respond to blink requests efficiently, which will slow down the perceived blink rate. One work-around to this would be to use a high-capacity blink server farm.

things got really wild when a dalmation pulled out the amyl nitrate...

Christian Student Sues For Right To Hate Speech

"If we don't protect freedom of speech, how will we know who the assholes are?" -Louis Neprud, Systems Analyst, The Onion

I had in interesting conversation this weekend about the new wave of video web sites/services that are popping up everywhere. We talked a bit about the viability of web video, and what people are willing to do on the internet besides read. It seems to me that anything longer than a minute or two of embedded video is too long, as I'm hesitant to sit through anything that's longer than a few moments (except porn, I'll slog through hours of low quality web porn. Don't let them fool you, the Arpanet was initially developed to create a robust network for science geeks to move porn around the globe).

All that said, what I enjoy about services like YouTube is the view into the lives and ideas others. It becomes a strange portal into the human condition. Truth is stranger than fiction, and it becomes evident when watching low grade video clips on the web. Web video tends to lean towards oddity more than anything, and there is something both interesting and disturbing about much of what can been seen out there.

Ok, enough banter, this was all just an excuse to show Shatner "performing" Rocket Man. If you have never seen this, well, you are in for a strange little treat (Mind you, Tam has never been able to watch this all the way through, something about how she becomes too embarrassed for Shatner, and has to look away).

I received a comment spam today. It was manually entered by a living, breathing human being. I don't really have any commentary, just thought you should know.

And not really related, The Spam Mobile.

Finally, Spam and the (Tampa) Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF), could you ask for more?

"Helping you find where other people aren't"

I'm not ashamed to say it, he makes me feel good inside.

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Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man during a quail-hunting trip in Texas, the vice president's office said.

After wounding a man with a shotgun, Cheney dragged him to the ground, pulled out his still beating heart, and savagely devoured it before the man was dead, sources have stated.

Cheney must renew his "life force" periodically by eating the still beating heart of a virgin, or when a virgin heart is unavailable, a lawyer.

Reportedly, the Vice President will now be able to walk in the daylight for up to thirty days without fear of the suns rays searing his bluish pale skin.

A Yahoo News photo of a Cyclops Kitten born with one eye and no nose. (via bo)

I think the appropriate term is perceptually challenged.

update: Tam calls bullshit, as cats don't open their eyes for a few days after being born, and the article notes that the cat lived for just one day. Quote the vet tech, "That may be a real kitten, but they doctored that eye."