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And the award for worst promotional toy design ever goes to: Coca-Cola.

I just manually applied a patch to a company mail server that was getting bogged down sending bounce-backs to a spammer whose yahoo.com quota was full. Now, why Yahoo was sending a non-fatal error, which was causing us to keep the message in a queue to try to deliver later, for a user’s quota being full is beyond me. Free e-mail providers are a bastion of spammers, they should be required to make errors like that fatal. In any case, I’m feeling pretty spry now. :-D

According to this article Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, otherwise known as the Iraqi Information Minister, was recently featured in an ad for Irish budget airline Ryanair. Click “more” to get a look at the ad itself.
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Good morning, fine and gentle readers. May I direct your attention to gooselady.neorants.com, gooselady’s new home in cyberspace. Yes, she’s virtually shacking up with me here at neorants.com since her old home at gooselady.net was foreclosed on. I encourage you to visit and enjoy her ramblings, and perhaps encourage her to understand that while it may be hideously ugly, the apostrophe is her friend. ;)

So yesterday Apple announced the new iPods and iTunes 4, which allows you to purchase music tracks encoded in AAC format (MPEG 4 audio, ostensibly better quality in less file size than MP3) for 99 cents a pop. Let me just start out by saying that I want a 30 GB iPod. Somebody rich needs to buy me one. As for the music service and iTunes 4, you can have a look here for what the analysts (who supposedly are “qualified” to make broad, sweeping statements about the advisability of any given course of action for any company) have to say, or you can click “more” for my take.
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See my results from the personality disorder test by clicking “more.”
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Steve Martin has always been cool in my book (not that his status in my book makes a bit of difference to him nor anyone else) but I’ve just gained a new appreciation for the man. In this article, it mentions that he was asked “what really happened backstage at the Oscars when Michael Moore gave his famous antiwar tirade.” Martin’s response, regarding a line he quickly thought up but unfortunately decided not to use: “I was gonna say, ‘Be sure to buy Michael Moore’s book, “Stupid White Men,” which is evidently an autobiography.’ ”
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Last night I saw Most Extreme Elimination Challenge for the first time. This show is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. It’s actually a wacky-physical-stunts-type game show from Japan that has been licensed then dubbed over in English, a la Iron Chef, but while Iron Chef is unintentionally funny (to me anyway), this is deliberately funny, as the dubs aren’t actually translations of what’s being said. I just kept thinking, “it’s like the MST3K of game shows,” which is a good thing. Anyway, It had gooselady and I cracking up. It’s airing at 9:00 Saturday nights and 8:00 Sunday nights on TNN.

This innovative scientific theory is from Brain of Brian: “When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.”