WhatUpWilly: It's one set of buns and ONE HUNDRED meat patties and ONE HUNDRED pieces of sweaty-oily cheese in between the buns.

Thanks John!

http://whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100x100.html

I can't believe I'm this good. I always thought I was a lot more evil.

http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/

Some people don't like Google. Personally, I think they don't like Google for the same reason we sometimes don't like Microsoft, that is, success. The desire to knock people off the pedestal we've put them on must be one of the fundamental instincts of humanity. The latest strike against Google is really stupid. Anybody who actually thinks Google is evil because their Google.cn Website is censoring content, is not considering the entire truth. The entire truth, would include the alternative. You see, Google.cn didn't exist last week. It's a new server. In order for Google to host a Chinese Google, they have to abide by Chinese rules. This includes censoring some content that I'm sure Google would prefer was available to Chinese citizens. If they didn't censor that content, then their wouldn't be a Google.cn available to the Chinese. Think about that. The alternatives are Google.cn censored or no Google.cn at all. Which would you prefer? If you say none at all, then please explain why nothing is better than censored content, cause that doesn't make any sense to me. Note also that Google.com hasn't changed. You can still get the uncensored content on Google.com. And Google.cn provides links all over the place to the uncensored Google.com. The naysayers are not mentioning these facts, because it pretty much invalidates their entire argument. MHO.

A (really bad) music video based on the failed E.T. game for the Atari game console.

http://www.keithschofield.com/et/std.html

You know how dogs often look like their owners. Brad Pitt does the same.

http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/27/brad_pitt_is_a_chameleon.html

Getaway in Stockholm is the some of the best car video on the Web.

• Trailer 6
• Trailer 5
• Trailer 4
• Trailer 3
• Trailer 1 & 2

http://www.getawayinstockholm.com/

OneOfTheLads Carwash is one of those flash applets where you can ask the girls in the video to do whatever you want. Too funny!

http://www.oneofthelads.com/

I know you'll think I'm joking, but there really is a University of Moron.

http://www.unimoron.edu.ar/

Rebecca MacKinnon: [Google] has agreed to actively censor a new Chinese-language search service that will be housed on computer servers inside the PRC. Everybody and their dog is reporting on this new development.

http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/01/google_in_china.html

Doug Payton: Does capitulating to a communist government that doesn't want inconvenient facts to be known by its citizens fit in that code? [cut] Does filtering search results rise to the level of being truly "evil".

http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/01/google-capitulates-to-china.html

Randy: I didn't really want to blog this, but everybody seems to think its important. It's not. Google is not censoring results where those results were previously available. Google is not censoring results where those results are not going to continue to be available elsewhere. It's just a new version of Google that respects the wishes of the Chinese government. Google is not evil. The Chinese government maybe. Enough said. Enough time wasted.

Audio is not worksafe, girlfriend safe, wife safe or kid safe.

CNN: A 7-year-old girl was shot in the arm at a day-care center Tuesday after an 8-year-old classmate brought in one of his father's guns and it accidentally went off, authorities said. [cut] The father has an extensive criminal record dating to the 1960s, according to court documents.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/24/md.child.shot.ap/index.html

Randy: And I'm sure the NRA has something to say about this.

Chris McKinstry: Exctly like this.

http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2006/01/so-what-exacty-does-web-suicide-note.htm

Randy: I'm not a fan of suicide. My eldest daughter has lived thru two of her friends losing their fathers. That's the thing. It's not just about you. You have children, wives, girlfriends, siblings, parents and friends. What of them?

And you thought your SUV was sucking too much gas. Image how many gallons per mile this guy gets.

click here to enlarge

About: Join Virgin.net Broadband and we'll send you a free £10 PayPal coupon to use on eBay.

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I'm unsure if these are valid or not, then were left in my blog comments. If you try them and find out, then please respond in my comments or by email with your successes.

Coupon Code: p3l8h5p5
Coupon Value: 10.00% Discount
Coupon Currency: U.S. Dollars 

• Date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED
• Time: 6:30 - 8:00, drinks to follow for those interested
• Location: Radiant Core, Inc., 171 East Liberty St. Suite 253 (in Liberty Village, near King and Dufferin)

Sign up here.

http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/TorCampDemoCamp2SignUpHere

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Rosa Say: What do the truly great managers of our world believe in?

1. Managers believe that people are innately good.
2. Managers believe they do not work on their people, they work with them; they enable and empower them.
3. ...

Randy: I should forward this one to a few of my x-managers :-)

Voting for the 6th Annual Weblog Awards (a.k.a. The Bloggies) has begun. Congrats to Photojunkie (Best Canadian and Best Photography blog), Daily Does of Imagery (Best Canadian blog) and of course, Boing Boing (Best Group blog, Lifetime Achievement and Blog of the Year).

http://2006.bloggies.com/

More here.

AP: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the maker of the BlackBerry in the long-running battle over patents for the wildly popular, handheld wireless e-mail device.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10989832/

Randy: I find it hilarious that the U.S. courts continue to rule against RIM and push them into settlement, even though the preliminary patent reviews indicate that NTP patents are invalid. In other words, the U.S. legal system allows you to file invalid patents and force settlements, as long as the patent office doesn't discover they are invalid before your court date. Man, I really gotta join in this money game. The U.S. patent system is degrading into a joke.

Let me go thru the reasoning with everybody on why and who I'm voting for in the Canadian elections.

• Liberals - Corruption. If I vote for them, then I'm saying it's OK to be a corrupt politician.
• Conservatives - Modern Day Bigots. They believe in taking away the rights of women to have abortions and gays to marry. I simply can't vote for somebody who want to impose their beliefs on others.
• NDP - Just got a phone call from them. Automatic dialer and message. The personal touch. I like Jack Layton more than any other NDP leader, but I don't buy things from telemarketers, nor do I vote for them.

I really hope there's a 4th party worth voting for. I heard the Green party is good. Right now, it's likely 50-50 that I even bother voting for these idiots.

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Next time you are shopping at the Bay or Zellers or Home Outfitters, cash this coupon in for 10 bonus air miles.

http://ecampaigns.airmiles.ca/117_ESummary58/E58NAHBCRXSHE_P.htm

Cats Rocking on Flash!

http://www.rathergood.com/vines/

Howard Mintz: The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13657386.htm

Randy: Lot's being made about this news. Privacy rights. The Internet is for porn. But everybody is ignoring the real issue; making the Internet safe for kids. I'm often horrified, when I find my own Website can be used to find porn. I'm not talking pictures of half nude women, I'm talking the bad stuff. At some point, the pervasiveness of the Internet is gonna collide with the protection of children. Screw privacy rights!

Alex: I can confirm that MillionDollarHomepage.com has been subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by malicious hackers who have caused the site to be extremely slow loading or completely unavailable since last Thursday, 12th January 2006. I can also confirm that a demand for a substantial amount of money was made which makes this a criminal act of extortion.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/blog.php

Randy: One scammer scams another? Too funny! These MillionDollarHomepages are quite the scam. In a year or two, you'll start to hear from the idiot that actually bought pixels. They'll start complaining that the site is down, not working properly or just plain not getting enough hits. At that point, we can point our fingers at them and say "Ha! Ha! Told you so."

A couple funny Google Robot articles.

1. http://blog.outer-court.com/googlerobot/
2. http://www.ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol.html

Enough already, what about me?

http://www.iiiiiiii.com/

Clicking this link will empty your C drive.

http://www.command.com/

This Bigfoot footage is truly moving video.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/files/mk_davis_pgf.gif

1. "Nobody's going to read your blog unless there's something in it for them." -Seth Godin.
2. "Nobody's going to link to your blog unless there's something in it for them." -Hugh MacLeod

PR: iotum announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation magazine has named iotum’s Relevance Engine as a recipient of its prestigious 2005 “Product of the Year” Award.

http://www.iotum.com/news_01162006.php

Randy: Congrats Alec and team!

Hugh Macleod: "A-Listology". The study of "A-Listers", and the social dynamics that go with them. Often confused with useful and original thought.

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002176.html

Hugh Macleod has an awesomely funny list of reasons why nobody is reading what I'm blogging or your blogging. My favorite...

You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself.

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002173.html

I'll start posting naked pictures of myself next week :-p

Too funny!

I never knew what Maxim was about until today. They have the most hilarious videos on the net and gorgeous women too!

One of my readers left a classic comment in my MySpace Blocked permathread.

Holy shit. Since when did teenagers become THIS brain dead? I wasn't young that long ago (I'm 20), and I'm shocked at the morons here. Has society really tumbled this deeply into the toilet? What the fuck?!

Thirty months ago, this question was asked on dailyKOS. Tell me anything has changed. Name all the good things that Bush has done, don't stop at 3, if you get even get there. Leave your answers on the Bad Politics blog.

http://www.kbcafe.com/politics/?guid=20060112090421

The video is safe, but use an earpiece if the boss or wife is around. Too funny!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4446981554735098778

Just an exercise in blogging.

1. MySpace Backdoors
2. MySpace Blocked
3. eBay + PayPal Coupons!
4. eBay + PayPal Coupon Codes
5. KBCafe Blog Award Voting
6. Buggatti Veyron 16.4
7. NFL Playoff Predictions
8. KBCafe Blog Award Winners
9. Bell Canada Sucks!
10. Yahoo! Web Messenger

Nor girlfriend safe. Nor wife safe. Yes, watch it alone first, then you can share. Unless you are offended by sex talk, in which case, don't watch it. That said, it's really funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=61gVn8UMDck

PR: Iotum, developers of the iotum Relevance EngineTM, has been selected to participate in DEMO 2006.

http://www.iotum.com/news_01102005.php

Randy: Congrats Alec and team!

Today, I listened to the Canadian elections debate. Let's start by saying that I've been on multiple occasions a card carrying member of the Conservative party. I was also Policy Director of the Young Conservatives at the University of Windsor. Basically, we have the choice between four candidates; a separatist, a corrupt party, a modern day bigot and Jack Layton. Guess who I'm voting for?

Right now, the modern day bigot is leading in the polls, followed by the corrupt party. What are Canadians thinking? Do you really want to elect a party (Conservatives) that wants to re-open the gay marriage debate? Are you voting for them because they are buying your vote by promising $500/child? Where do you think that money comes from? It's $500 more in taxes. Got it? Are you voting for them because they are promising to cut 2% off the GST? I guess if you can't come up with real policies, you can always buy votes. I just hope Canadians don't fall for this.

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Do you remember this classic from 2003; Star Wars Kid and don't forget Star Wars Kid remix.

Dave Winer on January 8th 2001: A human being has integrity if he or she is what he or she appears to be. That's why integrity commands us to disclose conflicts, so that what we say, and who we appear to be, are in synch.

Dave Winer on October 30th 2003: Today is a big day because, with help from Andrew Grumet, we're placing the order for two new servers to run in Cambridge. This will be the new home for Scripting News, DaveNet, Weblogs.Com, basically all the non-product sites currently at UserLand. This will allow the company to focus on Manila and Radio, and allow the non-profit stuff to chart their own courses.

PR: VeriSign purchased Weblogs.com from Scripting News, Inc. for $2.3 million in cash.

Collect 15 Bonus AIR MILES® reward miles when you spend $50 or more (excluding taxes) on any single purchase at any Bay, Zellers or Home Outfitters location. Bonus Offer valid until January 31, 2006.

http://www.airmiles.ca/images/AirMiles/Campaigns/816/HBC_816_D3_Blue_Coupon_E.pdf

Larry Page of Google announced at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) a downloadable collection of software. All the software was previously available otherwise. What caught my eye is that it includes Google Earth, which last I knew was not in distribution. If you haven't checked out Google Earth, then download the Google Pack or just Google Earth.

http://earth.google.com/

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CNet has the video of Larry Page (a.k.a. Mr. Google)'s 2006 CES Keynote. Hightlights...

• Google will be offering all NBA game videos for download 24 hours after the game.
• They will also be offering a lot of great programming, including current stuff from CBS.
• The downloads will cost $0.99 or more.
• Any publishers (including indies) can make their videos available at any price.
• It's called Google Video store.
• Larry has no stage presence, but at least he had something interesting to say. Sorry Bill. 

http://news.com.com/1606-2-6022641.html

Alan Bellows: On a Saturday morning [cut], Army Air Corps bomber pilot Lt. Colonel William Smith was trying to fly his B-25 bomber through a steadily increasing fog. [cut] At 9:49 a.m, in the middle of a desperate, climbing turn, the ten-ton B-25 slammed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. [cut] The burning gasoline traveled through hallways, stairwells, and elevator shafts, reaching as far as four floors below the point of impact as the building shook.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=179

Randy: Fact or fiction? Fact. And it happened more than 50 years before a similar event brought down the more recently built twin towers.

... of Microsoft?

Andy Abramson: Here's what I know. Sources near Microsoft headquarters report that over the past few months the ex cigar smoking prexy has made trips to Microsoft headquarters and has been interviewing for the top slot as the company looks at ways to transform themselves for the future. Given the global implications of technology, having a leader that is an ex country president would be massive.

http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2006/01/clinton_in_redm.html

I wonder how the KBCafe blog network blogs and applications would fit into the Bloggies categories.

Best Web Application for Weblogs

• R-mail - http://www.r-mail.org/

Best Canadian Weblog

• iBLOGthere4iM - http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM

Best Tagline of a Weblog

• iBLOGthere4iM - http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM

Best Weblog about Politics

• Bad Politics - http://www.kbcafe.com/politics

Best Web Development Weblog

• The RSS Blog - http://www.kbcafe.com/rss

Best Topical Weblog

• Besting Adwords - http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords
• Destroy all Malware - http://www.kbcafe.com/spam

Best Group Weblog

• Bad Politics - http://www.kbcafe.com/politics

Best New Weblog

• Bad Politics - http://www.kbcafe.com/politics

Any nominations would be highly appreciated. Simply go here and fill in at least three categories.

Ian Johnston: An extraordinary "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government. [cut] The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006

Randy: Someday Captain Kirk.  Just not within 10 years.

AP: The [New York Post] reported that Graff -- who once dated Hilton's then-fiancee, Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis -- went "berserk" at the nightclub, tried to strangle Hilton and attempted to steal her diamond necklace. Graff denies the report and claims Hilton said "I'm going to destroy you" after trying to oust her from the club, according to the suit. Former Hilton publicist Rob Shuter said in a deposition that Hilton asked him to help plant the story and that he gave the paper comments attributed to himself, Hilton and anonymous sources that were dictated by Hilton.

Randy: Life of the rich and pathetic. Never hurts to get their names indexed in Google :-)

I love gapingvoid. He was nice not to say All. Subscribed

http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002140.html

Nominations for the 2006 bloggies are open. Today, I'll compile a list of blogs that I will be nominating. Feel free to make suggestions in the comments.

http://2006.bloggies.com/

Believe it or not, I get hundreds of visitors from young adults looking for help by-passing their schools filtering of the MySpace domain. These hits come from a popular query on Google; MySpace Blocked. Anyhow, I thought I'd try to enumerate a few of the methods of by-passing a school's domain block filter, maybe it'll help a few kids survived the school day while failing all their exams. There are three primary ways of by-passing such a block, whether myspace.com or other.

• Web browser proxy
• HTTP proxy
• Translation proxy

Web-browser proxy

A Web-browser proxy is a Webpage that allows you to type a URL and redirects all the responses from the blocked domain thru the proxy's domain. A list follows. I'll post a larger list in the comments.

• http://unblock.cc
• http://www.ibypass.org/
• http://www.ipzap.com/
• https://proxify.com/ https://proxify.us/ https://proxify.biz/
• http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
• http://www.attackcensorship.com/attack-censorship.html
• http://mrnewguy.com/
• http://www.unblockwebsites.com/
• http://spysurfing.com/
• https://www.the-cloak.com/anonymous-surfing-home.html
• http://www.stupidcensorship.com/
• http://www.evilsprouts.co.uk/defilter/
• http://www.bypassbrowser.com/
• http://www.proxymouse.com/
• http://www.fsurf.com/
• http://www.browseatwork.com/
• http://www.surfonym.com/
• http://www.iamnewguy.com/
• http://www.ninjaproxy.com/

Each has different features and some require you to pay to enable some features. Try them out and find which is best for you. BTW, use at your own risk. I don't warrant that these sites won't try to install some malware.

HTTP proxy

HTTP proxies tend to be more difficult to use for non-geeks and they are easily blocked by competent school IT techs. I won't explain them here, but if the Web-browser proxies don't work, then try these.

Translation proxy

The worst solution is to run the sites through a language translator. Not really a good solution because the translations tend to be awful. A list follows.

• http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=en
• http://world.altavista.com/
• http://www.worldlingo.com/en/websites/url_translator.html

Anyhow, good luck and I pray you don't fail all your exams.

Rebecca MacKinnon: On New Years Eve, MSN Spaces took down the popular blog written by Zhao Jing, aka Michael Anti. [cut] Anti is one of China’s edgiest journalistic bloggers, often pushing at the boundaries of what is acceptable. [cut] His old blog at the U.S.-hosted Blog-city is believed to have caused the Chinese authorities to block all Blog-city blogs. [cut]

http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/01/microsoft_takes.html

Robert Scoble: I do believe in a slippery slope. If they come after you today, maybe they’ll come after me tomorrow. Gotta stop this kind of stuff while we’re still talking about you.

Randy: This has nothing to do with a slippery slope. This has to do with censorship and what is right and wrong. Scoble, they will not come after you tomorrow, there's no slope. Microsoft is protecting its marketshare in the blog hosting business by censoring blogs on behalf of the Chinese government. Now, I don't blame any company for pushing the lines of ethics to better their business. That's life. Shit happens. But it's still wrong. Just like pulling support for the Gay Rights Bill was wrong. It's the same thing all over again. Microsoft has the power to be a world leader first and a business second. And I do believe their business would be better off on the side of good.

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I don't use Yahoo Desktop Search everyday, only every few weeks. Whenever I go to use it, it's hung and won't start. Rebooting doesn't help. Killing processes doesn't help. But the best part, is that it causes the Windows search to break also. I've exchanged emails with the YDS development team at Yahoo! and this problem persists after what must be more than a year. Today is the final uninstall. You might ask why I use it, if it hangs all-the-time. Truth is, when it's not hanging, it's the best desktop search on the market.

Head on over to the Accordion Guy's blog and check out Sarah Silverman singing Give the Jew Girl Toys from Jesus is Magic. Too funny! For non-Catholics and Catholics with a sense of humour.

http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/1/1578375.html

I found this logo at logoogle

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story

Darren Rowse has 10 great tips on writing a blog post.

1. Make your opinion known
2. Link like crazy
3. Write less
4. 250 Words is enough
5. Make Headlines snappy
6. Include Bullet point lists
7. Makeyour posts easy to scan
8. Be consistent with your style
9. Litter the post with keywords
10. Edit your post

And after two weeks of voting and mostly a lot of waiting, we have the winners of the 1st annual KBCafe Blog Awards. Thanks to all that voted.

How many of George W Bush's people are going to go to jail for cheating in the elections? At what point do we declare John Kerry the winner of the 2004 presidential elections?

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Cory Doctorow: For the first time in my life, I am a full-time writer. Effective today, I'm no longer an employee -- effective today, I'm a full-time, freelance word-maker. It's something I've dreamt of since I was 12 years old, and now it's a reality. Whew. Scary. It's an amazing feeling.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/01/cory_quit_his_dayjob.html

Randy: Congrats Cory!