The AFC ProBowl team that we actually care about.

That's F-ed UP! is a Website dedicated to Tom Cruice and Katherine Holmes and how f'd up they are.

http://www.thatsfuckedup.org/

All the recent Demo 2006 presentations are now available on the Demo Website, include Alec Saunder's iotum.

http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/62991.html

Did ya know, there's a Future Shop Sucks Blog?

http://futureshopsucks.com/blog/

SiliconBeat: Yahoo has filed suit against a group of seven former employees for stealing trade secrets, drawing heavily from archived Yahoo instant-messaging conversations between the group.

Randy: Let me get this straight. They planned the defection from Yahoo! using Yahoo! instant messenger, a centralized IM client controlled by their employer. What idiots! For those that don't work for Yahoo!, the Yahoo! instant messenger sends plain text messages that can easily be traced at your Internet gateway by any employer. Same goes for MSN messenger.

After watching the Olympics, I have one thing to say. That's not a backflip. This is a backflip.

One of the top searches on Google of late is NYP Tammy, which stands for Nanyang Polytechnic school student named Tammy, who had some nasty sex videos of herself make the rounds on the Internet. And of course, the parodies follow.

Check out this Microsoft ad for a next generation tablet PC product named Origami.

Austin Business Journal:  Austin Ventures LP wants to buy the rest of the shares of 724 Solutions Inc. that it doesn't already own. Austin Ventures says it offered $3.07 per share in cash. [cut] The stock of 724 Solutions closed Monday at $3.64 per share.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060227/1233934.html?.v=1

Randy: Looks like my days of laughing at 724 financial statements are nearing a quick end. The problem here is that most of the value in this company are in its loss carry forward, which Austin, as a U.S. based company could never realize. Unless they plan on quickly flipping some assets. Expect Austin to break up the company and sell the remainder (the loss carry forward and a contract programmer) to Bell Canada or similar. The value of the loss-carry-forward is several times the offer price.

PR: Balthaser Online, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has awarded the company U.S. Patent No. 7,000,180 entitled, "Methods, Systems and Processes for the Design and Creation of Rich-Media Applications via the Internet." [cut] "The patent covers all rich media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax and XAML.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/2/emw349397.htm

Randy: I plan on patenting breathing.

What if Microsoft invented the iPod?

I'm subscribed to about 400-500 feeds (I think, I didn't actually check. Laziness). Truth is most of those feeds are 99% crap. Truth is, I'm really only subscribed (read fan) to two blogs.

1. http://www.gapingvoid.com/ Rmail
2. http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ Rmail

In you are subscribed to this blog, then I assume you are also subscribed to the above. It's a virtual splicing thing (no FeedBurner required). If you aren't getting them already, then click the Rmail button to get them in your inbox.

Thanks Kevin!

Philipp Lenssen: Google Video now offers content from the National Archives.

http://video.google.com/nara.html

MC Hammer has a blog. Really! I'm not joking. Complete with AdSense.

http://mchammer.blogspot.com/

PR: Microsoft Corp. today announced it is donating $41 million in software and cash to NetHope and the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB).

Randy: Very cool!

For a quarter century, Empire Strikes Back was my favorite movie. No longer. I watched X2 X-Men United twice this last week with my kids. Now, we can't wait for X3: The Last Stand. I remember before the first X-men movie was released, I thought it could be one of the best ever. What a flop! X2 was much much much better.

http://www.r-mail.org/shopping.aspx/B0000BWVCM

CNN: Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year -- enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state's No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging out sweet cherries in value.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/17/marijuana.harvest.ap/

Randy: Did working for Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon just become cool?

Tim Bray is spreading link love.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/18/Writing-Me

PR: The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2005, computed using United States generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), was...

http://www.724.com/news/details270.asp

Randy: Actually the important news is that they finally admitted to perfecting the Big Toilet Bowl in the Sky where all investment money goes to get flushed into oblivion. It just came around. Sometimes I feel so good knowing that while I was one of the officially titled Key Employees of this company it soared as the greatest IPO in Canadian history, then management screwed me, I left and ever since it's been this big all consuming toilet bowl. Pathetic!

Garment having a buttocks cleavage revealing feature

Disclosed is a garment having a buttocks covering portion and a buttocks cleavage-revealing portion disposed at the buttocks covering portion. The buttocks cleavage-revealing portion is an opening and see-through material is disposed at the opening. The garment is a pant having leg portions depending from a waist, and the opening is disposed below the waist.

U.S. Patent #6,473,908

One of the most destructive anti-patterns in business is intellectual violence.

Intellectual Violence Antipattern happens when someone in the team tries to show off his knowledge in technology and intimidate other team members

In almost any technical meeting, only one or two individuals at the meeting will thoroughly understand the issues being discussed. Quite often those individuals will attempt to talk well above the knowledge of the other participants in order to dominate the agenda.

I've worked on many occasions with such people, but I have this inquisitive nature that reveals these people 10 minutes after I return to my desk, check the facts (thanks Google) and find they are a fraud. The problem is how to reveal their fraud to others. Pointing out single cases of untruths is usually met with "nobody's ever right 100% of the time." Repeatedly pointing out cases usually makes you look like you are the bad guy.

You gotta remember that the Web is really all about me. I really can't stand it when Dave Walker posts about del.icio.us. You know Joshua pays him $10 per post. Tell you what Dave, give me $10 and you can posts about me. It's about me and my not-for-profit Website KBCafe.com right?  And the rumour I sold KBCafe to Veritek for $5 million is 99% false.

PR: Private industry alone cannot effectively influence foreign government policies on issues like the free exchange of ideas, maximum access to information, and human rights reform, and we believe continued government-to-government dialogue is vital to achieve progress on these complex political issues.

Randy: Yahoo! is entirely correct. If the U.S. government wants Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to challenge China, then the U.S. government is free to create laws that force their hands. For instance, the U.S. government could introduce a law that prohibits a U.S. company from censoring the information about Tiananmen square and Google would have to comply. Of course, the government won't, but somehow Google should do this on their own. It's called political grandstanding.

Check out the latest installment of Googlepark.

People are stupid. Check out these tunnel accidents. When I was 20 yrs-old, I drove like that. Was I stupid!

http://www.totallycrap.com/media/tunnelaccident/

here

WFTV: Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were am-putated.

http://www.wftv.com/news/6253589/detail.html

CNN: The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/09/sex.harass.ap/

Randy: I often have to tell my kids (8, 5 and 2 yrs-old) that certain touching is not OK, but calling it sexual harassment is ... deserving of the loser of the day title. Let kids be kids and don't force them into our PC screwed up world until they really have to.

Reuters: The number of Japanese killing themselves in groups after meeting through the Internet--strangers afraid to die alone--soared to a record 91 last year, nearly double that of 2004, police said Thursday.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6037200.html

Randy: Thanks Lucius!

Scott Adams: Recently I predicted in this blog that Hamas’ election victory would cause them to soften their stance on Israel. [cut] According to the BBC news, I nailed it. [cut] Now I shall make another prediction. The people who told me I was wrong will rush to the comment section to punch themselves silly with off-point arguments about why they were really right all along.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/02/call_me_nostrad.html

TotallyAbsurd: While there have been a variety of devices that add padding or some other shape to the buttock, none actually lift it, while also giving it a desirable shape.

http://www.totallyabsurd.com/wonderbuttbra.htm

Randy: Here's the actual patent applications. And a second.

Police are investigating whether as many as seven teenage girls have been sexually assaulted by men they met on the street. The girls, ages 12 to 16 say they were fondled or had consensual sex with men who turned out to be older than they claimed. None of the incidents appeared to be violent, said the Police Sgt. He said it was difficult to determine the exact number of victims because some girls have been reluctant to disclose that they met their assailants online. The streets allows walkers to communicate and can include exchanging photos, personal information and even cell phone numbers.

And you can re-read this in its original form on CNN. Of course, my reprint isn't news, it's what happens everyday all around the world. So, why is it news when it happens online?

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/02/03/myspace.assaults.ap/index.html

Found on DoubleViking.

http://www.doubleviking.com/?p=11890

Publis Service Post. Please Repost.

Jennifer Kesse missing since Jan 23rd from Orlando. If you are from Florida, then please click-thru and read more.

http://jenniferkesse.com/

CNN: An 18-year-old suspected in hatchet attacks and shootings at a Massachusetts gay bar died Sunday after a gunbattle with Arkansas police, authorities said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/05/robida/index.html

Via Waxy, Jacob had a MySpace.

http://www.myspace.com/jakejekyll

What will they think of next? Oh, this!

My sister took a picture of the Terry Fox Monument in Thunday Bay. Terry is IMHO the greatest hero of them all.

http://www.thunderbay.ca/index.cfm?fuse=html&pg=1426

I just watched Flight 93, the A&E movie about the famed fourth airplane that crashed on 9/11. They had few details to go with, so I image that most of the movie wasn't simply made up. This created a movie full of cellphone calls with wifes and mothers. Dragged out, but none-the-less worth watching.

http://www.aetv.com/flight_93/index.jsp

Benjamin Cohen: Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network.

Anonymous Content Provider: We are in discussions with Google to provide content for their alternative internet service, to be distributed through their Google Cube product.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2023600,00.html

Last night, I watched a movie called Paycheck. I'd never heard of it before and I was quite surprised how good the story was.

http://www.paycheckmovie.com/ 

This looks too funny! Trailer. More reliable trailer.

http://www.andydick.com/

Dell now has a Celeron PC with a Flat Panel monitor for $499.

• XP Home
• 80 GB drive
• 15' Flat Panel Monitor
• CD-RW/DVD-ROM
• 512 MB memory
• Ethernet

I'm looking for someone to fill the following positions for a company in the Toronto area.

The Strategic Alliances Manager is responsible for achieving and exceeding targeted revenue to increase and maintain company's overall profitability. Through ongoing interaction with clients, the Account Manager plans and implements effective sales strategies and manages the sales cycle in order to build new ISV/Partner and OEM business opportunities.

As Inside Sales Representative you will be accountable for maximizing account penetration and sales volume objectives by identifying sales opportunities, qualifying sales leads and closing orders on smaller volume accounts. You will work closely with your manager to develop sales strategies and achieve revenue targets in an assigned territory.

Please send resumes to me.

When I tell people about how my niece feeds local squirrels and raccoons and keeps them in her house, the southerners almost always think I'm crazy. Well, here's what happens when you don't have squirrels and raccoons in your northern Ontario house to keep the moose away. A moose recently invaded a house on the outskirts of Thunder Bay.

I've seen this before, next thing you know they'll be married. Just like Auntie and Uncle Mo.

The coolest Web 2.0 application to date has to be GoogleEarth. But where's it going? Google's gotta be doing something more than letting people do the Matrix jumping thing. It's been awefully quiet over there. OK, a new Mac version. Whoopee! Too quiet.

http://earth.google.com/

Nate Anderson: The Congressional Human Rights Caucus [cut] is meeting [cut] to discuss the role of American technology companies in China. The four companies invited to attend the event were Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Cisco, but it appears that none were anxious to show up for a hearing at which they would be grilled about their contributions to censorship in China.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060201-6099.html

Nathan Weinberg: The financial markets hated Google’s latest earnings report, sending the stock plummeting over sixty dollars.

Randy: Is Web 2.0 over? Was that the Internet 2.0 bubble? You means it's all over? We can go home? Are blogs dead? Oh wait, let me check my AdSense account. Hmmm! Nothings changed there. Still raking it in!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7258896287489458266