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This post is called news in brief because I give brief summaries of the days news and I’m also writing while my underwear.

New Hampshire Gets a Little More Gay: NH apporved a bill to allow gay civil unions. Obviously the whole gay storyline from the Sopranos inspired them to approve the unions. The government also voted to change the states bird to the Cock.

Russians Aren’t Going to Take it Anymore: So the US has started another arms race with Russia over plans to install missle defense stations in Europe. Hurray we get to fight a new Cold War! I’m sure our troops would like to take a break from Iraq and spend some time cooling off in Siberia. Way to go W you never fail to disappoint with your stupidity.

$P4MM3R Gets Canned: One of the world’s top spammers was arrested so people’s inboxes should be a little less full too day. Of course now I don’t know where I’ll get my my free V14GR4 and other P3N1$ enlarging pills.

Fly The Infectious Skies: Some dumbass flew all around the world with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis after being told not to fly several times. The other passengers on the plane are being alerted and possibly treated. I order to prevent this thing from happening again anyone sneezing or coughing before boarding the plane will be shot. Better safe than sorry.

Jon Lovitz is Still Alive!: Apparently and he signed a life time deal with the Laugh Factory to appear there every Wednesday. So now if your wondering what to do on a Wednesday night in L.A. you can always go see Jon Lovitz or go to a back alley and watch a coat hanger aportion, altough the abortion is slightly funnier.

 

That’s it for today L8TR.

I know that the Terry Tate, Office Linebacker videos are a little bit old news, but who doesn’t want to see these again? So, some classic Office Linebacker episodes for you. Please watch and enjoy.

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The Nintendo Wii is a lot of fun, but it’s in a bit of a new game drought right now. While the rest of us sit with bated breath awaiting Super Smash Brothers and Metroid, some folks have made some Wii games of their own. Or at least they pretended to and put videos on the Internet.

Here’s a whole series of rejected WiiPlay games from the folks at Loading.Ready.Run.

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I had to post this video: Mr T. busts through a wall, alarmed by the jibber-jabber of a fat-headed consultant. He proceeds to show the consultant that Mr. T puts the “T” in IT.

Best lines:

“You know you got a lot of mouth, and I’ve got a lot of fist for your mouth!”

“Intelligence in the network? That’s for suckas. That’s for routing stuff, not data, fool!”

This is a video for Hitachi, but that last quote could also be seen as an argument for net neutrality. Somebody call up Mr. T. and get him in front of Congress.

And in all seriousness, Mr. T. is a really interesting guy - check out his profile on IMDB.

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: ‘What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?’ So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is ‘Mr.’ That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.”

Apparently, sales of the Hummer H2 are falling so fast that GM might even stop making them. Environmentalists will probably cheer this news, but there’s another reason I would never buy a Hummer H2 or H3 for that matter.

It’s complicated, so I’ve put it into a diagram:

I’ll say it: Barack Obama is a liar.

Surprised? Secretly happy? Are you shocked, and demand to hear some evidence?

Well, Stephen Colbert has the evidence, and it turns out to be pretty flimsy:

Obama recalled reading an article when he was nine years old, and it turns out it wasn’t in Life magazine, as he thought, but in Esquire. But it doesn’t matter. As Al Gore found out in 2000 and John Kerry found out in 2004, complex positions on issues and factual reality is trumped by attack labeling. By “attack labels,” I mean those wonderful soundbites, usually just a few words and never more than a sentence, that are used to turn a politician into a caricature. It’s similar to the doublespeak that has given us wonderful phrases such as the “death tax” and “we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”

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As I write this, Google has a market cap of about $148 billion, compared to Verizon at $124 billion and AOL parent Time Warner at $82 billion. Google might rule the Web search market, but Verizon’s $88 billion and Time Warner’s $44 billion in revenue last year dwarf Google’s $10 billion.

Why would a smaller company that makes less money be worth more to investors than larger competitors? Are they just being irrational? Maybe so, but I think there is at least one good reason why Google has been so successful: it has focused on providing services, rather than content or infrastructure.

Why is this important? Think about it this way: whenever you do anything on the Internet, chances are you can break it down into three layers:

1) Infrastructure - your connection to the Internet, whether it’s Cable, DSL, dial-up, FIOS, etc.
2) Service - the application you use to get what you want done, for example the search engine you use to find things or the mail client you use to read you email.
3) Content - the stuff you read, watch, listen to, or create yourself for others to see.

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Skip the intro to peer pressure to get to the “meat” of this internet video, really the highlight of anything ever made and posted on the internet. Really.

I think the internet needs put down. It’s really for the best. Please, think of all the children. Who are doing this stupid shit.

I have stewed over this topic for several months as I am finishing up my second to last semester of my Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program. I do not consider myself an expert on this issue; however, there were several things that got me through nursing school that I could not survive without. The following stuff is mainly for an undergrad nursing student. Part II (coming soon) will be more for a nursing student in grad school.

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Noted author and atheist Christopher Hitchens takes the opportunity to crap all over Jerry Falwell’s warm corpse. His latest book God Is Not Great attacks all forms of religion so it is no surprise that he takes this position. Of course after listing all the crap Falwell did when he was alive it is hard to blame him.

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Here are two Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercials and one documentary on these commercials by Bruce himself. They are amusing so if you are just killing time, please watch them all. Hopefully you do know who Bruce Campbell is, but if you don’t, click here for a short history. If you just clicked there, I can’t believe you don’t know who Bruce Campbell is.

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Scenario: you are in a restaurant in an unfamiliar town. You’ve been seated for just a minute when the waitress walks up. “What’ll you have to drink?” It’s too early for an alcoholic beverage and you’re not in the mood for coffee or tea. Water is for cheapskates and juice is for hippies. But what do you call those sugary carbonated beverages that go perfectly with a burger and fries?

Depending on where you are in the country, asking what kinds of “pop,” “soda,” or “coke” they have on tap has a 66 percent chance of earning you a dirty look. Don’t call it pop in Massachusetts. Don’t call it soda in Toledo.

And now you can see what to call it no matter where you are in the nation:

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In honor of the passing of Jerry Falwell, who made a mockery of Christ’s teachings, we present the best mockeries of Jesus himself. Actually, that’s a bit harsh - these aren’t really mockeries, more like satire.

1. First off, in Passion of the Christ 2, Judgment Day, we see Hollywood logic extended to Mel Gibson’s blockbuster. A box-office hit deserves a sequel, and any self-respecting sequel needs twice as many explosions.

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The saga of the great Stripper debate continues. The bill is currently under review by the house due to several questions of constitutional legality and whether or not the language of the document actually makes sense or is just plain ridiculous. There is also question about the CCV and whether or not they told the truth about similar legislation in other states and legality of the bill. Recently on their site to bolster their failing support they published a poll that they had done saying how the majority of Ohioans support the bill. Of course if you look closer you will notice several fishy things about this poll, and realize that it is just another attempt by the CCV to propagate their own cause that the majority of the public does not support.

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Lately we have been uber-enviro-nerds with the talk of wind turbines, deep lake cooling and environmentally friendly roller coasters. I just felt the need to put up another nifty energy saving device that was invented by a Bloke from the UK named Peter Hughes. He has created a ramp that absorbs kinetic energy from breaking or slowing down while driving your car over regular roadways. The idea is simple, use the cars wasted kinetic energy to power the streetlights and stoplights. There are a series of plates installed under the road which the cars will drive over, more than likely around stop lights or other areas where the traffic will be slowed. The weight of the car slightly shifts the plates, causing kinetic energy to be created. The energy is stored and then used to power whatever. It is better described on the official site, so I will just do you a favor and quote it here.

The ramp is unobtrusive, silent in operation, causes no
discomfort to the vehicles occupants and is entirely safe in
operation. The Ramp is designed to require the minimum
of maintenance and may be used for generating electricity
to power street lighting, traffic lights, road signs, with
the surplus being fed into the national grid. It also has the
capability to store electricity within a storage battery
facility.

I also found a video that you can watch that shows this in action.

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