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The new Zune player from Microsoft can't play old Windows DRM protected files. So Microsoft has suggested that people violatate the DMCA to make them playable.

Dreamhost posted audio of a couple voicemails from a guy complaining about spam. It's like a redneck Al Swearengen from Deadwood if he was upset about spam.

YouTube video of a news cast about a Leprachaun in Mobile, Alabama, or it could be a crackhead.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Film for Theaters comes out this September. Guest stars include Bruce Campbell and Neil Peart of the Canadian power rock trio Rush!

A sort of shared todo list except tasks are called prayers. people2pray.com

Ever wondered what happens when a fireworks factory explodes?

Bush Presidency: the interactive text adventure. [via Amanda]

Mississippi adoption agency won't place babies in Catholic homes because they aren't Christian.

FEED: returning soon. It appears that my favorite web based magazine is "returning soon" after going on ice in 2000. Hopefully Steven Johnson, a former editor, will comment on his blog.

I've found religion with del.icio.us. I keep my bookmarks there.

It's a shame Kula Shaker is no more. They had a great pop sensibility that fused Indian rhythms and instruments with rock. I've always wondered what he was singing in those songs. The site has pictures, Sanskrit and explanations of the lyrics.

Watchmen in 2006 [ via korvac ]

In some sense, I consider marriage a laboratory for going down there into the scary bad places. [...] To me, there is no more vivid arena in which our frailties are revealed and our foibles enacted.

Salon's advice columnist, Cary Tennis, put together a soul baring essay on his personal experiences with alcoholism, and a ragged life frayed at the edges before he married at 40. Most importantly he talks about how these experiences inform his advice to to people who ask The sex is gone — Why should I stay?

He said some Christians found his study of Hebrew objectionable and his searching attitude heretical. Some ministers, he said, warned other Christians to stay away from him.

From a Salon piece on Reggie White's uses of the NFL to promote Christianity. Thoughtful piece on how sports can be used to productize Christianity into soundbites and sometimes the deeper meaning is lost.

Buy Blue and save the world. Buyblue.org keeps track of where corporate money goes in politics. I never would have guessed 92% of Yahoo goes to Red politicos. [via Leia]

Your father made fetuses with flesh-licking ladies while you and your mother were a- sleep in the trailer park thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadium the music and medicine you needed for comfort

Neutral Milk Hotel welcome to the Plastic Classic Album hall of fame.

A pretty good list of essential OS X apps.

Apple writes about World of Warcraft and includes tips for my new addiction.

Metafilter uncovers links on the major and minor real life folks that make up the HBO series Deadwood.

A Salon piece about Sylvia Plath's therapist, Ruth Barnhouse. Devastating and deflating article with insights into psychoanalysis, Plath's relationship with Barnhouse, and the crippling depression that chased Plath to an early grave.

I wonder what friend's only posts Rachelle Waterman made before she had her mom murdered. Hooray LJ! More details in the AK police press release.

It costs about $5k to get from Baghdad airport to city center. This includes four well armed Western ex-military bodyguards and two cars. The passenger travels at an average of 100 mph with a "gun car" nearby to deal with hostiles. If you're caught then Islamist militant groups will pay up to $300k for you.

Just who is worried about indecency on television, and what has brought on the FCC's latest chilling effect on TV programming? A FOIA request about Fox's $1.2 million fine uncovered three righteously indignant people with a Xerox.

Dallas has joined civilization. We now have a 24 hour Krystal. No news on the first five folks who won a year's supply of the stuff.

Abortions up under Bush after a decade of decline.

I'm dubious about the authenticity but it's one more way to slice up the electorate. A list of state IQ / electoral vote correlation.

Electing to Leave has some funny and frustrating advice for those looking to renounce their US citizenship in light of the recent election.

Marry an American is a site where Canadians can pledge to marry a non-Bush voter and rescue them from four more years of Bush.

What does President Bush have to say to this mom who lost her child in Iraq? A devastating new ad.

Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being — people's evaluations and feelings about their lives.

Beyond Money: Towards an Economy of Well-Being from American Psychological Society.

Gael Garcia Bernal, star of Motorcycle Diaries, vents some frustration in an article in the Detroit Free Press.

What does that mean, 'art house hit?' Nothing. It still means that most people in your country will never even consider seeing them. These films do not get the chance to compete with the Hollywood films. They get tossed off as foreign and independent films like they are somehow not ready to compete with all that crap that Hollywood produces. Hey, where's my action figure?

That's how I will know we are taken seriously, when I get an action figure.

Charles has a nice summation, cribbed from elsewhere, comparing and contrasting the handling of intelligence by President George W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather.

Does Netflix penalize frequent renters?

The Rapture Index tracks all the signs that precede the Rapture. An index over 145 means Rapture is rapidly approaching. We're at 151 - fasten your seat belts.

wow. Planned Parenthood's "I had an abortion" t-shirt.

Began building out a new section on the site for the Greyhound bus trip across America.

The Kazakhstan Embassy press secretary clears up some misconceptions created by Da Ali G Show.

Women are not kept in cages. Wine is not made from fermented horse urine.

DART to begin free concerts at rail stations every Thursday with a national and local band. Sloan and Chris Megert are kicking it off.

An angry father of a soldier in Iraq vents his rage and pain at the man who put him there. The picture of the Bush supporter covering the father's mouth really captures the essence of the Bush presidency for me.

Ebert saw filmmaker David Gordon Green at the Toronto film fest and had this to say And then he showed us "Undertow," and this film is a masterpiece.

'I reckon you're fired. You could either work for him or John Kerry.' Moulton, Alabama woman fired for Kerry bumper sticker on her car.

"The meaning of life is that it ends."- Franz Kafka

Fear Itself is an article about how terrorism creates fear. The author intentionally put himself in situations that where terrorists have struck or threatened to strike.

The NY Times explains Bush family funding of the anti-Kerry group "Swift Boat Veterns for Truth"

Dick van Dyke does CG animation

The Digital Photography Blog has linked some nice tips on taking better pictures with a digital camera.