] "I'll get you naked by the end of this song," sang
] performer Justin Timberlake, moments before he ripped off
] Jackson's top, exposing a bare breast -- the nipple
] covered by a metal 'solar' nipple medallion.

Why oh why would someone do this to their nipple?

Janet Nipple - OUCH!

website got a face lift, and more content. Adding more over the next week or so.

IconoclasT wrote:
] ROFLMAO! Nice knockoff of Google...
]
] If you are under 18, or live in an area where it is illegal
] for you to view
] explicit content, please leave this site immediately.

Take a look under legal notices. The back and forth between them and google is great:

[Booble responding to Google]

3. the BOOBLE mark is distinct from the GOOGLE mark in that it differs in sound, appearance, commercial impression, and other relevant aspects:
1. it features a woman's chest;
2. it uses the phrase, 'The Adult Search Engine;'
3. it posts a warning that the web site contains explicit content; and
4. it disclaims any association with Google.com.

RE: Booble - The Adult Search Engine

inignoct wrote:
] ] The state's school superintendent has proposed striking
] ] the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and
] ] replacing it with the phrase "biological changes over
] ] time."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/index.html

Whats funnier is Jimmy Carter's Response to this:

"I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students"

Its not everyday that a former president personally and publically calls you a dumbass

RE: CNN.com - Georgia considers banning 'evolution' - Jan. 30, 2004

So Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has released a notices on their Knowledge Base to help users to avoid going to spoofed pages. There are a few sentences about looking for the padlock in the lower rigth corner, what Certificates are, etc.

The rest of the articles tells users how to type in 1-2 line javascript commands directly into the address bar to make sure they are really at Yahoo. All of this is to prevent the fun %00 %01 bug in IE what can let you spoof an address.

WTF is this? Do they really expect Joe Sixpack to actually do do this? There are the same morons how say "Oh look an attachment from someone I don't know" [OPENS]. You think they are reall going to type:

javascript:alert("The actual URL is:\t\t" + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/" + "\nThe address URL is:\t\t" + location.href + "\n" + "\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.");

This is retarded. This exploit came in early December, its now nearly January, and instead of a patch, Microsoft gives us a tersely worded notice to do things no normal user would do.

Microsoft: Why patch IE when you can just issue notices?

] 512 killed in a WAR, compared to a 643 in L.A.

But we know what they are killing for in LA: Hoes, weed, and hoods. Why are we in Iraq again? oh thats right Oil! Maybe I should get a solar power car and go to Compton. :-)

RE: Deaths in Iraq., vs Deaths in Los Angeles

] In the interest of fair play, you might point out that you are
] friends with the guy

In the Interest of fair play, I should point out that inignoct, Rattle, ryan, Elonka and others had no idea who I was at the time, and many still haven't met me. The only Memestreamer who knew me was Decius, who I met at the conference. I won't pollute my ego and think I can cause so many people to react to something a certain way. I think the numbers of people who reacted to what BB did and the strength at which did they speaks more about what occured then I could.

] BTW, I'm a former Blackboard employee. Worked there four
] years. Am I proud of everything Blackboard has done over the
] years? Nope. But it's a good company populated with plenty of
] decent free-thinking people. Particularly the techies, some of
] the most fiercely independent and idealistic folks I've ever
] met, and a group with whom your hacker friend would probably
] fit right in.

I concur you shouldn't fault the whole company. I'm sure there are cool folks there. However the executives, not Bill the Engineer or Sally in accounting made the choices on how to react, and executives have the most to gain from an IPO. For that reason I hope it fails. The lawsuit changed me very much: certain beliefs I've always had about motives and conduct were completely destroyed. After several talks with BB executives, I still cannot fathom these people's greed. It and it alone drives their actions, and that utterly sickens me. A failed IPO would deny they what they want, because believe me, they care nothing about Sally or Bill.

RE: Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public

] LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has declared
] unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that
] bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups
] designated foreign terrorist organizations.

Lets hope this is the first legal crack to bring the whole thing down

Federal Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act Unconstitutional (washingtonpost.com)

] Desler said Microsoft would cover Mike's costs of
] changing to a new Web site and redirecting traffic from
] the old site. Microsoft also had agreed to help the teen
] get Microsoft certification training and other gifts,
] including an Xbox game console, he said, and has invited
] Mike to a technology festival in March at the
] corporation's headquarters in suburban Redmond.

While I'm sure people will say he should have never given up the domain, fight the monopoly and all the jazz he hmade the right choice. Considering he's 17 and MikeRoweSoft is a pretty shitty name for a web design firm, he is getting more out of this than the 15 seconds of Intenet fame and keeping his domain name would have ever brought him

Mike Rowe sells his domain to Microsoft

] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] munitions.

[ well, how about that. ] -k

Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)