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UNBELIEVABLE!!

Bad VeriSign! Very, very bad. No Biscuit for you.

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For some reason, Paw makes me think of The Schwa Corporation. It sort of has that feel except it’s sort of exactly the opposite. I miss Schwa. I have one of Barkers drawings hanging in my living room. Everybody who comes over asks me about it.

via Amberglow.

What an incredibly charming flash cartoon. You feel the heat. You wish for the rain. I want more like this on the web. Nicely done.

Thanks Blort.

It’s basically just enforcing the K.I.S.S. approach to communication, but I find the idea of a Strategy Canvas to be very interesting. Maybe I’ve just spent too much time in meetings where people seem to be talking just to hear themselves speak, but if you can reduce the strategy to just a few main ideas, then maybe everybody can get on the same page. Yeah, I know … wishful thinking. Still, thinking that’s worth doing.

Over the past two weeks or so, I’ve spent an insane amount of time playing this Fly Game. I’ll be sitting at home watching TV or something, and I’ll turn on my computer — you know because I couldn’t possibly just sit there and do one thing at a time. Having woken the computer from sleep, and having nothing really do do with it, I’ll find myself once again going to scurry around picking up little blue balls.

I’ve gotten it down to a system, but I can’t seem to crack 75 points. Is it even possible to get more points than that? I think those extra 6 points you could theoretically get are just there to give you something to strive for. Show me the person who got 76 points on that game, and I’ll show you a liar (or a witch!).

Update: Having written that, I just scored 76 points twice. But 77? No, 77 points is clearly impossible. (Now, could somebody help me with this wart on my nose?)

To The United States Congress:

We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA’s tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing.

We condemn the RIAA’s choice to force the family of a 12 year-old girl to forfeit $2,000 - money that could have gone to feed, clothe and educate this honor student. We stand with the retirees, parents, children and others who have been caught in the RIAA’s line of fire.

We oppose the recording industry’s decision to attack the public, bankrupt its customers and offer false amnesty to those who would impugn themselves. We call instead for a real amnesty: the development of a legal alternative that preserves file-sharing technology while ensuring that artists are fairly compensated.

I know, on-line petitions don’t do jack all, but I signed it. You should sign it too. Or at least take a look at what the music industry is doing, and get angry about it. Stop buying their music. Make them pay for their arrogance, bullying and disdain for the consumers who’ve made them wealthy.

Don’t forget kids. September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day.

There’s a crispness in the air (more or less) and new shows on TV (more or less). Yea!

I watched the series premier of Jake 2.0 tonight. Maybe it’s just that I’m a sucker for Nano Tech, but I have to say it didn’t suck. It wasn’t the greatest thing ever. The whole he loves the blonde who sees him as a sexless neuter while the brunette scientist (whose beauty is hidden behind a pair of glasses) secretly loves him is a theme that’s just beyond played out. And, let’s be honest it’s just an updated six million dollar man. Still, I think I’ll watch it again.

I don’t know. This is pretty funny in a Beavis and Butthead kind of why. It’s a movie of a guy doing shadow puppets of a couple of monkeys making sweet, sweet monkey love. Requires Windows Media Player. Probably not great for work.

Via Milk and Cookies.

Mmmmm….. 40 Gig iPod. Finally, a devince I could fit ALL of my MP3s on.

So tempted … Must. Reist. Urge. To buy. 3rd iPod.