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What happens when large powerful players on the internet (MySpace for example) start censoring traffic? The integrity of the internet crumbles. Here is a post from AskANinja.com about the topic. Ask A Ninja for those that don’t know is top ranked and highly acclaimed video podcast, one of the first big ones on the net.

Let me start off by saying we love all of our friends and fans that we’ve made through Myspace.

But sometimes Myspace the company does some gross stuff that violates the spirit it was created under and the values of the Internet itself.

Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order to gain a business advantage. This debate has usually focused on the companies that charge for bandwidth like AT&T, but recently Myspace has pioneered a new form — blocking sites that users link to in their bulletins and profiles.

Right now if you link to anything at a site like “http://revver . com” (remove the spaces) Myspace will delete the link. Try it. That sucks right?

Revver is not the only site. There are dozens of smaller video and photo sharing sites that they are doing this to.

Why should you care?

Ask A Ninja was created because we were in control of where we posted the videos. That’s a big deal because if we’re forced to put them on MySpace video then FOX could take the episodes and make money off of them without paying Douglas or me anything. Which isn’t fair and takes away the incentive to create cool shows for you to watch.

Why is this against Net Neutrality? Because videos from Myspace Video and Youtube are not effected. It’s only these smaller, more innovative companies that haven’t been sold for billions of dollars.

Here’s what you can do:

Copy this bulletin. Repost it. Blog about it. Make Tom put up a little fix it bulletin saying he’s sorry.

Once you’ve reposted this, send a message to Tom (http://myspace.com/tomanderson) like this (or even better, write your own):

I’m sending this message to request that MySpace stop blocking videos from sites like Revver. Choosing the video-sharing service that is right for me is very important and is why you built Myspace. What I like most about MySpace is that I can generally do what I want here. I like that Myspace is a relatively open platform where I can communicate with my friends (and promote my stuff) in all sorts of ways. I feel good about sharing videos from Revver because I know they respect copyright and look out for independent artists. Please bring back Revver!

Now if this isn’t scary I don’t know what is. All of a sudden the Terminator is real.

Singapore has launched a contest to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier.The country’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) said on its website it is offering one million Singapore dollars (US$ 652,000) to the developers of such a robot that completes a stipulated task in the fastest time.

Now how in the hell is a robot going to determine who is good and who is bad. People can dress anyway they like, and there would be no way to estimate the threat of the human in the room. I just hope that they at least make the robots look like something out of a Hollywood movie rather than bland metal machines. I want faux flesh baby and animatronic faces with real expressions. They can call Walt Disney for more info on that one.

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Now I am torn by this introduction. An ~$18.00 DVD player. This makes it cheaper than most new release DVDs. Welcome to disposable. What a waste, all of the electronics and crap that we keep replacing and all the junk keeps getting dumped somewhere. How wasteful. But now like consumer printers, the hardware is almost free and the money is made on the ink.

A DVD player is to go on sale for just £9, demonstrating that gadgets have now become as disposable as an old shirt and cheaper than a night at the cinema.

Asda is to offer the player, which costs less than a DVD blockbuster film, as it steps up the pressure on traditional electrical stores.

The arrival of the £9 DVD player demonstrates how supermarkets are shaking up the high street.

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On a grim note, my friends little brother knew this kid and actually lived just down the street. You have to wonder why the quite, non-threating types always go nuts and kill a bunch of people. Do they know something everyone else doesn’t?

Police killed a teenager who they said used a sword to kill his mother and injure three other people, including an officer.

Investigators had not determined the motive for the attacks, Chief Doug Schmitt said Friday.

How very sad.

Miguel Grima was not a well-liked man. As mayor of a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees in northern Spain he had ruffled a few feathers.

The village of Fago in Spain: mayor murdered
Police are considering the entire population of the village as suspects

The farmers turned against him when he put a stop to the centuries-old custom of herding livestock through village.

The hunters got annoyed when he refused to issue them with shooting licences and the local drinkers revolted after he prevented the settlement’s only bar from setting out tables on the terrace in summer.

The next day the battered body of Mr Grima was discovered in a roadside ditch. He had been shot at least four times in the head and chest at point-blank range.

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1. Incinerate the complete costume with the oversight of an official USDA Forest Service law enforcement officer*.

2. The entire Woodsy Owl costume including each of the separate pieces is to be destroyed beyond recognition.

* If you do not have access to an official USDA Forest Service law enforcement representative, arrangements will be made for dealing with your costume by contacting the USDA-FS Washington

All I know is that “they” better not be killing off Woodsy. Woodsy is a national character the fights pollution. Without him we may become more polluted.

I wonder who’s handwriting is on the picture. Obviously its Woodsy’s!!!! Where is the warning to get out of the suit first, some people need ALL THE STEPS!

This is from a few weeks ago, but thought it was still good to know. Just wait until domestic critters start evolving to deal with “humans”. Its only time now before local species of dolphin start coming to land and killing people.

A species of moth drinks tears from the eyes of sleeping birds using a fearsome proboscis shaped like a harpoon, scientists have revealed. The new discovery – spied in Madagascar – is the first time moths have been seen feeding on the tears of birds.

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Here comes some research showing how women dress up more at peak fertility during the month. The article is sure to educe terror and fear into the hearts of most men.

Next time the woman in your life gets dressed up to the nines, you might want to take note of who she is meeting.

Come on now. Why start the article by insinuating your wife/girlfriend may be dressing up for other men to impregnate her.

New research has found that women “dress to impress” when they are at their most fertile.

This may explain the cheating insinuation, its just LA.

Now a new study by a team at the University of California at Los Angeles has found there are clues in people after all.

All were photographed in their least fertile and most fertile phases.

Then a group of 42 other people - just over half of them women - were asked to look at the pairs of pictures and judge in which one the woman was trying to look more attractive.

Their faces were blacked out to make sure the assessment was based on their attire.

The judges chose the photo taken during the fertile phases 60 per cent of the time.

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A new hand gel is starting to appear on drug-store shelves promising more than just an end to germs or dry skin — this one claims to satisfy users’ tobacco cravings for up to four hours.

Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore chain by sales, is now stocking its more than 5,500 stores with packets of Nicogel, a quick-evaporating gel made with tobacco extracts.

This is all fine and dandy until kids starts using it accidentally because “mommy uses lotion on her hands”. What mommy didn’t tell you sonny is that she also take a shot of the stuff before breakfast and dips her cigarettes in it to make them more potent.

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Sheriff Gary Miller cruised east from Buffalo to the stretch of Hwy. 55 with large, white ovals painted by the state to slow tailgaters by showing drivers how far apart to stay. About halfway through the stretch he saw the unauthorized addition: a giant rendition of a yellow Pac-Man, the jaws from the 1980s video game trailblazer, attacking an oval dot on the pavement.

I’ve been pac-man with my car before, you know when you drive in the middle of a road and “gobble” up the dotted lines with your car. If I was doing that and all of a sudden ran into the “real” pac-man I think I would loose it. I mean you would have to swerve not to hit him, since this is his forte. You gotta give the man his space. I would just hope he wouldn’t eat a big dot and start chasing me. I wouldn’t blame him if he did. The jokes on him though, I got the cherries.

Pac-Man Hits The Road

I just saw this, man people are stupid. We need to start teaching about monetary denominations again in schools. I think the prevalence of “plastic” money is making people lazy. I remember when people would count back your change into the bill you gave them. Now they just say “$4.26 is your change” and hand you a wad of cash and coin. Count that money back to me buckchops, its not even like you have to figure out how much to give me, the computer does that.

North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush’s portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading “We like ice cream” and “USA deserves a tax cut.”

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I know at least a couple of you will appreciate this, for the rest of you piss off. Van Halen makes it to the Rock and Roll hall of fame.

Van Halen made a “jump” into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith.

Its also nice to see Grandmaster Flash in the mix up.

Van Halen was the 1980s hard rock quartet led by guitarist Eddie Van Halen, outrageous lead vocalist David Lee Roth, and later rocker Sammy Hagar, that put out hits such as “Jump” and “Dreams.”

Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. (Wikipedia)

Loggins also wrote the song “What a Fool Believes” with Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers. Furthermore, he penned “Danny’s Song” and “A Love Song” for Anne Murray in the early 70’s.

Over the next decade, Loggins recorded many hit songs for movie soundtracks. This began with “I’m Alright” from Caddyshack. Hits followed with “Footloose” from the soundtrack of the same name, “Meet Me Halfway” from Over the Top, and “Danger Zone” and “Playin’ With The Boys”, from Top Gun. He also performed as a member of USA for Africa on the famine-relief fundraising single We Are The World.

What happens when you are a religious leader that predicts “mass killings” and “terrorist attacks”? You can cash in on the souls of millions. Well I don’t really know who is cashing in on what, but I don’t believe this guy. I’m not arguing whether or not God tells things to people, but Pat Robertson? From what I know of Pat Robertson I don’t think his God and my God are the same God. In any event, he is sure good at grabbing the media’s attention with his outlandish claims.

Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a “mass killing” late in 2007.

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

“The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

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