via the International Herald Tribune:
International poll ranks Bush a threat to world peace

TORONTO: A majority of people in three countries with close ties to the U.S. — Britain, Canada and Mexico — consider President George W. Bush a threat to world peace, ranking the U.S. president right up there with the leaders of two countries he has labeled part of the "axis of evil" — North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"It is striking that these are America's closest allies and the populations are going, 'Whoa, this guy is a danger to the world,'" said Paul Adams, executive director of Ottawa-based EKOS Research which released the poll results Friday.

Cnet is reporting in it's front page that Apple names new head lawyer.

Plucked away from the IBM legal department:

Rosenberg, who will report to CEO Steve Jobs, held a number of top-tier legal positions during his more than 30 years with Big Blue, serving most recently as the company's head lawyer.

"Don has a broad range of experience that includes litigation, securities, intellectual property and antitrust, and he will be responsible for overseeing all legal matters and government affairs for Apple," Jobs said in a statement.

Via Table of Malcontents a blog over at wired:

That said, a real-life sighting of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Germany has me convinced: the FSM is that invisible old man who lives on a cloud.

There's even video.
Comments on the wired blog are priceless as well.

Making Sure You Don't Get Your Rebate Money: Patented!

Via techdirt... what we already know, but liked to pretend wasn't true...
Now pattenting how to screw the little guy.
Instant Classic.

This is worth a listen...

direct links to video: Video - WMV   Video - QT

SFGate: Culture Blog! : Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier

I'm really at a loss here...
Saw this over at digg, and now I'm just ummm sort of stuck in a mind melting mode.
sample pics here

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List - New York Times

What would the FSM think of this???

Argh.

NOBODY reads this blog (as far as I know). Honestly I use it like del.ici.us so I can check back on stuff I'm seeing on Digg or wherever....

The endless run of comment spam, despite the fact that commenting is not even enabled here! is blowing my mind, so I enabled the Akismet plugin today, hopefully you fools will go away now. Your posts will never show up here.

eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.

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How NOT to steal a SideKick II

The Stolen SideKick story is wrapping up.