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Entries from July 2006

Truth in advertising…

July 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Lance Bass plays spin-the-bottle and lands on Justin Timberlake in this McDonald’s ad circa 2001. Very funny, given that Bass just admitted he’s gay, and the odds were 3:1 that he’d have to kiss another dude given that Britney was the only chick at the table. Honestly, with odds like that, no straight [...]

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Tags: Celebrities · Food · Humor · Sex · The Web

“An Inconvenient Truth”

July 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Al Gore plays a street-wise pimp in a hybrid Pimpmobile!
A fascinating movie… there’s some obligatory Bush-bashing, and at moments, it does look like a paid advertisment for “Gore 2008” — but here’s the scoop: It’s probably the most convincing argument to care about the issue of global warming I’ve seen to date. If [...]

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Tags: Celebrities · Movies · Philosophical · Politics · Technology · The Web

Interesting Quotes on War…

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

I saw an interesting posting over at The Internet Movie Database in a discussion about “Wag The Dog“, which has these quotes which were made by Republicans in reference to Clinton’s involvement in Yugoslavia republics.

“You can support the troops but not the president.”
–Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
“Well, I just think it’s a bad idea. What’s [...]

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Tags: Politics

I am completely in favor of this form of political dissent

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

From The Canadian Post:

Bay Street kiss-off turns heads
Zosia Bielski, National Post
Published: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Student Nicole Dawson, 22, made out with girlfriend Tau, 27, at the southeast corner of King and Bay yesterday to protest alleged corruption in the investment industry. Here’s how it went:
11:58 a.m.: Ms. Dawson slips Tau the tongue, two minutes ahead [...]

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Tags: Politics · Sex

Customer Service

July 27th, 2006 · 9 Comments

I’m not going to reproduce the entire thing here, but I got a kick over an e-mail going around showing how one J2EE vendor deals with customers.
I’d be looking for a job if I treated my customers like that. Wow.

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Tags: Application Servers · Companies