05 Oct 2005
DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations (AP)

If the Democrats can just stick to the facts here, and manage to look "statesman-like" and have "gravitas", I predict a sea change in Congress in 2006 comparable to the Republican Revolution of 1994. The corruption scandals being revealed now will be viewed as Dubya's "read my lips" moment - and they'll have the same effect, politically.

AP - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD

I've got a crisp new hundred dollar bill against which I'm willing to accept bets disputing the following proposition:

This system will be hacked, cracked, 0wn3d and rooted with a month of it's release 'to the wild', if that ever happens. In short, that this system is ultimately useless.

Microsoft has developed a cheap, disposable pre-recorded DVD disc that consumers can play only once.

(link) [Slashdot]

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Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say

OK, that's it: the links that have been suspected for some time are more or less proven. Be afraid, be very afraid...

The 1918 influenza virus was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, two teams of scientists announced today.

(link) [NYT > Home Page]

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The LA County Fair

Does wool come from boy cows or girl cows? Check out this TV spot for the Los Angles County Fair to find out. Here's a hint: it's the one with the tusks!

As they say, if anyplace needs a real county fair, it's Los Angles.

from within the crainium

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