I don’t know if kids today even know his name (I feel like such an old fogey sometimes), but Bob Hope in his prime was hilarious. His humor was clever and, for its time, pretty erudite. He was the Dennis Miller of his generation, really. Check out this clip from the 1940 movie Ghost Breakers.
I am not sure I would be this brave, but I’m sure glad that someone is.
Patricia Santangelo is in many ways the embodiment of the suburban mom.
She is the mother of five children, ranging in age from 6 to 19. She is divorced, living in Wappingers Falls after growing up in Yorktown and Putnam County. At 42, she works as a property manager for a real estate company and is trying to get her own business off the ground….
Santangelo was sued by several record companies in U.S. District Court in White Plains in February. The record companies said Santangelo’s home computer and Internet account were used to illegally trade copyrighted song files. The record companies say people like Santangelo are destroying the multibillion-dollar industry….
Record companies have filed about 13,300 similar federal lawsuits against Internet users across the country since September 2003…. None of the cases has gone to trial.
Opponents of the record companies’ lawsuits have said they hoped someone would challenge the companies’ tactics in court rather than settle.
“If this particular woman is willing to go to trial, that’s something new,” said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group that opposes the lawsuits. “The threat is so great that most people don’t even risk it.”…
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon will decide the issue.
McMahon already has had a glimpse of the case from a conference May 6, before Santangelo had a lawyer. The judge told Santangelo she should get an attorney….
“I would love to see a mom fighting one of these,” the judge said.
Way to go, Patricia.
The Zotob attacks could have been prevented by proper Windows patching, or they could have easily been prevented for less by using Linux in the first place.
(from eWeek, Zotob Madness and the Real Cost of Windows vs. Linux)
I don’t run Windows on any server, and haven’t for several years (nor has any competent system administrator, in my opinion). In fact, there’s only one reason I even use Windows on the desktop, anymore: Adobe Photoshop. But with Adobe’s pernicious “treat your customers like criminals” features in recent versions of Photoshop, that may not continue much longer.
I’m not the only one wondering what’s taking so long to release OpenOffice 2.0.
The MPAA has apparently frowned on some material that Lions Gate Films released to web sites, advertising its upcoming movie Saw 2. Lions Gate is in the process of requesting that web sites remove the MPAA-disapproved material.
Personally, I think that’s pathetic. Isn’t it bad enough that RIAA and the MPAA are tools of media robber barons doing their damnedest to destroy the public domain and fair use, subverting our legal system and corrupting our legislators to do it? The suggestion that the MPAA has any say in what is posted on any web site anywhere makes the bile rise up in the back of my throat. The whole MPAA rating system is an anachronistic holdover from the days of Reefer Madness. It is ludicrous that anyone pays attention to it or feels compelled to knuckle under to the MPAA’s ridiculously outdated mandates.
It’s the 21st century, for pete’s sake. It’s time for the MPAA to go the way of the buggy whip and the steam-powered car.
Fox has a long history of cancelling brilliant shows. I do not know why. Okay, I know why: it’s a cost/benefit thing. Anyway, some of these cancelled shows are available on DVD. One of the best series that was prematurely cancelled was the Adrian Pasdar vehicle, Profit, and it’s available on DVD. Profit was ahead of its time, and it’s too bad that Fox did not allow the show time to find its audience. Ah, well. The DVD includes all of the aired episodes, as well as four unaired episodes.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has become a sort of intelligence test: if you are still using it, you fail the test.
Internet Explorer’s laundry list of vulnerabilities and Firefox‘s growing popularity have made many users consider their browser alternatives. If you’ve had enough of dealing with IE’s security flaws and decide to make a switch, this article from Tech Republic demonstrates two ways you can disable IE for your users.
On this day in 1956, Kim Cattrall was born. You may recall that Ms. Cattrall portrayed Dr. Wickings in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode 403, City Limits. She also starred in one of Crow T. Robot’s favorite films, Mannequin, as well as one of my own personal favorites, Big Trouble In Little China.
Kim Cattrall was born on August 21, 1956 in Liverpool, England. At the age of three months, emmigrated with her father, Dennis, and mother, Shane, to Canada, where a large number of her films have been made. At the age of eleven, Kim returned to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon her return to Vancouver, Canada, Kim graduated high school at age sixteen and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. During her final year at the academy, she won a part in Otto Preminger‘s Rosebud (1975). Following her film debut Kim returned to the theatre first in Vancouver and then played repertory in Toronto prior to winning a contract at Universal in Los Angeles.
(from The Internet Movie Database, Biography for Kim Cattrall)
Happy birthday, Kim.
Christopher Walken announces his intention to run for President of the United States:
“Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to promote a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It’s time to be smart about our politics. It’s time to get America back on track.”
Amazon.com has the Palm Tungsten T5 Handheld for $332 with free shipping. Free Executive Case with code PALMFREECASE [Exp 8/29].
This is a great PDA. I’ve owned numerous PDAs, from Handspring, Palm, and even Tapwave, and this is the best I’ve ever owned. It has everything a PDA should have:
It’s simply awesome.
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