Moonage Webdream

You know it’s a slow news day when you have headlines like this:

 2 NYC Firefighters Hurt in Scaffolding Collapse at Ground Zero Site: Watch Live

Now, I really don’t think I want to watch it LIVE.  In fact, I’ll just wish them well and not watch it at all.  That’s the end of that one.

But wait, there’s more!

That’s right, Beyonce has breasts.

We can’t stop there now can we? Lindsay Lohan, in the legal move of the century by claiming the coke she was carrying was in someone ELSE’S pants won. She’s just a seven-time misdemeanor convict, but not felon. Felons are just people who are too stupid to think of an alibi like that apparently. Someone else’s pants. HAH! HAH! HAH! Gotta love a prosecutor with a sense of humor. If it were me, she’d probably be in prison.

Maria Sharapova, the tennis star made most famous for what’s under her dress, is now advising other up and coming tennis stars on what to wear what people want to see under as well.

And all of that was made even more trivial than it already was by the announcement that Jenna Jameson is retiring again. And to celebrate, she ditched her boobs. The truly shocking part of that to me is she is only 33. OK, let’s get this in perspective here. Everyone who’s made an “honest” living the last fourteen years and are ready to legally and financially retire raise your hands. She’s made millions doing what we all do for free. To me, that’s the the biggest headline so far. The money she made, not the boobs she ditched.

Well, I take that back. the pigeon dung being bad for bridges story was pretty captivating. But that would go on the spacedream I would think.

Three stories about boobs, two stories about breasts, one story about poop. There’s more, but that’s all I have to say about that right now

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So far this morning, it’s 7:44 in the morning here, I have had:

• Six women who just wanted to say “Hi” ( and I bet that’s not all! )
• Three women have flat out wanted to do me.
• One woman offered to bring her twin sister.
• About ten people wanted to make me rich.
• Just so I wouldn’t have to work too hard, fifteen people have offered me Viagra or whatever.

However, it’s not all peaches and cream, thirty people think I need a larger penis. ( However, they can fix that problem very easily. )

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Got a car you’re not too pleased with or rather suspicious of the quality?  Check out the Office of Defects Investigation to see all the recalls for your car.  It’s actually saved me money.  Very handy page to have at your fingertips.

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I have made some major updates to the blog.  Particularly, I am using Feedburner for a lot of new functions.  If you have an RSS feed to this blog and the others here, please delete the old feed and replace it with the links in labeled "subscribe" over there —>>>.  It’s worth the trouble.

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I’m adding La Shawn Barber’s blog to my suggested reading list over there ——>

When you read her stuff, you’ll understand why.

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Don’t ask me why, it’s a convoluted tale, but I had to reference Rupaul’s webpage somehere else.  I was quite surprised to find Rupaul has a blog.  So, I guess I gotta mention it:

For those of you not familiar with RuPaul, go there WITH CAUTION!

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As far as I know, this is about as nude a Britney as you’re going to find.  And from what I’ve heard, it will be for at least a year for sure.  Actually, this post is about something more important than seeing Britney’s boobs.

According to a computer software maker, Spears tops the list of famous people whose names are used in mass e-mail messages to entice readers to download damaging viruses.

A typical scenario would involve a spam e-mail that either contains the virus program as an attachment or includes a link to a Web site that can infect the reader’s computer with a Trojan-type virus.

Panda Software, which published the rankings, notes that creators of these viruses often use attractive female celebrities such as Spears, Jennifer Lopez or Paris Hilton or globally known figures such as Bill Gates, who took second place in the rankings. Phony news events surrounding such polarizing individuals as Osama Bin Laden can also lure a reader to click on the virus link.

In other words, Pavlov’s dog lures computer users to their unsuspecting death.  The game is too easy.

For what it’s worth, here’s some e-mail headlines featuring Britney alone that are guaranteed to compromise your computer every single time:

• Britney sex xxx.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears and Eminem porn.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears blowjob.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears c*mshot.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears f**k.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears full album.mp3.exe
• Britney Spears porn.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears Sexy archive.doc.exe
• Britney Spears Song text archive.doc.exe
• Britney Spears.jpg.exe
• Britney Spears.mp3.exe

And that’s just the Netsky.p bug.  There are tons more.  The clue here is “.exe”.  Documents, pictures, music files, video files, spreadsheets, and, screensavers never need the “.exe” extension.  If you think you’re about to see Britney having sex with Eminem, and that file has an .exe extension, you’re the one getting screwed.  Put your brain back in control, stop the transfer, and move on.  Pavlov’s dog runs wild on the internet.

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Microsoft is in the blog business now apparently.  I got a teaser from MSN.  I’m a sucker for about anything related to blogging right now.  Here’s what it looks like, http://spaces.msn.com/members/moonagewebdream/

For a novice, it’s OK.  It’s easy to use and free.  Space is limited to 30 meg.  It does seem to load quickly.

I’ll be staying right here tho, typepad blows MSN away functionally.  And, I prefer to sell stuff that I make money off of.  Bill Gates has enough.

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Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2004

1. Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
2. incumbent ( mentioned here )
3. electoral ( mentioned here )
4. insurgent ( mentioned here )
5. hurricane ( mentioned here )
6. cicada ( mentioned here )
7. peloton :  ( What the heck is that? )
8. partisan ( mentioned here )
9. sovereignty ( mentioned here )
10. defenestration ( What the heck is that? )

I mentioned eight of the ten most popular searches on the net in 2004.  The other two I don’t have a clue what they are, but, since I printed this list, they’re mentioned here too.

Now, is this not the hippest site you’ve been to? 

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OK, my buddy Hedonistix announced the arrival of the latest, greatest, internet browser, Firefox.

I’m using it right now just to check it out.  It’s pretty basic, seems to have a very small memory footprint, and really quick.  I think it’s faster than IE 6, but, the speed is hard to tell from here as they are both pretty darn quick.  The pop-ups seem a little different, but nothing special.

The question I have, outside of those that just hate Microsoft, is, why bother?  It’s just a browser.  It relies on java, it does what 100 other browsers before it have done.  In fact, when my sitetracker gets a Firefox hit, it recognizes it as Netscape 6.  We used to call that Netscrape, as it was such a crappy product in those days that IE wont the browser war by default.  Regardless, why would anyone bother getting another browser?  I’m not being mean-spirited, I truly want to know.  It’s making the news, it’s an event.  I just don’t get it.
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Quick update, I’m actually already having problems with Firefox.  Some pages don’t display right at all, rendering the page unreadable ( livescience.com for example ).

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