x-rated luggage tag on Flickr Oh oh... I want some xrated luggage...

Boing Boing: Dead Parrot sketch turns real, ends up in court
This parrot has ceased to exist... He is no more.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished ME to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test

French phrases

For my upcoming trip to Paris, I am reviewing these essentials.
I especially like the complements on the beautiful adopted children...

The Only "Gates" I would be seen with

Anyone seen this??? Any comments... I think its cool.. I have seen several things similar, but not as large in Europe..

Gates not his cocky self at RSA conference--Finally "Hardcore open source security advocates might be tempted to compare Bill Gates' opening keynote at the 14th annual RSA Security conference at the Moscone Center to notorious poisoner Lucretia Borgia being invited to address a convention of master chefs, given Microsoft Windows role in enabling a plethora of security concerns over the past few decades" - Now that is quality writing...

Excite News
This story gives me the creeps for two reasons...
1> Some idiot or group of idiots thinks there is a magical elixir of life in pre-pubescent boys penises; and
2> It sounds like the doctor who reattached them might feel the same way...

Who uses the word naughty to describe the actions of little boys except for their grandmothers anyway?

Yahoo! News - Allawi Cautions Shiites on Baath Ban
Oh No... great... amid all the distress in the world, now we have to worry about cleanliness too...

The New York Times > Technology > Market Place: ThinkEquity Starts Web Log to Gather Ideas

Will it be able to anonymously post my balance to a random IP address, so I may gloat or cry (depending on which case applies) about my climbing or diminshing (respectively) balance....

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things