Dell is going to fire one in ten employees over the next year.  Ouch.
 
From CNET here:
Dell released preliminary earnings Thursday showing positive signs in its servers unit, but announced it would lay off 10 percent of its workforce over the coming year.
With a current worldwide workforce of 88,000, approximately 8,800 employees will be let go [...]

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It appears that OLM, my hosting provider had a bit of a disaster today.  Something about a giant surge that overwhelmed the UPS’es and the backup generators. 
 
Sounds to me like they need to work on their disaster recovery plan.

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The current head of NASA, Michael Griffin understands NASA’s role in the Climate Change Debate:  Its not NASA’s job to change the climate.  In fact, he wonders if mankind should even try to stop climate change at all.
 
From NPR here:
“I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure [...]

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Robert Soloway sent so much spam that prosecutors think that worldwide spam will be noticeably reduced during his lockup.  We’ll see.  Paint me skeptical.  I don’t really get too miffed about the spam-  but botting a lot of unsuspecting people’s computers is wrong.  And the DOJ is taking him down for that.
 
From the AP here:
A [...]

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If the United States government took a picture of your home, your car, and your neighborhood and put it up on the internet for anyone to locate and exploit, you would be pissed.  Well, Google is providing this service for free.
Drudge said that Google was putting peoples’ faces on the streets of Google Maps, and [...]

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Update!  NOT!  Turns out that the British media reported this originally, and it was picked up by TMZ.com, who I quote below in the original story.  According to her lawyers and publicists, Yoko wasn’t even in England at the time.  Now why would someone want to spread such vicious lies about her?  Hmmm, I wonder…
Originial [...]

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If a Hamster can kick your ass?  This sounds like a bad Monty Python skit, but a British man was almost undone by his own hamster. 

Fear the Cuteness!
From the Reg here:
A Worcestershire man may well have saved his own life after suffering a “severe allergic reaction” to a hamster bite - by self-administering anti-allergy drugs [...]

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A man got pissed at a manager of a Wendy’s because he wouldn’t give the man enough chili sauce packets.  So he shot him.
 
From the AP here:
A manager at a fast-food restaurant was shot several times in the arm early Tuesday trying to protect the chili sauce, authorities said.
A man in the Wendy’s drive-through argued [...]

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Aww, look at the cuteness and send me all your money.  Gullible women are falling for the Nigerian advance fee scam because they think they are helping to get a cute fluffy puppy.  Okay, maybe some men are falling for it too, but I seriously question their masculinity.
 
From FoxNews here, with a hat tip to [...]

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Apple is too cool for self-obsessed bad HTML coders.  Too many idiots were coming into the Apple Stores and monopolizing the Macs on display to update and browse MySpace.
 
From the Crave CNET blog here:
In New York City, you can go to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in midtown 24 hours a day, seven days [...]

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What is up with Malaysia and the MPAA?  I could maybe understand using dogs to crack DVD piracy rings, but now Malay movie ushers are spying on their moviegoers using night vision goggles.  But will they flog the violators?
 
From VNUnet here:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is equipping cinema ushers with night vision goggles [...]

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How can an underaged woman drink so much?  Lindsay wrecked her $175,000 Mercedes because she was drunk and stupid.  That car has over 600 horse power, and unless you know how to control it, that much power can put you in a ditch, a tailspin, or in Lindsay’s case, nose first into a tree and [...]

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I just got back from an emotional ceremony in the parking lot of Patriot Harley Davidson in Fairfax Virginia.  Every year motorcyclists gather at Patriot for the annual Ride of the Patriots from Fairfax to the Pentagon where the Fairfax Harley Davidson chapter meets up with the rest of the riders for Rolling Thunder.
The stage [...]

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We are making a Belly Cast.  Ingredients is one very pregnant belly, lots of plaster casting strips and whatever paint you want.  And yes, its a bit messy, but it is lots of fun.

A great bellycasting site is here.

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Meat-fisted bully Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View early. She had one last fight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and then Rosie’s head writer was escorted out of the View’s studios for childishly drawing mustaches on Elisabeth’s posters.

And you just know I have Rosie’s celebrity belch. Click her picture above to hear it.

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I was going through my weblogs last night and stumbled on a strange referral to the site. It was from Live.Com’s photo search results from the keyword of “retarded chicken.” Seems that if you search Live.com for that phrase, my site is listed as numero uno. But it was the picture NEXT [...]

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Yeah, I’m a heartless bastard sometimes. And I admit, I laughed out loud at the notion that this lady was crying on national TV because the state came and took her monkey. But she lives in Maryland and she votes Democrat, so she gets the nanny state she voted for. No use [...]

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Environmentalism is so kooky in Italy that they refuse to allow anyone to build new landfills to dispose of garbage.  This is stupid and dangerous, and will likely cause outbreaks of diseases in Naples, where they have stopped collecting garbage. 
 
From the AP here:
Residents of Naples have begun burning heaps of garbage that have piled up [...]

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The Goracle is going to make a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.

From Cinematical here:
If this summer movie season shows us anything, it’s that Hollywood has gone sequel-crazy. These greedy studio executives keep demanding more explosions, more superheroes, more Power Point presentations about global warming! Wait…what was that last one? Yes folks, An [...]

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There seems to be evidence that dinosaurs could swim. It seems rather logical to me that this would be the case- most lizards can swim. Some iguanas spend lots of time underwater down in the Galapagos. Just about all animals can swim, including elephants. But for some reason, seeing a [...]

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