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Archive for December, 2007
Belch.Com’s Hangover Cure
Dec 31st
Like most Americans, you may be celebrating the incoming New Year tonight with a many friends and a few cocktails. And like many people who may have too much celebration and too much cocktails, you will likely wake up tomorrow morning with a hangover, and hopefully, no regrets.

First, let’s not call it a “hangover.” It has a negative connotation, and if you call in sick to work with a “hangover” you will get no pity from your boss.

Instead, let’s call it “Celebration Sickness.” It serves as a reminder that you got the way you are because you were having fun. And if you call into work with “celebration sickness,” your boss might be a bit envious that he didn’t get to do whatever it was that you did.
Let me start by stating the obvious: You can avoid celebration sickness by not drinking at all. Or if you do drink, you should limit it to just two. If you are going to have more than that, you should be prepared to deal with the possibility of celebration sickness. Celebration sickness is caused by the constriction of blood vessels and dehydration caused by the metabolization of alcohol.
So to combat these symptoms, you must do one or all of the following:
- Stay Hydrated. Drink at least 16 ounces of water for each ounce of alcohol consumed.
- Retard the metabolization of alcohol. This can be accomplished by using carbon in the stomach to filter excess alcohol.
- Thin the blood. Since alcohol constricts blood vessels, only a blood thinner can keep the blood flowing easily. Aspirin and never Tylenol (acetaminophen) will help with this.
About staying hydrated- It is best to do this as the night goes along. You don’t want to try to chug a half-gallon of water before bedtime, and guzzling all the water at once is not as effective as pacing yourself.
Using carbon in the stomach doesn’t mean you should eat charcoal. But eating burnt things will certainly help. Burnt toast, blackened chicken or beef, or even grilled veggies will put some carbon in your stomach. It will act as a natural filter to slow down the alcohol absorption. Some over-the-counter pills also contain carbon, specifically designed to combat hangovers. Sob’r-K is a pill with a high carbon content and is very effective and quite cheap too.
Aspirin is very effective at alleviating symptoms of Celebration Sickness and can even be taken as a preventative solution before bedtime. If you have a sensitive stomach you should really consider taking coated aspirin. Or better yet, use Alka-Seltzer. It combines aspirin with bicarbonate of soda, and mixed with water, you get all three cures in one. Alka-Seltzer even makes a “Morning Relief” formula which adds a caffeine kick to help you get your day started.
As mentioned before, never take Tylenol, not even three days after a night of mild drinking. It causes more liver damage than alcohol consumption.
Happy New Year everyone! Have a great time tonight and come back to this site regularly in 2008.
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BelchSpeak’s Best of 2007
Dec 31st
For those of you who may be new to the blog, and for those of you who have been around for a while, allow me to familiarize you with what I consider the best blog postings of 2007. Feel free to click these instant classics and relive the experiences or discover them for the first time.

Personal
I experienced quite a few personal milestones in 2007. I found out the sex of my baby, and worked quite hard on getting the nursery together. I became an Uncle again and lost a beloved pet. I got a new kitty to replace the one that died, and became a father for the first time.
Website Recognition
I caught wind that my website was mentioned in a newspaper somewhere.
Idiots of the Year
Some of the biggest dopes of the year were celebrated with blog posts. First up is a county treasurer that gave his county funds away to Nigerian scammers in an email scam. Next up is Sheryl Crow and her big dumb idea to use less toilet paper in order to fight global warming. While awaiting trial for killing dogs with his dogfighting scheme, Mike Vick toked up and failed a drug test. And Katherine Lester spent some quality time with an abusive Moslem in the West Bank and finally realized that everyone else in the world really does know what the hell they are talking about.
Worst Ways to Die
Most of the worst ways to die that are mentioned entail getting eaten by animals or squished by something stupid. Or both. First up is an owl that kills a drunken thief. Next, a whacky animal horder gets squished by her pet camel. Sadly, a baby is killed by her vegan parents because they refuse to feed her milk. Some idiot that keeps a tiger and a lion on his roof in Mexico is eaten by both of them. And a “Peace Monk” cuts his lawn the absolutely wrong way. And yet another camel humps a lady to death. The creepy goth guy that collects spiders? Yep, the spiders ate his dumb ass. And finally, death by peanuts.
Biggest Hypocrites for 2007
Peta Employees went on trial for cruelty to animals. They were dumping doggie corpses into a dumpster at a grocery store. Prius drivers are worse for the environment than Hummer drivers. And Al Gore.
Perverts of the Year
A 29-Year-Old Pedophile enrolls himself in the 5th grade. Lorelei Corpuz is a 28 year old lesbian woman who passes herself as a teenage boy to scam victims. A story about a creepy school teacher got the most comments on the site. A Senator named Larry Craig. And some creep that loves his dogs too much.
Religious Stupidity of the Year
Once again, it is mostly Muslims that do the whackiest stuff, followed closely by witches. First is the retarded Burkini bathing suit. Next is a Moslem that practices necromancy. Modern witches went to trial in Salem for mutilating a raccoon. Another witch was drunkenly burning debris too close to her home as part of a ritual. And the muslim rage over a stupid teddy bear.
Most Deserved Firings
After many embarrassing goofs, the Department of Energy boss was fired. A county assessor was doing blow from her desk. A stupid teacher brought heroin to school. And a school principal was performing voodoo rituals to help students get better grades.
Stupid Chinese Travesties
Kids that spend too much time online gaming get electric shock treatments. The Chinese brag that they help reduce global warming because they abort so many babies. And when rats become a problem, just put them on the menu.
Best Clown Stories
One clown tried to sneak drugs into a prison. This mime finally did something really funny. And this clown was busted for fondling children in Asia.
Global Warming Hoaxes of the Year
Global warming supposedly is more dangerous than a full-blown nuclear war. Children are scared shitless about global warming when they should be more afraid of their teachers. And a giant douche won the Nobel Prize.
2007′s Best Cyber Stories
The Storm Worm becomes the most powerful distributed computing platform on the planet. AT&T is listening in on cyber communications. Comcast and Net Neutrality.
Posts That Make Me Laugh
Jeff Dunham and his new terrorist friend. And the song Symantec sings to their disappointed shareholders.
Bizarre Comments
Two posts stand out as having deranged visitors and flaky comments. Enjoy the comments by a bedwetter bisexual virgin here and a school teacher that defends a pedophile teacher in his school district.
2007′s Scariest Trends
Meth use is getting out of control in the midwestern states. And enough with the stories about nooses, okay?
Father of the Year of 2007
Alec Baldwin for his voicemail to his daughter.
Mothers of the Year of 2007
The Straws, who let their kids starve because they were too busy playing Online games. This Mom threw her baby at cops when they tried to bust her for smoking dope. And this Mom filmed her 2-Year Old getting high and posted it on Myspace.
Just the Coolest of 2007
A copy of a speeding ticket: 205 in a 65. The runes featured in the end of the Davinci Code at the Rosslyn Chapel were cracked. Cannibal Chipmunks. Dante’s tour of hell. Virginia is the world’s wine destination. Dracula fought the first war on terror. Hedgehogs.
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The French Get Cooler and Cooler
Dec 29th
First they elect Sarkozy. He backs us on the world stage and understands what it takes to fight against terrorism.

Now the French Scientists are calling it like they see it when it comes to the debate on Global Warming. One is calling Al Gore a crook and his followers religious zealots. I think his exact words were, “M. Gore est un escroc. Et un pénis décomposé. Ses sectateurs sont tous les fanatiques religieux.”
From Bloomberg here via Drudge:
Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession is a Climate change skeptic. His new book, “Ma Verite Sur la Planete” (“My Truth About the Planet”), doesn’t mince words.
He calls Gore a “crook” presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore’s French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.
He dismisses talk of renewable energies, such as wind or solar power, saying it would take a century for them to become a serious factor in meeting the world’s energy demands.
And the French are also sensible when it comes to using nuclear power. Most of France is powered by Nuke plants which are clean and efficient.
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Kicking the Corpse of Netscape in the Ribs
Dec 28th
Netscape will officially cease its long and miserable existence on February 1, 2008. Good Riddance. While it was a good browser at one time, it failed to evolve itself and compete with other browsers, and the company so hated Microsoft that it refused to integrate it properly into the Windows Operating System.

Netscape was such a crappy product with the stink of failure surrounding it that it eventually caused AOL to lose business and waste tons of cash on it. Even when AOL purchased the buggy and bloated software for 4.2 Billion dollars, it didn’t bother to integrate it into its own AOL bundled software. It preferred Internet Explorer instead!
It should have never been bought by AOL and should have been allowed to die in 1999. That it lasted almost ten more years is a joke. And that AOL wasted billions on a product it never used is a laughingstock, and proof of why that company constantly swam in “Lake Fail.”
There will be no requiem for this crappy browser from me. I might dance on its grave.
From TechCrunch here:
Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the browser, currently on version 9.
In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated. Most of their efforts have been aimed at creating a Netscape-skinned version of Firefox with the Netscape look and feel.
The team has been unable to gain any significant market share against Microsoft Internet Explorer. In fact, recent surveys suggest that Netscape currently has only 0.6% market share among browsers, compared to IE’s 77.35% and Firefox’s 16.01%. This, of course, is the same browser that once claimed more than 90 percent of the market, sparking the browser wars of the 1990s and the subsequent Microsoft antitrust trial.
I used to get hate mail for my views on Netscape in this really old article I wrote here. I just want to take a moment to say I told you so.
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Bhutto Assassination Video Trojan
Dec 28th
There are lots of websites out there taking advantage of the Bhutto Bombing to spread malware and trojan horse attacks. According to McAfee, some are posing as video codecs hosted on Blogspot sites.

From McAfee here:
Within hours after the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware authors have started capitalizing on this news to spread a new fake codec. This time it is purported to be an assassination video of the former PM.
Claiming to be a New HD Codec, these malware authors attempt to social engineer users into believing they are downloading a legitimate codec for playing the video. At least 10 Blogger websites are observed to be hosting this fake video.
Google should be able to do so much more to prevent their servers from hosting malware. Its real easy to tie a search engine to a cross reference database of known malware links or AV signatures. They don’t have to do it for all websites they index, but they certainly should do it for their own domain.
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Woman Finds Jesus. Woman Steals Jesus. Police Find Jesus in Woman’s Home. Police Jail Woman.
Dec 27th
I have no idea why idiots keep trying to steal Baby Jesus dolls or statues from nativity mangers. It might have been funny a few years ago, but seriously, its been done to death. Even stealing gnomes from peoples’ yards is a worn out prank. But now people are wising up and installing GPS tracking devices into the manger babies, and hilarity ensues when the idiots get busted with the stolen goods.

Danielle Santino’s Booking Photo.
Meet Danielle Santino. She is an idiot from Florida who thought it would be funny to steal a statue of baby Jesus from a manger. I think the look on her face when the cops tracked her down would have been much funnier.
From Local6 here:
Police in Wellington used a GPS tracking system attached to a baby Jesus to track down the statue and arrest a woman in connection with a Dec. 26 theft.
The baby Jesus figure was stolen from a Nativity scene in Wellington Wednesday night. Detectives tracked down the statue to a house in Wellington.
A short time later, Danielle Santino, 18, turned herself in to authorities and Santino was charged with grand theft. The statue was returned to the village.
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Spider-Man To Work With the United Nations
Dec 27th
The United Nations has long fantasized about trying to solve the world’s problems such as hunger, war, poverty and ethnic cleansing. So far they have done pretty much nothing. So why not get a fictional character with superpowers to solve the problem?
From MSNBC here:
He has fought against foes ranging from the Green Goblin to Doctor Octopus, but Spider-Man now faces an even more formidable challenge: improving the battered image of the United Nations.
In a move reminiscent of storylines developed during the World War II, the U.N. is joining forces with Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, to create a comic book showing the international body working with superheroes to solve bloody conflicts and rid the world of disease.
The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1 million U.S. schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature superheroes such as Spider-Man working with U.N. agencies such as Unicef and the “blue hats,” the U.N. peacekeepers.
If Superheroes want to solve the problems of a war-torn country, they should call in the US Military. Otherwise they will have to stand around scratching their asses through their lycra-spandex suits just like real blue-helmet peace-keepers do.
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Cartney and the Kitties
Dec 27th
So its Christmas Morning, and Cartney is pretty tired from having spent so much time opening gifts and playing with his new toys. So he grabbed the kittys’ feather stick. The stick has a cork on the end to prevent him from putting his or the kittys’ eyes out. And it makes a nice thumper to use to smack the kitties.
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Winter Windows by SeaWolf
Dec 26th
Ever since I heard this on the radio, I loved the music. I had no idea who the artist was, nor the name of the song and Google wasn’t much of a help since you can’t submit “humming” as a search criteria.
Luckily the radio station I heard it on, 94.7 TheGlobe has an impeccable songlist log at their website and I was able to figure out who it was. The video rocks too!
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Happy Kwanzaa, Holiday of Hate
Dec 26th
Get out your electrical cords and beat your women! Its Kwanzaa time!

Kwanzaa is a fake holiday created by a racist radical with a history of violence against women.
From Wikipedia here:
In 1971 Ron Karenga, inventor of Kwanzaa, was convicted of felony assault and false imprisonment for assaulting and torturing two women from the Us organization, Deborah Jones & Gail Davis, over a two day period.
A May 14, 1971 article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women: “Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Ms. Davis’s mouth and placed against Ms. Davis’s face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.”
Karenga is a paragon of virtue. We should all follow his example during this fake holiday season. So warm up those soldering irons, grab your vise grips, and take off those socks. Its Kwanzaa! This fake holiday runs starting today and going through the 1st of January. Whitey is not invited to participate.
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Sandman Chronicles
Dec 26th
My brother and sister-in-law got me something off of my Amazon wishlist- The Absolute Sandman Volumes 1 and 2. I think this is going to be the next major movie product by Neil Gaiman and I have heard nothing but fantastic things about the comics series, and I’m all atwitter to get started on reading them.
You can get yours too by click the photos or clicking here and here.
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Merry Christmas, Dad! Here’s Your Trojan.
Dec 26th
I just finished writing a piece last week talking about the possibility of introducing networked items into your home that could trojanize your PC. I used the example of a toaster and a beer chiller. I should have instead used digital picture frames. Not only do they sell some that are network aware, but they come preloaded from Sam’s Club with a Trojan Horse program.

We gave a picture frame like this one here at Sans to our father. Oops.
From Sans:
We received a report this afternoon from someone who had recently received a digital picture frame. Unfortunately, it had an extra component with it. The built-in storage came with what appears to be some malware already loaded on it — a file called ‘cfhskjn.exe’ was on it when unpacked.
Some of the behavior seen when the digital picture frame was connected to the computer was:
- MSCONFIG would not run – it would briefly open and then terminate
- The system would blue screen when starting in safe mode
- Going to various anti-virus websites would result in the web browser terminating
- Various popups for random name.exe “with ‘not valid image’ messages
This specific product was an “ADS Digital Photo Frame – 8″ sold by Sam’s Club – see here. but this type of infection can, and has affected other portable devices with internal storage.
Dad, don’t run any programs on the frame. You may even want to format it first.
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Great Christmas Gift
Dec 25th
This is an awesome wine chest that my wife’s family clubbed up together to buy for me. It’s a handmade wine chest that is as big as a Wurlitzer Juke Box. To go with it, my brother got me a six month membership in the Virginia Winery Wines of the Month Club, so great wineries from around the region will ship me bottles.

I think it looks totally cool and rustic- like it belongs below decks on a sailing ship.
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Merry Christmas From Belch.Com
Dec 24th
From our family to yours, have a very Happy Christmas. I hope that your new year will be filled with as many blessings as I received this past year.
Here’s something to add a smile to go along with your stockings hung by the Chimney.
Charlie Bit Me – Watch more free videos
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Working From a Christmassy Home
Dec 21st
I am really lucky to get to work from home today. My wife needed help with the baby anyways while she zips around the kitchen baking 4 metric tons of holiday treats for friends and family. I just got the baby to lay down for a nap and we are listening to Christmas songs on the Fios music channel and the house smells like gingerbread.
So I thought I would share a Sinatra song I just heard and loved. The Christmas Waltz. Click the player below to hear it. You can hear the whole thing by going to Imeem and joining up.

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Christmas Caroling With Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Dec 21st
This is an awesome clip from one of Jeff Dunham’s recent shows. Achmed puts on a hat and sings some cheery Christmas tunes. Hilarious! Thanks to Tim for the link.
Achmed Sings Christmas Songs – Watch more free videos
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Muslims Sacrifice Animals on Eid-al-Adha
Dec 20th
Christians celebrate this season with an evergreen tree, songs, and giving gifts, often by a jolly elf. In Islam, however, they still practice blood sacrifice of goats, camels and cattle. The butchering is done in the streets, on the ground, and the blood is allowed to drain into open sewers.

Toss the baby goat. See if Allah will catch it.

Tie a cow to a forklift and hack at it . Dodge the blood sprays.

The city streets are the perfect place to butcher animals for sacrifice in the name of false prophets like Mohammad.

You wonder where mulsim children become comfortable with beheadings? Christians have “Ho Ho Ho” and Muslims have “hack hack hack.”
Thanks to SG at Sweetness and Light for the photos. And he also reminds us that people are up in arms about abusing animals this holiday season, but no one would dare get mad at filthy Islamic barbarian rituals. Nope, they get mad at whales wearing Santa hats like below.
From the DailyMail here:
Environmentalists are saddened by the sight of what they say is the final humiliation for the whale in a country that hunts them down with harpoons.
The beluga whales have been fitted out with the cute Santa hats to entertain the crowds at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise on Yokohama Island.
There’s even a chance to receive a wet kiss under the mistletoe from a yuletide beluga.
Beluga whales have been fitted out with the Santa hats in a bid to draw in the Christmas crowds at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise on Yokohama Island, Japan
Yes, its true that our culture is superior to those of these barbarians who butcher animals needlessly in the streets.
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Reason 307 to HomeSchool: Teacher Won’t Offer Better Grades for Oral Sex
Dec 20th
Meet Isaac Tillis. He worked real hard in school so he could work as a High School math teacher, thinking that one of the perks of the job would be blowjobs on demand.

From the Smoking Gun here:
A Florida math teacher offered to give a 16-year-old female student an “A” in his class if she performed oral sex on him. Isaac Nathan Tillis, 29, was arrested yesterday after the teenager secretly recorded a conversation with him in the bathroom of Bartow High School’s teachers’ lounge.
While in the bathroom, Tillis “lowered his pants” to facilitate the barter arrangement.
Charged with soliciting sex from a minor, Tillis was booked into the Polk County jail, where he remains in custody. He has been suspended from his teaching post.
Tillis doesn’t have a creepy MySpace page. He has a creepy personal home page still up at his old college in which he encourages everyone to find Christ and become saved. It even plays Amazing Grace. And hey, he even has a page that he wrote all about hypocrisy.
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Requiem for One Laptop Per Child
Dec 20th
Hear those bells tolling? They are announcing the death of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, a truly stupid waste of money, setup by do-gooder socialists who have no idea what it takes to build wealth in impoverished nations. OLPC was riding the FAIL train to Doom Junction.

In an article by PCWorld here, excuse after excuse by OLPC are laid out- everything from unfair competition to rising costs of production, and the outright rejection of the idealism behind OLPC are listed. The author of the story still goes out of the way to paint the OLPC project as the sainted savior of the technological poor of the world rather than the abject failure it is.
And remember, I predicted its doom from the very beginning.

From PCWorld with my comments:
The One Laptop Per Child project is now beset by waning orders and competition from commercial vendors that threaten to sideline the nonprofit effort.
Its getting sidelined. This is not about OLPC struggling, this is its death knell.
While Intel is successfully selling its Classmate PC to governments and educators in the developing world, OLPC’s distribution and support model are “not appropriate for a venture of this kind,” critics said. Both have led to its stumbling, as its target customers, governments, reduce orders or withdraw from commitments to order the laptops.
That was excuses 1 and 2. Competition and the lame excuse that they didn’t know WTF they were doing.
By the time the laptop reached production in November, its price had jumped from $100 to $200.
Excuse 3. Prices went up.
The production delays and rising costs have resulted in governments and educators either withdrawing or reviewing original commitments to order XO laptops. The numbers are significantly lower than the one-million-unit minimum that Negroponte, in 2005, called the “entry ticket” for governments wishing to participate in the program.
Only a socialist acts shocked that customers get pissed off when you try the old “bait and switch” on them. You promise wonderful inexpensive technology that magically makes your kids smarter and instead you give them unworkable solutions at twice the cost.
Nigeria, which last year committed to buying 1 million XOs for $100 each, is now reviewing the order with OLPC, said Tomi Davies, who supplies XO laptops to Nigeria’s primary schools. “I understand this commitment is currently under review by the Federal Government of Nigeria due to the price change and potential conflict in educational priorities,” Davies wrote in an e-mail.
The OLPC guys are fooling themselves. Its not under review- the Nigerians are going to cancel. And the next paragraph is why:
Intel PCs loaded with Windows are preferable to open-source XO laptops, as familiarity with the Windows platform helps secondary-school students join the workforce earlier, which benefits the country’s economy, Davies said.
Intel also bested OLPC in Libya, with the country withdrawing its order of 1.2 million XO laptops, opting for Intel’s classroom PC instead.
Notice they use language like “withdrawing order” instead of “canceling the order?” Kinda like the verbage for soldiers in Iraq. The leftists want to “re-deploy” when everyone knows they mean “retreat.”
Even U.S. customers that purchased laptops through the Give 1 Get 1 program have grumbled, with OLPC providing little or no communication about laptops– either the ones they donated or the ones shipped to them. “XO laptops just appear on doorsteps without even an e-mail to tell us when or how they will arrive.” said Wayan Vota, an OLPC observer and donor who runs the Web site OLPC News.
Fabulous customer service. But each laptop dumped on a doorstep comes with a “virtual hug” of thanks for contributing to “the dream.”
Nigeria follows a strict curriculum for students based on specific study material, and Intel is working with the government and schools to integrate Classmate PCs into curricula. OLPC has yet to clarify its plans to support curricula, Mogensen said.
OLPC in Nigeria is primarily involved in promoting the idea of the laptop rather than working with the government to develop a structure to implement the curricula, Mogensen said.
Like I said, its all about the good intentions. Let someone else worry about the results. Other countries have given OLPC the finger too:
India early on decided not to buy XO laptops. “We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools,” India’s education secretary Sudeep Banerjee reportedly wrote in a letter to the country’s Planning Commission.
“In the developing world, the ministers say, ‘Why aren’t you using [XO] in the U.S.? Why should I risk my limited budget on your dream?’ [OLPC] hasn’t done objective testing– no data that shows XO laptop is a better option to educate kids in the classroom than other computers, or better-trained teachers,” Vota said.
Vota is a big cheerleader for OLPC, but he knows the score.
“Most people didn’t know Negroponte until he announced [the XO laptop],” Kay said. “If this thing fails, he will be remembered as the guy who launched this crazy idea.” However, it’s too early to call the project a failure, he said.
I called it a failure at the outset. Now if the socialists hold true to form, they will have huge press conferences blaming big business and capitalists for their own shortsightedness and failures. And for all those dimwits who didn’t have enough sense to not invest in this crackpot scheme: I hope the sting of your empty pockets is soothed by the warmth in your heart by trying to do “a good thing.” Suckers.
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Picasso’s Portrait of Suzanne Bloch Stolen
Dec 20th
Sounds like a job for the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Maybe they should setup a field office in Brazil.

The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen in Sao Paulo by three men.

From the BBC here:
Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, and The Coffee Worker by Brazil’s Candido Portinari, were taken from the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo.
The theft lasted about three minutes and was caught on security cameras.
The museum’s press service had estimated their joint worth at more than $100 Million.
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