Gaye Males, Associate Broker – Coldwell Banker

As Chris writes, "Coldwell Banker is a very progressive company." Indeed. And before anyone says poking fun at someone's name is wrong, please recall my last name is a month of the year so I get my share.

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Today is one of those "better just post some links" days. So without further introduction or delay, here are some I recently enjoyed.

Oppose Writing Intolerance into the U.S. Constitution
Send your representatives an free ACLU-drafted letter or fax opposing the amendment of the US Constitution to specifically declare "marriage" or any derivation thereof, a union between a man and woman.

Moral Dilemma
A brief and humorous discussion about modern thinking.

Gay Marriage Etiquette
Now that Canada has legalised a form of homosexual marriage, there are new rules and superstitions to learn about.

Terms of Venery and Collective Nouns
Let not the title scare you, this writing about categorisations such as "pride of lions" is quite funny.

How two students built an A-bomb
An article about the 1964 secret US "Nth Country Project" designed to see how easy it would be for other nations to develop nuclear weapon technology. [ via ]

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974
Found in an attic, these retro recipe cards offer up a nauseous insight into the lose-weight-now programme of the early 70's. Be sure to check out the author commentary for each card.

The Safeway Ultimate Shopper
A whole new spin on defrauding stores keeping gigantic databases of your shopping habits, this guy will send you a sticker of his Safeway card bar-code so that when you make a purchase, it goes on his account.

What is Queer Food?
An entertaining article discussing the nature of what foods homosexuals like to eat and very thorough discussions as to why that is fact.

24th Century Interior Design
This British ex-DJ (due to a "run of bad luck") now spends his time creating rooms designed and furnished to give the appearance of a room on the Enterprise. Twisted, yet fascinating.

Evil, Evil Crafts
Select finds from garage sales including t-shirts you would not wear if it meant your life, needless complex and somewhat distasteful cake decorations and various other craft ideas that were immediately tossed upon initial creation.

MS Paint Porn
Pornographic images created using the world's foremost leader in electronic digital graphic design and manipulation, Microsoft Paint. You know you made these sorts of images when you were younger and using Windows 3.1.

This is my last entry for today. I promise.

Rod Shelley writes:

These images are the result of 8 years in the retail computer industry — 8 years that are thankfully behind me. I used to work in the service department in a retail store of a very famous computer company (think cows…). During this time, I was able to observe (and preserve for posterity) the aftereffects of the — shall we say — "technology challenged" folks. My friends and relatives couldn't believe the stories I told — thus this collection of photos.

These are absolutely fabulous. Having done this sort of work before, I have seen some of these things. Was particularly fond of the pictures of people's displays. Those were all too familiar.

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Just a few quick bullets…

1. I thought this and this were hilarious.
2. I saw Adaptation last night and thought it was great. No formal review for this one; if you like Jonze and/or Kaufman, you will probably like this film.
3. I have new headlamps and CV Axles on my car. Yay!
4. The Oscar® contender that was the highest grossing movie this past weekend: Kangaroo Jack. 17.6 million. I guess the kids were bored… or something.
5. I will scream if I read/watch/hear another person, whilst discussing the recently past Golden Globe® Awards, refer to it as some sort of fashion show.
6. I wish I spun. Delerium is doing a remix contest. The winner's track will be on the remix disc of their upcoming Chimera album. The single, "After All," is intoxicating.