…but so embarrassing.

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/ebizmba25.html

1. MySpace
2. Wikipedia
3. Youtube
4. Photobucket
5. Facebook

Huh?!? How did Photobucket beat Craigslist (#6). I have never searched for jobs or whores on Photobucket. What about Flickr (#7)? This just doesn't seem right. At least Wikipedia is up there. It might have some accuracy problems, but at least people are reading.

Firefox can look awfully Web 1.0 on Ubuntu. Thankfully there is a quick and easy fix for this.

So close Firefox and open a terminal window.

1. wget http://users.tkk.fi/~otsaloma/art/firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

2. tar -xvzf firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz

3. sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css.bak

4. cat firefox-form-widgets/res/forms-extra.css | sudo tee –append /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css >
   /dev/null

5. sudo cp -r firefox-form-widgets/res/form-widgets /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res

6. rm -rf firefox-form-widgets

Now start Firefox. That's it!

• Entourage. W00t W00t. She's just crazy, not Tourette's.

• 5-4 on the HOP. Let me say that again. 5 - 4 on the hop. I haven't pulled a 12 in years. But the hops are working.

• Nice roll Fielder. We all paid now

• NI9E, Japonais and Zooza Crackers at the Wynn.

• What up Chucky? Spirit Fingers!

The hilarious Bill Caco is at it again. This time he is fighting his way through tons of mediocre (at best) movie spoofs in Yahoo's MTV Movie Awards Spoof Competition. Casino Royale With Cheese stands out from the rest. The production value is incredible. With witty dialog, perfect impersonations, a one-eyed dog, a very hot Bond girl, and Jon Liu, this spoof is hands down the favorite to win. If you don't believe me, check it out…and give this movie the 5 stars it deserves!

Well, we had the winning ticket for the Preakness. Too bad a $1 trifecta paid $25. Yeah, last year it paid $1,995. It's rare you have the top 3 favorites finish in the top 3. At that point I would have liked to see Street Sense pull it out so we can root for a Triple Crown. I guess there is always next year. I love this sport. Only 20 days till Belmont.

• Marvelous rocked The Cat Club on Sat. They are sounding really good. You should come check them out.

• An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 is hilarious. I think he found his calling, public speaking.
• 3 days till Vacay!
• Happy Birthday, Sunil Bhanot.
• You have got to be kidding. This can't be for real. Think about it.

"Rev." Jerry Falwell died today. There is no better way to remember him than by looking (and archiving) some of his most famous quotes.

• "There are almost as many alcoholics as there are negroes."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell

• "I do not believe the Republicans or the Democrats have the solution to America's moral and spiritual dilemma. Only a pervasive and national spiritual awakening can prevent us entering the post-Christian era as we go simultaneously into the 21st century. I believe America is in imminent peril. We are rotting from within."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell
  Rebuilding America's Walls, 7/6/97
• "Somewhere in the past generation, we've lost our biblical mind and not arranged something better in its place. We need a spiritual brainwashing."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell
• "The idea of separation of Church and State was invented by the Devil to keep Christians
  from running their own country."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell
• "I know a few of you here today don't like Jews. And I know why. He can make more money accidentally
  than you can on purpose."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell
• "I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it.
  Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission
  to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the
  feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it
  and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their
  problem"
  Rev. Jerry Falwell
• "Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution… [W]e must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours."
  Jerry Falwell, March 1993 sermon
• "I do question the sincerity and non-violent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell

• "I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify
  him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed
  deserve minority status."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from
  The Religious Freedom Coalition, The Two faces of Jerry Falwell
• "God Gave us what we deserve. I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.' The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this."
  Rev. Jerry Falwell, Washington Post, 9/14/2001

I could continue posting these until I run out of hard drive space on the server. Falwell was an evil charlatan. A quick Google search of him and you will see countless articles on the millions he raised for political and personal gain via God. Why does a man of God need so much money? How can one spread so much hate in the name of Jesus? Doesn't this offend the real Christians? This man was mocking your very beliefs. He took advantage of your blind faith for profit and power. He imposed his own will in the name of God. Jerry Falwell had the fattest neck I have ever seen.

The term "illegal number" or "illegal hex number" has been bothering me so much that I am compelled to post yet again. Everyday I think about this and try to rationalize the concept. I don't understand it. It goes beyond my "God-given" right of freedom of speech. It's a number. It is being claimed by someone for the sole purpose of profit. Or at least protection of profit.

The entire idea of intellectual property is a quandary amongst itself. In theory, I can think of the exact same thing as someone else. We can think of the same joke, write the same story, code the same computer program. The complexities of the algorithms, the syntax of sentences, and the delivery of the joke change it enough to make it unique. Of course patents were invented to protect the inventions. We have always known great minds think alike. Copyrights for scripts and Trademarks for logos protect us in a first come basis. What we have here different. It's a number. This number was thought of by a human and is used as a key to a lock. If I purchase a lock, sans the key, don't I have every right to pick that lock with any tool I can find?

Suppose a company hired me to write the lock (encryption) for their DVDs. Suppose I was a very lazy programmer (no laughing). I have to come up with an encryption method that uses a key — a number that is stored on a chip inside your DVD player. Within 2 hours I have finished my encryption algorithm. I am too tired to mess with that base 16 (hexadecimal) stuff. All those Fs and Ds remind me of HTML colors. I kept my code short and sweet. I wrote my lock and my key. My key is the number 4.

Am I supposed to sue everyone who posts the number 4? Or am I just suing the people who say, the "key to unlock Josh's DVD encryption is the number 4"? The latter would be more reasonable but what is the difference? The key is out. Users will use far more cryptic blog posts to display the key. They found the key. They didn't steal it from my personal computer. They decrypted my super awesome encryption. It didn't take them long but now I am going to have to lobby congress to make the entire number 4 illegal. It doesn't matter what you write or what you say. Your intent doesn't matter. Number 4 will no longer be used by anyone but me and my DVDs.

This is obviously too silly to happen, but it has. They (MPAA, Congress) want you to believe it is the complexity of a base 16 number that makes it subjectable to law. It's not an everyday number, so it can belong to someone. It's their number. So a simple, everyday integer like 4 can never be illegal but a more complex number, that's up for grabs?

Have we lost this much touch with ethics? Are we unable to see this for what it is? It's the intent. It's the intent to break your lock and steal your stuff and sell it. It's not illegal if I buy a lock, pick it and open it, in my own home. I didn't intend to anything wrong. I didn't steal anything. I didn't sell anything. I just thought of a number…that I may have read somewhere.  

"One of the running debates of these playoffs: Is Bruce Bowen a cheap player? I love the fact that anyone's actually debating this — if your answer is 'no,' or your answer is 'I'm not sure,' then you've obviously never played basketball in your life. Bruce Bowen is a cheap player. There's no debate. He's not some clumsy power forward who can't stay out of his own way (like Mark Madsen), or even some uncoordinated center who can't remember to keep his elbows near his body (like Shawn Bradley). He's a world-class athlete who has complete control over every inch of his body at all times."

Bill Simmons - ESPN

• 1849 Sawtelle

• The Preakness!
• Bruce Bowen needs to stop injuring every player in the NBA. If it isn't intentional than he is uncoordinated and negligent.
• D Fish is saving lives. He will always be a Laker at heart.
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