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But that's probably not the "consumer content" you were hoping for, eh?
Here's another reason why. Excellent post.
You see, now that YouTube has been bought by Google, they're taking videos down about as quickly as the mob can put them up.
I'll try my best to keep putting cool YouTube content up, but I guess this is your incentive to check the blog early and often - I make no guarantees about when the new GooTube's copyright lawyers are cracking down.
(Sigh) -- I already miss the old YouTube.
I haven't been this disappointed about a corporate purchase since Quaker bought Snapple.
Sometimes greatness needs to be simply left alone.
For those of you who live in the Seattle area, please go see this riveting play I've heard so much chatter about.
The critics are raving, and audiences are told to expect the unexpected every night.
And, my wife's in it.
Vote. For God's sake, vote.
Type in your zipcode, and learn a few things about where you live.
Make sure to take notice of the music underneath.
2006-10-25_Corker_Radio_Ad.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Good find, Adpulp.
And the Stranger found him.
I'm not kidding - you can train fish to do tricks.
As I always say, this must be what Rome felt like - right before the fall.
I found this thanks to the fact that the Schwartz is with me.
I love how everyone talks about conspiracy theories - are they right, or are they crazy?
For me, the bigger message is that Americans are willing to believe such things - whether they are true or not is not as important as the fact that Americans distrust their own government, corporations, etc.
It's this belief that leads to the publishing of books like this one:
It's time we wake up, and realize that we're losing faith in institutions, and losing our sense of innocense about our place in the world.
Don't forget to vote this year.
Hey, I'm just saying...
Apparently, Rush Limbaugh things the whole thing is just a big act.
Wow. Nice work. He certainly had me fooled.
I though he actually might be sick or something.
Thanks for clearing this up, Rush.
My two favorite quotes?
"I've used the Google." (Ed note: I believe it's on the Internets.)
"I'm very cautious about emailing. (Ed note: Oh, I bet you are. We all are more cautious now, thanks a lot.)
Laugh if you will, but at least the Jet Blue pilots in Second Life are well rested.
But here's one - this is going to be the funniest thing you'll see for the next month.
Click the link below, and watch the video.
(Pay particular attention to the background of the news story.)
Someone take this woman out.
And I mean that either in the Mafia "take her out" way - or at least on a date. She obviously needs something.
The Stranger | Seattle | Slog: The Stranger's Blog | Who Said It?
Of course, many PCs have a virus as well. It's just called Windows.
(rim shot)
wrote a book. You should buy it.
And she's promoting it through a new blog.
You should read it.
Thus ends another honest commercial message.
You've got to be effin' kidding me.
I live in what I consider the most beautiful state in the union, and we can't buy a good tourism promotion idea?
Adrants � Screw Metrosexual. Metronatural is the Cool New Made Up Word
But...a chance to bid on props from the cancelled Arrested Development? Including Gob's Segway? Dude - I'm IN.
The Stranger helped me find this. And I hereby give them props.
Some good folks in Seattle have crossed the Zillow home values map with a Halloween slant to tell you where to spend your most efficient and productive Trick or Treating time.
My favorite quote?
"Poor people don't give out much candy. Middle class folks give out the most candy. Rich people give out the best candy. Really rich people are like poor people."
I'm getting a little more optimistic about November - even with the rigged voting machines and all.
Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: Nothing's The Matter With Kansas
Because I recommend the word "honesty" instead.
Too often, authenticity becomes an excuse to just do more spinning.
MediaPost Publications - Pro-Wal-Mart Travel Blog Screeches To A Halt - 10/12/2006
Let's be HONEST...it's longer lasting.
They haven't won it since 1908. And Lou thinks this is going to help?
ESPN.com - MLB - Source: Piniella wants to acquire A-Rod
You know, I've got half a mind to ride the monorail down to city hall and give them a little "whatfor."
The Seattle Times: Local News: Mayor firm: No new viaduct
This stat ought to give you pause.
And maybe a little change to your marketing plans.
The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Married couples outnumbered for first time
The spammers have found me, and they're just killing me.
From now on, to leave a comment - you'll have to register. No big deal, but I had to do something - I'm just drowning from email from Manatu. (Bonus points if you get the reference!)
Thanks to all of you who take the time to comment on entries - please keep those comments coming!
You know, Googling yourself is no fun when you have too common a name - like mine.
Suffice it to say, I'm NOT "a friendly voice with a warm comforting delivery."
In fact, I'm a little more like "a shrill voice with an politically progressive delivery."
But, in the meantime, maybe you have some work for this guy.
Dave Weaver - A friendly voice with a warm comforting delivery - Voice123
Here's something I never expected when I started blogging about 6 months ago...
If I don't blog anything by about 10 in the morning, I start receiving emails that read..."what, no entries today?" or "slacking off this morning are we?" etc. etc.
So...in the interest of full disclosure, I'll just let you know that my parents are in town, and the blog entries will be quite late today.
In the meantime, if you wanna see me - I'd suggest you go down to the Pike Place Market and look for a forty-something guy leading a couple of Midwestern Rubes around.
Money Quote:
"No more 7:05 p.m. or 7:35 p.m. games, of which there are about 50. They will all begin, for the next three seasons, at 7:11 p.m., courtesy of 7-Eleven, the convenience store giant, which will pay the team an average of a half-million dollars a year to be the name behind the time."
Sox thank heaven for 7:11 | Chicago Tribune
Found at lbtoronto.typepad.com.
My favorite quote..."You can't own technology...your role as a marketer or content provider is to stay relevant. MySpace becomes landfill when the noise is up and the value gets lost."
This just in - Americans are pricks.
I know, I know - not exactly "breaking news."
"We're just reacting to a water test only. We know there's generic E. coli on it, but we're not sure what that means," he said. "We're being extra careful. This is precautionary."
Lettuce recalled over E. coli concerns - Yahoo! News
Thanks to The Stranger for the find.
"I heard to my left the N-word and I heard it again and I looked around and I heard it again and there was this fellow sitting on the ground....I said to the boy beside me, a man, who is that kid? And he said, oh, that's George Allen." --Patricia Waring

Red means your congressional rep voted AGAINST torturing people.
Blue means your rep is in favor of redefining the Geneva convention.




Thanks to C-DONE for the find.
"The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said."
In Border Fence's Path, Congressional Roadblocks - washingtonpost.com

I'd recommend you bring it back to celebrate next year's pirate day.

We've become the bad guys.
Talking to the VP in anything other than homilies is "assaulting" Mr. Cheney.
Get out there and march today.
World Can't Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime - Event Listings
Boy, these "accidents" just keep happening.
They're turning these people into Americans.
USATODAY.com - High-calorie diet fattens prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Click around on this one. They make a lot of good points.
Best MP3 on the web this week.
The head of The Democrats Party, a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, Vidar Kleppe, is outraged that boys at Dvergsnes School in Kristiansand have to sit and pee.
Kleppe accuses the school of fiddling with God's work, and wants the matter discussed at the executive committee level of the local council, newspaper Dagbladet reports.
"When boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way, the way boys have done for generations, it is meddling with God's work," Kleppe told the newspaper.
"It is a human right not to have to sit down like a girl," Kleppe said.
Urination will go to committee - Aftenposten.no
SOME HIGHLIGHTS...
Maf54 (7:46:33 PM): did any girl give you a haand job this weekend
Xxxxxxxxx (7:46:38 PM): lol no
Xxxxxxxxx (7:46:40 PM): im single right now
Xxxxxxxxx (7:46:57 PM): my last gf and i broke up a few weeks agi
Maf54 (7:47:11 PM): are you
Maf54 (7:47:11 PM): good so your getting horny
Xxxxxxxxx (7:47:29 PM): lol…a bit
Maf54 (7:48:00 PM): did you spank it this weekend yourself
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:04 PM): no
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:16 PM): been too tired and too busy
Maf54 (7:48:33 PM): wow…
Maf54 (7:48:34 PM): i am never to busy haha
Xxxxxxxxx (7:48:51 PM): haha
Maf54 (7:50:02 PM): or tired..helps me sleep
Xxxxxxxxx (7:50:15 PM): thats true
Xxxxxxxxx (7:50:36 PM): havent been having a problem with sleep though.. i just walk in the door and collapse well at least this weekend
Maf54 (7:50:56 PM): i am sure
Xxxxxxxxx (7:50:57 PM): i dont do it very often normally though
Maf54 (7:51:11 PM): why not
Maf54 (7:51:22 PM): at your age seems like it would be daily
Xxxxxxxxx (7:51:57 PM): not me
Xxxxxxxxx (7:52:01 PM): im not a horn dog