Shownotes 2009.19

| June 21st, 2009

Cast of Cranks

threehtirty
Peter64
Azimuth
jlindsay
klaatu
The Xoke’s
snkmchnb
Pat

Stories:

Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta

http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_2_6_30s_best_five_features

Windows and Mac OS updates every few years. Windows 7 arrives on October 22nd and Apple’s Snow Leopard will show up in September. The Linux kernel, the heart of Linux distributions, however, gets updated every few months.

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GAP for GIMP 2.6 released

http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2009-06-18/gap-2-6-released.html

GAP is a collection of GIMP plugins that make it possible to create animations as sequences of single frames. The result can be saved as animated GIF, AVI or MPEG file (external libraries are used for this).
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Amazon is pleased to make available to you for download an archive file of the machine readable source code (”Source Code”) corresponding to modified software packages used in the Kindle device.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200203720

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PARIS AIR SHOW: Linux control and heavy fuel engines for KillerBee

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/17/328253/paris-air-show-linux-control-and-heavy-fuel-engines-for.html

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Linux lives on over at the Asus site.  Just take a friggin look for yourself ya bitch - http://www.asus.com/  Check out the clamshell.  Even though windows is given top billing, gnu/linux is still there.

So you can take that to the Shit Box - http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/

I love you Monsterb.

Xuck it.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx
Microsofts ‘get the facts’ browser comparison.  Apparently IE is the best… who’da thunk it!
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Palm WebOS source released

http://www.h-online.com/open/Source-code-for-Palm-WebOS-released–/news/113572

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Microsoft tries $10,000 IE 8 only competition and fails

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25783/1231/

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Alien Arena 2009 released

* Per-pixel lighting on surfaces
* OpenAL 1.1 support
* Ogg Vorbis support
* 7 new maps, 2 new player characters
* Stereo sound files
* New scoreboard and HUDs

http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/13881
http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/

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Is Fedora still relevant:
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4459.html

Canonical shut down Ubuntu Santanic version store:
http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/cananical-shut-down-ubuntu-se-store/

Shownotes 2009.18

| June 7th, 2009

Cast of Cranks:
threethirty
Peter64
Azimuth
jlindasy
klaatu
Xoke and Mrs. Xoke

Stories:

Australia to pull away from censoring the net (or trying to, anyway)?

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25542310-15306,00.html

“The Ruddy Government has indicated that it may back away from its mandatory internet filtering plan.”

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Ubuntu and Moblin Linux to work together

http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_and_moblin_linux_to_work_together

Sources at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, tell me that Canonical will be announcing new partnerships with Intel, SanDisk, and RealNetworks. To me, the biggest news is that Canonical will be demonstrating the Moblin version of the UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix).

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Intel buys Wind River for $884 million

Intel is stepping up efforts to stay ahead of ARM in the embedded space by acquiring Wind River, creators of the VxWorks real time embedded OS. VxWorks is a proprietary embedded OS that runs on nearly any modern embedded CPU. VxWorks is trusted in the industry and is well known for being bullet proof and is used in little things like the Mars reconnaissance orbiter.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/06/intel-strikes-back-at-arm-buys-embedded-os-maker-wind-river.ars

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We’ve never been fans of Microsoft’s ability to put hard limits on netbooks with Windows XP; it’s this fact alone that has kept the entire sector from moving forward in terms of specification advancement. Though, we’d probably wager that MSI is even more livid, as bit-tech has reportedly learned that the company’s Wind U115 will soon be yanked from store shelves. The reason? The machine’s hybrid storage system, which puts Windows XP on an SSD and allows other applications and media to be loaded on the HDD. Oddly, the netbook is still for sale on MSI’s webstore, and just a few days ago we saw NEC unveil a hybrid netbook over in Japan. Please Microsoft, reconsider — do it for love, do it for justice.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/06/microsoft-reportedly-bans-netbooks-with-hybrid-storage-systems/
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Spice up YOur LUG

http://tuxradar.com/content/spice-your-lug

You might think that in the age of the internet and the wiki, physical entities gathering together into some form of communion would be considered out of date, but there’s nothing quite like meeting people with similar interests and seeing things for yourself. It’s for this reason that the local LUG is often the first port of call for people just beginning to ignite their love of Linux, as well as people who just want to meet people with similar interests. They provide a vital role in helping the spread of Linux adoption, and a focal point for local educational institutions and businesses.

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Driving the Linux drivers

“. It turns out that there really isn’t much hardware that Linux doesn’t already support. Almost all new hardware produced is coming with a Linux driver already written by the company, or by the community with help from the company.”

http://blogs.computerworld.com/driving_the_linux_drivers

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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

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OpenMoko turns the Freerunner over to the community, begins work on another device

After the recent layoffs at OpenMoko, the decision has been made to turn over detailed hardware plans, code, websites, and even the Openmoko brand and trademark to the community to continue working on the most open phone to date. Openmoko Inc will continue to sponsor the project and provide server infrastructure. Sales will continue on the remaining stock of the A7 Freerunner.

http://lwn.net/Articles/335878/

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Linux Game Publishing adds download and rental options

Resellers of the games can now provide full games for sale as downloads or the user can choose to rent the game for a week or a month at a time. Rental games will require an internet connection to start the game (to phone home), but the full versions (while keylocked) will not. Rentals allow for a significantly lower price for the customer. X3, Jets’n’Guns, and Sacred are currently the only games available for download.

http://blog.linuxgamepublishing.com/2009/06/01/downloadable-and-rental-games-now-available/
http://www.tuxgames.com/ (one of the first resellers to have the option available, so we can check prices)

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ubuntu open sources [most of] launchpad…soon.

http://blog.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-15-launchpads-going-open-source

Launchpad will be open source on the 21st July this year!

Karl Fogel joined the Launchpad team recently as the Launchpad Ombudsman.

listen to “Launchpod 15 - Launchpad’s going open source!” for the whole story

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KDE offers distros a distro-branding service: KDE wil create a wallpaper customized just for that distro so that KDE can maintain its identity and “brand” while the linux distro can be unique and maintain their brand. Theoretically a win-win situation……aside from art teams of distros which could, feasibly, object to an outside party like KDE coming in and offering to do wallpaper art for them….

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/building-brand-together.html
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/06/building-brand.html

……………which leads me [klaatu] on to wondering exactly what is the brand being pushed in Linux? Is it Linux, is it the individual distributions, is it the “brand” of free software? what common symbols do we have to rally around if “Linux” means something different to so many different groups?
ie, think of Maemo, which is based on Linux but does not include so many important things that it sometimes hardly feels like Linux. or eeeXandros, which is Linux but is fairly well despised among Linux proponents. And even Canonical — purveyors of the most successful Linux distro and yet highly controversial and, in some people’s eyes, not firmly rooted in the spirit of true Freedom.

So what is our brand? or do we each just have our own? or what?

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Pete(r64)’s Picks of the week:

GREEK GUYS ON Britains Got Talent - Stavros Flatly Act

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QkOwcXvT6s

Yes Ladies And Gentlemen,
Greeks can eat,
Greeks can have fun,
but most of all,
GREEKS CAN DANCE! Its part of being Greek anyway!

This is the “Stavros Flatley” Act, by a couple of Greek-Cypriot Guys on Britains Got Talent show.
Feel free to express your thoughts of this video, and of these two people, you “give up the cool, to play the fool” and “feel comfortable, by being uncomfortable”.

Copyright Info: ITV.

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Leo Laporte Blows up at Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang - June 6, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsV-lgnAjps

Leo Laporte calls out Mike Arrington of TechCrunch after Leo got mad at him for implying that his opinion of the Pre was effected by the fact he had a free review unit. Wow!!!!

Shownotes 2009.16

| May 10th, 2009

Cast Of Cranks:
threethirty
monsterb
azimuth
jlindsay
Xoke
Mrs. Xoke
Dann
Pat
Chad

Stories:
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OpenOffice.org 3.1 officially released

This is the biggest single code change they have had. Half a million lines of code have been modified. The anti-aliasing of the graphics makes
the interface look sharp. Check the page for the changes.

Feature changes:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/index.html

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Debian is switching from glibc to eglibc

Eglibc will be replacing glibc in the Debian distribution. Eglibc is a variant of the GNU C Library that has optimizations for embedded architectures. Eglibc stays source and binary compatible with Glibc, meaning the transition should be smooth.

http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47

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Debian moving away from SHA-1 in OpenPGP

As a result of the recent research presentation by a group at Eurocrypt, the Debian project is moving away from SHA-1 as soon as possible. The group is releasing details that will significantly reduce the effectiveness of the SHA-1 digest.

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/48

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PostgreSQL.org Website Design Contest

Website designs are being accepted and there is a $2000 prize. The first $1000 is for the winning design, and the other half is for the implementation of the website with all graphics, stylesheets, etc. If you’re good at web design, send them your ideas.

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1081

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Huge improvement in video quality for upcoming Theora encoder version

A follow up on the grant that was awarded to the Mozilla Foundation for work on ogg-theora. The upcoming version of the encoder has signifcant improvements in video quality.

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/05/massive-theora-encoder-improvments-on-the-way/
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html
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NoScript version designed to break Adblock Plus - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/04/firefox_extension_wars/
(It’s fixed now, NoScript guy apologised).
NoScript was designed to stop Adblock Plus from blocking the ads on the noscript page and, more importantly, scripts so NoScript wouldn’t update.

Researchers infiltrate the Torpig bot net and find it stole 70 Gigs of data in 10 days, over 8000 login details for 410 financial institutions.  No word on what operating system it runs on in the article!  It also talks about how people were reusing passwords and a number of other silly things.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/04/torpig_hijacked/
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MPAA: teachers should videotape monitors, not rip DVDs

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/mpaa-teachers-should-video-record-tv-screens-not-rip-dvds.ars
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Teachers don’t need to rip DVDs to get clips for classroom use—they should just use a camcorder to record the DVD playing on a TV screen! So says the MPAA in a video it showed to the US Copyright Office in an attempt to argue that nobody should be ripping DVDs, even for educational use.
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German gov’t plans to ban paintball:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/5291891/Germany-to-ban-paintball-in-wake-of-high-school-shooting.html

The German government is to ban paintball in response to the school shooting in which 16 people were killed in March.
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No Pete’s Picks

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=40256
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Vote Kick:

Xoke votes: threethirty, becuase he cant vote for himself
threethirty votes: Dann because xoke was useful for once
Dann: wasnt around for his vote
Azimuth votes: for Dann for drinking out of the faucet
Jlindsay: vote for threethirty to tie
BlueStone007: is confused and monsterb decides he said threethirty
Peter64: agrees with Bluestone ad votes for threethirty
Monsterb votes: threethirty

5 threethirty 2 Dann

Shownotes 2009.14

| April 26th, 2009

Cast of Cranks:
threethirty
Monsterb
Azimuth
Klaatu
jlindsay
Peter64
Dann
Xoke and Mrs.Xoke (imagine that shit)
Pegwole

Stories:

oracle buys sun
http://www.sun.com/

the obvious question….what does this mean for MySQL ?  We talked about a lot of this last week when IBM was on the other side of the table, so has anything changed?

Once again Cranky ideas are stolen by various websites. Check out this they stole  our idea of compiling “how did you find linux” stories

http://tuxradar.com/content/when-did-you-first-use-linux

SCALE 7x  Presentation Audio now Available

http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/conference-info/schedules

Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1815226

The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory. It turns out that Linux allows the root user to access MTR registers incredibly easily. With Windows this exploit can be used, but requires much more work and skill and so while the Linux exploit code is readily available now, no Windows exploit code has, so far, been released or seen.

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Your Linux appliance construction kit

http://susestudio.com/

SUSE Studio is a web-based software appliance builder. Using SUSE Studio, you can:

* Build a self-contained software appliance, with SUSE-based JeOS (just enough operating system) to support an application
* Construct a hard disk image to make preloading software on computers a snap
* Make a Live USB sick so that you can carry your very own version of Linux (with everything you want) with you wherever you go
* Piece together a custom Linux distro, based on SUSE — complete with live booting and installation
* Create a ready-to-run VMware virtual machine
* Publish and share your tweaked-out version of Linux with others

Microsoft’s Family Safe Filter blocks Google
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/23/microsoft_family_filter_blocks_google/

Pirate Bay Trial - Judge has links to copyright industry?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090422/2213024614.shtml
Via Martin Thornkvist, we find out that Swedish Public radio has discovered that the judge in The Pirate Bay case apparently has some ties to the copyright lobby (that’s a Google translation — if you know Swedish, the original is here). Apparently, he’s a member of a few organizations that work towards strengthening copyright laws, and even holds a board position in one of those organizations. The lawyers representing the entertainment industry also belonged to one of the pro-copyright organizations in which the judge is a member. Experts quoted in the article note that this is highly irregular, and the judge should have recused himself for conflict of interest. The judge, of course, claims that he doesn’t believe he was biased at all, but others note that any hint of bias is a problem in such a legal case (let alone such a high profile one).

Ubuntu Open Week

It’s that time of the year again. Ubuntu Open Week starts up on Monday April 27 and ends on Friday May 1st. Open Week is a series of tutorial and Q&A sessions held on IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom (on freenode). Details about session times, descriptions of sessions, and connection details are on the web site.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek


http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711

ECIS provies a history of Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior.  This is a very interesting and eye-opening report.  Good stuff!  Pay particular attention to the WISE section.  Where do we see this now?  Mono maybe?


A US woman had a lucky escape when a burglar’s bullet bounced off the metal underwire in her bra.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8015242.stm

Police in the city of Detroit said one of three intruders fired a shot when the woman looked out of her window and saw them raiding the house next door.

The bullet smashed the window and hit her, but instead of causing serious injury - or worse - it was deflected off the wiring in her bra.

Acer Ubuntu nettop to get quiet storage switch

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/04/24/acer_revo_storage_switch/

All Revos sport four USB 2.0 ports, integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, a four-in-one memory card reader, VGA, HDMI 1.3 and eSata connectors. They will ship with a desktop stand and a Vesa monitor mounting kit.


kick

3 threethirty, 1 pegwole, 3 Xoke, 1 monsterb

then we played a number game that made no sense but threethirty won by dividing by zero.

Asstershow:

we didnt unmute  anyone so we just poked fun at Peter, the English, Other Podcasts, poofs, one count of “thats what she said”, and whores

Shownotes 2009.13

| April 19th, 2009

Cast of Cranks:
threethirty
monsterb
jlindsay
Peter64
Chad
Dann
Pegwole of Something Kinda Techy Podcast

Az stopped in at the end

Stories:
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Pirate Bay Operators Jailed

reported by Samantha Rose Hunt of APC Magazine

A court in Stockholm has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site guilty of providing access to copyright works over BitTorrent.

http://apcmag.com/pirate-bay-found-guilty-receives-jail-time.htm
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“We’re Linux” Video Contest has a winner

The Linux Foundation has selected the video “What does it mean to be free?” by Amitay Tweeto as the winner of the contest. The winning video and two
runners up are posted on the contest page.

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/contest/winners

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System76 revenue up 61 percent

System76 announced their revenue from 1st quarter 2008 to 1st quarter 2009 is up by 61 percent. Obviously with such an increase, there is higher demand
for Linux systems. The company is preparing to move systems onto the Ubuntu 9.04 release. They’re adding Ubuntu servers to their usual selection of desktops and laptops.

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/15/system76-ubuntu-pc-makers-revenue-up-61-percent/

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Shuttle selling Linux powered nettops in Europe

Shuttle X270V specs:

Intel 1.6GHz Atom 330
2GB of DDR2 RAM
Gigabit Ethernet,
6-channel audio
PS/2 connector & six USB sockets
VGA / DVI outputs
OS: openSUSE 11

Price is €299 ($390)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/17/shuttle-intros-atom-330-suse-linux-packin-x270v-nettop/
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KDE 4.4 will have an interface for Netbook

Some developers of the desktop environment KDE have seriously begun to take an interest in a new graphical user interface aimed exclusively for Netbook.  The goal is to provide something with the stable release of KDE 4.4 (currently we are at 4.2.2) before the end of 2009.

Follow the signs left by the developer Aaron Seigo, these are the highlights of the project:

* The interface will be specific for Netbook and not merely “suitable for small screens.”
* There will be support to the Plasma.
* It will be designed for constant use in the full screen of each individual program, menu or panel.

http://www.eeepc.it/en/kde-44-avra-uninterfaccia-per-netbook/
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Move over splashtop, im playing with my pud

http://xpud.org/

It’s fast, on average booting within 10 seconds (demo on YouTube), and it’s small, too. Weighing in at under 48MB, yet it still remains binary compatible with most major Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora. So xPUD can not only be a great platform to deliver Web Apps, but it’s also suitable for use on Netbooks or All-in-one PCs.
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Russia Buys the Supercomputer BlueGene/P from IBM

http://www.nazjam.com/2008/01/27/russia-buys-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-bluegene-ibm/

On January 23 2008, Moscow state University and Hardware Vendor IBM signed an agreement to deploy its Supercomputer IBM BlueGene/P in Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics for research in nanotechnology and life sciences.
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GnomeZeitgeist

Use case

John turns on his computer to work on his seminar paper. Instead of digging through his hierarchal file system, he simply opens up Gnome Zeitgeist and clicks on the top item in the “Recently Used Files” list. When he realizes that he can’t remember the name of the website that he was reading for research yesterday, he simply looks at the list of files related to his paper and clicks on the website.

video http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2009/03/Zeitgeist.ogv
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist
http://www.osnews.com/story/21242/GNOME_3_0_To_Get_GNOME_Shell_Zeitgeist
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In a similar vein to Zeitgeist, there is BumpTop, which tries to make your computer desktop look like your actual desk.  Pile things together etc etc.

Currently windows only, but they say they are looking at mac and linux versions
http://bumptop.com/
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Chad brought up that some dude he knows is the CTO or the US Government

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-budget19-2009apr19,0,7647171.story
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Pegwole brough up spam and its non-green-ness
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http://bridgemaxx.net/
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Pete(r64’s) Picks Of the Week

The Jman

http://i.gizmodo.com/5191510/peekaru-is-a-baby-snuggie

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jschiwal (aka Jessijames)

Ten Things You’ve Never Seen in a Webcam Dance Video

http://www.spike.com/video/ten-things-youve/2862903

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NYBILL

Golf Buggy

http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=27553

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rootoutcast

Billy Mays kaboom! dub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmvdeNa67E&feature=related

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Dann

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

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Germ

Dog roots some kid whilst playing on a wii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMI2-yqXWU

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“The Turd Twister is a complete kit for shaping your turd into amazing
designs, and it comes with a hilarious instruction manual.”

http://www.turdtwister.com/

“And as a bonus, by ordering online, we’ll throw in a Safe-T-Floss™ Retraction
Cord. Incredibly useful if your Turd Twister gets stuck somewhere it shouldn’t be in the first place.”

Now I know what I’m getting monsterb for christmas.
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VoteKick

threethirty votekicked again