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What’s worse than a top-of-the-line PC that’s running sluggishly?

A top-of-the-line PC that’s running sluggishly because its hard drive is crashing. D’oh!

Hey, our country’s commander-in-chief is hurtling us willy-nilly toward a war that may well prove to be this generation’s Viet Nam. So what are our fine and noble (note the sarcasm?) lawmakers doing?

They’re #&%@ing changing the name of “french fries” and “french toast” in several House office buildings to “freedom fries” and “freedom toast.”

Okay, so lots of the upper echelons of our government are ticked off at France. It’s not like this is going to be the move that sways them to the cause of war.

C’mon guys. Is this the best use of your time? What’s next? We get peeved at 10 Downing Street and start shopping for “eagle muffins”? If Barcelona won’t play ball, will our cars now come upholstered in “fine Constitution leather”?

Update: Noelle posted a link to another story over on her blog.

If you’re trying to remain spoiler-free for the seventh season, you won’t want to read the article.

[EDIT: I don't know why I'm being so spoiler-careful, not when Sci-Fi Wire and Cinescape are blasting out the info in their headlines. Phooey.]

Noelle, I think you’re going to like this one. I certainly did:

Couple Gets Engaged Playing The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game.

The cool cats over at Decipher helped a guy craft a special card to propose to his girlfriend.

Geeky? Yeah, sure. But so romantic! (Yeah, it made me tear up a little.)

Taken from Wired News’ Furthermore:

Not the Pussycat Lounge
A German artist has applied for a license to open a brothel in Berlin for sexually frustrated dogs, and says it will be the first of its kind anywhere. Karl-Friedrich Lenze, 54, says he plans to charge dog owners $27 per half hour of happiness. “If dogs can’t get what they want, they get cranky — just like people,” Lenze said. The establishment would offer patrons a variety of carefully vetted “employees” of both sexes, rooms for private encounters and even a “bar” where customers could sniff out their preferred partners.

Who’s richer: Thurston Howell III or J.R. Ewing? Lex Luthor or Bruce Wayne? C. Montgomery Burns or Scrooge McDuck?

Forbes has taken a stab at answering these age-old questions (very short age) in their Forbes Fictional Fifteen.

Wanna know who’s #1? Check the link!

Matthew Sprange of Mongoose Publishing posted a great contents preview of the forthcoming B5 RPG over on Gaming Report.