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Archive for December, 2004

What’s Your Sexual Lucky Charm?

Your Sexual Lucky Charm: Pink Hearts
You’re a true romantic who prefers sweet whispers to whips and chains
Foreplay for you boils down to “I love you” and a bottle of red
You won’t give it up for anyone, just the prince or princess of yoru dreams.

What’s Your Sexual Lucky Charm?
More Great Quizzes from Quiz Diva

Ummm… Y’know, it’s not a whispers XOR whips world…

Bah!

President George W. Bush was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, after a reelection victory that he said was about the “use of American influence.”

Yahoo! News - Bush named ‘Person of the Year’

Bah!

Glee!

Just got a message from Tawny, a close friend from high school, with whom I haven’t talked in a decade or so! :mrgreen:

Damn dirty apes strike again

A portrait of President George W. Bush using monkeys to form his image has led to the closure of a New York art exhibition over the weekend and anguished protests over freedom of expression.

“Bush Monkeys,” a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market’s managers to close down the 60-piece show that was scheduled to stay up for the next month.

Bush monkey portrait sparks protests

Moby Dick: Best. PageRank. Ever.

Internet search giant Google has announced plans to digitise millions of library books and make them searchable online.

The Silicon Valley firm said it was working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library.

Google to put library books online

iTunes now accepts PayPal

Apple Computer Inc. on Friday said customers of its iTunes online music store can now use eBay Inc.’s online payment service PayPal to buy songs and audiobooks, becoming the second major online music store to do so.

Apple Says iTunes Music Store Now Accepts PayPal

A woman just killed herself

…by jumping off the roof of the building I work at.

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MFWNK drops out of “Producers” movie

Variety reports that Nicole Kidman is dropping out of Mel Brooks’ big screen adaptation of musical The Producers. Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will have to seek a new actress to play their loopy secretary Ulla.

No Producers for Nicole Kidman

:cry:

Lotsa comics, gotta sell

Hey there. Wanna buy a shitload of comics dirt-cheap?

I’ve got something like 20-25 boxes (mostly short boxes, some long) full of comics that I need to sell to stay afloat this month.

They date back across my 20+ years of collecting, though the bulk are from the past 5-7 years. Most are bagged and backed.

I plan to take them to a comic shop that buys in bulk tomorrow (Friday) evening, but figured I’d throw the opportunity to buy them out to y’all.

I’m asking $500 for all the comics, and if you’re in the south bay and I know you, I’ll even deliver them, though preferably at some occasion we’re going to see each other anyway (largely ’cause it might take two trips).

Paypal would be peachy-keen.

Interested? Let me know at [edit: some address that I got spam at exactly one week after creating the box and posting its address here, and which I have since deleted].