They're gonna run out of regenerations.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Eccleston quits Doctor Who role

Ok back when William Hartnell got sick and the writers needed to come up with a way to change main characters on a wildly popular show the came up with the idea that Time Lords (the Doctor's race) can regenerate 12 times. In 1966 that probably seemed like a good idea, I mean this things not gonna be around for 30 years right? Well, as it turns out it has been. Now with Eccelston leaving the show that's nine guys who have played the Doctor. The next one up will be the tenth, and the ninth regeneration.

Ok.

CNN.com - Ms. Wheelchair stripped of title for standing up - Apr 1, 2005

Daily Drew

Come rob me.

ABC 7 News - Burglar Takes Items, but Then Cleans Up

What's up with this guy?

Google Search: Rogelio Maynulet

Backstory please?

Daily Drew

Popin' ain't easy.

My Way News Photo - POPE

Just click it.

IEDs blow

Yahoo! News - Tanks take a beating in Iraq:

"In the all-out battles of the 1991 Gulf War, only 18 Abrams tanks were lost and no soldiers in them killed. But since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, with tanks in daily combat against the unexpectedly fierce insurgency, the Army says 80 of the 69-ton behemoths have been damaged so badly they had to be shipped back to the United States. "

Now that's marketing.

Telegraph | News | So what rhymes with a Big Mac?

Let Snopes check it out first, but that's pretty cool in a sell your soul to the devil sort of way.

Googology

Google Search: I am Wil Wheaton's fanboy

I call him Wheaton to keep it impersonal. I obsess over changes in his RSS feed. Firefox l/r scroll bars don't work right. Wheaton's making it. I'm not. What would Wheaton do? I'm not sure, but I bet there'd be an afterparty.

Go home.

Yahoo! News - Schiavo Receives Last Rites, Communion

Home isn't where the heart is, it's where the soul is.

Command line humor

dirty fez:

"login as: dirtyfez
dirtyfez@idontwanttotalktoyou.org's password: fuckyouverymuch
Last login: Tue Mar 15 18:44:02 2005 from thebar.crowneplaza.com
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ mkdir stomach
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ useradd bartender
[dirtyfez@liverdamage dirtyfez]$ chown bartender stomach"

Dirty Fez bashes out some of the best command line ish I've seen in a while. The classic is rm -rf /bin/laden (Remove recursively with force, sheesh if I to explain it it's... nevermind.)

Re: last night's Elite Eight games

FARK.com: (1418887) NCAA tournament discussion thread:

robsul82 said:
"The last time I saw two collapses like that, it was 9/11!"

Hardcore man. Hardcore.

USA USA USA!

I'm not much of a jingoist, but I loves me some Team USA soccer. Hell I love international soccer in general. I obsess of the US national team, and I follow the English Premier League (go Crystal Palace... ok at least don't get relegated). Strangely I don't really follow the MLS all that much. Why watch the minor leagues? No offense to those guys. I'm glad they get paid a decent wage to play soccer, but I'm gonna spend my time following the big dogs. I should follow the MLS more. They have definetly helped Team USA, and I'd hate to see them go under; hence, I should support the MLS this year and go to a Fire game (preferably against DC United so I can see all the ado is about).

Anyway I'm watching the US vs. Mexico. The US is down 2-1 with 67:30 gone, and after that last play it should be 3-1. Go USA.

From Mark Cuban

Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster

First, let me define myself as a content owner.

I am not a technology owner. Although I have been involved in the technology business for more than 20 years, the software that I have written is long outdated. The infrastructure and integration processes I have designed and developed may still be in use, but I dont control them.

For the longest time, including when we started Broadcast.com, I saw the content business as a lose lose proposition. Then content went digital.

Thats when my eyes opened up to the ownership of content. When content had to be distributed in analog or a physical format for delivery, all distribution could be controlled by just a few gatekeeper companies. Music Labels and Movie Studios owned distribution. In both industries anyone outside the major companies were called independent , and for a good reason. They were on their own, on the outside looking in.

When content went digital, the floodgates opened...

When Mark Cuban talks you should probably listen. He's rich and he's "crazy". Thank you Mark Cuban. You got the goods and you're doing good with them. Thanks.

Listen up everyone, download and run Grokster (yeah I know POS, but this is important). Share the CC license of your choice and share home movies, voice recordings, digipics, anything you own. Better idea, put the CC license name in the file name. Come up with a shorthand. For instance I authorize this paragraph with Attribution 2.0 CC license. It's now shared via Grokster as bs.CC-Att.txt

Bush Breaks Silence on School Shooting

US News Article | Reuters.com

Nine dead and a teenage suicide and I call four days later? Well I'm on vacation see, and I can't be bothered. Tsunami? I'll talk about that sometime next week. A political football in the form of a vegetable? I'll take that one right a way.

I continue to be stunned at the incredible quality of our leadership.

Craig's List posting

via Wonkette:

"If, due to the absurd political state of affairs in this country, my persistent vegetative state and impending unplugging can be parlayed into some sort of political leverage, I wholly endorse using my predicament in whatever way possible for the purposes of passing legislation favorable to my general political and ethical outlook."

Now that's a living will.

Gawker Stalker: Drew Barrymore

Gawker Stalker:

"saw drew barrymore in the early afternoon of 3/21. as we passed the corner of 1st ave/st marks, I noticed yet another EV girl wearing jeans tucked into mid calf height, light tan suede boots with straps. I thought ?when is that look going to be over?!? then I looked at her face and realized she was drew barrymore. she has beautiful skin and wore a black jacket with a magenta scarf. at least it wasn?t the ubiquitous tiny fur jacket or army jacket with fur trim. didn?t notice the person she was with as our car drove by too quickly."

I admit it. I love Gawker Stalker.

Why wifi will win

Well WiMax really, but it's just trumped up WiFi. Check this out. Apple/Motorola are in a pissing match with cell carriers over the iPod phone. For about the price of an iPod, you get a phone with an iPod mini in it. ($350 for a 4GB was the rumor). Great product a no brainer, but... you guessed it, cell carriers don't want you to be able to load your music onto the phone. They want to sell you the music. I would've thought that cell phone providers would understand how fragile their market is. As quickly as they usurped the market from the old players, you'd think they'd understand how quickly they could lose it. One bad decision like this, and poof there goes the market. Apple and Motorola will find a carrier, why not Vonnage, and that should scare the pants off Verizon et al.

WHAAAA!?

Go here (PDF) Scroll down to page 8. Does the Texas Republican Party call the United States a Christian nation?