I remember my dad, a southside landlord, teaching me the above phrase when I was about 8 years old… and thought that it was a nice segue to show you Will Ferrell’s new video, “The Landlord.” The video is shown on Ferrell’s new “YouTube,” ripoff called, “FunnyOrDie.com.”

I put the video after the jump because, well, the staff at FoD hasn’t learned how to turn off the autostart in their player.

Rated PG-13 for a number of “B”-bombs.

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Those wacky guys are Google are up to their annual tricks!

Peep this press release from the Google-gang…

What will they come up with next year as their prank? Online editable spreadsheets, a non-refreshing map-viewer, or perhaps an online library of every book ever written? I guess we will have to wait and see!

Remeber when Fuzz thought he was going to have to take one for the team, because of Adobe buying Macromedia?

It looks like all of his nightmares have become soft, fluffy dreams.

Adobe has begun the pre-launch of Creative Suite 3. With the Web Premium edition, users can get Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, and some other misc. (all Pro versions, btw) for $1,600. Of course, if you want different configurations, you can always buy Fireworks as a stand alone although I don’t know why would you want to buy an inferior product. And better yet, if you have a version already you can upgrade to these titles for about 80% less.

If you haven’t seen this YouTube underground political ad, watch it now, because it will become THE focal point of grassroots politricking (copyright, Claude, 2007). I am posting this because of the impact it will have on politics in general, not focusing on the ad and people depicted. Expect all future focus on home-grown political advertising to refer to this remake of Apple’s 1984 ad. (Be sure to watch for the iPod on the hammer-thrower’s belt!) Someone spent some quality time on this.

…sorry if this wasn’t working, the original linked file has been flooded with hits.  Hopefully this one will stay up for a while.

Even before Google bought YouTube, I was ranting and raving about YouTube’s copyright infringement, as well as the impending lawsuit that would follow shortly after anyone acquired the video-post-a-thon website.

From CNN.com

Viacom sued Google and its online video subsidiary YouTube for $1 billion Tuesday, the first big lawsuit against the online video site and its parent for copyright infringement.

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Viacom ,(owner of MTV and Comedy Central, said that “almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.”

In addition to damages, Viacom said it wants an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement.

Google is now in its biggest fight since they started scanning books for content use online. Aside from the HUGE settlement that will result, Google has the daunting task of creating a system that validates all of YouTube’s content to verifty that no more infringement will occour.

Unless Viacom gets a piece of Google/YouTube out of this, I foresee YouTube tanking and being reconstructed into some sort of Google-esque online app.

Leave it to the engineers to put together this state-of-the-art, multi-multi-million dollar piece of equipment, only to screw up a few lines of code: (from Slashdot, via Engadget)

The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s’ on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. 

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I may be colorblind, but this open letter to Apple from the color Yellow is absolutely hilarious (it’s nerd hilarious, not normal hilarious).

Read it: Yellow Breaks Its Silence with Apple 

Vista is already a haven for hackers…

 I recorded a sound file that would engage speech command on Vista, then engaged the start button, and then I asked for the command prompt.  When I played back the sound file with the speakers turned up loud, it actually engaged the speech command system and fired up the start menu.  I had to try a few more times to get the audio recording quality high enough to get the exact commands I wanted but the shocking thing is that it worked!  Anyone that’s ever visited MySpace knows how many annoying webpages out there that will start blasting loud MP3 music as soon as they enter the page.

Make mine a Mac.

Prepare for your IT Department to be in late tomorrow as Windows unveils its new operating system, Vista. Full of great Graphic User Interface components that will have developer’s jaws dropping and producing more nerd-wood than the complete box set of Star Trek:TNG featuring a centerfold of Counselor Troi.

Tuesday will be Tech-Support-Yourself day at your office.

For years, I settled on Macromedia Fireworks for creating and editing images. Two weeks ago, however, I finally picked up Photoshop (Adobe CS2). Man… I don’t know how I ever lived without it!

You may now go about your business.

Are you in need of some (vector, et al) source material that is locked down in a password protected .pdf?

If you are using a Mac, Control+Click on the .pdf and open it in ColorSync. SaveAs with a new file with a .pdf extension. Then Control+Click on the new .pdf, open in Adobe Illustrator and extract needed vector art.

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Tired of the jerk-stores who cut you off in traffic? Don’t shake your fist and middle finger, post their plates online and humiliate them internationally!

You can also post *winks* at people you think are nice enough to dote on in public. Click the Platewire.com banner to go right to the site

The Bookstore at UWM has now officially added an Apple Store. My mind is crying, “YES!,” while my pocketbook is shouting, “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

Me = Apple nerd.

From CNN.com

Court OKs broad Web libel immunity

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Web sites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties cannot be sued for libel, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The ruling in favor of free online expression was a victory for a San Diego woman who was sued by two doctors for posting an allegedly libelous e-mail on two Web sites.

Some of the Internet’s biggest names, including Amazon.com, America Online Inc., eBay Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., took the defendant’s side out of concern that a ruling against her would expose them to liability.

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“The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications,” Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan wrote in the majority opinion. “Nevertheless … statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended.”

Unless Congress revises the existing law, people who claim they were defamed in an Internet posting can only seek damages from the original source of the statement, the court ruled.

And when I say good news for bloggers, I mean bloggers who let people post comments on their site.  Self-proclaimed internet know-it-alls will still have to watch their backs when writing scathing reviews about how much Rupert Murdoch sucks ass for putting a low-life POS like O.J. Simpson on tv for a “hypothetical” tell-all on killing his wife and her lover, and then recinding it. And we all know Murdoch is a step-and-fetch republican who loves nothing more than propping up his info-tainment anchormen into the realm of government, ala Tony Snow.  (that has nothing to do with the O.J. thing, it’s just a little piece of truth). 

Is it ok that I said that?  Fuzz, call the lawyers, just in case.

In honor of the internet(s) reaching 100M sites, I post a link to the first ever website.

The first website

It’s quite impressive, I know.
Glad to see progress actually taking a positive motion, in this case.

I hate spam emails, I hate all of the stupid Subjects of the emails like “Big Peenises Now” and all that junk.
But, if you are going to send out spam and viruses to people, be smart…

I just received a spam email from “Macromedia Flash Support” which had a text file attached titled something about “New Macromedia Software Uploaded”.

Macromedia was bought by Adobe almost a year ago…fix your spam content.

Well, the name of the website is cool, anyway.

Doyle for Sale - DoyleForSale.com

Thanks for not letting us down, Wisconsin-ers. Especially this D/B from Milwaukee.

Finally some good news for Wisconsin on CNN

CNN.com Game Scoring
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1) 09/06/2006 “Grave robbing perverts”
2) 09/08/2006 “11-year old sexually assaulted by 20 boys”
3) 09/15/2006 Wisconsin police stop ‘Columbine waiting to happen’
4) 09/15/2006 Wisconsin farm produces third white buffalo
5) 09/22/2006 Girl troubles pushed school attack plot
6) 09/29/2006 Wisconsin man insults TSA Director via toiletry bag STORY
7) 09/29/2006 Principal reportedly shot at Wisconsin school STORY
10/10/2006 Candidate touts sex with Packers in campaign STORY
9) 10/11/2006 Fake witch doctor shopped Wal-Mart, cops say STORY (It was a video feed on CNN, this is a link to the written story on )
10) 10/11/2006 Teen makes plean deal after best friend’s death STORY (Posted on CNN’s US News / Midwest section)
11) 10/12/2006 Wisconsin library joins Google book project STORY
12) 10/19/2006 Milwaukee resident may have posted stadium scare STORY

Here’s a fun one from cnn…Digital age may bring total recall in future.

Excerpt from cnn.com
Have you ever wished for a backup brain — a device that could remember everything in your life from the smallest of details to your most memorable moments?

Computer engineer Gordon Bell, a researcher for Microsoft Corp., is working on just such a mechanism. He’s trying to devise what amounts to a digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions of nearly everything in his life.

For me, this is scary. I don’t want a record of everything I have ever done. In this modern paranoia-filled world, can you imagine a device that has every piece of information about you, ever? With the threat of identity theft and being accused past crimes, etc…this thing is like a goldmine for would-be wrong-doers and over-zealous prosecutors.

I am reminded of Strange Days, and the quote: “memories are meant to fade. they’re designed that way for a reason.”

Or better yet, Vanilla Sky…
“Tech support?!? Tech SUPPORT?!?! TECH SUPPOOOOOOOOOOOORT!?!?!”

Here is a great Flash Toy that someone developed. Draw your own sledding course and the little guy runs it! Pretty fun!