In the ever growing area of blogging, it seems harder and harder to tell people you know at work about your blog.

If you don’t know what a blog is, you are looking at one right now. It is short for web log and is a sort of public journal for all or specific people to see online. There is an official definition, but it escapes me at the moment.

Blogging is a recently expanding pasttime that holds a lot of potential growth for companies and other entities. Its an outlet for the individual, which becomes more and more precious in a world that is drowning to hear itself speak among the masses.

Recently, Google made a wave of hirings. One of these new employees started a blog called ninrtyninezeros to explore his experiences at the groundbreaking company. It lasted about two weeks. He has now been terminated for reasons related to the Blog.

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A judge retired under allegations that he used a penis pump and masturbated during trials he was presiding over.

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There are just too many things that could be said about this. What an awesome story.

In another case of the Man keeping us down, Virginians will now be fined $50 for wearing their pants low enough to see their underwear, assuming this bill passes through the state senate.

So long Thong Song. Hello bible belt.

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I’ve been playing with RSS aggregators lately and have found a couple of amusing RSS feeds on yahoo. So I thought I’d share some of the links from whats been on the feeds lately.

This feed is from the Ask Yahoo! feed. Its basically a free for all, ask anything type of page. Here are some of the questions asked.

2005.1.31 Why are the letters in the English “alphabet” in the order that they are?

2005.2.1 Is the Bible copyrighted?

2005.2.2 Was the creator of Nancy Drew also the creator of the Hardy Boys?

2005.2.3 How many people do you have to kill to be considered a serial killer?

2005.2.6 When is the planet going to run out of oil?

2005.2.7 What makes SuperBalls bounce so high?

Things that make you hmmmm…

I thought the best question was the oil question. The rest are amusing in their own right though.

I was reading an article on this awful new napster venture, Napster To Go, in the paper this morning. It got a bit hype because they had a Super Bowl ad last night. I mentioned to someone at the party that, though they did not mention it anywhere in the commercial, that as soon as you end your subscription to the service, your media will no longer work. I was asked how that was possible and I was honest and had no idea. The article I read this morning briefly mentions how, so I thought I would share for those who were curious.
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