In the spirit of enjoying sweet, sweet copyrighted material on YouTube while you still can, I encourage you to check out classic SCTV clip: Martin Short leading punk outfit The Queen Haters on Mel’s Rockpile.

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You didn’t read it here first — this story’s tearing up the web — but Mark Cuban has an anonymous post on his blog claiming that YouTube is colluding with the major media players to a) squeeze out its competitors and b) cheat artists out of profits.
Here’s the executive summary as I understand it:
Reportedly, nearly [...]

Today’s prize goes to a program called Disco. It’s a Mac OS X disc burning utility.
The useless part is that at least for me, the built-in disc burning functionality of Mac OS X is perfectly serviceable. The cool part is that the app actually spits out cool interactive smoke while your disc is being burned. [...]

I got a piece of mail from someone called “Herbert Mitchell”. The subject line?
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That’s it.
Dudes, I think Jean Chretien has reinvented himself as a spammer! Cool, huh? (Speak those words to yourself in a Quebecois accent. It’s so totally him.)

Found this link via Deadspin. One of the great awkward moments in sports broadcasting history. And that’s saying something.

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…you might as well deep fry it.
Perhaps because he’s not getting nearly fat enough from eating deep-fried Mars bars and Oreos, Dallas computer analyst Abel Gonzales has created Fried Coke, a deep-fried batter-based version of the soft drink.
Gonzales gave no indication of the calories in his creation and said he would not patent it.“The [...]

If you’re Snoop Dogg and you’ve made a career of crafting anti-authoritarian raps about guns and weed, here’s one whip-smart thing you can do: show up at airport security carrying, well, guns and weed. Bonus points if you draw attention to yourself by parking illegally.
The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was arrested [...]

My buddy Dave flipped me this. It’s kinda like the politicized animated GIF version of dogs playing poker.

Last weekend, I finally joined the Digital SLR revolution and picked up the Nikon D80.
It’s a phenomenal camera, and at $1,000 CDN, a complete steal. If anyone out there has been thinking about a DSLR, and has a credit card that can bear it, for the love of God, dive in. The water’s so beautifully [...]

The Beeb reports that the release of the widely anticipated World of Warcraft expansion pack is behind schedule.
Blizzard has announced the release of the Burning Crusade expansion pack is now being delayed until January 2007.
The expansion, which gives players new races, territories and more powerful characters, was scheduled to appear in late 2006.
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