Gerbil's Giant Gumball Gumbo

DVD: The Family Guy To Return

It's official.

GHOST TOWN:A Look into the past of a Chernobyl town that was destroyed by radioactivity

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The computer that can predict your vote

RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR MARCH 26, 2004

1)Papa Was A Rolling Stone-The Temptations-My Girl:The Very Best of the Temptations
2)I Got Ants In My Pants, Part I-James Brown-Star Time
3)Dance to the Music-Sly and the Family Stone-Greatest Hits
4)Free Man In Paris-Joni Mitchell-Court and Spark
5)Wooden Ships-Jefferson Airplane-Volunteers
6)Tell Me Why-Neil Young-After The Gold Rush
7)Arrowhead-Michael Hedges-Torched
8)Bad Bad Pain-North Mississippi Allstars-Polaris
9)Beauty is Only Skin Deep-The Temptations-My Girl:The Very Best of the Temptations
10)Life in Prison-The Byrds-Sweetheart of the Rodeo
11)Omegaman-The Police-Ghost in the Machine
12)Powderfinger-Neil Young & Crazy Horse-Rust Never Sleeps
13)I'm A Changed Man-Otis Redding-Dreams to Remember:The Otis Redding Anthology
14)Baby You're Right(Mono)-James Brown-Star Time
15)Ultra Violet(Light My Way)-U2-Achtung, Baby
16)Green Onions-Booker T. and the MG's-The Best Jukebox Album in the World, Ever!!!
17)Frisky-Sly and the Family Stone-Fresh
18)Hey Hey My My-Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps
19)Moose the Mooche-Dirty Dozen Brass Band-This Jazz #30

There's something like 90 million Americans have used marijuana. If marijuana really led to cancer, where are the bodies?

"While suturing a laceration on the hand of an 80-year-old Texas rancher (whose hand had caught in a gate while working cattle), a doctor and the old man were talking about George W. Bush being in the White House.

The old Texan said, 'Well, ya know, Bush is a 'post turtle'.' Not knowing what the old man meant, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old man said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.'

The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, 'You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, he can't get anything done while he's up there, and you just want to help the poor dumb bastard get down.'"

Atheist Presents Case for Taking God From Pledge:

"'There's a principle here,' he told the justices in his closing moments, 'and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.'"

U.S. Election: The World Should Also Have a Vote

Move to the United States, become a citizen, AND then you can vote. I don't care who the president is, the UNITED STATES citizens are the ones who elect.

TRICKS OF THE GOOGLE TRADE

• Download and install the Google toolbar. Not only does it put the Google search box into your browser full-time, but it also blocks pop-up ads and fills in forms for you. For Windows at http://toolbar.google.com. (Ad blocking, form-filling and Google's search box are already built into the Apple's Web browser, Safari.)

• Phrase your question in the form of an answer. "After all, you're not looking for Web pages that ask your question," explains director of technology Craig Silverstein. "You're looking for pages that answer it."

So instead of typing, "What is the average rainfall in the Amazon basin?", you might get better results by typing "The average rainfall in the Amazon basin is."

• This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains."

• Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins -Miami."

• Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot norwalk, ct," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook:robert jones las vegas, NV") as well as businesses.

Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing you here.

• Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number (just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers a link to its tracking information.

• Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234="). Click Search to see the answer.

• Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot." Click Search to see the answer.

• Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price, graphs, financial news and so on.

• Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area.

• Google is Wal-Mart's computer. Type in a UPC bar code number, such as "036000250015," to see the description of the product you've just "scanned in." (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google.blogspace.com, for this tip and the next couple.)

• Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22" for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air. Or type in the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form for that plane.

• Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle identification number, which is etched onto a plate, usually on the door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the car's year, make and model.

• For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit http://labs.google.com. Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google experiments-like Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706, speak the words you want to search for and then open your browser to view the results. Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experiments.)

• Poke around the "Services & Tools" link on the Google.com home page and you'll find some of the better-known lesser-known Google features, if that makes any sense.

Will Bush turn on his Oil Buddies?

"We're all concerned about national ID cards and all that kind of stuff," Justice John Paul Stevens said at one point.

RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR MARCH 23, 2004

07.07.2002-The Slip @High Sierra Music Festival
Live in the Classic City-Widespread Panic in Athens, GA

I Like my Bombs in Afghanistan not Iraq

Note the standard sarcasm spewing from my mouth to my fingertips. Jeebus H. Chrysanthemum!!! Are the Afghanis forgotten about already?

Words From Jimmy Carter:

"Carter is the only modern US President not to have officially sent forces into combat, with the exception of the failed mission in 1980 to try to rescue American hostages in Iran. Yet another lesson from The Hornet's War, he suggested, was for those who ordered troops into battle to remember the horrors of warfare.
'One premise of my life in public service is that we should use the tremendous power and prestige and military status and economic influence to pursue the interests of our country but pursuing them wherever possible through peaceful means, and not to resort to wars."

Compares the Bush Adminstration v. Clinton Administration.

I'm not advocating either president. Just the facts. Vote Smart.

Comparing Martha to George

BOWLING SCORES

110, 162, 140, 126
19 OPEN FRAMES
15 SPARES
08 STRIKES
08 SPLITS<~~~How does such a thing happen? Most splits ever
01 SPLIT CONVERSION

Not my best day but not my worst. This is definitely the worse series that I have had since we started going to the dollar bowling night at Brunswick. Now it's .59 cents Wed. and Thurs. from 10PM-12AM. AWESOME!

Do you oppose the proposed Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage?

You may go to Hell if you Visit this Site

I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING

Suspected Robber Leaves Wallet Behind
Published - Mar 22 2004 07:57AM Eastern || AP

COMFORT, W.Va.(AP) A man accused of robbing a convenience store left a
big clue behind for investigators his wallet.

Terry Lee Romine was charged with robbing the V-Mart in Comfort on
Friday morning.

Romine, 36, allegedly ordered a slice of pizza and then demanded cash
from the clerk, saying he had a gun. He is accused of grabbing the cash
register after the clerk had difficulty opening it, the Boone County
Sheriff's Department said.

The suspect crashed into the wrong door before finding his way to the
exit. As he fled, the clerk looked down and saw the man's wallet on the
counter.

Romine was arrested a short time later. He was freed on $50,000 bond.

A win for the little guys

A Clever Website creating an Inbox for Bush

RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR MARCH 22, 2004

1. Light My Fire-Al Green-Anthology
2. Nobody’s Fault But Mine-Blind Boys of Alabama-Spirit of the Century
3. Three Splattered Eggs-Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey-7-14-2001-Legends Lounge-Las Vegas, NV
4. You Can’t Lose What You Never Had-Muddy Waters-Folksinger
5. Three Hours-Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
6. Golden-My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves
7. Funky Drummer-James Brown-In the Jungle Groove
8. Love or Confusion-Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced?
9. And When I Die-Laura Nyro-The First Songs
10. Why Don’t You Write Me-Simon and Garfunkel-Bridge Over Troubled Water
11. Running to Stand Still-U2-The Joshua Tree
12. Art Decade-David Bowie-Low
13. Keep On Running-Stevie Wonder-Music of my Mind
14. Pledging My Time-Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
15. You Got Yours-Widespread Panic-Bombs & Butterflies
16. I’m Glad You’re Mine-Al Green-I’m Still In Love With You
17. Thank God-Hank Williams-The Complete Hank Williams
18. Tonight We Leave Chicago-The Slip-11-14-02-State Theater-Falls Church, VA
19. Martyr-Rusted Root-When I Woke
20. One White Duck/0 10th= Nothing At All-Jethro Tull-Minstrel in the Gallery
21. Wooden Ships-Crosby, Stills, & Nash-Crosby, Stills, & Nash
22. California Earthquake-Mama Cass-Beautiful Thing
23. Jungleland-Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
24. Before You Were Born-The Slip-Aliveacoustic
25. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John-Greatest Hits
26. Beat on the Brat-The Ramones-All the Stuff(and More), Volume 1
27. Elma Turl-Mike Cross-Best of the Funny Stuff: Crème de la Crème
28. Untitled-Sam Cooke-Portrait of a Legend(1951-64)
29. Heaven-Talking Heads-Fear of Music
30. Mardi Gras in New Orleans-Dirty Dozen Brass Band-Mardi Gras in New Orleans
31. The Jean Genie-David Bowie-Aladdin Sane
32. My Baby Left Me-Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley
33. Empty Spaces-Pink Floyd-The Wall
34. How You Love-Quicksilver Messenger Service-Happy Trails
35. Sweet Sunny South-David Grisman and Jerry Garcia-Grateful Dawg
36. Three Little Birds-Bob Marley-Exodus
37. Femme Fatale-The Velvet Underground-Peel Slowly and See
38. Down Along the Cove-Bob Dylan-John Wesley Harding
39. Duppy Conqueror-Bob Marley-Burnin’
40. I Want a Little Girl-Louis Armstrong-Platinum & Gold Collection
41. We Can Talk-The Band-Music From Big Pink
42. Hands on the Wheel-Willie Nelson-RedHeaded Stranger
43. KRS-One(Live)-Sublime-Acoustic:Bradley Nowell and Friends
44. I’m So Glad-Skip James-Today!
45. Just One More Day-Otis Redding-Dreams to Remember:Otis Redding Anthology
46. The Island of Peace-The Slip-From the Gecko
47. Funny How Time Slips Away-Al Green-Call Me
48. Poor Boy-Nick Drake-Bryter Layter
49. The Pale Horse and His Rider-Hank Williams w/Audrey Williams-The Complete Hank Williams
50. The Invocations-The Slip-Does
51. Tattoo-The Who-The Who Sell Out
52. Honky Tonk Blue-Hank Williams-The Complete Hank Williams
53. High 5(Rock the Catskills)-Beck-Odelay
54. I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom-Robert Johnson-The Complete Recordings
55. Hey Worrier-The Slip-Does
56. Pink Moon-Nick Drake-Pink Moon
57. Tell Me What I Did Wrong-James Brown-Star Time
58. Flat Foot Flewzy-NRBQ-Stay With We:The Best of NRBQ
59. Drowning Man-U2-War
60. Please, Mrs. Henry-Bob Dylan-The Basement Tapes
61. Dreams-The Allman Brothers Band-Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival
62. Heart of Gold-Neil Young-Harvest
63. And the Gods Made Love-Jimi Hendrix-Electric Ladyland
64. Pretty Good-John Prine-John Prine
65. Drowned-The Who-Quadrophenia
66. It’s Too Late-Carole King-Tapestry
67. Unity, Pt. 1(with Afrika Bambaataa)-James Brown-Star Time
68. Amy-Elton John-Honku Chateau
69. I’ll Never Be the Same-Frank Sinatra-In the Wee Small Hours
70. Spice Groove-The Slip-From the Gecko

Kerry and Me: We Need More Than a New President. We Need a New Direction:
"John Kerry missed the votes last September" Why exactly is he missing these important votes? Shouldn't an elected member of the Senate be there for any and all votes, unless it is deemed that it in no way affects the Lives of any Americans?
The reference is in the 2nd to last paragraph.

A Different W: Move Over NASCAR Dads, the Sex And The City Crowd Could Turn the Election

I find it sad that the media continually reduces themselves into calling us, the voters, by the very stereotypes they and most people decry. Also, I believe this is the same Martha Burk who put up a big brouhaha last year over Augusta and The Masters. The Masters is about the mystique and CBS. Why do you want to play that course? Why is there always something to prove?

"I think it's pretty ridiculous this President has a no protest zone around him the whole time."adds Amanda Blake.

Brad Pitt's New Movie Troy looks pretty damn intense. Helen is a looker.

The Internet might turn out to be the unlikely conscience of the world says Clive Thompson.

BUSH/CHENEY BUMPER STICKERS

Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate Colonialism
Bush/Cheney '04: Because the truth just isn't good enough
Bush/Cheney '04: Deja-voodoo all over again!
Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars
Bush/Cheney '04: Leave no billionaire behind
Bush/Cheney '04: Making the world a bitter place, one country at a time
Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served
Bush/Cheney '04: Putting the 'con' in conservatism
Bush/Cheney '04: Thanks for not paying attention
Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast
Bush/Cheney '04: This time, elect us!"