speaking of SPAM, the SPAMMOBILE is coming to Indy in July!! It's gonna be here for Black Expo the 18th-20th?!?! It'll also be at the Kroger near 10th & Shadeland on the eastside on the 29th - maybe i'll get adam and codi to go see it, since that's right in their neighborhood...

ya know, something's occured to me...if Spike Lee ultimately wins his case against Spike TV - er, TNN, that is, at least till september - that will set a precedent for other people and companies that have had their names used for other purposes...take SPAM, for instance - will Hormel be able to sue everyone that's ever referred to junk email as spam?

from the Department of Obvious: Blue French Fries are Stupid.

Yummy - a FREE A&W root beer float!

slate's got a review (with slide show) of what looks to be an interesting book: Lapdancer by Juliana Beasley...

okay, you're gonna hafta pick me up off the floor now - it appears that the Indy Public Library is actually ordering this book!!!!! i plunked it into the search just as a joke and they've got it in the computer! what a surprise!

[take the test] - [by krystaljungle.com]

VNS Update - is the Keppra making me tired all the time, or is there something else going on? seems like all i've done is sleep or be tired lately...hell, even sitting at the computer and checking my email leaves me feeling drained...*yawn*

it's occured to me that i may be inflicting some strangeness on fellow postal customers - i ordered a couple of cow magnets online and they're gonna be shipped to me...i doubt that TrainTown Hobbies & Crafts in Batesville Indiana is gonna use any special packaging to ship these magnets - will my package be deactivating credit cards and such that other people will be getting in the mail at the same time?!?!? tis an interesting question....

ya know, this is just a little too creepy...sounds like stuff the tinfoil hat people are constantly complaining about, but snopes says it's pretty much true:

Wal-Mart and Gillette are trying out products embedded with RFID tracking chips.

those wacky Norwegians!

Norway's Department of Culture responded immediately to complaints about games available on Norwegian Broadcasting's (NRK) web site for youth, NRK Upunkt

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The offending material consists of pages containing two games, "Karate's Licking Game" and "Masturbate with horny Are" on NRK's youth site Upunkt.

The banner for the licking game features naked buttocks and arrays of small red penis creatures. The directions are colorful as well.

"Lick the small penises but watch out for the big ones with feet! Odin is Karate's very horny little mascot that keeps flying out of the sky to lick dick. Now you can be Odin in the funny and erotic Licking Game," the page explains.

"In the Licking Game the idea is to lick as many dicks as you can. You cough vaseline to get springier and you have to watch out for the thick nasty penises, land mines and nasty tits. Good Luck!" concludes the instructions.

The Licking Game had only been online for two days, but the 'Masturbate with horny Are', where players try to give a program host sexual relief, is NRK's second most popular Internet feature. The site also features the "Mujaffa Game", where a Pakistani-type hero commits various offences, which also created widespread controversy when it first appeared.

Are Nundal, editor of NRK's web site, confirmed that he approved both of the controversial games.

"This is part of a radio program with caricature figures. The users of Upunkt are used to the form of irony used. This is part of their poking fun at our conceptions of sex. It is innocent and has nothing to do with pornography," Nundal told VG.

VNS Update - the 0.75 mA setting is a lot more noticeable than .50 was...

there are changes to my voice - i find myself becoming hoarse or losing it completely for a few seconds - not the "Bea Arthur after a testosterone shot" effect that another VNS patient described, but i can understand what i was reading from other patients about the voice change - at first i thought they were exaggerating quite a bit, now i realize they must've had it tuned to higher settings than i have...

i also sometimes find myself short of breath when it starts up, i guess it depends on what i'm doing at the time - if it catches me off guard or while i'm right in the middle of something, i'm more likely to have adverse effects...

there's also more pain associated with it - i have a slight earache while it's pulsing.

having it actually going off every five minutes is making it more noticeable as well...

think it's time for a nap now - not sure if it's just the weird brain stuff going on or if i'm dealing with side effects from the Keppra, but i'm really tired nowadays...*yawn*

How in the hell is it that Spike Lee can get an injunction to keep TNN from changing their name to Spike TV? I think he's just pulling a publicity stunt - he's not been in the news too much lately with his films and such, so hey, here's an opportunity to get yer name in the paper. The man's real name isn't even Spike! And it's not like they wanna change it to SpikeLeeTV - most people I've heard talk about this, when asked who they think of when they hear the name Spike, mention the dude from Buffy. When ya take a name as your own that's a common word in the English language, how can you expect to lay exclusive claim to it?

The article says, "Viacom’s lawyers said Lee cannot prove their network’s new name refers to him. And they said no New York law gives a celebrity’s first name the protection Lee is seeking without some other suggestion of the person’s persona. But the judge disagreed. “Contrary to defendants’ position, the court is of the opinion that in the age of mass communication, a celebrity can in fact establish a vested right in the use of only their first name or a surname,” the judge wrote. “There are many celebrities that are so recognized, including Cher, Madonna, Sting and Liza.” "

yeah, but Spike Lee isn't known only as Spike the way Cher is Cher - he's SPIKE LEE.

then ya learn who Spike's lawyer is on this matter and that makes it TOTALLY clear that this is a publicity stunt - it's Johnnie Cochran, for christ's sake!