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After listening to this guy explain the Retro Encabulator, I now know how people feel when I try to explain to them what I do for a living.

So, today is the day. Google starts their IPO auction today. (Friday the 13th, omen?)

There's a controversy brewing about the issue of Playboy that comes out today as well. It features an interview with the creators of Google. Apparently the SEC might be mad because it could break the "quiet period" companies have to go through before their IPO. Googles and Boobies, but I'm sure geeks just read it for the articles.

And if that's not enough, someone has dug up pictures of Sergey Brin (Google's Technology Co-Founder) on the Wayback Machine archive of his website at Stanford showing him wearing a dress! And one of him in a speedo. What does he care? In a few weeks he'll be a billionaire.

Thank's Dvorak!

PS: Did you know Google registered the domain name googleporn.com? Now there's a killer app!

You can create your own real stamps online at PhotoStamps. This is just begging to be abused.

Via Boing Boing - seanbonner.com

execrable - adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched] 2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke [syn: abominable, detestable, odious] 3: deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: damnable]

Phil Ringnalda used it to describe the MSN Spaces blog server. I had to look it up. Ouch, that's harsh.

PS: www.execrable.com is already taken... by a domain name squatter no less.

For anyone thats old enough to remember... Fraggle Rock is out on DVD! Man, Fraggle Rock was one of my all time favorite shows as a kid. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out this review. 1983... damn I'm getting old. Granted I was only about 5 at the time, the hair on the back of my neck tingled when I read that review.

This guy goes to concerts for groups like Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera, Linkin Park, and Hoobastank and stands outside wearing a helmet and black robes, stands up on a box with a loud speaker, and makes fun of the people in line telling them how bad their taste in music is. There's videos you can watch. It's fucking hilarious. I'm proud to say I never even heard of half the groups. (Adema, Train, Staind, and Evanescence??)

Remember the Subservient Chicken? Behold the Subservient President! Here's some good commands I found:

• dance - do it more then once, sometimes he dances with an iraqi prisoner with a hood over his head, other times he dances with an intern?
• look for wmd
• look for osama
• take off mask
• die

Yes, you heard that right, George W. Bush Resigns From Office. Yeah right I wish. Some people have too much time on their hands. The 25th Anniversary of the Dukes of Hazzard is pretty funny too.

I'm one of the lucky(?) few that have gotten a gmail account. I like it. It's nifty. But whatever you do, do not make the mistake I made of accidentally typing http://www.gmale.com! (NSFW)

I don't know if they created it because of Gmail since whois says it was created on 26-Feb-04 and Google announced Gmail on April 1st.

Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed? Our unique, patented device allows for the safe transport and storage of individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere. The Banana Guard was specially designed to fit the vast majority of bananas. Its other features include multiple small perforations to facilitate ventilation thereby preventing premature ripening and a sturdy locking mechanism to keep the Banana Guard closed. The Banana Guard is of course dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.

I'm sorry, but that looks like a dildo.