Help me understand why this tribe just voted Rupert off of the show?
Unfuckingbelievable.
Gotta stick up for my fellow Hoosiers ya know.
Rupert
AT&T Sues PayPal
AT&T on Thursday fired the latest shot in the escalating Web patent wars, filing suit against PayPal and eBay. AT&T issued a press release alleging that the PayPal and BillPoint payment systems infringe on AT&T’s 1994 patent for the mediation of transactions by a communications system. Besides e-Payments, the AT&T patent purports to cover e-Voting, e-Auctions, e-Gifts, e-Donations, e-Wishlists and e-Referrals. e-Yikes! [Slashdot]
Fuck this web patent shit. Give me a break.
What Life is All About
My employer for the past ten years has a serious commitment to the community – one that is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars a year in donations – and measured in the thousands of hours that our employees donate of themselves each year to their local communities.
A few months ago I issued the challenge to one of the managers that works for me to find a local organization that we could donate significant time and financial resources to assisting. As we’re all in the criminal justice field, we were looking for a program for at-risk youth near the Greater Boston area — the closer to the city, the better.
We found it at the Boys and Girls Club in Somerville, Massachusetts today.
After three hours of basketball, poll, video games, and “Cooties”, my team has chosen to commit at least half a day of their time each month to this special group of youngsters. It’s the beginning of a relationship that I can only see improving in the months to come.
It’s amazing what good you can do with your time…
This Man is an Idiot
THE MAYOR OF LONDON, Ken Livingstone, on the eve of President Bush’s State visit:
I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we’ve most probably ever seen. [Citizen Smash]
I concur.
SJC: Gay marriage is legal
For all of my complaints about this state, for once, they get it right. [Boston Globe]
Mom, I Warned You!
These Are the Days
These are days you’ll remember.
Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.
And as you feel it, you’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky.
It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.
These are days you’ll remember.
When May is rushing over you with desire to be part of the miracles you see in every hour.
You’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky.
It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.
These are days.
These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break.
These days you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face.
And when you do you’ll know how it was meant to be.
See the signs and know their meaning.
It’s true, you’ll know how it was meant to be.
Hear the signs and know they’re speaking to you, to you.
– 10,000 Maniacs