The French are still nuts over Jessica Alba, and not that I blame them for that in the least.  I've crawled all over the MSN Live Search page that is referring all of those frogs and can't find anything that remotely resembles the page they are all viewing.  Of course being able to read French might help.  Good press is better than no press I guess.

• Back in the day the brothers at the frat house had a rating system for farts based on how vile they smelled.  I used to work with a guy that could clear out a entire cube farm after drinking a glass of milk, so I can sort of relate.  Still, fist fighting over farts is a bit extreme.
• All I really remember first hand about President Ford was the Chevy Chase skit from SNL.  That's a shame because he's one of those guys that got handed a pile of shit when he was promoted and did the best he could with what he had.  The funny thing is that kids are taught these days that the entire nation hated him and went ape-shit over Jimmy Carter.  That's a far cry from reality as Carter beat Ford by one of the slimmest margins of that century.  Another example of our crappy public education system.
• A Microsoft product has flaws? No way, man!  Don't buy for a second that it's only a 'minor' problem, or that a real fix is coming anytime soon.  The nerds in Redmond are struggling to stay current and hip and this is just another example of what happens when the marketing department takes control of a tech firm.
• Quicker than I would have thought, James Brown's illegal widow is looking for her check.  Which makes me wonder how much of a cut his agent is going to get from The Godfather's final gig at the Apollo.  It seems like all the really great ones are getting away from us but at least the choir angelic is one voice richer now.
• I miss the good old days when sending a battalion of the 82nd Airborne somewhere was a big deal, and we knew they would fix the problem in a few days.
• Don't hate the player, hate the game.  Or something like that.  But the zealots still want to blow up one of our cities.  Nice.

I'm out for the day.

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TC