bob weir sang the national anthem last week in SF

does dratfink look messed up on peoples machines today or is it just me? my right column of links is layered over the text and the first block on the right is gone while the text extends further to the right than is normal just for the first post. anyone see that?

Any one smell dead phish ? Todays Times says : "Phish Phinishes an act bidding phans pharwell" and that it will be a boom for String Cheese Incident who will now take on all ex-phish phollowers.

my first cousin is a lesbian and owns a few retail stores in Mass., she decided to make her own campaign bumper sticker this year and thier selling like hotcakes..."Lick Bush in 2000"

my 2nd annual hero of year award goes to paul newman and his wife nell (i cant remember one of his movies except that one where he was a gambler??) for thier "newmans own organics" food line with 100% profit given to charity--they crossed the $100 million mark this year!! please buy thier stuff!! last year's winner was woody for his war on the "war on drugs" he is on the cover of high times this month and his case was dropped but he has not dropped the case...

we need to do a simple white truffle meal at some point--fresh eggs / truffle's + simple pasta / truffle's--jmb can you find out if we can get some wholesale??

bored?? from the (a)buddha's mem(es)brain

lokks like a great Mass weekend for me and we should plan for sunday 15!!

another one for you to svet about.

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Here is a little language trivia from Riothero:

What is the longest word you can spell without repeating a letter?

What is the longest world with just one vowel?

What is the only English word with a triple letter?

What is the longest commonly used word with no letter appearing more than once?

What is the word with the longest definition, in most dictionaries?

What is the longest common word without an a, e, i, o, or u?

What is the shortest -ology (study of) word?

What is the only two common words with six consonants in a row?

What is the longest English word with letters appearing in Alphabetical order?

Check out his post for the answers.

check out the bottom 2 works

Poor George W. Everybody makes fun of him. (Let the page load, it's worth it in a really juvenille sort of way.)

Mike said the site was boring yesterday, so I'm trying to come up with a lot of links today. Because I don't really have time to scour the whole net, I'm just stealing a few from memepool (this one, and the last two.)

Anyway, here's the Hacker FAQ which will help answer any questions you might have about hiring a hacker.

Here's the first three chapters of a graphic novel about the Presidential race: S2K. The author (artist?) says:

If there was ever any question of how I view the common voter, politicians and modern American politics, this serialized graphic novel should make everything clear by page 4. S2K is my hate filled manifesto, my ultimatum, my revealed contempt, and my pie smashed into the face of the political machine. Read it with gritted teeth. This election year, the American political system goes all to Hell...

Did you know the CIA bought the film rights to Orwell's Animal Farm?

Maybe Wheel will comment more fully, but here's my quick take. We went to ESCA last night, which is the all seafood restaurant in the Mario Batali empire (you know, the guy with the food show, the long red hair, and the funny shoes who brought us Po, Lupa, and Babao.) The menu had us absolutely dizzy. We literally wanted to order evey single thing (well, O.K., only MB and I wanted to order the sea urchin.) All Italian wine. A great Northern Italian white from the area (Tirol) we traveled through last year, and an amazing example of the elusive (red) Lagrain (sp?) grape which we searched for in Italy, but now it seems finally found the one we wanted right here in NYC. With the Quinterelli for dessert we were feeling no pain. Oh, the food? Great. The fried fish was amazing (vongole and the frito-misto (sp?),) maybe the best I've ever had. Pasta's (as you might expect at a Mario restaurant) were perfect, although the perriwinkle and chilie was not as amazing as we had hoped. The eel (appetizer) was also not a favorite (although surely not bad.) The beet and botarga salad was a winner, as was the big stuffed clam (anyone remember what that was called?) I'd say: order lots of appetizers. Expensive; sure. Weird location - 43rd and 9th; for sure. Good time; good bet.

some microsoft glitch has my request to go to slate sent to a site for windows NT option pack. wacky, huh?

"Welcome to Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 Option Pack Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack provides enhanced Web, application, and communication services for Windows NT Server 4.0. So if you're setting up a simple Web site on your corporate intranet, creating large sites for the Internet, or developing component-based applications, the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack provides a simple, flexible way to make your existing Windows NT Server 4.0 an even stronger Web and applications platform. We welcome your feedback! It's important that we incorporate your feedback into our software. Please send any comments or suggestions to iiswish@microsoft.com."

heres one for you, jim.

RU486, "...the controversial abortion pill..." is approved for use in the U.S.

is this a necessary ingredient for a dry martini?

Dave, "tapped out" and "blind ambition," 9/27, lead to same link.

Hey Wheel, want to check this out and tell me if it works? (I'm assuming they provide instructions on how to shape-shift back into human form. Hmmm, you might want to make sure first.)

anybody have a dentist in manhattan they would like to recommend?

American Museum of the Moving Image has a show of presidential campaign commercials, but it's a bit buggy on this machine. Maybe you should just skip to the exhibit of classic video arcade games.