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I always knew tennis was a sissy sport!

This is so wrong, but so funny – I couldn’t resist. Thanks A.P!

This is why you’re fat is one of those blog-gems I once came across and then forgot to bookmark. But as the universe would have it, back to me it came and honestly it makes me feel a little better about the food I stuff down my pie hole on a regular basis.

Courtesy of the wonderful site This is why you’re fat I bring you…The Bacone!

A bacon cone filled with scrambled eggs and country gravy topped with a biscuit. I feel really dirty.

Apparently this appeared at some function called the BaconCamp. You can find all the details at BAC’N.

Swedish Pirate Party Doubles in Size After Bay Verdict | Threat Level from Wired.com.

For some reason the RIAA never learns this lesson. When they put the spotlight on an Internet phenomenon like The Pirate Bay they effectively are giving free advertising to the cause.

The cause is now bigger than ever and more popular than before. Thanks RIAA!

Stalker – what a creepy word that is. If you check a Thesaurus you might find the definition “to creep up on” under its definition. I don’t know how being stalked feels but I’m sure it’s right up there among the worst experiences you’ll go through in life. Takes a certain kind of deranged personality to stalk someone doesn’t it? Maybe not – apparently it’s the new, hot trend on the Intertubes and I even stalked myself!

You want to think you have a certain level of privacy online. If you’ve been a smart person and not shared your info you should be safe, right? Not so much. Nothing is secret anymore. All your info can be spidered together from sites like Facebook, MySpace, White Pages, newsgroups, blogs, comments – you name it.

This probably isn’t a new concept but it sure hit me head on yesterday when I put my own info into Pipl’s query form. Up came all sorts of info including a picture! (My profile picture on several sites). Some info was obviously wrong and pieced together erroneously, like my age, but the creepy thing was just how much it got right.

This site is creeping info from all sorts of sources from the obvious mentioned above to your Amazon profile, LinkedIn page, registered domain names and public records. None of this is private information but it would take someone time and determination to create this amazing stalker profile on somebody by hand. The kind of determination you just assume the average person wouldn’t bother with.

Once you get over the shock of all the information out there you realize Pipl’s goal isn’t just to stalk you but to offer you services to protect your info. Seems kinda sly to me. Well placed links to services like ReputationDefender.com offer a chance to safeguard some of your personal details and other sponsored links go directly to some of the sources Pipl uses to get all these juicy details on you and then tries to peddle their premium memberships on you so you can get even more information.

I have a problem with this. I don’t think the average person out there should be able to assemble this kind of profile on someone with a few steps on a website. In fact I bet this will cause quite an uproar as it goes more mainstream and we’ll probably see some lawsuits coming  – GOOD!

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go get a couple of mean watchdogs, upgrade my alarm system, buy a gun and enough barbed wire to surround my house.

Found this picture over on Reddit and there’s something so ironcally funny about it. I wonder what the person behind the counter thought when the guy turned around!

Most of my car chargers are bulky and annoying. They stick out too far, the cable is flopping all over the place and most often the plug is not as good as the one the phone maker gives you.

Now check out this little guy. This is the Belkin Micro Auto Charger. It’s tiny, has a USB connection which will be perfect for my iPhone and it sits almost flush in the dashboard. Since I don’t use my charge port for anything else it’s basically like a nice mod to make the plug look like it came with the car. You know what I mean?

It’s coming out in May ‘09 at about $15. [link]

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I caught this over at Reddit.

Looks like Google has it’s own Torrent search engine. Makes me wonder if Google is so big and have so many high paid lawyers it doesn’t have to fear the RIAA or MPAA when it comes to torrents.

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What if you got fired, laid off or otherwise terminated from your job? Would you seek revenge as a last measure before heading out? Most of us wouldn’t but I’m sure we’ve all dreamt about doing what some of these people have done.