Blogs are Stupid

• The City (censored Rap & R&B)
• Raw - XL (explicit lyrics - rap only)
• The Rhyme - XL (explicit lyrics - old school rap)

• KISS
• Top 20 on 20
• The Eye
• MIX

• The 90s

Q: What do you get when you cross a giraffe and a monkey?

A: I'm sorry, I can't think about that right now because I'm too busy wondering why Congress hasn't launched an official investigation into Bush lying to the American public about WMDs and leading us into a war under false pretenses. Tell you what—as soon as I solve that little riddle, I'll get to work on your little genetic experiment.

Q: How many eggs does it take to make a good omelet?

A: Three. By the way, Tom DeLay is a hypocrite of the highest order.

Knock-knock.

Who's there?

Under the Patriot Act, we don't have to tell you that.

I'm going to echo the refrain that you'd expect from thirtysomethings like me who don't have children to protect: I don't like the sex and violence of the GTA series. As a result, I do what anyone capable of making decisions does: I don't play it.

For parents, GTA joins the ranks of adolescent sex, dope-smoking, underage drinking and a long list of other things that they shouldn't do but try to get away with anyway. And despite the misogynistic nastiness that turns my gut worse than a cup of burnt McDonald's coffee, it should be the bottom item on the list of bugbears threatening the moral values that many of us hold dear in this crazy age.
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Well-placed industry sources confirmed Friday that the Los Gatos company is close to launching an on-demand rental service that is paired with a Netflix-provided television set-top box.

``We have said we're committed to testing a product this year and we expect the test to be of a very modest nature,'' said Netflix spokesman Ken Ross, who declined to discuss the timing of the launch or the nature of the service.

The game is now being taken off the shelves all over the country and re-labeled with an "AO" rating. This is much stricter than the "M" rating the game originally received. According to the ESRB website:

	Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons of age 17 and older.
As opposed to the stricter AO rating:
	Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older.

• First few months: Random shit like my old CRLS emails (coworkers: you know you miss my CRLS emails..I mean, you miss deleting them with the rest of your junk email).

• Middle months: Many political posts, links to articles with me basically screaming "Oh please god don't let G Dub be reelected!". Then followed by angry or sad posts after the election.

• Last few months: Google Lovefest

If all of life is like high school, at last we have the answer to the question that goes to the core of our id-driven, zit-popping, green-eyed insecurity:

Are you more popular, at this very second, than the person who's instant-messaging you?

Instant messaging, you will know, is the way tens of millions of Americans connect with their buddies faster than e-mail. Beginning this week, the 50 million users of AIM, America Online's version of instant messaging -- including nearly half of all Americans between the ages of 13 and 25 -- could perform a self-esteem check by visiting http://www.aimfight.com/ . There you enter your AOL or AIM screen name and your friend's AOL or AIM screen name. Then you click "fight" to figure out who's got a bigger score -- as in who's better connected and more popular. You can almost hear the tap-tap-tapping on the keyboards right now.

Your popularity is based on who has you on their buddy list. There's a complicated algorithm at work here. Your score is measured to the third degree, in the sense of the "six degrees of separation" game that seeks to link anybody on Earth to any other person through no more than five friends.

NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc.'s stock performance rests heavily on its prospects for America Online, the Internet unit that was once the scourge of the world's largest media company and is now seen as its saving grace.

As Wall Street expects Time Warner to post its weakest quarterly results of the year on Aug. 3, investors are eyeing salvation in AOL, which has revamped its site into an online advertising bonanza from a prior flagging subscription model.
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Still, some analysts remain skeptical.

"It's still not clear to me that the current strategy -- the fourth one in two years -- will work all that well," said veteran media expert Harold Vogel of Vogel Capital Management. "AOL has a tremendous battle on its hands with Yahoo, Microsoft and Google."

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For now, Time Warner, which has suffered a public lashing for holding onto AOL the last four years, remains the only major media company with anything resembling a coherent online strategy as big media companies snap up dotcoms again.

"If the relaunch fails to drive traffic/advertising gains, a spin-off of AOL appears likely," Jessica Reif Cohen, analyst at Merrill Lynch said in a report.

Washingtonpost.com on Wednesday night launched separate home pages -- one for the local audience, and one for national and international users -- as part of an effort to make the paper more relevant to readers and advertisers.

The home page will feature a different mix of stories depending on the Zip code readers submit when they register at the site.

About 80 percent of the 8.5 million unique visitors to the site each month are from outside the Washington area, said Tim Ruder, vice president of marketing for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He added that local readers return to the site more frequently and linger longer.

Both versions carry much of the same content. But yesterday morning, for example, local users were greeted by a lead photo of a Washington area graffiti artist called Borf and a story about local transit security. By contrast, out-of-towners saw a lead photo of Israeli border police in the Gaza Strip and a story about the London bombings.

A trip to the gents may be relieving but now it can be exciting as well. With the new Pee Goals, you can practice your aim and you might even score.

The Pee Goal consists of a green base, goal post and a little football on a string. Take aim, shoot and see if you can score a goal.

Michael Bay ("The Island," "The Rock") will direct what promises to be a wildly expensive production based on a script from his "Island" scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The impressive production team will be led by executive producer Steven Spielberg, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (upcoming "Four Brothers"), Tom DeSanto ("X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United") and Don Murphy ("The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") serving as co-executive producers.

The No. 1 state for wasting time was Missouri, where workers who responded to the survey reported slacking off 3 hours and 12 minutes a day.

The survey didn't specifically look at why Missouri is the worst in the nation, but if Missouri workers think the perception is unfair, "We would encourage people to visit the home page and weigh in further on that," said Richard Cellini, Salary.com's head of research.

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The America Online and Salary.com survey found the workers' top excuses for wasting time nationwide were not enough work or inadequate pay for the work they do.

About 10,000 people responded to the poll.

More than 44% said the No. 1 way they waste time at work is personal Internet use, like reading e-mail, instant messages, playing interactive games — and responding to online polls.

Things about this that I think are funny:
1) The survey was done by AOL.
2) Virginia is #7 in the top time wasters.
3) Software and Internet is the #5 top slacking profession