Briton Arrested For Sex Attacks on Sheep - NYTimes.com

New York Times: Briton Arrested For Sex Attacks on Sheep

"A Briton has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a series of sex attacks on sheep, London police said on Friday."

"Two male joggers said they had observed a man molesting the sheep in a field at Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, police said in a statement."

What? WHAT? WHAT!

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A Spaghetti Western Even I Love

Seeing something like this makes the Internet actually meaningful. I had forgotten all about the wonderful and wacky weirdness over at eatPES. Thank you, Jason at Signal vs. Noise for reminding me.

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The App Store is Live!

Early reports via Google Reader advised a certain little birdie that iTunes 7.7 was available for download. Not willing to leave the snuggle-snuggle comfort of her bed before she absolutely had to (terrible night - the teeth were grinding and the stomach was churning and wakey-wakey at least three times before the dawn's early light), the little birdie only had time to run the updates on the MBP and the MacPro via Screen Share before leaving the safe haven and venturing out into the harsh world this morning.


Given the utterly wonky performance of iTunes 7.X on her PoS Dell, the little birdie thought it best to delete the existing software and reinstall 7.7 de novo. Which went flawlessly.

For the first time in months, she was able to launch iTunes with a single click - instead of trying and retrying and using the run command. (Oh noes! Gasp of horror!)

First thing this little AppleSlut did was try to find the new App Store. And to her immediate devastation, it was nowhere to be found. But, Google Reader to the rescue yet again - a brief snippet of an entry about searching for an app would reveal the App Store for the faithful. And lo, the Temple of Steve was revealed!



A search for "Super Monkey Ball" returned a few results, including the requested application. Going to the application revealed a live breadcrumb trail back to the App Store. A second look through the voluminous Apple-related blog entries in Google Reader disclosed a post on the Apple Phone Show Blog by the ever-wonderful and ever-snarky Mr. Scott Bourne, with a direct link to the App Store.

There are 27 pages of iPhone applications - free and paid, and at 21 apps per page, that is 567 applications on Day -1. Wow. There are also 7 pages of free apps - 147 for the math-impaired (and maybe this app can help with that problem).

Looking through the App Store, the AppleSlut came to realize that she may need to buy a new iPhone before 3G is rolled out here in cloud-cuckoo land. 8 gb is not a lot of space anymore, with all this fun stuff waiting for her.

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Devilishly Clever Mid-Afternoon Humor

Via Merlin Mann's great blog, Kung Fu Grippe:

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone:

MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com
MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com
Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com
AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com
One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com

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If you thought the NYT article in the last post was gross, it has nothing on this one

New York Times: Late Period Limbaugh

EVIL INCARNATE

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No thank you, not for me, please.

Skin Deep - A Spa for Those Women Concerned About ‘Pelvic Fitness’ - NYTimes.com

A few years ago, I was a bit shocked by those ads in New York magazine offering plastic surgery for the hoo-hoo. This, my dear readers is rather a bit beyond even my fairly flexible sensibilities. It seems that just as I can get my toes done, my back massaged or my eyebrows waxed at the local day spa, I can go to a spa to have my "pelvic fitness" tested. Manually.

Ugh.

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What Was I Thinking?

Had a half hour down time, waiting for a meeting to start and I got this brilliant idea, I'd move my blog to Wordpress. It was really quite easy to import my posts, set up a blog roll and start the ball rolling. The fun part of starting a blog is customizing, and with Wordpress...

All I can say is HUH?

Despite the fact that there are umpteen more themes for Wordpress blogs, none of them seemed to be quite right. The font on one was too small, the other only had one column, a third was too dreary for words. And then there is the matter of fees. If I want to edit the CSS, I've got to pay $15 a year, and if I don't keep paying, all of the custom CSS will just go away.

I also found the Wordpress dashboard clumsy and hard to use.

So, for the now, I am sticking with Blogger. Once the Convention is over, I'll make an effort to learn and edit CSS, so I can tweek some of the settings and features.

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