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I have to say, there really is something about vinyl records.. that rawness in music, especially in opera, classical and jazz. Well, don’t keep your breath held any longer! ELP Corporation in Japan has come up with a state of the art solution that will not damage your precious disks. Remember that favorite record you owned that your bratty kid (or the stupid neighbors kid) warped by leaving it sitting near the window, letting the sun slowly melt it away and for some reason you’ve kept that silly thing?? Today’s your day! A new, laser turntable should be on your Festive Season Day [eg Christmas].

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but I have it on good authority, we’re gonna hear about this guy again!  Enjoy a video from Break.com that will make you cringe (nothing disgusting, sexual or inhumane, I promise)

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Finally, some good news for America.  We’ve finally won something!  Since the Winter Games when Bode Miller was going to bring not only one gold medal but five.  As fate has it, he produced nothing (granted, he was ambushed everywhere during the competition which may have had an effect on his performance.. even so, he still did not even place!)  Germany ends up taking First Place.  Then, there was another grand competition this year, the 2006 World Cup.  The US barely made it, and it was a win on technicality instead of performance.  All in all, it’s just disappointing that we couldn’t get a team that could work together seamlessly.

Now for the good news.  America has kept the coveted Tour de France from the rest of the world for another year!! Congrats to Floyd Landis.  Amid significant pain and discomfort, he was finally able to pull thru on the last leg of the race!

and finally, this weekend, Tiger Woods won the British Open!

“After the last putt, I realized my dad’s never going to see this again, and I wish he could have seen this one last time,” Woods said at the trophy presentation. “He was out there today keeping me calm. I had a very calm feeling the entire week, especially today.”

So, hopefully this is going to be a small ball rolling for more wins on the international level.

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For some reason, I’ve been running into quite a number of bunny and bunny related websites lately.  They seem to be a growing fad, but I’m not going to complain.

I have a friend of mine that works up in Philadelphia, PA and she was the first person to turn me on to the daily online comic strip, bunny.  This strip crosses a wide variety of topics and subjects, not only that, it can be frustrating at times if you don’t ‘get it’ right off.. your best bet is to load up Google and start from there.  Lem is also in the works of creating a book that will be sold whenever he gets around to recreating all of his work.  Wikipedia does a decent job of describing bunny here.
Then, while bouncing around on WordPress sites, I ran into the  The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library by  Angry Alien Productions.   If you have a few minutes to spare, this is definitely the site to check out.  Using flash, they re-create movies using bunnies as the characters and within 30 seconds, cover what occurs throughout the entire length of the movie.  Good stuff, you’ll watch them over and over.. what’s also nice, they’ve  amassed a good collection of them thus far.  Look forward to seeing more from this creative team.

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I wonder what kind of luck you have when you catch this “Silly Goose.”

BAR HARBOR, Maine — A rare two-toned lobster is seen in Bar Harbor, Maine. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer’s Bay is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. (07/17/06 AP photo/Bangor Daily News)

If you wanna read a bit more about, google or check out it here.

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I’d consider alot of things.. however.. not this.

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So, after much ado and formalities, FIFA, the governing body for football, handed down their decisions for the Zidane head-butting that took place in the final match of the 2006 World Cup (scroll down to read previous reports.)

Read here for a good summary.. archived version here.

What’s hilarious is how poorly the Italians are reacting.. in fact, it makes them look like sore winners and cry babies. They may have played a little better than Portugal (masters of diving and whining), but Italian football owns the sole award for bitching off the field.

Here’s an online version of an Italian press article.. call up your event planner, someone’s got to plan a pity party for them. Geez.

I guess I wouldn’t care so much if I thought Materazzi to be a decent guy.. but he can’t even man up to what he said on the field. HE said that he never said a word about Zinedine’s mother. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make sense that Zidane would go off and wail on someone for talking about their sister.. not alone, but to speak harshly about a sickly mom, shits gonna hit the fan.

Screw Materazzi and the crybaby Italian coaches. If you had an honest player, I’d feel more for you, but if you’re going to stand by lies, then, keep bitching, it suits you fine.

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Yesterday, my buddy Doug sent me this link to download the latest version of Adobe Lightroom.
So, I went to and have previewed it a bit.  I believe that Adobe has a way to go in order to make it a program worth owning, separate from Photoshop.  Since I am a avid user of Photoshop Elements, I wanted to see what the various specialists were saying.  The results were varied and some coincided with my thoughts, but thats not the point.  I ran across this link about how Photoshop orginially started.  Very interesting.  Enjoy!

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