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Ok, found another pretty funny thing on an online message board (forum) the other day that I thought I’d share with you.

This came from Bill Maher’s recent comedy show a week or two I guess. Take a read, have a laugh.

Funny letter Bill Maher wrote to George W
In case you missed last Friday’s HBO’s “Late Night with Bill Maher,”
here was his open letter to the President:

Mr. President, this job can’t be fun for you any more.
There’s no more money to spend–you used up all of that.

So, yes, God does speak to you.
What he is saying is: “Take a hint.”

PS: I’ll try to get some images and animated gifs up soon of Hurricane Rita.

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Here’s a cool article on a British programmer who recently coded a very impressive artificial intelligence (AI) bot to chat with people. I know I’ve seen a few in the past that were ‘fair’ but I’m sure this technology will grow and grow. Pretty soon when you see those spam bots in chat you won’t be able to tell if they are a real person or not. This application has some great potential for commercialization but I’m not sure really what else beyond high tech chatbots or possibly customer service that this stuff could do. Anyways, it’s an interesting read… The link and an excerpt is below:

Brit programmer wins chat-bot prize
Cheeky chat software accuses judge of not having a life
Ken Young, vnunet.com 20 Sep 2005

“A British artificial intelligence expert has won the Loebner Prize, held each year to determine which computer chat program is capable of responses most like that of a human being.

Rollo Carpenter and his ‘George’ program came top out of four entrants, knocking three times winner ‘Alice’ into fourth place. The award represented the first time that the prize has been won by a British entrant.”

Read the Full Article Here.

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So where is Hurricane Rita going to land? Well apparently the thought is that she might hit Texas and not go north like Hurricane Katrina did.

Another prediction is that she’ll pickup speed and become a Cat 4 hurricane. Let’s hope Hurricane Rita doesn’t hit a large populated city as a Cat 4.

Ok, so I didn’t find a good webcam shot of Hurricane Rita but I did find this one and where it came from at http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/

I know this is a horrible thought, but wouldn’t it just be better if Hurricane Rita slammed into New Orleans again, since most of the city is evacuated already and the damage has been done already, instead of messing up a whole new section of the country????

Just a thought, I know a horrible one, but a thought nonetheless…

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I know, you guys are probably wondering why it took me so long to discuss adult live webcams. Well first off I didn’t want to make this just another lame discussion of who’s hot (tee hee, I’m just a sexy girl, etc bla bla bla) and who’s not type of thing. I think we’ve all seen enough of those webcam sites already. Sure, I’m a fan too, and online interativity and naughty fun just are a perfect match. However, I wanted this blog to be something different on webcams, kind of a directory, review, etc and to include really what’s fascinating about the Internet…it’s interactivity!

I guess if I get enough requests I’ll do some more personal webcam site reviews and some reviews on the larger adult webcam portals to sniff out the crappy ones and point you guys (and gals) in the right direction of where to go to “get your fun on.”

Anyways, I found an article on wired.com that was talking about how the Chinese government is trying to censor adult webcam chat from their citizens. The article also went on to discuss what a HORRIBLE situation there is over there in regards to the inequity of men to women! It’s really quite sad and online sexual experiences on webcams and in chat are really a needed outlet for sooooooooooo many men that have no chance in hell of hooking up with a real woman there as there are Far too many men in that country. In general webcam chat (of the adult nature) is also a great way to cut down on transmission of STDs. Cybersex really is safe sex in a way.

Something that saddened me while reading the article, is how much our country is becoming like China. Not in regards to the population disparity, we have plenty of women to go around thank G-d! But, when you consider the last year or so of the Bush administration gearing up to try and shut down the adult activities and freedoms online it really makes you think a bit. I don’t think anyone would argue that the Web needed some cleaning up, but the manner in which this administration wants to attack the online adult industry is very much overkill imo.

I and others I know have come to believe that our country has been taken over by theocrats, much like those we are supposedly fighting against in the middle east (or is that we are installing?). Sure we’re not quite as openly barbaric as they are, although if you’ve ever heard the stories of beatings, and the common place of gang rape and disease transmission, sexual slavery in the US prison systems you might think again.

Ok, I’ll stop ranting now… It just makes me sick at what hypocrits we’ve become in this country. Oh, and don’t say we don’t kill civilians like they do, check the #s on how many Iraqi non-combatant civilians we killed recently and compare that to the 9/11 death toll. We CLEARLY have doubled/tripled their kill rate. I guess we don’t believe in eye for an eye, but more like eye for a head, torso and limb.

Ok, here’s the article I was supposed to be talking about before I got off on my rant. LOL

Enjoy this article on live webcam chat and censorship in the country of China:

China Mulls ‘Gang of 15 Million’
wired.com - Sep. 16, 2005

“Our sex-tech columnist wonders if the Great Firewall of China can withstand the onslaught of all those lonely young men now that they’ve discovered webcam chat.” Commentary by Regina Lynn.

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AOL Launching Podcast Search Engine
From searchenginejournal.com - 9/14/2005

“On the heels of an announcement that AOL is offering a variety of Podcasting tools at AOL.com/podcasting, where listeners can “discover, experience and download some of the web’s most popular podcasts” which include KCRW’s “This Week in Tech,” AOL’s “Sports Bloggers Live,” and AOLRadio’s new Podcasting station; AOL is also getting into Podcast search. AOL is offering podcast search of thousands of podcasts on its Winamp 5.1 media player and is planning on launching a full service podcast search ability on AOL Search.”

Read the full article here.

Podcasting is one of those things I really need to look more into. I guess it’d help if I’d finally break down and get an Ipod too since that’s an integral part of what’s spawned this craze.

Anyways, post some comments if you know more about this topic. I’d love to hear more on it… So far all I know is it’s basically where someone can record their ‘radio show’ so to speak, save it in some file format and share it. The sharing of it is the actual ‘podcasting’ where it can be picked up through online services and played on people’s ipods. Did I get any of that right? I sure hope so!

In the spirit of this post, I feel I must share one of my favorite images that I found on various messageboards that always gives me a good laugh.

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Paris Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months in Jail << Read the Full Article Here
Wed Sep 14, 4:23 PM ET

“BOSTON - A Massachusetts teenager who reportedly hacked into
Paris Hilton’s cell phone account has been sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile facility.
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Celebrity phone numbers stored in Hilton’s cell phone were posted online when her account was hacked earlier this year. A Washington Post report on Wednesday identified Hilton as a victim of the 17-year-old Massachusetts boy.”

Apparently he was charged for hacking into Internet and telephone service providers, theft of personal information and posting it on the Web, and making bomb threats to high schools in Florida and Massachusetts, all over a 15-month period.

Click the link at the top of this entry for the full news article at yahoo.

Anyways, that’s all for now, I’ll post something else later today.

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NOLA.com blogs and forums help save lives after Katrina
Online Journalism Review Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:28:54 GMT
Here’s an inside look at how the website for the Times-Picayune helped guide rescuers and provided in-depth news for evacuees. >> Click Here To Read The Full Article < <

Here's an excerp that seems to really cover the overall vibe of the issue:

"As the water finally starts to recede in New Orleans, the watershed for online journalism has been laid bare. Hurricane Katrina brought forth a mature, multi-layered online response that built on the sense of community after 9/11, the amateur video of the Southeast Asian tsunami disaster and July 7 London bombings, and the on-the-scene blogging of the Iraq War....

NOLA.com is known more for its MardiGras.com site and its live webcam, but now has become Exhibit A in the importance of the Internet for newspaper companies during a disaster. When the newspaper couldn't possibly be printed or distributed, the NOLA.com news blog became the source for news on hurricane damage and recovery efforts -- including updates from various reporters on the ground and even full columns and news stories.

The blog actually became the paper, and it had to, because the newspaper's readership was in diaspora, spread around the country in shelters and homes of families and friends...."

The wonder of the Internet is amazing, I just hope that the US Congress doesn't legislate it into oblivion. You wonder why I even bring this up, well wired.com had an interesting article on it today. It seems the more we allow the US Congress and it's courts to legislate the Internet the more functionality and freedom on it will diminish greatly and I fear within 5-10 years will more resemble the major TV network dulldrums that we had to endure prior to the wonder we call the InterWeb

Here's that article from wired that reminded me of the danger the US legal system is to our beloved Internet: Open Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye

Ok, so you’ve been on game servers or internet chat message boards?

If so you’ll love this animated gif… or at least I think you will.

**** WARNING *****
Some of the images in the animation are a big on the gorey side, it’s basically hacked up humours compilation of that Tom Hanks war movie, that I forget the name of

http://www.funzor.net/upl/sep/9.12/rulez/image.gif

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Ok, I know I said I’d post something about Katrina, but before I do I thought we could use another day of some humor I found on a message board / forum. If any of you know of one bashing Kerry or some other liberal please let me know I’d love to post it. I’m an equal opportunity politician mocker….

The Kennebunkport Hillbilly
(tune of The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song)
Come and listen to my story ’bout a boy name Bush.
His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush.
He drank like a fish while he drove all about.
But that didn’t matter ‘cuz his daddy bailed him out.
DUI, that is. Criminal record. Cover-up.

Well, the first thing you know little Georgie goes to Yale.
He can’t spell his name but they never let him fail.
He spends all his time hangin’ out with student folk.
And that’s when he learns how to snort a line of coke.
Blow, that is. White gold. Nose candy.

The next thing you know there’s a war in Vietnam.
Kin folks say, “George, stay at home with Mom.”
Let the common people get maimed and scarred.
We’ll buy you a spot in the Texas Air Guard.
Cushy, that is. Country clubs. Nose candy.

Twenty years later George gets a little bored.
He trades in the booze, says that Jesus is his Lord.
He said, “Now the White House is the place I wanna be.”
So he called his daddy’s friends and they called the GOP.
Gun owners, that is. Falwell. Jesse Helms.

Come November 7, the election ran late.
Kin folks said “Jeb, give the boy your state!”
“Don’t let those colored folks get into the polls.”
So they put up barricades so they couldn’t punch their holes.
Chads, that is. Duval County. Miami-Dade.

Before the votes were counted five Supremes stepped in.
Told all the voters “Hey, we want George to win.”
“Stop counting votes!” was their solemn invocation.
And that’s how George finally got his coronation.
Rigged, that is. Illegitimate. No moral authority.
Y’all come vote now. Ya hear?

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Ok, I know this has nothing to do with webcams or internet technology, but I DID find it on a messageboard / forum so it kinda fits. And with all the drama in the world lately I figured we could use some humor. I will post some things on Hurricane Katrina either later today or this week.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.

Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”.

This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”.

This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

http://www.internethumorsucks.com/2005/09/07/euro-english-to-become-the-official-language-of-the-european-union-rather-than-german/