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The MP3 recorder with president Logan authorizing the assignation former president David Palmer is crucial evidence that needs to get out. Jack Bauer‘s PDA has proven that it can do everything else, it could probably produce and host the podcast!

Soon the Palmarcast will be ready to download and listen to while you jog… to The White House and over-through the government.

You may have heard about the article on beer I got submitted to Slashdot – that was a good story about health research at Western, and I’m glad I was able to share it. Today I submitted a story to digg.com, with a less noble motive.

digg.com is one of those new Web 2.0 sites (if you don’t know < < that's a big buzz word right now). For at least the last six months I've found digg to be a better geek news source than slashdot because it's the users who submit stories and the users who dig(g) the stories to promote them to the main page. This is a very quick and effcient system, but it's not perfect.
Today I submitted the story Hawaiians considering independence (digg.com/science/Hawaiians_considering_independence.).

Today while talking online with my brother who’s in NYC right now and he mentioned that his current residence is beside the Chinese consulate. I made a joke that he might soon lose his sovereignty and find himself living in exile in a small corner of the Indian consulate. I wasn’t sure how to spell sovereignty
at the moment so I gave it a quick Google. Hit three was a web page about Hawaiian sovereignty. I shared this with my brother and mentioned that it was the kind of link that gets 200 diggs on digg.com. His response: prove it.

Almost six hours later and the story has 11 diggs. So I was wrong, but the good news is the concept of user-edited content (like a Wiki) is proven viable again.

Incidentally, digg is a one of those Web 2.0 sites that use that other new buzz word: AJAX. I plan to announce my AJAX based project in the next week or so

I don’t know if you’ve seen it already, but if you haven’t, you must check out The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster – Darth Vader’s blog. It’s actually a Canadian comedian, and not only are the posts great but the responces to comments are gerat too!

Here’s part of the post It’s Christmas On Hoth

“Admiral Ozzol took the fleet out of hyerspace too close to Hoth, and the Rebel Alliance were — you guessed it — alerted to our approach. The cornerstone of Ozzel’s arrogance is his insistence that rebel technology is so vastly inferior to Imperial technology that we need broker no caution……

“Ozzel just isn’t the creative type.

The problem is solved now, however. I crushed his trachea with my mind, and promoted Piett to command the fleet. I have transmitted to following note to Ozzel’s kin:

Dear House of Ozzel,

I regret to inform you that your son has been killed in the line of duty.

He was an incompetent, yammering boob and he will be missed by none. I have allowed the men to pillage his personal belongings, which is why we have enclosed nothing but the sole remaining item: a torn advertisements page from a magazine of midget pornography. May it shock and disturb you, and may you think of it always when you remember your dearly departed son, the ninny.

Know also that his limitations as a sub-par military professional caused the deaths of many of the Emperor’s loyal soldiers, whose funeral expenses will appear on your next tax assessment.

Sincerely,
D. Vader

Too harsh? I call them as I see them.

darthside.blogspot.com

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Given the latest news about the Liberal party’s alleged criminal acts and members leaving the party (like David Killgore who has now left both major federal parties) I have decided to look at their short term forecast.

The Stop Ashlee Simpson Petition sucessfully had the annoying star thrown out of our galaxy. The people have spoken.