Was watching some old Two Fat Ladies shows on The Cooking Channel. Horrifying.

Anyway, ever see 30 Rock?

According to the study by professors at Penn State University, New Mexico State University and Michigan State University, the number of Wal-Mart stores in a county correlates significantly with the number of hate groups in the area.

The amount of Wal-Mart stores in a county was more statistically significant than other factors commonly regarded as important to hate group participation, such as the unemployment rate, high crime rates and low education, the research found.

href LiveScience.

Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL) claimed at a town hall meeting that about 80 members of Congress are communists, a remark which has drawn quick fire from opponents.

"I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the democratic party that are members of the communist party," West told supporters at a town hall meeting in Jensen Beach, FL. He was responding to a question by a participant who asked, "what percentage of the American legislature do you think are card carrying Marxists?"

Why do people elect total fucking morons to represent them?

If you do this in an email, I hate you

Defending Stupid For Your Party

Kevin Drum:

The problem for the app market is that smartphone (and tablet) apps are so cheap that there's no way their makers will ever make substantial amounts of money. A few days ago I bought my most expensive app ever: $9.99 for Photoshop Touch. That's a lot! But Photoshop for a PC or a Mac will set you back about $400. Adobe would have to sell a helluva lot of copies of Touch for it to ever be a serious money spinner for them.

No, Adobe isn't going to make a lot of money on their $9.99 app - not by Adobe's money standards of anyway. But, Adobe does know that cheap - or even free - tools can do a good job of keeping your company's name in front of people. For example, what's that free tool which is constantly updating itself, which I hate, but which I just can't escape? Adobe Flash? No not that one... Adobe Reader! Yeah. That one.

Adobe aside, most app writers are small shops - and a lot are just one developer who does it for fun. And for an enterprise that size, a steady stream of small money is good money - and I know of what I speak.

Developers like me are the people who can make money off small sales. I made a hell of a side income for the last 15 years or so, selling PC apps for $24.95 a shot. For most of that time, I was doing three or four thousand dollars in gross sales per month (my biggest month, Jan 2000, was almost $9K in sales). Yes, I paid taxes on that, and accountant fees, and state fees, and internet hosting fees, etc.. But, even after all that, I had a very very nice chunk of money for doing something I enjoyed. No, it wasn't Adobe money, but I'm not Adobe - my business has one employee, who works part time, who doesn't mind skipping a pay check once in a while, and who doesn't need any benefits: me. No, it wasn't enough money that I could quit my day job. But it sure made a nice supplement! Sales are almost zero, these days, since I haven't come up with anything that people want (apparently), in a while. But, it still brings in enough to keep me in new PCs.

And sure, $24.95 is a lot more than most smartphone apps cost. But, it's a different environment - the piracy threat is lower, the ease of purchase and installation is higher; and most importantly, expectations are different. A smartphone app can get away with doing just one thing well, and there's a huge market for apps that are simply novelties. That app that turns pictures of people into pictures of zombies is essentially useless, but it's instant fun, and will spread like a virus among your phone-holding friends. One person gets it, shows it off at a party, then two other people buy it immediately. No PC app can get instant marketing like that, because people don't carry their PCs to parties.

The U.S. might be the worldwide leader in fast food and fat people but British diners will get the first taste of Pizza Hut's new hotdog-stuffed-crust pizza.

The fast-food chain newest offering debuts in Great Britain. It is a 14-inch pizza with a single hotdog - contemplate that for a minute - baked into the ring of crust at the edge of the pie.

Disgusting.

via Times Union

Out? Nooo! We, the American public (for which I now speak), hardly got to know you!

That sucks. Really. He'd make for a far more interesting opponent than Romney will.

If you like 60's R&B, 70's Stones or even early Kings Of Leon, you need to check out the Alabama Shakes:

that "...... WAIT!" in the chorus just kills.

MSNBC.com:

• Last month was the warmest March on record (records go back to 1895) at 51.1 degrees; this is 8.6 degrees above the 20th century average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• January-March was the warmest first quarter on record; the average temperature of 42 degrees was 6 degrees above average.
• April 2011-March 2012 was the warmest stretch of those 12 months on record; at 55.4 degrees, that period was 2.6 degrees above average.
• In March, 15,292 records were broken for warmth; 7,775 were new daytime highs in cities across the country and 7,517 were new nighttime highs.

Suck it, last year!