Parrotts Eat Sheep Kidneys

Dells now have Microsoft Ubuntu

msnbc.com:

Like other bands in the digital age, U2 is struggling to grab new listeners. Its members admit to frustration at the average album sales for its most recent release and wonder, as bassist Adam Clayton put it, whether the idea of an impassioned rock 'n' roll fan is becoming a thing of the past.

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"The commercial challenges have to be confronted," Clayton said during an interview backstage at "Saturday Night Live," as he awaited the band's performance on the show's season kickoff. "But I think, in a sense, the more interesting challenge is, 'What is rock 'n' roll in this changing world?' Because, to some extent, the concept of the music fan — the concept of the person who buys music and listens to music for the pleasure of music itself — is an outdated idea."

Err... no. Something else is outdated.

An Epidemic of Fear

Burnin Bunnies!

But that was 1987. Surely things have changed.

Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data -- without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries.

Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total U.S. pay in 2007, the latest figures available. The compensation numbers don't include incentive stock options, unexercised stock options, unvested restricted stock units and certain benefits.

The pay of employees who receive more than the Social Security wage base -- now $106,800 -- increased by 78%, or nearly $1 trillion, over the past decade, exceeding the 61% increase for other workers, according to the analysis. In the five years ending in 2007, earnings for American workers rose 24%, half the 48% gain for the top-paid. The result: The top-paid represent 33% of the total, up from 28% in 2002.

But don't you dare raise their taxes. That would be class warfare.

Pretty Hate Machine turned 20 this week.

Let's hear it for the inevitable march of time!

That Last Glass Of Bong Water...

Japanator.com:

Burger King Japan's commemorative burger for the release of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system has...7 beef patties. They're really going to sell this thing, starting today, October 22nd.

For the first 30 people to order, this monster will cost only 777 yen. For everyone else after that, the cost goes up to 1,450 yen ($15.89). Well, that and the cost of a good antacid.

This big bastard weighs about 1.7 pounds, and the caloric intake on this is more than you should probably eat in a day, at 2,120 calories.

Just give me the beef... I'm drooling just thinking about chewing on a solid mouthful of that creepy-delicious "flame-broiled" mush.