Speaking freely

America's Nazi Party, along with the KKK and the White Revolution, is going to hold a rally at the state capitol in Raleigh tomorrow. According to the local NPR station, their permit was for 50 people to attend. A counter-rally a couple of blocks away has applied for a permit for 500 people.

I'll try to get some pictures.

Ummm.. no.

Mel Gibson's father on the Holocaust:

"They claimed that there were 6.2 million (Jews) in Poland before the war and after the war there were 200,000, therefore he (Hitler) must have killed 6 million of them. They simply got up and left. They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney and Los Angeles.''

So, Hilter wasn't such a bad guy after all!

Soda Hack

MacMerc instructs us on how to hack the Pepsi iTunes giveaway - complete with diagrams.

Regular turkey bacon club, plain, lettuce only, and WiFi

Schlotzsky's is going to start offering WiFi access in its restaraunts. Since I don't drink coffee, the wireless access at Starbuck's does me little good. But, I do eat Schlotzsky's turkey bacon clubs (with a root beer). This would definitely be enough to get me to stop by one of their stores, if I was travelling with my laptop.

Good for them, and me.

Revolting

Cumin and saffron flavored KitKats.

myPod

Just got my iPod. And before I even turn it on, I gotta say... Apple has the absolute, hands-down best packaging of any company I've ever seen. Just opening the box was fun. And taking each part out of the box and taking it out of its individual wrapping was fun, too. The attention to detail is astounding - even in the packaging. Each piece is wrapped and arranged in the box in such a way that it displays the part in addition to keeping it safe in transit. I can't wait to start using it. Apple rocks.

The only drawback, and it's a big one for me, is that it doesn't come with a USB adaptor; I have to order that from Apple. If my PC had a FireWire port, I wouldnt care, of course. But it doesn't. So, it'll be yet another four days of waiting - in addition to the four weeks I waitied for the eBay guy to send me the iPod...

sigh.

Twinkle twinkle

BBC NEWS reports that "twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats..."

Maybe DeBeers will be the first company to commercialize space.