Great news for us T.V. and movie addicted people!

The writer’s strike is OVER !!!
I wonder how long it will take to see the effects of this? We just might have a few more episodes of our favorite shows hit the air waves some time this year?

Update in extended entry,

Hmm, now CNN is saying the deal is tenative! Yesterday MSNBC said it was a done deal, so really, who knows !

A 16 year-old Australian dude throws a party and now faces a $20k fine for damages.

You have to see the end of the interview. It’s not very long. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Of course he’s not my son or my neighbor.

(this video is safe for viewing at work)

So is he just a punk or a modern day Ferris Bueller?

What a great idea !
Now I wont have to go in and try to find some one who speaks English to help with directions when I am lost any more.

Gasoline pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root on Wednesday unveiled a new service that lets drivers use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps at the pump to get directions to destinations chosen by gas station owners.
The service, unveiled at the National Association of Convenience Stores conference in Atlanta, is part of Gilbarco’s Applause media system, which has been incorporated in its Encore pumps with color screens and Internet connections. Applause is an extension of Gilbarco’s SMART Merchandising system that retailers can use to display promotions and advertisements, and offer coupons through the pump’s receipt printer.

Gilbarco plans to begin testing of the Google service early next month, company spokeswoman Lucy Sackett told InformationWeek. The company hopes to roll out the service later in the month to about 3,500 pumps across the United States.

You can read the rest here.

Check this out.....you can find anyone by their cell phone number (as long as it’s turned on) via GPS satellites!

Try it yourself. Plug in your friend’s or partner’s number, if their phone is on it zeroes right in on their location.

Good way to keep tabs on somebody, I’d think......hmm......

Does anyone else think this is just a clever ad for paperless-billing?
Her blog only goes back to January, and has a very pretty company paid for kind of feel to me. I am thinking all this hype was a plan from the start.

Of course I could be wrong? Great URL for a blog.

Something tells me that this phone call is going to not only hurt Mr. Baldwin’s court case, but also his book sales.

Myself, I am not sure what is worse, losing your temper with your 11 year old daughter while leaving a voice mail or being the mother that leaked it to the press out of spite.
What I do feel sure about it, is that most of the time divorce is pretty ugly and it truly is the kids that end up suffering the most.

There is no way I could complain or feel sorry myself today, not with stories like this in the news.

Gunman kills 32 in Virginia Tech rampage,

A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students. The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.

- Yahoo

My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families.

An Alexandria court sentenced an Egyptian blogger to four years in prison on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, was the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings. He was convicted in connection with eight articles he wrote since 2004.

Rights groups and opposition bloggers have watched Suleiman’s case closely, and said they feared a conviction could set a legal precedent limiting Internet freedom in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country.

- News.com

I am very pro choice, and proud to be so.
Being pro choice does NOT mean being pro abortion.
I would hate for that choice to be taken away from myself or my daughters.

Residents of a neighborhood next to the University of Arizona say small white rats have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets.

In one sighting, Wastewater Management officials said a woman saw a rat in the toilet, left the toilet seat up and put down sticky trap paper in the bathroom. Then she closed the bathroom door so the rat couldn’t get into the rest of the house.
Once the rat got stuck on the paper, she threw it away.

The Pima County Health Department said it’s best not to handle or touch a toilet-surfing rat.

Handle it? As in touch it ? Are they kidding, oh my gawd!
I can tell you, if this happen to me, I would just die! Just reading it freaked me out.

You can read the rest on Yahoo

First, yesterday Hallary Rodham Clinton’s swearing in broke ground as the largest number of women we’ve ever had in the Congress.
Today, Rep. Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives.

What an inspiration these women are.
To be able to tell our daughters that with enough hard work, they to can grow up to be what ever they want to be and mean it.

Former Iraq tyrant, Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death by hanging Sunday morning for the massacre of countless civilians.

In an outburst of emotion, Hussein began screaming at the judge as the verdict was delivered.

He shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Greatest) and “Long live the nation! Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!”

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