We’ve had a lot of crap going on in the last year. Once in a while, it’s good to be a kid.

Ben found this and pointed it out to me. I thought it might require a little re-post…

Future plans for The Lebowski Podcast include more excellent guest speakers, interviews with artists and musicians who are fans of the film, and special Listener Spotlights celebrating the podcast’s biggest fans and best listeners.

For more information about The Lebowski Podcast, visit www.lebowskipodcast.com. The website features downloadable episodes, merchandise, a collection of Lebowski-related links, and an all-Lebowski blog.

I remember as a kid, my grandfather, who was not beyond swearing, went on about how he didn’t understand why the Charlie Daniels band had to go and swear in that song. We laughed, and my brother shot right back, if your talking to the devil, don’t you think you’d call him a son of a bitch?

I’ll have to link to this because embedding has been disabled. That sure is some social networking.

When Jones “forgets” the oars, the captain is in for a big surprise. It seems maybe his wife is tired of getting splinters from that peg leg…

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, ‘If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?’

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, ‘Sure, Why not?’

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Singular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP Laser Jet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, ‘You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.’

‘That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,’ says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the Bud says to the young man, ‘Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?’

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, ‘Okay, why not?’

‘You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government’, says Bud.

‘Wow! That’s correct,’ says the yuppie, ‘but how did you guess that?’

‘No guessing required.’ answered the cowboy. ‘You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows…
this is a flock of sheep. . .

Now give me back my dog.

Taking the challenge left you feeling heroic? Want to mainline that heroism like some kind of drug? Well then, my friend, click the link below to help spread the challenge around the world.

You’ll be getting your fix and helping a puppet get on prime-time — it’s win-win!

http://puppetchallenge.hoggworks.com/

This makes me about as happy as could be for a Monday. I hope they take it big on this.

Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy
By Eliot Van Buskirk EmailMarch 31, 2008 | 10:38:57 AMCategories: Digital Music News

Sonybmg A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world.

PointDev, which makes Windows administration software, claims that a raid on Sony/BMG servers revealed that as much as 47 percent of the software used by the company can be considered to have been pirated under French law, according to Zeropaid’s Google translation of the initial report:

We are not interested in an amicable settlement. It is not just a question of money but more importantly in principle. The rate of software piracy in the company is very high. According to the Business Software Alliance, a association of the major publishers in the market, 47 percent of programs used in the company would be [unlawful] in France…

The Business Software Alliance raid that uncovered the programs on Sony/BMG’s servers was apparently triggered by Sony IT worker’s request for assistance with a program called Ideal Migration. When the PointDev tech support person tried to help, he or she seems to have discovered that the key provided by Sony/BMG was pirated.

Sony/BMG apparently asked La Provence not to pick up on the story, which, of course, it did. The case will surely provide no small amount of glee to file sharing activists and RIAA boycotters as it unfolds.

01net (in French); via Zeropaid and Techdirt”

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I went through the effort of going to their site so you don’t have to… Some videos you have to pay (?) to see. While this one below, you don’t. Take note of the high quality digital effects…

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