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The crazy Jackass guys have released the sequel to Jackass 2 and it’s now online only and you can watch it for free at the Jackass 2.5 site for a few more days then I’m not sure. I’d suggest checking it out if you liked the Jackass movies. They mostly crammed together a bunch of extra footage they shot during Jackass 2 but there’s a lot of funny stuff. I think the old man sequence is hilarious myself.

Anyway I suggest checking it out if you’re not easily offended

So right after writing about how greed and capitalism may be good I sat down and watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s new documentary about the health care system in the US. It turns out greed may have ruined the US health care and pharmaceutical industry so maybe it’s not so good. Or maybe it’s only good when applied to things consumers actually have a choice about instead of having to pay $60000 to get fingers put back on. The saddest part is that while socialist health care probably would work well it’s such a huge uphill battle in America since the health care and pharmaceutical companies are so well entrenched and like your money so much.

Sometimes I think perhaps lobbyists are the problem.

Just a thought. (OMG social commentary from me! I’ll try to keep it to a minimum as I hate politics but I am voting Colbert)

This is a fantastic attempt at viral marketing from the OkDork dude. You just keep clicking and it ranks people based on it. I don’t know why but I can’t stop!

The guys from 3D mailbox are back and this time with an even more retarded level for their “interactive” email application. I know I’ve always wanted to see planes take off and land 500 times a day and wait 30 seconds between each email I read for no good reason. I’m sure you do as well.

I’ve been playing way too much Team Fortress 2 recently and now I’ve run across this eBay auction that seems like it was just made to be turned into a fortress where the honorable blue forces could hold off the malicious red guys.

Titan Missile Bunker

So if you have a spare 1.5 million bucks sitting around I’d say you should seriously consider this. It sounds like something Richard Garriott may be interested in

The RIAA recently won the case against single mom Jammie Thomas. She has to pay $220,000 in damages to the RIAA but she only makes $36000 so obviously that isn’t really possible. She vows to continue to appael and fight the RIAA over this file sharing incident.

If you want to help you can send donations at FreeJammie.com

So I was checking in on eBay to see if any copies of Open Office are still showing up on there after my last post about Open Office on eBay. Well they are.

Not only are they but theres a bajillion of them. Mostly going for $4 buyouts and such as everyones seen the light of free money! LOL

Anyway I’m taking claim for killing the market for it since that post got TONS of traffic.

Cheers!

I just ran across this really cool video of a talk given by Steven Petranek at the TED conference. He describes 10 ways in which humanity could immediately end or become vastly affected. He also describes what we can do to prevent all these things. The talk was given a few years back but it’s still just as relevant if not more so today. It’s about a half hour long but worth watching I’d say.

Some things I learned that really struck me are it would take 300-500 years to terraform Mars so we should get started. Also we are just as likely to die from a really big asteroid as we are from a passenger airline crash.

Here’s his list of how the world could end. It’s kind of ordered from least likely to most likely.

10. We Lose the Will to Survive

9. Alien Invasion

8. Ecosystem Collapses

7. Particle Accelerator Mishap

6. Biotech Disaster

5. Reversal of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

4. Giant Solar Flares

3. New Global Epidemic

2. We Meet a Rogue Black Hole

1. A Really Big Asteroid Heads for Earth

So I just looked on eBay and look what I came across.

Open Office On eBay

With this description line

OPEN OFFICE 2007 PRO SUITE MICROSOFT WORD EXCEL + MORE!

Yeah that’s right. Someone is selling Open Office on eBay. Yes, the same Open Office you can download for free right now from the Open Office site. The same Open Office I just linked to about 50 times.

First I was struck by how asinine this is, then I was struck by how stupid the people buying this is [Ed: are - wow a grammar mistake while calling other people stupid, I’m a freakin’ genius lol] as it had 25 bids and sold for $61. Then I went to check this guys feedback and it looks as though he’s done this several times now and has almost all POSITIVE FEEDBACK WTF?

The weird thing about it is that since Open Office is under the LGPL this might even be legit, I don’t know my knowledge of open source licenses is fairly weak let me know if I’m wrong. Maybe this guy is actually a genius. Who knows?

Some Highlights of His Auction Listing

With our auction, and the MS Office alternative Open Office, you will not spend NEAR that price, plus…you get an unlimited license so you can use it on as many computers as you like!

Instant Download - No waiting around for a box to show up in the mail. Get your programs immediately after payment.

We Guarantee Our Sales!

Note to Ebay: This listing complies with all US Copyright law and eBay policy on digital items, copyright, and unauthorized or replica items. This software is distributed under the LGPL license and I am authorized to sell this item. Documentation proof available upon request.