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Late Late Show gaffes

Jaysus the Late Late is full of gaffes tonight. Gay Byrne made a no-holds barred claim that several judges of the judiciary are fond of the gargle. He even used the ‘swiggin imaginery glass to your mouth while saying glug glug’ jibe. I know the allegation isn’t surprising but the way he did it, and given his job, it was.

Later in a discussion about Jesus-related subjects, a Catholic priest, when asked if he would be going to see the Da Vinci Code, replied that he would, but would not be paying. Further digging the hole he said he would be getting it copied when it comes out on DVD. The Plank reminded him that such action was criminal, to which the priest replied that Dan Browne or Sony Pictures won’t miss the few bob.

Jaysus indeed. Priests advocating copying DVDs because you dont want to give movie studios money. What next?

Another year

Yes things have been quiet of late… 🙂

25 today!

Ah! A quarter of a century!

Google Trends

Everyone is playing with the new toy.

My first search:

Who was doing all the searching for cartoons of Mohammed?

Pakistan figures highly. Strangely enough so does Ireland.

And Peru seem to have a fascination with blogging.

At that meeting, Drumheller says, “They were enthusiastic because they said, they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis.”

What did this high-level source tell him?

“He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program,” says Drumheller.

“So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam’s inner circle that he didn’t have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?” Bradley asked.

“Yes,” Drumheller replied. He says there was doubt in his mind at all.

“It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us,” Bradley remarked.

“The policy was set,” Drumheller says. “The war in Iraq was coming. And they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.”

Drumheller expected the White House to ask for more information from the Iraqi foreign minister.

But he says he was taken aback by what happened. “The group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they’re no longer interested,” Drumheller recalls. “And we said, ‘Well, what about the intel?’ And they said, ‘Well, this isn’t about intel anymore. This is about regime change.'”

Josh Marshall has it covered.
Plus C&L.

Apple argues that blogger can't protect source

An interesting case for Apple, and for bloggers:

Apple has sued several unnamed individuals, called “Does” (as in “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”), for allegedly leaking the information. According to the EFF, as part of the lawsuit, Apple has subpoenaed Nfox, the ISP for PowerPage publisher Jason O’Grady, demanding that the ISP turn over the communications and unpublished materials O’Grady obtained while he was gathering information for his articles. Apple was also granted permission to issue subpoenas directly to PowerPage and AppleInsider for similar information.

A trial court ruled last year that if a journalist publishes information that a business claims to be a trade secret, this act destroys constitutional protection for the journalist’s confidential sources and unpublished materials.

How Microsoft can shut down Mini-Microsoft

Damien and Tom have been on about a rollicking good post from Robert Scoble. He really does care. And his job is on the line now too.

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Late Late Show gaffes

Another year

Google Trends

Colbert roasts Bush

C for Cookie

Microsoft stock

Colbert versus Kristol

Tyler Drumheller

Apple argues that blogger can't protect source

How Microsoft can shut down Mini-Microsoft