Word Of Warning

If any of you are thinking about signing up for that really cool sounding new free email service that Google is offering, you might want to read
this
before you go pickingout the perfect address and telling all your friends to start sending all their porn and jokes there.

Just to sum things up really quickly for those who are short on time, Google is keeping your mail on file forever. After you delete it, even after you close the account, Google will have all of your email stored on it’s servers for as long as they want it. And through the use of cookies, they can link your email and your search requests together to make themselves a nice little profile on you.

Add to this that to pay for the free service, [which sounds really good on the surface before you check into it a little,] that Google will scan your mail for key words and phrases so that they can target and display relevant ads, you’ve got yourself what pretty much adds up to a privacy nightmare.

So unless you really need an entire gig of email space, you might want to stick with that Hotmail or Yahoo address you have, which now suddenly doesn’t seem so bad after all.

Longest…Search…Ever

Seriously, somebody actually took the time to punch all of this into a search engine. As usual, this comes straight from our hit counter.

31 Mar, Wed, 14:16:26
Yahoo:
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division, although I am personally uninterested in it, the WWE does handle it very well and I think they wouldnÂ’t care about either if it wasnÂ’t for
the roster split.

If You’re Eating Right Now, Stop!

I found this story the other day while I was doing research for the radio show but I just never got around to throwing it up here. Speaking of throwing things up, like the title says, stop eating before you read any further. I’m serious about this.

This story, as far as I can tell, is absolutely true. I got it from
Ananova,
which is a pretty well-respected news source.

Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.

Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up.

Dr Bischinger said: “With the finger you can get to places you just can’t reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner.

“And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body’s immune system.

“Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine.

“Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free.”

He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social.

He said: “I would recommend a new approach where children are encouraged to pick their nose. It is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well.”

And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered.

Post Of Colour

I wish that people would stop using the term people of colour to describe minorities, and not just because it’s more of that PC bullshit I hate so much. I’m looking at things more from the angle that it just doesn’t make sense. Don’t even try arguing that it does, because quite simply, you’re wrong. And how can I be so sure that you’re wrong? Well, people of colour is a term invented and used by white people to describe everybody else. Only problem is, white is a colour. Therefore it stands to reason that every person in the world is a person of colour, meaning that it further follows that you are saying absolutely nothing and wasting your time by using the phrase.

Besides, if you’re having a conversation with somebody and you say that you talked to a person of colour today, the person is more than likely going to ask you what colour the guy was, meaning that you’ll have to say black anyway, because African American, unlike white, is not a colour. If you don’t believe me, go into a hardware store and look around for a can of white paint and a can of African American paint and see which one you find first. Actually if you’re ever looking for black paint, I want one of you to ask the guy at the counter to try to find you some African American paint just so you can watch him get all confused and call the manager.

Random Page Stuff

We finally got around to updating the links section of the page as somethings had expired or people had moved their sites or just completely stopped using them and it was pointless to keep them around so hopefully it’s all up to date now.

If you have a page of your own or some ideas of fun things that you think the readers would enjoy, please let us know and we can take a look and see about throwing them up there for everyone to enjoy.

I know beside the comments we still have those ugly numbers but honestly, guys, I’m just too lazy to fix it and it ain’t that big of a deal as our comments still work. Sure it looks like hell but look at the writing that goes along with them on this page. What would you expect? Some day I’ll get bored and sit down and change them up but for now they’ll have to stay the way they are. I don’t even notice them anymore.

I wrote a fun little column for Salty Sports that should get posted sometime today or first thing tomorrow. Check out the other sections while you’re over there too. Great stuff.

I was planning on writing a review of the Trapt album for the Salty Music section but I just ran out of time and have some more pressing things to do but tomorrow looks like a good day to get that done.

More later…. maybe.