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As you may know, there were May Day riots yesterday in Paris. Some folks knew they were coming, and were prepared.

Things NOT to learn in school, from the folks at Rice University.

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to be able to play games for a living? Unless you’re playing them professionally, you’re probably not making any money. Nintendo is going to give you a chance, however, according to this BBC Article. They’re “recruiting an army of people to look animated while playing computer games all day long all summer.” And the lucky gamers get paid $100 a day. Better than an unemployment check, that’s for sure.

For those of you fruitcakes that idolize Britney Spears, I’ve got news for you: she’s a smoker.

Some times sports pics are NEVER flattering…see Exhibit A from the Daily Pennsylvanian. The poor lady looks like she’s trying not to vomit.

Just so everybody knows, today is the Day of Silence for internet radio to protest the upcoming U.S. Copyright Office ruling on royalty rates that may shut down or bankrupt the vast majority of the nascent Internet radio industry. Some of my favoriate Shoutcast streams are participating as well.

From MediaNews, according to this article on the Washington Business Journal site, the newspaper industry thinks they should be exempt from national “do-not-call” regulations proposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Newspaper Association of America CEO John Sturm says: “With nearly 60 percent of new subscription sales generated by telemarketing — the single largest source of new subscribers — imposing these onerous and unnecessarily restrictive requirements on newspaper telemarketing activities” would hurt the industry without giving customers any new protections.

While I’d usually support newspapers in most everything they do, this is absolutely ridiculous. I get phone calls regularly from the Bend Bulletin, trying to get me to subscribe. I’m not a subscriber, but even when I was, I’d get calls from them nearly weekly — which was far more often than AT&T or Sprint called me. I canceled my subscription and started reading their news online (their site needs some work, but that’s another beef entirely). But why the newspaper industry would want to be involved in the same kinds of infamous practices that the long distance telephone industry is known for (an industry that is known for screwing people) is beyond me.

In case anybody’s interested, I have a feeling there’s going to be an opening at the agronomy department at University of Nebraska. Full story here. (thanks Gregg for the link)

I’ve always been a bit of coin collector, so I thought this was a pretty cool site. Ron Wise’s Geographical Directory Of World Paper Money.

Fun stuff…nothing like some crappy DVD covers.