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My moment backstage wth George Carlin. Circa 1987.

Carlin was simply the best.

Breakout your DHS approved duct tape and prepare for the end of days.

The folks over at The Other Blog bring us this little tidbit. It's been a while since I went to CCD but I'm pretty sure that in The Book of Revelations that this is one of the signs of the impending apocalypse.

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  Yes, you read that write. It’s not the meds messing with your eye sight! After doing such a great job with her two guest starring roles on ‘How I Met Your Mother’, the producers of the show are pushing for Britney Spears to take home an Emmy in September.  

OK! Magazine reports that she’s already been included on the official ballot as a possible nominee alongside 41 other actresses, including Mary-Kate Olsen and Alyssa Milano.

 

Photo is of Brit back in 2005. Ooooh, the good ol’ days!

 

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[From Britney Spears Considered For Emmy]

Help from AT&T nobody asked for....

According to arstechnica, AT&T customers wanted to have their iPhones activated in the store so that they were up and running right away. This is a reason why iTunes activation has been eliminated. I think it has more to do with AT&T insuring all iPhones are activated on their network and not Jailbroken overseas or to T-Mobile.

What does the desire for some customers to have their phones activated in-store have to do with cutting off iTunes activation? Does this mean Apple Store employees are becoming cell phone sales people?

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Hack Your TiVo: Top 5 Painless TiVo Mods for Mortals

I'm clearing out the long neglected feed reader and posting the items I put in my clipping folder.

The first is an always helpful Tivo How-To brought to us by Gizmodo.

If you're a TiVo jockey and want to get in on the TiVo hack-o-rama—but you're not a hacker—you might want to take a look at the top five TiVo hacks from our buddy Dave Zatz.

Top of the list is that 30-second skip function, where TiVo slyly hides a capability that can only be activated with a certain combination of key presses (Select, Play, Select, 3. 0, select while you're playing a recording), thus avoiding lawsuits but retaining one of the box's best functions. Once you've entered this combination, you can blast through commercial breaks with a few presses of the ->| button. It's is the lowest effort/highest return hack on the list.

There's more!

Zatz also explains how you can expand your TiVo's storage (a bit more difficult than the other hacks), transfer video to TiVo (which, alas, is not possible with our Series3 HD TiVo), removing TiVoToGo DRM (also not possible on the Series3 yet), and streaming music over your home network.

This is a useful list for those who aren't comfortable performing major surgery but are beyond wearing TiVo ears on a blind date. – Charlie White

Top 5 TiVo Hacks (for non-hackers) [Zatz Not Funny]

[From Hack Your TiVo: Top 5 Painless TiVo Mods for Mortals]

Sink Hole Appears at High Falls

Something you hear move of in Florida than in Rochester, NY....a sink hole.

A car-sized sink hole opened near the Pont de Rennes Bridge at High Falls Tuesday. [From Sink Hole Appears at High Falls]