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Jesus Camp

Be afraid. Be very afraid. And while kids praying to a George W. Bush cutout is creepy, the scariest line for me was the little girl saying, "We're kinda being trained to be warriors, only in a much funner way"????!!!!!!

posted by Dave @ 7:35 AM
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The HP Way

I'm not sure how many of you have been following the Hewlett Packard Saga. To review:

"Patricia Dunn -- Chairwoman of the HP Board -- wanted to find out who on the board was leaking information, so she authorized the hiring of investigators who then impersonated board members, employees and journalists to obtain their phone records, and also surveilled an HP director and a reporter for CNet Networks Inc. They sent monitoring spyware in an e-mail to that reporter by concocting a phony story tip.

They even snooped on the phone records of former CEO and Chairwoman Carly Fiorina, who had launched the quest to identify media sources in the first place.

And in a twist that might seem preposterous if it happened in a movie, The New York Times reported that HP consultants considered hiring spies to pose as clerical or custodial workers at CNet and The Wall Street Journal."

HP has been known for long time as one of the most ethical companies to work with/for, which is why this saga is all the more bizarre. The phrase, "The HP Way" certainly takes on a whole new meaning.

posted by Dave @ 6:12 AM
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Cute is relative

I was at the dentist yesterday, and on the wall was a set of supposedly cute illustrations of mice playing with human-sized dental hygiene paraphenalia: toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, and dental floss. In one of the illustrations, one mouse is actually brushing its teeth with the toothbrush. I assume these pictures are supposed to elicit an "awwwwww" or something, but watching vermin use my toothbrush is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

posted by John Shannon @ 5:17 PM
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