News – No Turks in Iraq! (2/2)

News continues, with amusements at the bottom.

General

Today’s Papers has a blow by blow of the events leading up to the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity as well as bonehead bond sales and more.

Why customers lie in focus groups.

Apple is gearing up to launch iTunes for Windows on Thursday. Not only that, but I’ve seen commercials touting iPods for Windows as well. Welcome to the cool tech club. 😉 I’d advise my readers to give iTunes(An MP3 and internet radio player) a try. It’s very user friendly and gives you access to Apple’s music store where MP3 tracks can be bought for a buck a pop.

New software, called Fade, is taking a hit at piracy in an interesting way. Pirated copies of the game in question will work at first, but start to fall apart once the player gets hooked. Want to play more? Get the real thing baby. 😉 Only it might make it impossible to backup a CD, looking at the description of how it works. Quite cunning, actually.

Explainer shows how Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Day to Day has summary judgment on Kill Bill, Intolerable Cruelty and Mystic River, an assessment of Tarantino’s Influence on Film and Post-Recall Cliches. Personally I loved Kill Bill. Empty bliss indeed, with a healthy dose of bloody spray. A good time had by Ren.

Amusements

About.com’s Political Humor section has more post recall amusements in highlight.

An original Halloween costume

King Arnold

Havent’ seen these type of stickers yet