The Funny Farm

Odds and Ends

A few things to bring to the attention of the dozens (cough) who come and visit. We bring the following tibdits of infotainment to you, dear reader:

There's a new version of LavaSoft's Ad Aware out there. It's a 2.5 meg download, but even those of you getting by on dialup (yes, I'm talking to you, Stu!) should take the time to download this, save it wherever you keep software downoads, go to the Add/Remove Programs tool and remove your current version of Ad Aware, and then install the new version on your computer. Some of you may be aware of my level of paranioa regarding spyware on my computer. So, when I tell you that, after installing the new version, I suddenly found forty new pieces of spyware on my PC, perhaps you too will consider upgrading your version of Ad Aware.

We have finally managed to catch up on the backlog of Daily Show and Real Time shows we have had recorded. So now we can understand some of those references that were flying over our heads of late. We would also like to note that AnnThraxx Coulter is a lying weasel of a Psycho Hose Beast - she was on Real Time on Friday, and answered every question about George Bush with a pack of lies about John Kerry. Plus, she is either running short on cash, or she is late for her next hair appointment - the dark roots were showing on TV. And, Ann, you really should get your brain in gear before you start running off at the mouth. as with every modern Repugnicant Stepford Telebimbo, you utterly fail to address the question before spewing forth your vile screed. Don't froth on about Kerry when we ask you about the Deserter in Chief!

Our good friend Kenneth Quinell gives us The Delcaration of Independence From The Texas Souffle and a few other goodies over at Open Source Politics.

Motown's own best blogger Hesiod announces his retirement and the permanent deletion of his blog after the election in this post, then provides a wealth of linkage and commentary (and probably will until Tuesday). Let's hope the WayBack Machine is on the case!

Speaking of said WayBack Machine, it has now lost quite a bit of Blogger archives. Or should we say, the arhives are bloggered. the WayBack Machine has links pointing to some old Blogger pages that are no longer on their site. I just tried to get to the old Ann Slanders web pages, and found the they are no longer being stored by Blogger. So the WayBack Machine has lost them as well. Let's try and make sure that that is not the case with Counterspin Central. And, no - we haven't thought of anything except trying to manually cut and paste all of Hesiod's posts (blech!) into a plethora of Word documents...

Oh, yeah - Happy Halowe'en! We hope that you're going to have some fun tonight.

Posted by (: Tom :) at October 31, 2004 04:36 PM