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I got "kudos" on one of my customer's intranet sites. Pretty cool!

The weather is too nice to be working today, but we all are.

Oh, fuck American Idol. Just fuck 'em. People are worried that the voting is getting screwed up? That the integrity of the voting system is being thwarted by some renegade movement from Howard Stern and votefortheworst.com?

AI is not a talent show. It's part talent show, part freak show. Simon Cowell claimed that there was no talent in Seattle, but you mean to tell me there was no one better than Sanjaya? If it's truly a talent show, why was he put there in the first place? If America is watching for a talent show and American Idol throws up a bunch of no talents and (in at least two cases, allegedly) retards, they are fucking with us. They deserve to be fucked with back.

There are a lot of tryouts to go through before the contestants get on TV. The completely ridiculous looking and sounding contestants are there for comic relief only and then Simon Cowell rips on them? They shouldn't be there in the first place. There are a lot of talented people who waited in line to try out in front of nobody judges to be declined a spot on the show. Their being passed over for someone like Sanjaya is purely artificial and nothing more than contest rigging.

Which is, um, exactly what the votefortheworst.com movement is.

AI is nothing more than contrived "reality" and exposure as to how the music industry is run and why I derive pleasure from stealing music online.

Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - Chris Rock