The Cabela’s post got me riled up about one of my huge pet peeves.

One of my more repugnant qualities is a fondness for bloodsport (Hunting and Fishing in particular). I’ll freely admit that my environmental tendencies are driven by a desire to have clean water and land on which to catch and kill things to eat. I dig the hiking, camping, etc during the off-season, but I’m rarely so happy as when I’m waist deep in a trout stream or wading the flats on the Texas Coast, or during that cold, dark pre-dawn, after the decoys have been set, the blind set up, and all that’s left to do is sip coffee out of a Thermos and wait for first light, and the quacks of mallards coming in to get breakfast.

It could just be me, but I look at this picture and think that Cabelas may be trying to capture an audience besides redneck hunter types like me-

Our blog here bears too much resemblence to Thug4Life.org where artist Tom Sanford is trying to get closer to Tupac.

I’ll work on some changes.

From the NYTimes magazine, an explanation of how farm subsidies have contributed to the obesity epidemic…

Snack food lovers and Fast Food Nation readers should appreciate this.

So imagine my shock when I hit the ATM this weekend (Before going to buy food on a stick) and got a handful of these:

It’s like being in Europe or something, what the colors on the money and stuff. And look at that Andrew Jackson, with the wild hair and dreamy eyes. He looks like a damn movie star!

The oddest part is the back, with all kinds of golden ’20’s floating around.

BTW- the first booth I went to thought they were fake. The treasury hasn’t done a whole lot of promotion this time around.

iTunes is coming to Windows. Or more specifically, the iTunes music store.

I dig iTunes. Like classic Apple work, it’s everything you need, easily accessible, and nothing you don’t. Not having seen the Windows version, I don’t know how clean they’ll keep the interface. But it’s nice, no ad space like RealJukebox, big buttons, easy to drill down to artists/albums/songs, pretty much automated file management. Good stuff.

One of the big questions I have is wondering if iTunes for Windows is going to bring .AAC encoding over to the PC. Not that I know a whole lot about this, but the latest Mac version uses .AAC as a default format, and it’s supposed to be slightly superior at a given bitrate to .MP3. I’ve left my library in MP3 since my lovely bride still uses WIN 98 (and refuses to change), and we keep our music on a shared drive.

If iTunes is freeware, be sure to give it a spin. If it’s paid software, it might be worth $20, but unless you really want to try the music store

Looks like Kazaa is getting into the long-distance business

Thanks to the NYTimes most emailed articles page for the heads up!

Google has instituted a new _’feature’ _ whereby you can type in any US phone number (xxx xxx xxxx or xxx-xxx-xxxx), and it gives Mapquest or Yahoo Maps links to the address, as well as listing the name the number is listed under.

Pretty Snazzy, huh?

If you’d like to block your phone number from showing up when it’s googled, click on the phone icon next to your name and address, or go to this page and fill in the appropriate information.

Google’s got a paragraph that says “Removing your phonebook listing will not remove your personal information from other pages on the web or from other reverse phone listing lookup services”, or basically everybody else is doing it, why can’t we?

The Internet – It’s in there!

Bumped with new vigor.

Failure to beat top 10 opponents almost every chance. Playing raw politics and benching the quarterback with leadership skills in favor of the quarterback with the rich, famous dad. Huge resources and talent squandered year after year.

Is it time to Fire Mack Brown?

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