You know how everyone gripes about newspapers and local news following the “If it bleeds, it leads” policy?

Well, the folks over at Happy News have turned it on its head. Kind of interesting.

(From On The Media thanks to their podcast)

After Google updated their desktop search with a cool toolbar, all the cool geeks are speculating about Google Chat. Dig. I’m up as billjank(at)gmail(d0t)com.

Either that, or this is a pretty cool phishing experiment for gmail addresses…

I can’t believe I bought a new rice cooker and video card within a couple weekends of each other. I guess it was poor planning on my part.

Pat Robertson on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez:

You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don’t think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United … This is in our sphere of influence, so we can’t let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.