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First, there was the infamous Sauron: Offer and acceptance. Now there’s the equally brilliant Elf Love:
In the mostly-alternate-universe of Harry Potter, supposedly giving an enslaved house-elf clothing frees the elf. However, the rules for what constitutes “giving” a house-elf clothing are not at all clear. A brief attempt at elucidation over lunch failed, as we lacked a physical copy of the record. A few points of interest follow:
The giving of clothing appears to be strict liability. We don’t care about either the intent of the giver to free an elf (accidentally “passing a sock” frees) or the intent of the elf to be freed (Hermione can leave socks hidden under rubble in order to trick house elves into freedom). So it seems that there’s no intent requirement for the gift of clothing. Leaving aside the question of who does the laundry, what kind of delivery suffices? Clearly, handing a sock to an elf would free it, even if it was handed absent-mindedly. Dobby was freed when his master tossed a sock in the air and Dobby caught it, so the master doesn’t even have to intend to hand the sock to the elf.
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I dunno, I think most of us are better off with with minds full of mush 
Here’s some alternatives…
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Dogma
Metatron: I am to charge you with a holy crusade.
Bethany: For the record, I work in an abortion clinic.
Metatron: Noah was a drunk. Look what he accomplished. And no one’s even asking you to build an ark. All you have to do is go to New Jersey, and visit a small church on a very important day.
Bethany: New Jersey? That doesn’t sound like much of a crusade.
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This Iraqi intelligence scandal is growing. Americans are asking, “What did President Bush not know?” and “When did he mispronounce it?”
– Craig Kilborn
Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts:
“Her gift for Valentines? Stop looking at porn,” proclaim billboards put up by NetAccountability, a nonprofit software company that aims to help Christians confront the “secret sin” of pornography.
If national surveys are any indication, it is a personal battle waged by millions of Christians.
Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of 1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002 Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year.
How could anyone pass up the chance to use “Christian Porn Addicts” for an entry title (especially on Valentines Day)?
Here’s an actual email sent to my Yahoo email account:
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 15:01:31 -0500
From: “YAH0O!”
To: “Foistboinder”
Subject: Your_ _Yahoo`_ user ID (foistboinder@yahoo.com)
Dear* Y@HOO Cleints,
_This_ Emai| !nform Y0U that _your_ Yahoo account` (foistboinder@yahoo.com)
will be BL0CKED after` 13 _days_ (@S @FTER autoomateed reegisttration) _if_ you will_
not _signup_ 0N YAHO0 WHITE l1st (_to_ sign up - cl1ck here: http://Foistboinder.yahoo.com/)
Th!s is done - beecause _we_ update now` YAHOO! not` autoomateed reegistered accounts.
ATgofLM4O
If only all scammers were this incompetent.
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Can-Spam Act Can’t Can Spam:
A month after the federal Can-Spam Act went into effect, most anti-spam vendors say that the new legislation hasn’t cut down on the glut of junk mail in users’ in-boxes.
According to numbers released this week by Brightmail, Postini, and Commtouch, three providers of message-filtering and anti-spam solutions, the amount of spam they’ve intercepted since the law took effect on Jan. 1 has increased, went unchanged, or fallen by an insignificant amount.
OK, not really a surprise…
(via Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener)
Places I’ve visited (the ones in red):
World:
create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide
For the geographically challenged: U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, South Korea, India, Israel, U.K., Switzerland, France, and
the United Arab Emirates (France and UAE were airport layovers)
U.S.A.:
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
As usual, the Super Bowl halftime show was absolutely dreadful.
In my opinion, more nudity would have been an improvement.
Hello, GORRY-O!! I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!!
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