Put On Some Barry White.

UPN ... announced plans to ``reinvigorate'' the sagging ``Star Trek'' series ``Enterprise'' by adding more characters and a storyline that involves defending Earth from total annihilation. Also, the Vulcan woman and Cap'n Scott Bakula get it on.

Boom Chicka Wow Wow.

Here's a prime example of what people are doing to Larry's face.
via [ NPR ]

'Salam Pax' plays Americans for fools in Iraq.
This article tells us that a lot of the reports coming out of Iraq, are based on false stories by Iraqi translators.

I wonder if that New York Times guy is reporting from there now... from his apartment in New York.

Einstein Archives Online.

The Web site will allow users access to 3,000 digitized images of the Nobel prize winner's writings, Einstein Papers editor Diana Buchwald said.

Among them are papers on the special theory of relativity, his never-published travel diaries, various humanitarian statements, and his frequent pleas for peace.

Goes live Monday after 3:00 PM.

http://euroclash.com/.

Used Vinyl Records By Mail.
via [ kingblind ]

80s Electronica on Radio1 with Phil Oakey from The Human League.

Tracklistings: 16/5/2003

Soft Cell - 'Bedsitter' (PHONOGRAM)
Being Boiled - 'Human League' (FAST RECORDS)
Ghost Rider - 'Suicide' (MUTE)
Moskow Discow - 'Telex' (SIRE)
Photographic (Session version) - 'Depeche Mode' ( MUTE)
Warm Leatherette - 'The Normal' (MUTE)
Dislocation - 'Ultravox' (ISLAND)
No GDM - 'Gina X Performance ' (EMI)
Utopia - 'Giorgio Moroder' (HANSA)
Life In Tokyo - 'Japan ' (HANSA)
United - 'Throbbing Gristle' (MUTE)
Down In The Park - 'Tubeway Army' (BEGGARS BANQUET)
Der Mussolini - 'DAF' (MUTE)
Ricky’s Hand - 'Fad Gadget ' (VIRGIN)
Fade To Grey - 'Visage' (POLYGRAM)
Bostich - 'Yello ' ( DO IT RECORDS)
Private Plane - 'Thomas Leer' (CHERRY RED)
Homosapien - 'Pete Shelley' ( GENETIC / ARISTA)
Electricity - 'OMD ' (FACTORY)
I’m Your Money - 'Heaven 17' (VIRGIN)
I Ran (Session version) - 'A Flock Of Seagulls' (JIVE)
Video - 586 - 'New Order' (FACTORY)
Theme For Great Cities - 'Simple Minds' (VIRGIN)
Yashar 12” - 'Cabaret Voltaire' (FACTORY)
Behind The Mask - 'Yellow Magic Orchestra ' (A)
Radioactivity - 'Kraftwerk' (CAPITOL)

Sounds good.

The Laser Turntable.

Because the LT makes no actual physical contact with your vinyl records, the LT reproduces audio exactly as it is recorded in the grooves of the record. This level of sound reproduction is not possible with a turntable using a cartridge (or needle).

Born To Run shall live again!

B R U C E!
via [ Father Time's Blog ]

The Internet Rules: Star Wars Kid Found.

Please, DO NOT find the Safety Dance Kid. [ Quicktime Video ]
via [ everlasting blort ]

Mandy Berwick.

The 'Rescue' Of Jessica Lynch.

"It was like a Hollywood film. They cried, 'Go, go, go', with guns and blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show - an action movie like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan, with jumping and shouting, breaking down doors." All the time with the camera rolling. The Americans took no chances, restraining doctors and a patient who was handcuffed to a bed frame.

Did man really land on the moon?

Are the stories in the New Yourk times real?
via [ techno/culture ]

George W. Bush's resume.

First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

They were working vacations though. ;-)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure.
Play it from your web browser.
via [ The Ultimate Insult ]

Thanks to Seth Godin, author of A Purple Cow, for the inspiration for a lot of today's cool blog posts.

Don't tell anyone about BzzAgent.

Everthing Soy!
They have that soy pasta I've been searching for.

veer ideas.

Is TiVo NeXT?
That's a great title for an article asking if Apple will buy TiVo.
via [ LightBlog5 ]

PowerPage.
Apple PowerBook news.

CameraPlanet NEWSBLOG.

The Art of the Bonsai Potato Kit.
Example Bonsai Potato.

Seth Godin: 99 Cows.

Seth Godin of Fast Company has a plan for world domination. He's encouraging people to pass around his new book, 99 Cows, via email, or post it to the Web , hoping everyone will go to Amazon to buy a copy (of Purple Cow).

Hey, it's a remarkable free book, that's worth recommending!

Freed POW Already Sick Of Family.

Brent Dobson, a 19-year-old Army private who was reunited with his loved ones on May 8 after a harrowing two-week ordeal as a prisoner of war in Iraq, is already "sick to death" of his family, Dobson reported Monday.

D'oh!

mp3 jackpot.
One free mp3 per day!

The Recipe For a Money-Making Film.

$20 Bill Is Getting A Redesign.
Why are we still using money at all?

I try to stay away from it as much as possible.

I have a transponder on my car to pay tolls, I use an ATM card for all purchases, and have most of my bills paid automatically through EFT.

LESS MONEY LESS MONEY LESS MONEY.

And another thing, our coins are poorly designed. If anything needed a redesign, it's our coinage.

You know it doesn't even have the amount that the coin is worth, numericaly printed on the coin?


I'm afraid Europe is leading the way on this issue.

One more thing, it's the interactive $20.

Craig Ferguson killed on Conan last night.

The above illustration of Clay Aiken is by Laurie McAdam.

Pac the Man 2 v1.0 for Mac OS X.
Wacka Wacka.

Off On A Tangent is a daily read.

Ana Beatriz Barros: The Jewel of Rio.
via [ feedster: images ] by way of [ J-Walk ]

JFK Romanced Teenage Intern.

President Kennedy's sleeping with a teenage intern he squired around on his presidential trips as part of his entourage was just one of several dalliances he had with young beauties working for him at the White House.

Boom Chicka Wow Wow.

Britney Shakes Her Booty for a Japanese Tea Ad.
via [ fimoculos ]

Jose Garibaldi: Tenacious D Proposal for a Comic Book Series.

Heat Vision and Jack.

Ben Stiller's legendary pilot featuring Jack Black as an ex-astronaut with a super heated brain and a talking motorcycle (voiced by Owen Wilson)

Now playing at the Coolidge Corner Theater as part of The Other Network.

You have to go see this.

TiVo Nightmare: Comcast lineup gone for Boston area.

Here's what the Comcast Boston Digital schedule now looks like.

Update from TiVo:

Dear Valued TiVo Customer,

Thank you for contacting TiVo regarding the problem with your channel lineup. It should be resolved within 5 to 7 business days. We will contact you if we need more information.

5 to 7 days?!

The Onion A.V.Club Interview: Judd Apatow

Wil Wheaton has created a Monolith.
via [ life - listed chronologically ]

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT): Answering All Questions Incorrectly.

Broadband Reports.com: Comcast AT&T Conversion Confusion.
There are a lot of good reports here about the impending Comcast AT&T Conversion.

I've posted my report too.

Hopefully we'll all get some concrete information soon.

Blogmatcher says that these blogs match mine.
If I knew Spanish, I could tell you if it's right.

Comcast Saga Continues.
Comcast just sent me a new email.

It says:

If you do not choose to use our easy Transition Wizard by June 30, 2003, you will not be able to take advantage of attbi.com e-mail forwarding, but you will still have high-speed Internet access.

Now they've resorted to threats?

This totally goes against the information on their website:

If you download and install the Transition Wizard, and use Outlook Express, your attbi.com e-mail will automatically be forwarded to your new Comcast.net address. If you do not use Outlook Express, visit http://connect.comcast.net on June 30th for manual instructions.

So I made a phone call to the Comcast help line and Tim helped me out:

He says, "I've gotten a few calls on this already."

End result of the phone call is that all email will be forwarded anyway and the email is incorrect.

They need someone over there at Comcast reading these emails before they get sent out to thousands of subscribers!

Tim also told that even though their earlier email told us to go over to attbi members services to pick a new Comcast email address, that there really isn't any instructions over at attbi on how to do this.

He suggested that I just make up a new associate email ID and that will carry over to Comcast on June 30th.

We shall see.

It's Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain.

Borat Soundboard.

I like you. Do you like me?

Yes Borat, I like you.

Change volume in iTunes4 via a scroll wheel mouse.

Southern New Hampshire University 2003 Graduation Program Error Gets Pubsished.
Points will be deducted for the error in your graduation program footnote.

It's Up To You One
One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream.
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald spring.
Authour Unknown

On the last page of the program you quote the source for the quote used on the flyleaf as:
http://www.cyberquotations.com/poems/its-up-to-you.htm.

That's wrong.

The correct URL is:
http://www.cyberquotations.com/poems/its_up_to_you.htm

D'oh!

Maybe the title isn't "It's Up To You", maybe it's "One." It's hard to tell since the author is unknown.

Why is the author of this poem unknown? [ post a comment, if you know the author ]

Others are asking too.

Cindy O'Connor says she wrote it!
Next time you have a graduation, you might want to consider using a poem by a known poet.

It Takes My Mother-In-Law 5 minutes to Buckle Up!
I'm going to buy one of these seat belt extenders for my car.

It should make it 1,000 times easier for her to find the slot to insert the seatbelt into.

I hope it works.

Update:

If the seatbelt is properly being worn and is still too tight for the occupant, a seat belt extender can be ordered from the Service Department at any authorized Volvo retailer. Please speak directly with the Parts Manager for assistance.

Cool.

Microsoft Windows is annoying.

It's A Wrap!
We finished the film early this morning!

We're very excited.

I'm really psyched about all the footage I shot and how it great it looks in the final version of the documentary.

Secret Comcast Transition Information Revealed.

I am writing this article after an experience with Comcast High Speed Internet. As most are aware, they are transitioning users to a new "Comcast managed" network. Customers will be given information including a CD to help them transition to the new network. Now let me tell you that you should not use the accompanying CD on a Mac even though they claim "Mac support" and instead follow some simple directions, they may save you some time, and most definitely some aggravation.

Finally some solid information on the stupid transition from AT&T to Comcast.

mk12.
Once you get there, click on the 'work' icon, over on the right, and then choose 'The Faint'.

The video for 'Agenda Suicide' rocks!

Here's a free mp3 of The Faint's Agenda Suicide!

modernista!

I'm on the radio today from 2-4!
If you're in the Boston area, tune in to 90.3 FM, otherwise try the online stream.

Mad Magazine Alfred E. Newman Look-A-Like Contest tonight at the Hatch Shell at 7:00!

Dr. Katz Sees Patients in Boston.
I went to see Tom Snyder and Jonathan Katz last night as part of the Boston International Film and Comedy Festival.

The told the story of how the Dr. Katz show was created. They initially did it in an IBM PC and and now use Flash.

The funniest story was about their first sound booth. It was in Tom Snyder's pantry, in his house in Newton Mass. Steven Wright went there to record for the show. After emerging from the pantry he said, "Don't let the word get out about this because everyone in LA is gonna want a pantry recording booth."

Trust me, it sounded funny when Tom Snyder immitated Steven Wright.

No word on a DVD of Dr. Katz episodes though since Tom and Jonathan don't own the rights. Some kid in the audience siad he bought the complete Dr. Katz series on DVD over on eBay. That's not values based.

Johnathan is one funny dude!

He showed a few pilot episodes of series that didn't get picked up, and a few clips from Dr. Katz shows.

Good stuff.

Make Your Own Funky Beats.
Why wait for Final Cut Pro 4 with Soundtrack to make your own funky beats?

DJ Flack has some Flash tools on his website to help you lay down some sonic gold.

When I Was Little.
The Baby Picture Project.

That's rOD Begbie.

Stardust is an adventure games with jewels, guitars and spaceships!

The Daily Adventures of Mixerman.
Behind the scenes in a recording studio.

State of Security.
A phototrope is a twist on the old idea of pictures set to motion and sound.

Another explanation of why you shouldn't zoom in with a video camera, stellar parallax.

Filming continues...

Project Diary: Filming has started on our 72 Hour Film Project.

We're in today's Boston Globe in the Go section:

Marathon man
As a geek-in-training, we applaud the verve and immediacy of Boston artist Ravi Jain, who'll create a feature-length digital film at the Gallery@Green Street as part of the ''Cyber Lounge'' portion of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Here's what tickled our interest: Jain will do all this in one 72-hour stretch that began at midnight to qualify for an international showcase of artists creating works under the same time constraints. Intriguing, yes? Check out his progress over the next few days.

Green Street Station, on the Orange Line, Jamaica Plain.

Update:
I got to the station at 4:30 AM and started off the day by doing a time-lapse shot over 20 minutes. After that, I filmed, while Ravi did man in the street interviews. We got some great stories from the commuters about what it means to them to have an art studio inside the train station.

We took a walk down the street and went into the Bread and Butter Bakery and interviewed the owners while they were baking! They were in the Boston Globe today too!

At 6 on a weekend morning, the smell of hot butter and raisins is creeping out over Washington Street. It wafts past a shuttered bodega, curls around the old brick warehouses and victorians in this hillside neighborhood in Jamaica Plain.

Mmm... good olive bread!

Beacon Hill: The Movie.
Michael Landes was great as Billy Dylan in this movie that was shot entirely around Boston. It played tonight at the Fenway AMC Theater as part of the Boston International Comedy and Movie Festival.

Sometimes these movies are a hit or miss affair, but I can honestly say that this one was a hit!

The photography showed off the city of Boston in an amazing way. The helicopter shots over the city were beautiful.

It was fun to see one of my favoruite local pubs in the movie, Doyle's of Jamaica Plain!

The movie was all about a freshman representative going to the state house for his first term and the obstacles he faces along the way. He also gets involved with a few lovely young ladies. One of whom he ended up marrying in real life, if I'm reading the credits correctly.

The music provided a nice background to the action. I liked it when we heard Irish music everythime the red head showed up.

I do have a couple of questions though:
Can Lenny Clarke really type? He had a small part as a campaign aide. I have no idea what he was doing to that laptop computer. Maybe that was the comedy part of the movie.

If you represent Jamaica Plain and leave the State House, how can you get on a Blue Line train and end up crossing the Charles River? I guess you were headed to Cambridge to meet some friends.

Finally, nice job Howie Carr. that was an easy gig for you just being yourself!

The New VW Convertible Beetle is Flashy.
Make sure you look at the snapshots of the bird flying into the guy's car.
via [ broomeman ]

You Can Still Get an IBM PC-101 Keyboard over at pckeyboard.com.
I loved that clickety-click sound. I used to kill that keyboard by pounding on those keys.
via [ fimoculous ]

Tina Fey: $4 Million Woman.

Comcast to me: Change your email address, someone else has it already.

Please note your username has been identified as one that needs to change because it is already in use. We have selected a new username for you as indicated below:

Old ATTBI username: jchrist@attbi.com
New Comcast username: jesus.christ@comcast.net

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you are unsatisfied with your new Comcast username and would like to select a new username, just visit ATTBI member services to select a new one. Please note the primary account owner must log onto this site to change all e-mail IDs.

Hello people.

I went to your web site, but there isn't any way to select a new user name at ATTBI member services!

I called customer support and they told me, "Oh, I got another call on this. We are transitioning the computers. Keep trying for a while and then try some more tomorrow. It should show up."

Hmm.. If I was working at ATTBI Comcast, I'd wait until all the links in my email worked before sending out the email!

Who needs this kind of frustration?

Transition Wizard to the Comcast High-Speed Internet service is not All Knowing.
I don't appreciate being treated like a child!

I just got the email from AT&T Broadband with information about the change to Comcast.

They want Macintosh users to use a Transition Wizard, on June 30th, to automatically make all the changes to out computers.

For most Windows and Macintosh users, the Transition Wizard is the easiest way to prepare for the transition. Manual instructions for configuring your computer for Comcast High-Speed Internet service will also be provided beginning June 30, 2003.

What!

I called Comcast and said that I'd like to have a look at the manual instructions before hand to familiarize my self with the procedure. The woman on the phone told me that , "No, we are not making them public until June 30th because we don't want people changing their settings early."

D'oh!

Hello lady, I'm an adult and not a child!

Of course I want to change things manualy, especially when their web page says things like this:

The transition to Comcast High-Speed Internet service includes changing your e-mail address and start page.

Additionally, if you download and install the Transition Wizard, and use Outlook Express, the Transition Wizard will automatically update Outlook Express and your start page while retaining your current e-mail and Internet preferences when the transition is completed later this summer.

Hello lady!

If you people assume that I've kept the AT&T web page as my start page, you are just kidding yourselves, or you have no clue as to what actual people are using their computers for. And if you think the majority of people are using Outlook Express on a Macintosh, you are totally insane! We are using the OS X mail application or Microsoft Entourage.

I feel like I'm back dealing with AOL customer support again.

Waiting for the disaster to strike on June 30th.

Can you please send me the manual instructions ahead of time so I can look them over?

I promise that I'll wait until June 30th to implement them.

UPDATE: Here's the response I got:

Thank you for writing to Comcast.

Unfortunately we are unable to send those settings at this time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. We will be e-mailing the settings in late June.

I have forwarded your comments to the appropriate members of our development and management teams for further review and action. We appreciate that you took the time to help us keep our commitment to quality customer care.

They care.

Scouting.
I went to scout the location for the movie that Ravi and I are going to film. Ravi plans on staying awake for the majority of the 72 hours that the movie has to be completed in. I'm going to spell him for naps and help with the interviews. The whole thing is going to take place within the environs of the Green Street T station.


Ravi has a vision of how the whole thing is going to come together.

Bad Pets.

How to Make a Strawberry Pop-Tart Blowtorch.
Basically you jam it into a toaster and stand back, follow the link for all the details and photos.

canibelle.
A new Boston band.

Boston Cyberarts Festival: Video and Film "Cyber Lounge".
Lots of unique artists will be at the Gallery at Green Street MBTA Station this week as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. My friend Ravi Jain will be creating a movie there, in 72 hours! I'll be doing some of the video.

Aspect DVD Magazine: Boston Cyberarts Festival Artists.

I found Paul "Blowfish" Lovell!
I went to a birthday party for my friend Senga this weekend and met Albert O. He's a DJ on WBCN and WROR in Boston.

I enjoyed talking to him about the old days of Boaton radio, including the birth of WLYN in Lynn, as a rock station. I asked him if he knew what ever happend to one of the funniest DJ's from that station, Blowfish.

He said that he knew him, and gave me his website!

While there I found Boston Groupie News which has links to all kinds of good old boston rock news.

American Idol: Simon Cowell Soundboard.

The end of the American music industry.

I love Simon.

I Almost Went Up In Flames Tonight.

IN AMERICA, SOMEONE is burned every 17 seconds.

I've only been using a gas stove for three years, so when I reached over the stove, to see if the meatballs I had in the microwave oven were done, I was surprised when the flames from the gas stove set my shirt on fire!

I looked down to see the flames climbing up my shirt. I quickly patted on the flames to stop them. They were pretty insistent at trying to crawl all the way up my shirt, but as I kept hitting them they subsided and finally stopped.

Whew!

My hands didn't even get burned. The dinner came out fine and I'll be careful around the stove from now on.

You be careful too.

What Boston Bloggers are talking about.
I've got to write more posts like the ones I wrote about Adrien Brody's Dummy, and Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman, to get a link over there.

tvnewz.
It's a 'webzine'.

Gotta hand it to those news people, right on top of the trends.

Hi.

My name is Steve.

I am an E-mailaholic.

Apple Laptop CHEAPER than Dell!

For the first time in my life, I found myself unable to justify the purchase of a Windows PC, instead discovering that Apple offered more for the money.

Nice.
via [ Kermit the Blog ]

The Diary of Anne Frank Amal Hussein.

We prepare by filling water buckets in case there is no water or electricity. Duha and Hibba pray God Almighty that there will be no war. At 8:30, my mother made bread. Bakeries close during the war.

I hope some one else wrote a diary.

Where is Raed?
Just where is Salam Pax?

Safari Club International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of wildlife.

Huh?

Rent Chris Pirillo's Mind for $27.

Colorblind?

Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman.

Becker made me laugh until tears rolled down my cheeks. People were holding their sides

Yup. Me too.

We went to see Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman at the Wilbur theater last night.

I was laughing so hard that I was crying. Rob Becker was so funny, that I wished he would just stop talking for a few seconds so that I could regain my composure. I think that my sides were actually splitting, I was laughing so hard.

I hadn't expected much going into this play. I figured I'd hear jokes about the TV and remote control, and about how women like to nurture the shows vs. men who like to zip through the channels really fast.

He did tell l that joke, but he also got to the bottom of the reason that I can't hear my wife talk while I'm watching TV.

This hunter attitude affects everything we do. When we watch TV, we become the TV. We merge with the TV. I’m aware of a buzzing sound in the background, and it’s not coming from the TV. It gets louder and louder and suddenly I realize that my wife is standing right next to me, shouting, “Haven’t you been listening to me?"

It all has to do with the basic differences between men and women, and goes back to the caveman days.

Go see the play and you'll understand.

Rob Becker: Financing the 'Caveman'.
Becker makes a pretty good living Defending the Caveman, taking in a reported $240,000 a week!

Next Up for Rob Becker: Cave Dad.

mothers spend all their time trying to calm the kids down and then fathers come along and start playing with them. My wife will say, `You're winding them up,' and I'll say, `No, I'm tiring them out.' "

dpchallange: a digital photography contest.

America 24/7 Wants Your Photos.

U.S. warns Canada against easing pot laws.

That Honda commercial was real.

Radio YourWay™ AM/FM Radio Recorder.

loudblue made this movie called Loud Blue Kung Fu. [ 9MB movie ]
How did he do that Matrix effect?

Bill Simmons, with Mike Tyson and his pigeons, in Harlem.

Milla Jovovich stars with Adrien Brody in Dummy , an indie pic that marks the directing debut of Greg Pritikin, who also wrote the script.

Joshua, Christine and I went to go see it this evening. Getting into the theater was troubling since we had to cross a picket line of people yelling scab at us. There are posts from them here and here.

We didn't actually cross the picketline, we just went behind it.

And I wasn't a scab because I was not a person hired to replace a striking worker.

Don't get me started about parking in Sommervile. Nightmare.

The movie, Dummy, soon made all the trouble getting into the theater well worth it.

From the opening shots I knew we were in for a treat. The photography was very well done and the acting was perfect.

Adrien Brody's performance at times reminded me of Charlie Chaplin, and Writer/Director Greg Pritikin confirmed his influence, in the Q and A that followed the film.

Milla Jovovich was powerful in her roll as a failing rock and roll singer who switches to singing Yiddish music to try to make a success of her band.

Illeana Douglas, as Adrian's sister, gave a stand out performance.

You can see Dummy on May 2nd at the Sommerville theater at 2:00 PM. It's part of the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

It's going to have a stong word of mouth just like My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I hope it gains as much success.

Dummy: Film Threat review.
Dummy: Hollywood Bitchslap review.
Dummy: eFilmCritic review.

Rene Asmussen Photography.
via [ Emese Gaal ]

Reading blogs at work? Click to escape to a suitable site!
via [ Web Fire Escape ] by way of [ The Presurfer ]

Steve Jobs Can Sell A Song.
During Steve Jobs presentation on the new iTunes Music Store on Monday, he highlighted some of the available artists.

Adiemus, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, The Clash, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Matchbox 20, and U2 among others.

If you go to the store tody, and click on the most downloaded singles, you'll see that a lot of the songs and artists, that Steve highlighted, are in the TOP 100.

The iTunes Music Store sold an estimated 275,000 tracks at 99 cents apiece in its first 18 hours!

Baghdad Snapshot Action.

Quiet and casual, the snapshots show a part of Baghdad we rarely see: the part with people in it.

Faces of Baghdad.
via [ Diminished Responsibility ]

Dog Island: Where Dogs Live Free.

My dog is very high strung and often gets into fights with other dogs. I can control this now, but what happens when fights break out on the island?
Fights break out occassionally, but this is not a real issue, because eventually, the dogs learn to get along. Every now and then some dogs gang up and kill and then eat another dog, but this is just natural, and it's okay for it to happen now and then, but normally this is not the case

I wasn't going to post this link, but after reading the FAQ, I just had to.
via [ Diminished Responsibility ]

Lawyer Woken By Telemarketer at 5:24 AM Gets $500 Compensation.
via [ boingboing ]