Just an update on the situation: Sarah Bernard of 23/6 did apologize to me by email for the mistaken automated takedown, but Google Video still has not restored the content for me. Some users can see it, others get the "Video is unavailable" error screen, and when I emailed them to ask about this, I got a form response letter sent to the wrong name. It's just all kinds of FAIL, and I'm now moving everything away from Google Video and YouTube.

http://hownow.brownpau.com/archives/2008/05/owning_the_clouds_apology_withdrawal/

I couldn't make it to my area's party (not much of a party person anyway) so I checked out related event in Second Life.

I bet if the name "Ron Paul" had been in the list it would have led "Mister Splashy Pants" by a mile.

Even dead octopus tentacle sashimi is hard enough to eat. Every time I've tried it, the stuff resists at every step of the way -- it's hard to pick up with your chopsticks, it's hard to get in your mouth, it's hard to chew, it's hard to swallow. And the suckers still suck hard. I got the impression that my octopus sashimi was still trying to fight back at me. (At least, while fresh and untreated.)

I'd try this live stuff, but ever since I found that octopi are as intelligent as dogs, I've felt bad about eating them.

I've come to refer to this method of spam as the "SMS.ac model."

This happened to me right after going through a departure checkpoint in MCO (Orlando). Sudden yelling, everyone freeze, although they didn't stop people from sitting. Then a TSA guard jogged ahead and got someone who had apparently slipped through the checkpoint by accident without getting his bags x-rayed. (Some clueless foreign tourist.) After he was screened, all-clears and thumbs-up all around.