The other interesting area along these lines is fire, building, electrical, etc. codes. They are developed and published by private organizations, but then state and local governments adopt these as their law. The governments then won't make copies of them available to the public, citing the copyright, which still resides with the private organizations.

The bottom line is that any private citizen who wants to know what his city's law is for building standards has to buy an expensive book from the Inernational Code Council. This is just wrong.

Now THAT is someone with time on her hands.

Okay, I'm an idiot. There ARE dual-sim phones out there.

I think - HOPE - that this means it's just a matter of time before someone makes a dual-sim phone that doesn't require switching, allowing you to receive calls on either of two numbers.

The background music:
http://www.danacountryman.com/jjp1/JJ-DC/chicksample.mp3

Is it supposed to be one of the oldest, or one of the oldest still in use?

USCA is also correct, if it's citing to the U.S. Code Annotated.

I think it's supposed to be partly a parody of cable access shows. A lot of their regulars, like Dave Liebe-Hart, are local cable-access legends who may or may not be in on the T&E joke.

It's not for everyone. In fact, I don't recommend the show to any of my friends, because I never know who's going to get it and who's going to hate it. It's just unadulterated silliness, and that's not everyone's cup o' tea. I could never stand Seinfeld.

I have no idea whether JCR is still making new Brule videos or whether these were all taped last year during Season One, but I hope they're able to keep them coming. I LOVE this character.

My partner has had one of these things for about a month and loves it. She has spent most of her time trying out various other Linux distros booting from a flash drive.

For my part, I don't think I'd ever get used to the tiny screen and keyboard. It's adorable but painful to use.

Them ain't food. Them's bait.

Is the kitty on the black T-shirt flipping a bird?

I don't understand why they couldn't just get rid of the maid theme to make the service less attractive to the fetishists. People who are really disabled are going to use the service even if hairy old guys are driving.