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A vet sedated the dog, and then removed a total of 1,347 quills.
The dog survived, and hopefully learned a valuable lesson.

Now tell me you had a bad day!!!

A
woman had the word "snitch" burned into her face with a branding iron in
apparent retaliation for helping police in a domestic violence case, authorities
said.

The brand singed into her flesh during a June 13 attack is 4 to 6 inches long
and stretches across her left cheek from lip to earlobe, Mesa police Sgt. Chuck
Trapani said Friday.

"Obviously, they were trying to send a message to her, and they were obviously
trying to humiliate her," Trapani said.

Trapani declined to identify the 38-year-old woman. He said the woman had not
returned calls relaying interview requests from the news media.

The woman told police she was attacked by four people, including an acquaintance
whose Mesa apartment she was visiting, Trapani said. That acquaintance, Preston
L. Valdez, 21, told police the woman was smoking methamphetamine with him
shortly before the attack.

The woman said the three others who attacked her were hiding in the bedroom,
Trapani said. She said they came out, knocked her unconscious, then cut and
shaved large swaths of her hair and branded her, Trapani said. She was treated
at a hospital and released.

Two of those who attacked the woman _ James H. Standridge, 34, and, Jackie L.
Getz, 26 _ were arrested in a domestic violence case in February 2006 after the
woman answered officers’ questions about them. The police investigation later
led to the removal of a child from the home because drug paraphernalia was found
there.

Trapani said a picture of the woman shows that the word on her face had scabbed
over and that "snitch" was clearly legible. He said police were searching for
the branding iron.

Standridge, Getz and Kibbol A. Avila, 33, were arrested on suspicion of
kidnapping, aggravated assault and unlawful imprisonment. Valdez, was arrested
on suspicion of aggravated assault and unlawful imprisonment.

The four were being held Friday in the Maricopa County jail. Bond for Standridge
and Getz was set at $270,000 each. Bond for Avila was set at $90,000, and no
bond was set for Valdez. The suspects are scheduled back in court next week.

The Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office would not confirm whether it was
representing the suspects, and declined to comment on the case Friday. The
Associated Press made a request through authorities to interview the four but
had received no response as of Friday evening.

Two of my roommates and I went out to GoldenGate yesterday to bid on a screen repair and storm protection job. Everything went pretty good but there was a surprise waiting for us in the small shed outback.

After about an hour of looking at the job and figuring out what needed to be done and how much it would cost, the man asked if we smoked. Since two of us were already smoking a
cigarette, he could have only been talking about one thing. After one of my
roommates told him he smoked, the homeowner brought us out to a little shed where another guy was blowing glass.

If you have never seen glass being blown, it’s pretty cool. The guy was making a really nice bowl when we walked in. Come to find out, he sells bowls and bongs to all the local head shops around here. Naturally, the first thing we thought about was getting a custom bowl made. I don’t even smoke anymore but wtf, it’s not everyday you meet a glass blower.

Anyway, I decided to get a bowl made for my friend with his company logo on it. The price will be $100 which isn’t bad.
Basically I can get a *custom* bowl for 25% less than a normal pipe would cost from the head shop, that’s a fucking deal. I’ll post some pics of the bowl when It’s done.

Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight wants to leave them laughing.

Knight acknowledges there’s nothing funny about his likely execution later this month for the fatal shooting of his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, almost 16 years ago outside Amarillo. But to help him come up with his final statement, Knight is accepting jokes mailed to him on Texas’ death row or e-mailed to a friend who has a Web site for him. The friend then mails him the jokes.

Knight said the joke he finds the funniest will be his final statement the evening of June 26.

“I’m not trying to disrespect the Werners or anything like that,” he told The Associated Press from death row. “I’m not trying to say I don’t care what’s going on. I’m about to die. I’m not going to sit here and whine and cry and moan and everything like that when I’m facing the punishment I’ve been given.

“I’m not asking for money. I’m not asking for pen pals or anything like that. All I’m asking for is jokes.”

He said he’s already received about 250 wisecracks.

“Lawyer jokes are real popular,” he said. “Some of them are a

little on the edge. I’m not going to use any profanity if I can find the one I want, or any vulgar content. It wouldn’t be bad if it was a little bit on the edge. That would be cool.”

Knight, 39, would be the last of five condemned inmates set to die in Texas over three weeks this month as the state embellishes its notoriety as the nation’s most active in carrying out capital punishment.

1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type ’systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type ’systeminfo > info.txt’. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only).

2. You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run… and type ‘gpedit.msc’; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care — some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. (Professional Edition only).

3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.

4. XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can make it show everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word ‘hide’ and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be the software and you can now uninstall it.

5. For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include ‘eventcreate’ and ‘eventtriggers’ for creating and watching system events, ‘typeperf’ for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and ’schtasks’ for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options.

6. XP has IP version 6 support — the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type ‘ipv6 install’ into Run… (it’s OK, it won’t ruin your existing network setup) and then ‘ipv6 /?’ at the command line to find out more. If you don’t know what IPv6 is, don’t worry.

7. You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using ‘taskkill /pid’ and the task number, or just ‘tskill’ and the process number. Find that out by typing ‘tasklist’, which will also tell you a lot about what’s going on in your system.

8. XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you’ve got a fast machine. On slower machines, you can make XP leave zip files alone by typing ‘regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll’ at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can change things back by typing ‘regsvr32 zipfldr.dll’.

9. XP has ClearType — Microsoft’s anti-aliasing font display technology — but doesn’t have it enabled by default. It’s well worth trying, especially if you were there for DOS and all those years of staring at a screen have given you the eyes of an astigmatic bat. To enable ClearType, right click on the desktop, select Properties, Appearance, Effects, select ClearType from the second drop-down menu and enable the selection. Expect best results on laptop displays. If you want to use ClearType on the Welcome login screen as well, set the registry entry HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop/FontSmoothingType to 2.

10. You can use Remote Assistance to help a friend who’s using network address translation (NAT) on a home network, but not automatically. Get your pal to email you a Remote Assistance invitation and edit the file. Under the RCTICKET attribute will be a NAT IP address, like 192.168.1.10. Replace this with your friend’s real IP address — they can find this out by going to www.whatismyip.com — and get them to make sure that they’ve got port 3389 open on their firewall and forwarded to the errant computer.

11. You can run a program as a different user without logging out and back in again. Right click the icon, select Run As… and enter the user name and password you want to use. This only applies for that run. The trick is particularly useful if you need to have administrative permissions to install a program, which many require. Note that you can have some fun by running programs multiple times on the same system as different users, but this can have unforeseen effects.

12. Windows XP can be very insistent about you checking for auto updates, registering a Passport, using Windows Messenger and so on. After a while, the nagging goes away, but if you feel you might go insane before that point, run Regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced and create a DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with a value of 0.

13. You can start up without needing to enter a user name or password. Select Run… from the start menu and type ‘control userpasswords2′, which will open the user accounts application. On the Users tab, clear the box for Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer, and click on OK. An Automatically Log On dialog box will appear; enter the user name and password for the account you want to use.

14. Internet Explorer 6 will automatically delete temporary files, but only if you tell it to. Start the browser, select Tools / Internet Options… and Advanced, go down to the Security area and check the box to Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.

15. XP comes with a free Network Activity Light, just in case you can’t see the LEDs twinkle on your network card. Right click on My Network Places on the desktop, then select Properties. Right click on the description for your LAN or dial-up connection, select Properties, then check the Show icon in notification area when connected box. You’ll now see a tiny network icon on the right of your task bar that glimmers nicely during network traffic.

16. The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.

17. You can rename loads of files at once in Windows Explorer. Highlight a set of files in a window, then right click on one and rename it. All the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them. Also, in a folder you can arrange icons in alphabetised groups by View, Arrange Icon By… Show In Groups.

18. Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks — if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn’t, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in the same directory as the tracks. Just call it folder.jpg and Windows Media Player will pick it up and display it.

19. Windows key + Break brings up the System Properties dialogue box; Windows key + D brings up the desktop; Windows key + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons.

20. Windows XP secretly KNOWS that the average user has no idea what they are doing. Therefore, it doesn’t let you do really stupid things like deleting the windows directory (at least not without spending several hours convincing it that you REALLY want to do this).

Sometimes I get bored and check out projects on freelance sites. Yesterday I was looking at the SEO projects on GetAFreeLancer. There were a few nice gigs, but also tons of totally ridiculous requests from site owners. Here are some of my favorites:

10 PR7’s and 50 PR5’s for $30-$100 + handy list of guidelines to follow

First, lets talk about his list of guidelines and rules. The list was so fucking long it would have made this a 3 page blog post had I copy and pasted the entire thing. Keep in mind his budget price for the job that’s going along with his list of rules.

OK, so for $30-$100 he wants 50 PR5’s and 10 PR7’s. And they need to be “static permanent one way links”. I’m not even going to comment on this one anymore, it’s just too stupid.

“Article writing and submission for SEO purpose”

This is a good one, this guy/gal is looking for 5,000 words worth of articles for $30-$100 or a whopping $4 per article. They also want you to submit the articles to article directories and databases at no extra charge.

So, for $4, you will need to research the subject they give you, write a 400-600 word article that is informative and easy to read(unlike the writing in their job posting). Then, after you’re done with that, you will jump over to the article sites and begin submitting their article to databases around the web. For $4? I’d love to see the quality of articles they are getting, I’m sure they’re just lovely. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no poet, I know my writing skills suck, but their articles must look like a 2nd grader wrote them.

Guaranteed listing in 700 PR3+ directories for $30-$100

At $100 this has *some* possibility of actually getting done. But the person isn’t done just yet, they also want a price for each directory. What exactly does that mean? Do they want $100 divided by 700 to get the average they are paying per PR3 link? Or do they think they are actually buying these links from the directory owners and paying you some sort of commission, all for $100?

The best part is at the end when he says: “I am looking for serious work;payment will be handled by escrow“. First of all, the serious part reminds me of this picture, which I regularly use on forum replies. Then of course, this transaction will be handled by escrow. After all, when dealing in such large sums of money, it’s always best to pay fee’s and avoid losing the house and car.

What the fuck is this?

Keyword rich copy writing. That’s it, that’s the person description of the project followed by an obscene amount of links that lead to spammy MFA pages. So there are three options here:

1. This person is confused and doesn’t understand how the site works and is posting his services in the help wanted area instead of actually bidding on the jobs he wants.
2. He is a semi-clever spammer, knowing the SE’s will pick this up. Perhaps an easy way to get a bunch of sites indexed real fast for free? Who knows.
3. The person is neither confused nor clever, instead he is a total dip shit and this is actually his projects description.

Either way, he loses at the internet. Next!

40 PR5 and 10 PR7 permanent links for $100-$300

There is really no need to go into a rant on this one. Everyone can see the request, price, and small fraction of the rules list for this project. Note that the list of rules and guidelines would have been taller than me if I had printed it out. Plus the 10 PR7 permanent links on top of the 40 PR5’s was the cherry on top. Good luck idiot.

Top 5 for “bargain” “bargains” “special offer” and “special offers” $100-$300

What does telemarketing have to do with SEO? Just wondering. I’d also like to know who the 11 people were who actually bid on this job with the intentions of either ripping this poor soul off or actually thinking they can pull it off for $100-$300.

“Get PR3 Urgent”

This is a great project for any seasoned SEOer. First, you need to either have the ability to see into the future or have a nice high ranking Google employee on your payroll. Why? Oh, because you need to tell him the exact date of the next PR update. And don’t try and screw this guy around because he “knows the next PR update is nearing”. Too bad it happen already dumbass, way to be on the cutting edge.

You will also take comfort knowing his site “is submitted to over 500 free directories, and over 300 SEs”. Clearly this guy isn’t fucking around, hes definitely a big player.

And finally, he “doesn’t want any bids saying the next pr update is 60 or 90 days away”. Because, as we already covered in the first paragraph, he “knows the PR update is near”.

 

So you need go get gas, maybe you forgot your debit/credit card or simply don’t use one and use cash. Now days you usually need to pre-pay before they will turn the pump on. So lets say you pre-pay $50 for the gas, they turn the pump on and you begin to pump gas. Everything is fine until you get to about $49.70 then something magical happens. You already know what I’m about to ask, don’t you?

Why does the gas pump stop short? It’s like a nasty form of punishment. Please post answers in my comments area.

Looks like the Jews got sick of rockets being fired into their cities everyday and sent a little jab back at their friendly neighbors. And what ever happen to those stolen soldiers that were supposed to be returned after Israel withdrew in the last conflict? Yeah.

Anyhow, it’s cute to watch CAIR and other terrorist fronts
stomping their feet over this, it makes me smile. Too bad Israel only killed 4, maybe next time it will be 400.

In case you forgot who they bombed, here’s a little reminder. 

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Source

Gaza City - After days of intense rocket fire at its southern territory, Israel pushed ahead with an aerial campaign Friday in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli tanks have taken position at two points several hundred metres inside the northern Gaza Strip, but a military spokeswoman said there were a small number positioned close to the border fence that were not there for ‘attack purposes.’