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Information Salad: Episode #18

By Slobokan | November 12, 2006

This week we’re coming off our high from the “International Election Craptacular”. We discovered there are far more stupid people in the world than we thought. This one moves fast, so hold on.

Here’s what we tossed up this week:

Vinny talks about Nanowrimo.
Slobokan talks about moving his blog back to Wordpress.
w.bloggar is Slobokan’s blogging tool of choice.
We chat about our International Election Craptacular
Pledge Banned at California College

Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.

The move by Orange Coast College student trustees, the latest clash over patriotism and religion in American schools, has infuriated some of their classmates — prompting one young woman to loudly recite the pledge in front of the board on Wednesday night in defiance of the rule.

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Bell said the ban largely came about because the trustees didn’t want to publicly vow loyalty to the American government before their meetings. “Loyalty ought to be something the government earns through performance, not through reciting a pledge,” he said.
Hips Don’t Lie

A New Jersey woman who fell off a wet bar and injured herself while dancing in a “Shake-It-Like-Shakira” contest is suing the Manhattan bar that sponsored the shake-off.

Megan Zacher, 22, of Delanco, N.J fell inside Calico Jack’s Cantina on 42nd Street at Second Avenue on July 8, 2006. Her lawyer, Lawrence Simon, said the fall caused a torn ligament in her left knee and required surgery.

Simon said Zacher and two friends had been in Calico Jack’s about an hour. Zacher had finished one drink and was working on a second, and was dancing on the bar, vying for the $250 “Shake-It-Like-Shakira” prize, when she fell.

Shakira, pop songstress from Colombia, South America, who also has Lebanese ancestry, is famous for her belly dance moves. Her latest hit is “Hips Don’t Lie.”

Zacher’s lawsuit says the bar’s operators should have known the contest atop a wet bar was “dangerous.” The lawsuit asks unspecified damages from Calico Jack’s.
Hot Air introduces Absolute Moral Authority cards! YAY!
We talk about reality shows, Amazing Race, Survivor, Heroes, and the “cancellation” of 6 Degrees.
Mac users need to be scared of viruses?

There are reportedly more vulnerabilities that can be exploited in Windows XP than Mac OS X.

Doesn’t reportedly convey the possibility that there aren’t, but that people just think there are? It does to me.
We highly recommend AVG Anti-Virus
Sprint’s Ambassador Program

On the surface, Sprint’s Ambassador Program seems like a great way to get valuable feedback from high-profile mobile users: give free phones and wireless service to 400-odd bloggers in exchange for regular reports concerning their pros and cons. Unfortunately — at least according to two former Ambassadors — there are more strings attached than those that are spelled out in the contract; both designer Eston Bond and consultant Michael Mace claim that they were kicked out of the program because they didn’t write anything positive about the Samsung A920 they were given to test.
No NASCAR update this week