Unrelatedly:

NBC has decided to resurrect its controversial The Book of Daniel on the Internet. According to MediaPost, the network is planning to allow viewers to watch the four unaired episodes online -- presumably for free. The episode that would have aired last Friday has already been posted without comment on NBC.com. Fans have apparently not discovered it there yet. A fan blog associated with the Daniel site was last updated a week ago. Meanwhile, Daniel creator Jack Kenny has lambasted NBC for its decision to cancel the show. "I think pretty soon we're all going to have to be sitting in a room with these bigots and have to get their approval before a network will sign on to do anything," he said in an interview with the website afterelton.com. Kenny blamed the Rev. Don Wildmon's American Family Association for launching the campaign that resulted in Daniel's cancellation. "I feel badly for NBC because they were put in an untenable position. They were behind me 100-percent the whole way. ... Yet they were being cornered by advertisers, who were being cornered by emails. Advertisers don't want emails of any kind. The more emails they get ... the more they want to run from it." On his website, Wildmon told his supporters, "People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names."

I'd probably agree with him more if the show wasn't so awful.

FWIW, squids have their brains mid-body. (Technically speaking, cephalopods have no head.) Their esophagi pass through the middle of it. Of course, the requirement that the brain be encased in a bony protective cage doesn't apply either.

I AM IN LOVE.

Now see, I go around all day spreading misery and gloom and generally being a nattering nabob of negativity, but at least I gave Shrift something to love.

I doubt my dialup will let me watch BoD.

You are supposed to sit back and take the trash.

Dude. No one is forced to watch. Just let me watch what I want to.

Apparently you have to hit someone *just right* to knock them out like that.

My nephew managed to do that to himself by running into a tether ball pole. CFS would've been all over my brother and SIL if it hadn't happened at school. He looked terrible. Somehow he managed to avoid a concussion though.

Note to self: Lemon Fruit Water doesn't taste as good as the other flavours.

'Glass jaws' do actually exist, but it's hard to tell who has one without hitting them a number of times in different manners first.

One of the guys in my instructor group got knocked out during a test (not the stick to the head guy) and his passing out was described like those little plastic toys with elastic inside that you make collapse by pressing the button underneath the base. Do those have a name? I wouldn't say he has a glass jaw, just that he took the right hit at the right time. We see that sort of collapse every now and again.

Hurts less than a liver shot from what I've heard.

Timelies all!

Congrats Cashmere and welcome Olivia Rose!

Congrats, Cashmere! Happy birthday, Olivia Rose!

I have no comment on head injuries, other than the fact that my old boss was previously the manager of a group home for people with brain injuries, which was the source of most of her best stories, as well as (I assume) her most annoying trait: every so often she'd tell you something Really Slowly And Clearly To Make Sure You Understood, as if you had a brain injury.