No wonder. Telnet's not secure.

Exactly, I mean God is kinda insecure what with the whole, "You shall have no other gods before me" thing.

And now for something completely different: The amazing albino hedgehog

jumping in the end to ask a question that I'm not sure belongs here or not, but I need some internet savvy advice.

Got a message from Youtube:

Hi there, I recently watched your Firefly video "Love's Divine" and was very impressed. I wanted to talk to you about a new site that will go live in a few weeks, [omitted in case it's legit]. It's a growing directory of the best unofficial videos to be found for any and all films and TV shows...a resource for people wanting a concise listing of works that most professionally and creatively represent any given show. TRS is run by a group of professional film/TV editors who appreciate the work that fan videos do for commercial products (even if the studios and networks don't) as well as a couple of very experienced hobby editors.

The site is only accessible to genuine editors and fans, not to the general public, so as to avoid the increasing numbers of copyright trolls cruising for people to harass. We would really like to include your video in the listing. If you could please give us a shout at blanketyblankblank@gmail.com someone will respond with a much more detailed explanation...the full email unfortunately doesn't fit into a pm.

Keep up the good work and we hope to hear from you soon. Take care!

I sat on this unsure if it was spam or some clever scheme to sue me for thousands of dollars for all my wonderful copyright infringing, and eventually forgot all about it. Then today I received another pm through YT:

Hey...sorry, my last message might've been too long winded or spammish sounding, as someone pointed out. Really wasn't meant to be...bottom line - I love your Firefly videos and would really like to list a few of them on my site. You don't have to do anything, I'd just like your approval to link to them. If you want more info or to see the site first, that's fine too. Just let me know either way so that I'm not left hanging, was hoping to have the site finished and ready to go for this weekend :*)

And the reason I prefer email is it's more reliable than youtube, which can shut down accounts at any time (and hates me for sending too many pms). So if you're able to, please give a shout at blanketyblankblank@gmail.com and just let me know if you need more info or are okay with it, etc.

Thanks!

R___

So, does it sound legit? The person has a YT account full of c-infringing material and several subscribers, and yet I still feel leery even about pm'ing them back, let alone emailing them.

I think they're above boards (insofar as what we're involved in can be), but I don't want to be naive and jump into something because my ego's been stroked and pay for it.

How the hell is it only Wednesday?

Someone is sneaking extra days into the week, and I don't like it.

Road Kill plus toys

Our Squash-plush range looks like roadkill. Feels like roadkill. And tastes like roadkill. But they’re not. They’re plush toys. Very macabre plush toys. It’s the way we make them that makes them seem so real.

The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest high-tech stuffing and plush, to give it quite a realistic squidgy effect. The body and head and legs are made from specially sourced plush material, that gives them that tactile quality of mangy fur. The body is partly stuffed with beads, to give it extra dead weight. And unlike real roadkill it’s something you’ll want to take home and arrange on your bed.

We’ve tried to make Twitch and the rest of his Squash-plush chums as life-like as possible. But at the end of the day he’s only a stuffed toy. All the plush materials and stuffing we’ve used are made from 100% polyester fibres, and are fully compliant with British safety laws.

Twitch’s body is stuffed with a mixture of beads and stuffing. The beads give the Squash-plush teddy a bit of extra weight, so he can lie spreadeagled in his blood and gut-pool. The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest, cutting edge stuffing. It’s a special new micro-bead stuffing that gives the guts and organs a more malleable, tactile effect. It makes it more squidgy. More gross-out. You can disembowel Twitch by pulling the blood and innards through the zips that line both sides of the teddy carcass.

Someone is sneaking extra days into the week, and I don't like it.

Dude, tell me about it. I'm still at the office. Grump.

That's gross and wrong Juliana.

Fill in the blank:

"I'd like to order a mushroom and ______ pizza."

eta: The pizza will be for me.

sausage

sausage