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Sadly, Bonsai Kitten is no longer in business. But we can get their old site on archive.org - yay for the way back machine.

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Turns out the woman is good for something, pointing me here.

I could end my post there but maybe I shouldn’t. You should read this BEER blog entry about common beer myths since it is amusing. To be honest, I have never heard most of those myths but they are still funny. The one I have heard is about drinking dark beer being like eating a loaf of bread.

This is stupid.

A pint of Guinness Drought (the more caloric one) has 210 calories. That’s .370 calories per gram.

A bottle of Michelob Ultra has 73 calories. That’s .265 calories per gram.

A slice of Wonder Bread contains 79 calories. That’s 2.565 calories per gram.

So beer might very well be runny bread but it’s diet runny bread. Bitches.

Abodes = #1 source for pirate info
this = Best pirate battle evarrrggh
(It’s not rick)

P.S. - Sorry for the boring post. The video is good though.

Economists are.

Economists can study pirates though. Peter T. Leson from George Mason University has published two papers and is working on a third legitimately studying pirates from an Austrian Economists perspective. (Actually read this link on Austrian Economists if you want a more concise explanation.)

An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization (which I haven’t had a chance to read yet)

Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices. (which I am in the process of reading and which is very good)

and the work in progress:
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, History’s Most Notorious Criminals - Abstract (this abstract makes this paper look to be the best of the three…and it’s short for your poor attention spans)

And before you say it’s apples to oranges, that’s your work connection, this is mine

My friends know that I’m always on the bleeding edge of technology (which is like the cutting edge only more so). So I just bought an Xbox 360. So far I like the following things:

a) it’s been out for so long games are cheap
b) it has a real gamepad which I prefer to the wiimote
c) theoretically I’ll be able to get free demos and games and stuff from the live thinga

I say theoretically because I have to get it on the tubes first. My wireless router is downstairs so I either have to a) shell out $100 for the xbox wireless, b) finagle a wire up there somehow or c) rig up some other wireless setup. Last night I played with the connection sharing in leopard and all it did was make my internet not work at all. I’m pondering putting my router in the living room and putting a wireless card in a pc in the basement.

The wii came with wireless. That’s one thing in its favor. That and Zack and Wiki. I mean, you shake your friggin monkey to beat monsters. And you are a pirate.

A monkey shaking pirate!

My brother introduced me to this fantastic musician. Looking for some fun lounge music covers of your favorite tunes? Relax to such classics as…

“Rape Me”

It’s awfully tempting to buy some of his CD’s here isn’t it (wink wink nudge nudge)

(Editor’s note: We added more after the jump)

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Some dude over on buffettnews.com is now making webcomics. He proves, once again, that we Parrotheads know what truly matters in life!

Quite frequently when using Google Reader I read articles without bothering to waste time reading things like the site an article came from. Generally this doesn’t cause any harm. Generally (#2) I can make out which site an article is from simply from content.

This was not one of those articles. I read (and when I say read in the context of RSS I mean don’t mean in the reading-a-George-R-R-Martin-book type of read so much as the glancing-through-news-stories type of read) Sage’s post and just assumed it was from Mental Floss where it would have totally fit in.

I was then about to copy the URL to post a link on Abodes to the article when I realized that was totally unnecessary.

Then I laughed.

Fin.