WTF?

Reuters: “We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it,” [Fanny Amun, acting Secretary-General of the Nigerian Football Association] told Reuters on Friday. Amun first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital Abuja, prompting protests from other officials. “Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn’t favour those offering the bribe,” Amun said. [via MeFi]

This blog linked to my earlier post about the Boing Boing/Secure Computing debacle. He writes : And it is still a rumor folks. I mean, Cyrus Farivar gives the impression he thinks there was research involved: A couple of bloggers, Joi Ito, (who found the link from Sean Bonner) and Kathryn Cramer, and sex blogger Violet Blue have found that Mr. Foote-Lennox isn’t quite the “protector of kids” that he’d like to make himself out to be. All those bloggers…

So the whole Boing Boing vs. Secure Computing saga (my radio piece is here and NYT coverage is here) has gotten just a touch weirder. From the NYT piece: In an e-mail message to Xeni Jardin, another of Boing Boing’s chiefs, Tomo Foote-Lennox, a director of filtering data for Secure Computing, asked why the bloggers were starting a war. “We discussed several ways that you could organize your site so that I could protect the kids and you could distribute…

The fact that “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” has been nominated (and they performed it) for Best Original Song. Update: THEY WON! Runner-up: Stephen Colbert narrating Dames for Truth.

Here’s something for all of you law geeks out there: Anna Nicole Smith’s legal wranglings over the estate of her former husband against his son, has landed her in the Supreme Court. WashPost: Sober as always as they wrestled with the legal dispute at hand, the justices nevertheless seemed aware of stepping into an epic soap opera of the kind that could have happened only in Texas. The battle between Anna Nicole and Pierce “is quite a story,” as Justice…

Dear Editor, I am writing to you to take issue with your editorial dated February 10, 2006. I find your argument against installing a municipal wireless network in Pleasanton to be overly paranoid and in some cases factually wrong. You wrote that San Francisco has a great deal of “hot spots” and presented a scenario where Pleasanton would become “jammed with laptops.” I work in San Francisco and despite what you may think of our local digerati, Market Street has…

How is it that the City of Oakland won’t let you pay parking tickets online?

I found this site on a Google Ad somewhere. They advertised crazy prices for memory cards, like a 2 GB SD card for $50. I put in an order. It’s been two weeks and no SD card. It’s a scam. They use my credit card number to buy some AOL service and Yahoo Classified ads. Completely fradulent. The address that they list on the site : 308 Fountain Circle Huntsville, Alabama 35801 is the address of the Huntsville City Council.…

So Eston Bond spotted one of my articles on the website of an Australian graphic designer. From our AIM chat from this morning: Eston Bond (10:48:06 AM): he posted to a design forum I frequent FarivarCJ (10:48:40 AM): random Eston Bond (10:48:44 AM): yeah Eston Bond (10:48:50 AM): I was like whoa, that’s kinda crazy Eston Bond (10:49:14 AM): I told him about it, and he said “Really? There was a selection of about 4 texts that a lecturer gave…

Has anyone heard of this? Apparently this was the Webster’s Dictionary “Word of the Year”. A quick Google search reveals this NPR Weekend Edition story as its number one hit.