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On the last page of this Time interview, Neil Gaiman expresses his exasperation with Hollywood executives:

NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.

Gaiman was talking about movie scripts.

Christian Aubry, président du syndicat professionnel des homéopathes du Québec, s’énerve.

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A word of caution about using the word “scene” to refer to normal action in a foreign context.

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Now you need Internet Explorer to file claims to FEMA. So Mac and Linux users (and the others) can just forget about filing online. I’m glad my tax dollars are being put to such good use by FEMA. Never mind dealing with hurricanes, you’ve got to keep those unholy communisto-terrorist browsers at bay.

Sunil Laxman talks about his quest for the perfect dosa. For my part, I’m still trying to adapt my cooking style to the new mix I started using. My dosas are not perfect. That’s for sure!

I recently went from using papadums to using papads to accompany my sambar (or I should say: to accompany the sambar I pull of a can because I’m Mr. Lazy when it comes to cooking). I find that I prefer the papads… even though I tend to burn them a bit.

Now FEMA is going at it. The notion that FEMA is trying to protect the privacy of the victims is specious. The few photos of bodies I’ve seen coming from the press were shot in such a way that there was no possible way to tell who the victim was.

Should the Kansas School Board include the theory of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in their curriculum? They have decided that intelligent design must be taught together with the theory of evolution so why not this theory too?

But how will the revelations of this church affect my own research regarding the Empire of the Green Penguins (bottom of the page)? It is still unclear…

Comments on the Summer movie slump in Hollywood.

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Each time I see Bush talking about hurricane Katrina on TV or in picture, the guy has a big smile. Does this look like the face of a President concerned for his citizens?