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October 22, 2006

Pats vs. Buffalo Bills: W; HotSoup: MySpace for political junkies; Rocker Hall leading in NY race; High-rez cat tongue; Best free software

Originally posted at 5:20 a.m., updated later: Pats, 28-6. Sloppy, but the Bills were sloppier. Pats always play for the W.

Pats vs. Buffalo Bills: 1 p.m. on CBS. Pats are a tough team, just like always. I switched from Buffalo News reports to the Rochester Democrat, looking for a little more faith, hope or enthusiasm about the Bills. Best I could do was that tepid headline.

Later: Pats, 28-6. Sloppy, but the Bills were sloppier. Pats always play for the W.

Good and gone: We slow-cookedPork Stew with Apples and Turnips in Cider (link fixed) yesterday, using a family pack of pork chops, and figured we'd made enough for last night and today's game. Wrong. It was so good that three of us went back for seconds, two of us for thirds, and it's nearly gone. Oops. The aroma that filled the house all day was a bonus.

MySpace for participatory democracy: HotSoup is a bipartisan social-networking site founded by Bush strategists Mark McKinnon and Matt Dowd and Democratic strategists Joe Lockhart and Carter Eskew. Bill Clinton is there. So are Mary Matalan, Lance Armstrong, rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Bush aide Karen Hughes. You can join too.

Still the One: Long-shot Democrat John Hall of the band Orleans, (not of Hall and Oates), is now leading in polls by 49 to 40 percent in his attempt to topple incumbent (since 1995) Republican Rep. Sue Kelly in the formerly solidly GOP southern New York 19th District.

It probably didn't help Kelly that she was at one time chairman of the board overseeing the Congressional page program.

There's meltdown video of both candidates meeting with the editorial board of the Middletown Times Herald-Record, which today, perhaps unsurprisingly, endorsed Hall: For Congress: Hall over Kelly: The 19th District needs a new set of eyes, one that can see if the emperor is naked.

The New York Times also endorses Hall today, "enthusiastically."

Organic Velcro? Cat's tongue (detail). Click to see the entire photo. ("Forbidden" now -- see below)

Updated, 4:47 p.m. The attention to this cat's tongue seems to have overwhelmed the photographer's bandwidth allotment. You can see the photo, with viewers' comments, as part of the photographer's work at Flickr -- here's the high-rez version of this photo there.

The photographer, figuromo of shisso.org writes, "This image has recently won the first prize in the Animal/Nature category of the Digital Camera Magazine Photographer of The Year competition."

There, we learn that the photographer is an Australian, Billy CP Law.

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His Flickr site has more photos of that white and pink cat.

Lesson in what? Be loyal, kind and don't steal Movies:

Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.

The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle.

The movie industry has developed the curriculum.

Since when is it okay to use children to promote the music industry's failing business model? Is there a Critical Thinking patch as well?

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