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“I’ve heard a couple of guys say foul things, and those guys are not around me anymore. When they say things like that, I’m looking at them like, ‘What makes you so scared? You don’t know who you are?’ “I don’t dislike them or anything, it just makes me wonder about them period. If you’re not sure about that, then …

My boss from back in my music biz days is staying with me this week and he’s just turned me onto Welsh popster Duffy, whose single Rockferry sounds a lot like Lulu to me. With maybe some Dusty Springfield thrown in.

I just saw a taxi ad for VoiceMailSucks.com, a site which promises “SimulScribe utilizes cutting edge voice recognition technology to convert your voicemail messages into text. We deliver your transcribed voicemail, along with the original audio, to your mobile phone, PDA, and/or email account. This process streamlines your communication flow, saving you both time and money.” Anybody here use this? …

Florida’s secretary of state announced yesterday that the anti-gay group Florida4Marriage has collected enough signatures to force their anti-gay marriage amendment onto the state ballot next year. Equality Florida and the ACLU will challenge the petition in court. Those opposing the amendment claim it could not only ban gay marriage but could repeal domestic partners benefits statewide, including those for …

The Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2007: w00t! The rest of this year’s top ten: 2. facebook3. conundrum4. quixotic5. blamestorm6. sardoodledom7.apathetic8. Pecksniffian9. hypocrite10. charlatan Last year’s word of the year: truthiness..

Here’s a map of the world with the countries resized based on oil reserves. Embiggen the image and predict where we’ll invade next! It’s fun!(Via – Andrew Sullivan.)

What was the best pop single this year?.

Here’s Feedback, Janet Jackson’s first single off her upcoming album.

“Everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and woman, everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of new life … constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace.” – Pope Benedict, in the 15-page annual papal message. Also standing in the way of …

You’ll love this one. Icelandic teenager Visill Atlason was watching a recent episode of the Ellen Degeneres show during which Jenna Bush called her dad live on the show, using Ellen’s on-set landline. Apparently, Atlason was somehow able to decipher the number that Jenna dialed and called Dubya’s secret private number himself, pretending to be president of Iceland. Atlason, 16, …