I just took my 32nd mugshot at www.DailyMugshot.com.  Weird I know.

Great interview with New York's former Governor, Eliot Spitzer, over at Vanity Fair.  Definitely worth the read.  The discussion centers around "questions of sin, survival, and second acts."

We strolled to a bench where we lunched in what he called “our own little corner of Paris,” facing the golden sculpture of General Sherman on his horse. “Do you believe there are second acts in American life?,” I asked.

“There are, but they’re rarely repeats of the first. It’s a question of what you do when you come back on for the second act.”

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When we returned to his office, he showed me a framed picture of his serene country home, as well as photographs of his family in happier days, displayed on a shelf. There was a single picture of his swearing-in ceremony in Albany on January 1, 2007, when he became governor, his wife by his side.

“Do you think the scandal will ever go away?,” I asked.

“No. My obituary’s written,” he replied with shocking finality. “And that is a very hard thing to live with.”

When he turned away, I could see he was in tears.

Read the rest of the article.

Reminds me of the Gush video... love it.  Plus the music is by Röyksopp.  So it's got that going for it.

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And then I found the making of vid... check it.

Checkout all the Lego Movie Posters

Wikipedia prides itself on openess and the sharing of information.  The site usually leaves the policing to the public and it's fairly accurate considering that they allow anyone to add or edit articles.  But recently, in a 10-1 ruling, the site’s arbitration council voted to ban users coming from all IP addresses owned by the Church of Scientology and its associates, and further banned a number of editors by name.

This punishment is the result of repeated and deceptive editing of articles related to the controversial religion.  "Self-serving Wikipedia edits are hardly new. Wired.com readers pulled in an award for discovering the most egregious Wikipedia whitewashes by corporation and government agencies, but this is the first time the site has taken such drastic actions to block those edits."

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For $2.3M you can own Cameron Frye's home from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day off.  THE BEN ROSE HOME is cantilevered over the ravine with two steel and glass buildings.  Check the deets.

So this is fun.  One Word is a simply little site where it gives you a word and you only have 60 seconds to write whatever comes to mind.  You don't think... you just write.

I hit this up last night and the word was "Satellite".  This is what I wrote...

satellites fly in outer space and they allow us to have cool things like communications and tv programming.  I like satellites because Dave Matthews has a song with that word and its a good song.

Satellites are also known as moons.

Pretty awesome right?  I mean you just learned six things right there about satellites that you didn't know before.

Hit it up at www.oneword.com and come back here to share what you ended up with.

First of all, that pic right there says a lot...  Anyway, ever wonder why text messages are limited to 160 characters.  The maximum number of characters one can use in a text message was formulated almost 20 years before most people had ever heard of texting.

Apparently, when German researcher Friedhelm Hillebrand was working on a precursor to today's SMS system in 1985 he concluded, after considering the average length of a postcard and the typical telex message (a then-popular messaging service for business executives), that 160 characters was sufficient for this new type of communication.

& now years ltr we're stil typng msgs on tiny lil kybrds bck & frth 2 each other.

I find some really cool stuff on FFFFound and the other day I came across these two tidbits.  Enjoy.

We used to play this game in the car on road trips where we would ask questions like, "If you could eat lunch with any three people, dead or alive, who would they be?"

Well, that question is for another post and I'd love to know the answer, but another question was always, "If you could have any job in the world besides what you are doing now, what would it be?"  I'm pretty sure Ben Southall would have a tough time answering this question because he seems to have found "The Best Job In The World."

Ben was recently appointed by Tourism Queenland as the new caretaker of an "Australian tropical island," a six-month position described as "the best job in the world."  His new job requires him to live luxuriously and report from Hamilton Island, on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef where he receives a salary of approximately $111,000.  Check out the strenuous responsibilities...

"There’s so much to see and do, so you’ll have plenty to write about in your weekly blog. And with so much life above and below the water, you’re sure to capture some entertaining moments for your video diary and photo gallery. To keep you busy, Tourism Queensland will organise a schedule of travel and events on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Your schedule could include sampling a new luxury spa treatment at qualia on Hamilton Island, trying out new snorkelling gear on Heron Island, or bushwalking on Hinchinbrook Island."

Sounds terrible.  For more info  or to apply as Ben's replacement six-months from now, hit up www.islandreefjob.com and also be sure to check out the video on the BBC.

What about you?  If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?  And conversely, what job would you not take no matter how much they paid you?

via Big Norm