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  1. The latest version of the American Song Poem? on Rewritable Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    The most famous example is Ramsey Kearney's "Blind Man's Penis (Peace And Love)" definitely worth hearing if you never have.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem:

    "Song Poem usually refers to song lyrics which have been set to music for a fee. This practice, which has long been disparaged in the music industry, was also known as song sharking and was conducted by several businesses throughout the 20th century in North America.

    Typically, the service was promoted through small display ads in popular magazines, comic books, tabloids, men's adventure journals and similar publications with a headline reading (essentially) Send in Your Poems - Songwriters Make Thousands of Dollars - Free Evaluation. The term lyrics was avoided because it was assumed potential customers would not understand what the term meant."

  2. Will "Will it Blend's" servers melt? Yes! on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1

    /. does its own version of "will it blend" with servers. Will they melt when pummeled with traffic from around the world? In this case, yes.

  3. XML catalog files let your app use local copies... on Is Dedicated Hosting for Critical DTDs Necessary? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can map public and system identifiers to local resources. Use them for dtds, schemas, stylesheets, etc. Here's the spec. Google for more information.

  4. Re:Raise your hands on Remains of James Doohan Lost in New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Well, you can make the whole thing a little less wasteful by being an organ donor or you could donate your body to science so some medical student can get a few more miles out of it. If you plan to die in Tibet, you could consider sky burial.

  5. Plato/Socrates said that about writing too... on Adult Brains Grow From Specialist Use · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "Soc. At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." Translation nabbed from here

    Bet he would have hated Google. All we have to remember now is how to use it and a few key words.