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Blogvoices stays open. “Due to an overwhelming response from BlogVoices users and the incomparable generosity of a small start-up in San Francisco California, BlogVoices will not be “closing its doors.” Instead, the source code and database will be relocated to Pyra Labs, where it will continue to serve the Blogger community.”

okay, the damn webcam is on… for an experiment. I’m still working on this… gimme time. Ah.. nevermind, it’s back off.

Edible Insects scared of mad cow disease in the U.S.? Go for it…

Rumsfeld Planning Missile Defense – President Bush intends to move ahead with a national missile defense plan despite objections from Russia and other countries, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.

E-Groups was aquired by Yahoo quite some time ago. The conversion of Egroups to Yahoo is underway as I post this. They have formed a new service called Yahoo! Groups that is now in operation. There will be no change for paxtonland members, the group will still function exactly the same. Just thought I’d let you know.

CNN.com – Man accidentally saws off hand, then shoots nails into head… hey, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

OfficeMax to donate 500 computer keyboard ‘W’ keys and 100 full keyboards to white house to keep the wheels of government moving. Thank god. Evidently, the entire exClinton staff ran amok on the way out of the white house. I’d imagine they even left the toilet seats up too!

It looks like blogvoices.com is going to shut down. I knew that this could happen and I’m not really suprised.

What that means for us is that soon we’ll have no way to make comments to the links and postings that show up here on paxtonland. I’m sorry about this. I’ll be able to save all of your comments, they will not be lost by any means.

That really brings me to face the eventuality that paxtonland.com needs a better, faster and more permanent host. I cannot continue to host it here at ais.org. They are not really up to the bandwidth requirements that this site needs. They’ve been polite about my disk usage and outgoing transfer totals. But, it’s time for me to move on. Additionally, this is a community based club/hobbyist organization and not designed to do what I’m doing with it. I don’t have the ability to do the programming nessescary here to provide the level of interactivity that paxtonland really needs.

Rich and I are actively looking for an affordable host that both paxtonland.com and fusinski.com can reside on. I’d like the ability to have our families and friends to keep their sites there as well. So far, it looks like cihosts.com (thanks to dan for turning us on to them) has the best packages, however, they don’t come cheap. Give us time to make the transition and find the cash to make it as well.

Meanwhile, paxtonland will continune on here as it always has until we make a decision. The best thing about the move is that we’ll have a lot more freedom to build a much more user-friendly and interactive interface so that we won’t have to rely on outside resources such as blogger (which is a fine service by all means) and blogvoices to provide the nice forum for communication that we have here.

paxtonland.com and fusinski.com are semi-private, members only communities of family and friends that come here because we are all smart, funny, and expert site hunters and policital commentators. I don’t want that to suffer and it means enough to me to do what it takes to keep things going.

I’ll post news as there it breakss. Stay tuned.

CNN.com – Letter ‘W’ missing from White House keyboards “In an apparent prank carried out by departing Clinton administration staffers, Bush aides discovered that dozens of computer keyboards were missing the “W” key.”

Big Blue touts new Napster-proof music locks (via metafilter)

U.S. Penis Comes Up Short in Size Survey? (uh-oh… and a blanket of insecurity fell across the land)

Demolition team knock down the wrong house “They asked us if there were trees covering it up, and we said yes. They said: “Then you’re at the right place.”
“Evidently there were two houses that were covered by trees.”

Britney Spears (washingtonpost.com) asking the AOL’ers what they think of Bush is like banging your head on concrete.

When Clinton took office, he fought for gay rights… today, in his first day Bush to ban funds to groups offering abortion. Bush opposes abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the pregnant woman, although he supported a Republican party platform calling for an absolute ban on abortion. He said on the campaign trail he would sign legislation outlawing “partial birth” abortion.

Secondly, he is making good on his promise to support his greedy oil company friends, by allowing them to drill for new oil in wildlife refuges by creating a national energy policy that will knock down the existing roadblocks…

The fun has only just begun.

Dave, of greasyskillet.org, has posted a screenshot of the resdesign of whitehouse.gov that included the link “insert something meaningful here.” Can the most powerful office in the world really have a website this bad? Looks like it.

Impossible maze. Try it, I can’t do it…

The abandoned missile base VR tour is kind of cool, it’s been linked here before, but I thought I’d post it again. Some of these sites are for sale, though I can’t find the link for the realtor that was selling several of them. I remember that the sites included fully functional and attractive homes on the surface with massive generators, storage tanks, pumps for the silos, plus all of the electrical, communications, and plumbing infrastructure to support them. Very intersting indeed. If I/you find the link we’ll post it…

The best paper airplane in the world and how to build it. Wonderful, many thanks… (via memepool)

For our out of state readers, the local news: In which we find that trigger happy Detroit cops shoot and kill yet another alleged shoplifter, a man evidently hires a hit man to kill ex-wife and her husband wow nice… and former mall guard will remain on trial despite getting off once for the beating death of another shoplifter. Thinking back the past few months… Detroit is not healty for shoplifters, marriages, or for people on the wrong side of cops.

Mideast Internet youth lured to death… this story has been making the rounds the past couple of days. Kind of sad, but it’s good to see that people are putting technology to use.

Since you can never have too much insurance… Mt. Everest climbers insured against yeti attack

Shop Mandiberg buy stuff from a real person, not an impersonal store. (via memepool)

Clinton Tooling Around in New Limo – Until Saturday “I want you to know that the Secret Service delivered to me this morning, so I get to ride around in it for five days, the newest presidential limousine,” Clinton said during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday speech.

Ewww… A 20-year-old Iranian man has married a 77-year-old virgin in a village in the east of the country, newspapers said Wednesday.