IMG_1614, originally uploaded by cboosh.

Last weekend was the Great American Beerfest in Denver CO.
We always go to the Connoisseur Tasting because it's less people, less Frat Boys, and you actually get GLASSes (the other sessions are plastic cups.
Anyway, here's one of the pictures that survived the evening.

IMG_1550, originally uploaded by cboosh.

Blue Angels along the Embarcadero during Fleet Week.

Wow. Dumbest jury since the OJ verdict? No, don't want people to think they grow 'em dumb in Duluth. It _sounds_ like the lady was guilty, but at least this juror come off looking like an IDIOT...

It took the jury in Capitol Records v. Thomas only five minutes to find that 30-year-old Jammie Thomas had infringed recording industry copyrights on 24 music tracks, according to the first juror to speak out on the verdict. After that, it was just haggling over the price, the juror tells Wired News' THREAT LEVEL blog.
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Ok- so I finally watched a couple episodes and, yeah, it's pretty funny stuff. So here's some good news for those of you who came to boosh.com looking for mightyboosh info:

"The Mighty Boosh will be returning for a 3rd series on BBC3 in the autumn... TX date TBC"read more | digg story

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. It blasts off in California next week, and we talked with Andy about the project, and how they expect it will do.read more | digg story

Andy Samberg is awesome...

I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more (any?) mainstream press. Apparently some hackers got into "Media Defenders"' email system and 700 megs worth of email were "liberated".
From the article: "MediaDefender specializes in file-sharing mitigation—practices that disrupt and deter infringing uses of P2P file-sharing networks".
Included in the emails were many of the "dirty tricks" Media Defender employs to try and stop, or at least slow down, P2P downloading of music for their client. Some of these tactics are putting up fake files, and "polluting" bittorrent downloads with garbage data.
One of the more interesting tacks taken by these guys was to set up a front company that invited users to upload videos and download others, at high speed. The users ip's would be logged, and the location and possibly users themselves tracked down. Apparently they even had a deal to share this info with NY state Attorney General!
Many have called this 'entrapment', but I don't buy that. Sleazy? Yes. Entrapment? No.
Anyway, ars technica has some of the only coverage of this.
Here's the lead story to start you off.

Wow. This is just plain awful. Even for Microsoft. Even for the early nineties. Awful.

The main "rapper" must be out there PRAYING this thing doesn't get too popular...

Bill Walsh — 1931-2007
Thanks for the memories, Coach.
You'll always be the Genius to us.

Oh sweet crap. Now Rasmussen has been kicked out of the Tour. While he didn't fail a drug test, he was apparently lying about his whereabouts for 2 months.

He claimed he was training in Mexico with his (Mexican) wife, but an Italian commentator said on the air a week ago he saw Rasmussen training in Italy during that time. Italy is, of course, one of the dirtiest countries for bicycle doping...

Oddly, Rasmussen shouldn't have even been in the Tour this year, as he had missed an off-season drug test during his absentia, and if Tour organizers had been informed of this, he wouldn't have been allowed to compete.

Also interesting to note is that Rasmussen's team Rabobank will be allowed to continue in the race, while all of Vino's Team Astana was booted.

For those keeping track at home, this puts Discovery Channel's Alberto Contador in the Yellow Jersey.

Can you say worst year for cycling since the 1998 "Tour of Shame" Festina fiasco...