This is great just for the title: Ancient Egyptian Cylon Unicorn Cat

And I can't believe I gave Bush more credit.

I know, I was gonna say "two".

And I thought that might be too much credit.

Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country's 56 ethnic groups were in fact all from the same one, the majority Han Chinese race.

I thought they were just dressed in the costume of. In fact, I think Costas actually SAID "Children dressed in clothing representing the 57 ethnic groups of China".

I was also not outraged by the "faked" fireworks -- Matt Lauer said the footprints were CGI.

The fake-out with the seven year olds singing was sad and I feel for them -- but in four years they'll be on the Women's Gymnastics team so its all good.

I'm annoyed, the schedules for Labor Day have come out, and I'm working the Sunday evening before Labor Day, till 10 PM, then turning around and coming in for my usual 8 AM shift on that Monday. When I said, "Hey, wait a minute!" my gracious supervisor said, "That's OK, someone will be in at 9 PM on Sunday if you want to leave at 9 instead of 10, you'll probably be able to get in that extra hour during the week." Gee, thanks, John.

I'm soothing myself with double pay for a holiday and the hope that it will be dead quiet over a major holiday and it won't feel so horrible.

Yeah, I didn't think the children in costumes were supposed to be the ethnic groups, just wearing the ethnic costumes.

Were the footprints the only CGI fireworks, or were all the fireworks CGI?

Also, while I'm on a question roll, how much do books weigh?

'Cause I'm thinking about using these as my built-in shelf shelves. They'd look like they were floating within the cutout to make the bookshelf.

But I think they were intended to be decorative, so I can't find anything on how much weight they'll actually hold. Another similar product says it'll hold 66 pounds. How much does a fully loaded 24" bookshelf hold?

But I think they were intended to be decorative, so I can't find anything on how much weight they'll actually hold.

ON a non-finish specific page for that type of shelf it says they'll hold 15 lbs. bummer.

Were the footprints the only CGI fireworks, or were all the fireworks CGI?

My understanding is that the footprints were CGI only on TV, because it was deemed too dangerous to be setting off fireworks that close to a bajillion news copters. (But that there really were footprint fireworks set off, just not "live" the way it was shown.)

Okay, bummer. Where did you find that info? I bow to your google-fu.

And that's what I thought they were saying during the broadcast, because they said it was "literally cinematic" so I figured either it was "literal" abuse or that it wasn't live.

This is pretty cool--word clouds comparing McCain's blog to Obama's.

Where did you find that info? I bow to your google-fu.

I heard it on Buzz Out Loud (http://reviews.cnet.com/buzz-out-loud-podcast/), so take it with a grain of salt. Or several.