Best divorce letter & answer

 

Dear wife:
        I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you forever. I've been a good man to you for 7 years & I have nothing to show
for it. These last 2 weeks have been terrible. Your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today & that was the last straw. 
       Last week, you came home & didn't even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favourite meal & even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers. You ate in 2 minutes, & Went straight to sleep after watching all
of your soaps.
      You don't tell Me you love me anymore; you don't want sex or anything that connects us as husband & wife. Either you're cheating on me or you don't love me Anymore; whatever the case, I'm gone......
      Your EX-Husband,
P.S. Don't try to find me, your SISTER & I are moving away to Oklahoma together. Have a great life!
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Dear Ex-Husband
        Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter.
It's true you & I have been married for 7 years, although a good
man is a far cry from What you've been.
       I watch my soaps so much because they drown out your constant whining & griping. Too bad that doesn't work.
      I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the first thing
that came to mind was 'You look just like a queer!' Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can't say something nice, I didn't comment. And when you cooked my favourite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork 7 years ago.
       About those new silk Boxers: I turned away from you because the $49.99 price tag was still on them, and I prayed it was a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed $50 from me that morning.
       After all of this, I still loved you & felt we could work it out. So when I hit the lotto for 10 million dollars, I quit my job and bought us two tickets to Jamaica , but when I got home You were gone.
       Everything happens for a reason, I guess. I hope you Have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My lawyer said that the Letter you wrote ensures you won't get a dime from me. So take care.
Signed,
Your Ex-Wife, Rich As Gates and Free at last!

P.S.  I don't know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla was born Carl.   I hope that's not a problem!

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Beer, Blogs And Bias

Beer, Blogs And Bias (Say That Again)

by Michael Masnick from the i'll-drink-to-that dept on Friday, April 25th, 2008 @ 7:40PM

The Wall Street Journal has an article focusing on a blog set up by Miller Brewing Company called Brew Blog. There are a few different, interesting points worth discussing here. First, the blog isn't used as a blog about what's going on at Miller Brewing. Instead, Miller hired an experienced reporter, and told him to just cover the beer industry as if he were a beat reporter. In other words, it's reporting news -- and even breaking stories on the competition. In fact, it revealed that main rival Anheuser-Busch was planning a new beer before A-B was able to make the announcement itself. This is certainly a recognition of how content is advertising. The blog clearly isn't "advertorial." It's full-on reporting about the industry, in a way that's interesting and relevant to those in the industry.
What may be even more interesting, though, is what the article says about journalism. In an age in which journalists are whining that their jobs are disappearing, here's yet another example of where suddenly there are new types of jobs for journalists appearing every day. But, even more interesting, is a quote at the end of the article highlighted by David Card. It's from Harry Schuhmacher, the editor and publisher of a fee-based trade publication on the beer industry:

"I tell Miller you're subsidizing a free publication, and it hurts the trade press," he says. "But they don't care."...Mr. Schuhmacher adds that he writes fewer positive pieces about Miller than he once did because he knows Brew Blog will always publish the same stories.

Think about this for a bit. People complain that when you have a company-sponsored publication it will inevitably be biased -- but the sponsorship of that site is totally open and in the clear. The site's content stands for itself. Yet, at the same time, a supposedly "objective" traditional journalist is admitting that he writes fewer stories about Miller because he's upset that it's competing with his own publication. From that, it would certainly seem like the Brew Blog is a lot more credible (it's biases are out in the open), while this fee-based trade pub admits that story choices are sometimes based on personal vendettas.

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Students of the Pickup School for Geeks

Inside the Bizarre World of Japanese Pickup Schools

By Lisa Katayama

02.18.08 | 12:00 AM

Satoshi Fujita's Pickup School for Men Who Can't Get Any promises to turn any awkward geek into a womanizing pro. "Men who can't pick up girls all have some sort of trauma in their past," Fujita says. "My course work teaches them to overcome their trauma, gain confidence, and find sex and happiness with a beautiful female."

Fujita has appeared on TV shows, magazines and on various online discussions about how to pick up women on the street. Meet the man and some of his top students.

Left:
Name: Satoshi Fujita, aka Zurad Pitt (Zura is slang for wig.)
Age: 48
Occupation: Founder and director of the Pickup School for Men Who Can't Get Any
Specialty: Magic tricks, jokes, cheesy lines women can't say no to
Trauma: Premature balding
Notable quote: "People call me Human GPS Fujita, because I always know where to take a woman."

Photo: Lisa Katayama

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TOKYO -- Satoshi Fujita is not a good-looking man. He has oily skin, beady eyes, short legs and a boy-band wig to cover his balding head. But that hasn't stopped him from becoming Japan's most sought-after dating coach for geeks.

Fujita's Pickup School for Men Who Can't Get Any teaches geeky, insecure men of all ages how to gain confidence, score dates and get laid -- all based, he says, on a proprietary "science" he discovered after a decade of careful research.

"I always teach my students that sex comes first," he says. "Then you figure out whether the woman is worth marrying later."

The school is just one of many bizarre after-work coaching institutes in Japan. There are schools that specialize in everything from simple math problems to memory improvement. There are even schools for successful dating-by-text-message. Taking night classes is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture -- starting in childhood, when parents enroll children in juku, or cram school.

Nanpa, or the act of picking up women, is one of the newer but more popular categories of cram schools in the country. There are at least half a dozen nanpa schools in the Tokyo area alone.

Some of Fujita's classes take place in a classroom, but most of them are held on street corners to simulate real nanpa situations. Fujita estimates that he teaches more than a hundred students a month, with some classes -- like How to Use Magic to Gain Popularity and How to Seduce Women -- attracting dozens of students. Each class costs 30,000 yen ($280).

His students -- electronics company executives, engineers who have little interaction with women except through online porn, and average-looking college geeks who need an extra oomph -- seem happy with what they're learning.

"Since joining Mr. Fujita's school, I have had five successful relationships," says Hachioji Robocop, a 27-year-old civil servant who has been taking the course since 2004. "I lost my virginity six months into the course, and now I can now communicate with women. I'm very grateful."

Fujita opened up his first dating crash course for geeks in 2002. Today, he has written three self-help books for unpopular guys, and his techniques have been featured in magazines and television shows.

Through most of his 20s, Fujita was introverted and completely clueless about women. "It was so shocking when my hair started to fall out," he says. "I was scared to look in the mirror and completely froze up when I talked to women." For years, he hid behind his receding hairline, avoiding social events and wondering what it was like to be intimate with a girl.

Then, in the mid-1990s, he started studying the techniques of masterful pickup artists and charismatic celebrities in an effort to hone his own womanizing skills. He registered with a professional matchmaker, who started setting up dates, but things turned around only when Fujita bought his first wig at age 34.

In his book Zura Ga Kanojo Ni Bareta Toki (The Time My Girlfriend Discovered I Was Wearing a Wig), Fujita describes how his confidence soared after this slight change in appearance. He felt like a woman who had just gotten breast implants, he wrote.

He also learned that a few simple tricks can go a long way: Women like laughter, compliments and magic tricks. Using these concepts, he devised a proprietary "science" for picking up women that takes into consideration things like reading signals and timing.

After 10 years and 10 new wigs, he'd become so successful with women, he says, that he decided to quit his job and make dating his profession.

Among other tricks, Fujita's method involves a deck of "psychoanalytic" cards that help him determine what kind of girl he has picked up.

He's also got a bag of tricks -- literally -- that includes flaming wallets, talking ferrets and animated algae balls. Fujita asked Wired.com not to disclose anything more detailed, for fear of giving away his closely guarded trade secrets.

"This may seem ridiculous, but if you follow a specific equation, it really works," he says.

One bit of advice Fujita was willing to dish out concerns online dating: It doesn't work, he says.

"If you're not tall and good-looking, or you don't work at a top-rate company, then you can't really score dates on a dating website," he says.

Instead, "Picking up women on the streets is the best method for people who need miracles."

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Plaskett fills his ECMA basket

Rocker wins six categories; Canyon picked top entertainer
By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter for

The Halifax Chronicle Herald
Mon. Feb 11 - 6:33 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Joel Plaskett has been a Halifax Star for several years & I love his music and the pure energy of his live performances. Its clear that his band is having a blast on stage & the crowd is always pleased. If you ever have the chance ... GO SEE JOEL PLASKET ... you'll never regret the Experience.

Joel Plaskett performs at the East Coast Music Awards show at the Aitken centre in Fredericton on Sunday. (INGRID BULMER / Staff)

FREDERICTON — Halifax rocker Joel Plaskett traded in an ashtray for an armload of East Coast Music Awards on Sunday night, winning a record-breaking six silver trophies at the 20th anniversary of the annual ceremony held in Fredericton’s Aitken Centre.

Ashtray Rock, the Joel Plaskett Emergency’s concept album about teenage hijinks, young love and friendship in suburban Halifax was named the FACTOR recording, group recording and rock recording of the year, while the tune Fashionable People earned the indie-music icon group single, video and SOCAN songwriter of the year honours.

"It’s humbling," admitted Plaskett after the gala, still a bit jet lagged from a five-week solo tour of Australia. "It’s really flattering and kind of embarass-ing at the same time.

""We set out to make a record as ridiculous and ambitious as possible, and I’m glad it paid off creatively and captivated the imagination of everyone who listened.""

Plaskett’s big night tops the five ECMAs won in one evening by artists including Lennie Gallant in 1995, Ashley MacIsaac in 1997, Bruce Guthro in 1999 and Great Big Sea for Sea of No Cares in 2003.

It’s been a good week for Plaskett; his sardonic hit Fashionable People also picked up a Billboard World Song Contest honour in the pop category on Thursday.

I like to write about where I’m from, I think any good writer tries to do that," said the Clayton Park-raised musician. ""I like to think I captured something of that in a fictional account of growing up in suburbia.""

The only other multiple winners Sunday, with two apiece, were fellow Nova Scotians Dave Gunning, Cherry Brook R&B favourite Jamie Sparks and the reunited Rankins.

Pictou County bard Gunning’s House for Sale was named the male solo recording and folk recording of the year.

""I did not expect this, it was a surprise,"" said Gunning backstage. ""I’m writing a lot right now, getting ready for the next record, but I’m certainly proud of this one.""

The Rankin Family’s Reunion CD was picked for roots/traditional group recording of the year, while the video chronicle of the Cape Breton family band’s live show, Back Stage Pass, earned DVD of the year.

""This is quite the honour . . . I can’t seem to shake this band,"" grinned Jimmy Rankin after stepping to the podium for the DVD award.

""(This reunion) is something I thought would never happen, so on behalf of all the Rankins, thank you very much. This one’s for John Morris.""

Other Nova Scotia winners included country star George Canyon, picking up the coveted fan-voted entertainer of the year honour, Juno Award-nominated MC Classified for rap/hip-hop single track recording for Hard to be Hip-Hop and Halifax-based singer-songwriter Rose Cousins in the female solo recording category.

Up-and-coming Sackville performer Chelsea Nisbett won gospel recording for her debut CD New Beginnings, which has already won an African-Nova Scotian Music Award and a Music Nova Scotia Award in recent months.

""I’m shocked, when I first had the idea of making an album all I just thought of it as something people could buy at my shows,"" said the petite singer-songwriter backstage.

""But since it came out it’s been one opportunity after another, meeting more people playing more shows, things are really starting to develop.""

Besides the Rankins, Nova Scotian Celtic music performers winning ECMAs included Antigonish’s Troy MacGillivray for instrumental recording for Live From the Music Room and Cape Breton fiddler Kimberley Fraser for roots/traditional solo recording for Falling on New Ground.

Former Slainte Mhath singer Stephanie Hardy was blessed with the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award (which comes with a $5,000 prize) for her contemporary songwriting on Brand New Skin.

Veteran Halifax pianist Bill Stevenson earned jazz recording of the year for For the Record, recorded with his nephew, Hot Toddy bassist Tom Easley, while Hot Toddy singer/guitarist Thom Swift got props for his solo debut, Into the Dirt, named blues recording of the year.

""I’ve been with Hot Toddy for about 10 years, and after a while you build up a blanket of security,"" said New Brunswick native Easley to reporters. ""Like any successful group, you need those outside influences to keep growing.

"I’ve been playing with Bill since I was a teenager, and I think if you’re a real musician, you want to keep playing until you can’t play any more."

Hosted by This Hour Has 22 Minutes wit Mark Critch, the two-hour gala featured performances by Joel Plaskett Emergency, hearty Newfoundland folk band Shanneygannock, Jimmy Rankin, New Brunswick gospel group the Lapointes and alternative recording winner Nathan Wiley.

"The big news this year is that the CBC isn’t broadcasting the awards live," said Critch, to a chorus of boos from the crowd.

"Oh, you don’t have to tell me, I work for the CBC, I’ve seen the ratings. But not being on the CBC means more people than ever will see the ECMAs!""

Halifax band Wintersleep, which followed Plaskett with five nominations, unfortunately left the Aitken Centre trophy-less.

However, the show was a great showcase for the broad variety of New Brunswick performers, including country recording winners the Divorcees, fiddler Samantha Robichaud, Swift and Moncton rocker Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew.

A special honour of the evening was presented to New Brunswick’s Acadian music pioneers 1755. The group’s achiviements in popularizing Atlantic Canadian Francophone music earned it the Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award for a landmark career, taking its music across North America and over the Atlantic between 1977 and 1984.

Earlier on Sunday afternoon, the East Coast Music Association honoured behind-the-scenes figures and music business builders with its annual Industry Awards.

The sound technician of the year, engineer Mike Shepherd from Cape Breton’s much-honoured Lakewind Sound studio seemed pleased that for once he wasn’t too busy to attend in person.

""I’d like to thank Fred Lavery and Gordie Sampson, the co-owners of Lakewind,"" he said. ""They’re my guys; working for them these past nine years has been absolutely amazing.""

Halifax photographer Chris Sm!th, the Funk Factor founder, had a few more people to thank after his win, rapidly reading off a list of clients as long as his black T-shirt clad arm.

Media person of the year went to veteran P.E.I. writer Doug Gallant of the daily Guardian newspaper, who remarked that his love of music has deep roots.

""The people in this industry really make it worth getting up in the morning,"" said the bearded island scribe. ""I’ve been around it since I was 14, hauling gear for acts like Sam Moon and Matt Minglewood and I can’t imagine a better industry to be involved in.""

Cape Breton’s Celtic Colours International Festival was named event of the year, and co-founder Max MacDonald was effusive in his praise of the ECMAs’ effect on the

AND THE ECMA GOES TO . . .

• Entertainer of the year: George Canyon
• Recording: Ashtray Rock (Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• Female solo recording: If You Were For Me (Rose Cousins)
• Group recording: Ashtray Rock (Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• Male solo recording: House For Sale (Dave Gunning)
• Rising Star recording: Brand New Skin (Stephanie Hardy)
• Group single: Fashionable People (Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• SOCAN songwriter: Joel Plaskett for Fashionable People (performed by Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• Video: Fashionable People directed by Randall Thorne (Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• DVD: Back Stage Pass (The Rankin Family)
• African-Canadian recording: It’s The Music (Jamie Sparks)
• Alternative recording: The City Destroyed Me (Nathan Wiley)
• Bluegrass recording: Saddle River String Band (Saddle River String Band)
• Blues recording: Into The Dirt (Thom Swift)
• Classical recording: Forbidden City Tour (New Brunswick Youth Orchestra)
• Country recording: You Ain’t Gettin’ My Country (The Divorcees)
• Francophone recording: 11:11 (Vishten)
• Folk recording: Looking Back — Vol. 2: House For Sale (Dave Gunning)
• Gospel recording: New Beginnings (Chelsea Nisbett)
• Instrumental recording: Live From the Music Room (Troy MacGillvray)
• Jazz recording: For The Record (Bill Stevenson & Tom Easley)
• Pop recording: Little Jabs (Two Hours Traffic)
• Rap/Hip-Hop single track recording: Hard To Be Hip Hop (Classified)
• Rock recording: Ashtray Rock (Joel Plaskett Emergency)
• Roots/Traditional group recording: Reunion (The Rankin Family)
• Roots/Traditional solo recording: Falling On New Ground (Kimberley Fraser)
• Urban Single track recording: If You Were (Jamie Sparks)
• Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award: presented to New Brunswick group 1755

INDUSTRY AWARDS

• Graphic designer: Jessica Rhaye
• Photograper: Chr!s Sm!th
• Independent company: Sonic Entertainment Group
• Radio station (small market): 101.5 The Hawk, CIGO Port Hawkesbury
• Radio station (major market): Q104, Halifax
• Sound technician: Mike Shepherd
• Media person: Doug Gallant
• Broadcast: East Coast Countdown
• Volunteer: Valerie Hillier
• Industry builder: Marc Chouinard
• Retailer: CD Plus
• Label: Landwash Distribution
• Event: Celtic Colours International Festival
• Manager: Lynn Horne
• Musician’s achievement:
• Michael Doherty
• Industry professional: John Poirier

STOMPIN" TOM AWARDS

• Cape Breton: Aldun MacVicar
• New Brunswick: Ivan & Vivian Hicks Newfoundland & Labrador: The Ducats
• P.E.I.: The Tremtones
• Nova Scotia: Oakley

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A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys

 

 

 

 

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By Mikki Halpin and Victoria Maat geek guide See the Web site!

So, your crush on the bass player from Vibrating Sandbox has finally died a whimpering death and you're wondering where to go from here. All the sinister dudes are either dating a series of interchangeable high-school riot girls in baby doll dresses and an overdose of manic panic, or permanently shacked up with some bitter old lady who pays all the bills. Which will it be, a wifely prison or a humiliating one night stand? Into this void of potential mates comes a man you may not have considered before, a man of substance, quietude and stability, a cerebral creature with a culture all his own. In short, a geek.

Why Geek Dudes Rule

• They are generally available.
• Other women will tend not to steal them.
• They can fix things.
• Your parents will love them.
• They're smart.

Where The Geek Dude Lurks

While they are often into alternative music, geek dudes tend not to go to shows too often. Instead you'll find them hanging out with their friends, discussing the latest hardware revolution or perfecting their Bill Gates impressions. You know how some people wear t-shirts with their favorite bands on them, thus showing that they went to certain shows? Well, geek dudes wear t-shirts with the logos of different software companies on them, thus showing that they are up on the latest, um, releases. A small, though convivial, rivalry may be detected here amongst the geek dudes. Try wearing one yourself and see if he strikes up a conversation.

Of course the best way to meet a geek dude is through the Internet. All geeks harbor a secret fantasy about meeting some girl in cyberspace, carrying on an e-mail romance in which he has the chance to combine an activity he is comfortable with, computing, with one he is very uncomfortable with, socializing. To many geek dudes, cyberdating is just an advanced form of some kind of video game, but they are frustrated by a lack of players. Their lack is your strength.

Imprinting

You might notice that these men harbor some strange ideas about how the world works and some particularly strange ideas about women. There is a reason for this. Because they've had limited interpersonal experience, geek dudes must look elsewhere for behavior models. Lacking a real world social milieu, geeks often go through a transference stage with such narratives, and try to model their interactions on them. Thus, certain media images and themes come to have an overly cathected, metaphorized reality to them, while the rest of us view such programming as mere entertainment. Case in point, our next topic...

The Trek factor

If you're not up on your Star Trek, you can forget about getting or keeping a geek dude. And I'm not just talking vintage-era Captain Kirk and Spock either. You've got to be up on your The Next Generation, your Deep Space Nine, your Babylon 5. Armed with your own knowledge of Federation policies, you can better gauge when and how to act. The sexual politics of Star Trek are pretty blunt: the men run the technology and the ship, and the women are caretakers (a doctor and a counselor). Note the sexual tensions on the bridge of the Enterprise: the women, in skin tight uniforms, and with luxuriant, flowing hair. The men, often balding, and sporting some sort of permanently attached computer auxiliary. This world metaphorizes the fantasies of the geek dude, who sees himself in the geeky-but-heroic male officers and who secretly desires a sexy, smart, Deanna or Bev to come along and deferentially accept him for who he is. If you are willing to accept that this is his starting point for reality, you are ready for a geek relationship.

Once You've Nabbed Him

Of course, catching that geek guy is only half the battle. Keeping him by your side is another story altogether. I was privileged to speak with Miss Victoria Maat, who not only got herself a geek guy but was also clever enough to marry him just a few short months ago. She interrupted her newlywed bliss to give us a few tips on the care and feeding of a geek man: Geeks are sensitive and caring lovers and husbands. If you can hang with the techno-lifestyle, they make the best mates. They are the most attractive people, not flashy or hunky, but the kind who get cuter and more alluring over time (I told you she was a newlywed). Definitely give geeks a chance.

Geek Cuisine

Geeks tend towards packaged, junk foods since they prefer to work and think and aren't all that into cooking for themselves. Make sure that your geek understands that you are not merely a replicator, and provide him with home cooked food. A batch of chocolate chip cookies will let him know that you love him. You do have to monitor your geek for weight gain; however, remember that most of their days are spent sitting and staring at a monitor.

Geek Lifestyle

The geek dude has long work habits and tends to bring his work home with him. He seems permanently connected to his hard disk. You must at least appear interested in his work. Generally, a solid understanding of the computer is a must; if you cannot master this, you should at least be able to talk the talk. Remember most geeks are anal and they get stressed about details which appear insignificant. Be understanding, put on your best Deanna Troi face (see above) and empathize.

To relax, geeks love to play the latest computer games. Let him play Myst or Chuck Yeager's Air Combat for hours if he wants to. Act concerned if he's stuck or has just been ambushed by three MiGs. My geek loves to try to help people on the Internet who say that they are stuck in Myst. He comes up with clever riddles instead of directing them point blank. Geeks also like to go to sci-fi and Japanese animated movies, again, a basically harmless vent for your man.

Geek Buddies

Many geeks extend their work friendships into what they jokingly refer to as RL (Real Life, also known as "that big room with the ceiling that is sometimes blue and sometimes black with little lights"). The greatest thing about your geek's buddies is that you can feel secure in setting them up with your girlfriends. They may feel awkward around females at first, so don't overwhelm them. In time they will come out of their shell and realize that you are into the same things they are.

Post-It Note

I thank Victoria for the above advice. I must say that when she read my draft of the piece, before writing her section, she asked her husband which one he thought she was more like, Deanna or Beverly. Howard, the devil, immediately replied that he had always thought Victoria was actually most like Ensign Ro Laren, a cute character with a slight authority problem who is always had trouble (this is fairly apt).

This exchange is interesting for several reasons:

Howard had already thought about who she was most like.

He could summon up characters from seasons past with ease.

Victoria actually knew who he meant.

Folks, I think this marriage will last.

One Last Thing

Because they have been so abused and ignored by society, many geeks have gone underground. You may actually know some and just haven't noticed them. They often feel resentful, and misunderstood, and it is important to realize this as you grow closer to them. Don't ever try to force the issue, or make crazy demands that he choose between his computer and you. Remember, his computer has been there for him his whole life; you are a new interloper he hasn't quite grasped yet.

Geek dudes thrive on mystery and love challenges and intellectual puzzles. Don't you consider yourself one? Wouldn't you like a little intellectual stimulation or your own? We thought so.

2007 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

From - http://www.wired.com/
Entertainment : The Web

2007 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

By Ryan Singel 12.24.07 | 12:00 AM

Once every year, Wired News compiles a list of the most entertaining tech-centric misstatements and verbal foibles from government officials, CEOs and tech luminaries.

Once every hundred years, an upstart Web 2.0 CEO says something so ridiculous it rockets to the top of the list faster than a story about Digg gets to the top of Digg.

This century's momentous proclamation came in November when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg trumpeted his social network's new ad technology, Beacon, saying:

"Once every hundred years, media changes."

Zuckerberg went on to describe how his company's mining and selling of Facebook users profiles would revolutionize ad sales, and thus media. Within weeks, Facebook did an about-face and apologized for not letting users opt-out of Beacon -- a system that announced to your Facebook friends what books, gadgets and movies you'd bought.

Journalists, advertisers and publishers around the world, however, took deep solace in knowing that media only changes once every 100 years, so they no longer need to worry about losing the new media war to free online news sites, blogs and YouTube. Instead, they just need to publish all their stories on their Facebook pages, until the next media change comes in 2107. Read More ....