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Workers in some California chocolate factory spotted a clump of waste chocolate that, kid you not, looked like the Virgin Mary. You know, the same Virgin that seems to pop up beneath overpasses, in burned houses, and slices of 10-year-old toast.

You’d think the Virgin Mother would have better things to do.

Or, maybe, it’s delusional people.

…but [Cruz] Jacinto said she froze when she noticed the unusual shape of this cast-off: It looked just like the Virgin Mary on the prayer card she always carries in her right pocket.

Uh, yeah… it’s called pareidolia people. Look it up. Nevermind.

I am a Tabasco head. I have bottles everywhere; kitchen, den, work. If they made bottles for the Jeep I’d keep one there.

Which makes my discovery of Tabasco Food Service all the more surprising. How did I miss this site for years? How have I lived with my simple dashes of Tabasco on virtually every food I eat without making stuff like this?

[via this guy’s LJ] 

A sketch created on a 1998 television show, when compared to a photo of the current suspect in the JonBenet case, has a “remarkable resemblance”, according to the Denver Channel.

Take a look.. it’s not just some “here’s an vaguely familiar man” sketch; the “psychic” put a great deal of shading and features into the sketch, which correspond to the face of John Karr very well. I’m not postulating that she actually was psychic, but anyone know what the connection is here? Did she know the Ramsey’s well? Would she have been privy to information not released publicly?

Because if she wasn’t, that’s one hell of a coincidence.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Cats that Look Like Hitler.

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Check out this plugin for Firefox for blogging: Performancing.

[via Gen Kanai weblog: Performancing]

Update: After only a couple posts, I’m not impressed. The Blog This function is buggy, there’s no spell check (essential for some of us), and there’s just to many tabs, buttons, and sections. It’s a nice tool, but I’m still liking Windows Live Writer or the stock WordPress editor.

Oh yeah.. we’re Web 2.0, baby. We’re lean, mean, and we like to validate. Or something… Does any get this Web 2.0 thing, aside from the people trying to sell you something Web 2.0 related?
You can make your own logo here.

[via Micro Persuasion]

GPU, an open-source project that allows the formation of P2P grids, added a “no military use” clause to their GPL-based software license. The license says that

“the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed.”

Which is cute and all in that Disney-esque picture of the world that the developers apparently have. But, it’s the sort of hypocritical stance that sullies the name of open-source development. Open-source is just that, open. It’s also, frankly, highly unlikely to be enforceable as there just in no precedent for excluding a specific user community based on intent.

The developer who inserted the clause cites ham radio operators as an inspiration, stating that a rule that says the technology can’t be used commercially is “respected by almost every ham operator”. Which, I suppose, is good enough, if we ignore those few who don’t respect it. I fail to see a supporting argument in citing a closely-tied community respecting a rule to not use out-moded technology for commercial gain. Oh, and the military routinely used ham radios. Was that poof of smoke an argument?

Even Richard Stallman has his reservations, saying that even he doesn’t support restricting the use of the software. Nevermind that grid computing might be used to say, oh, I don’t know, simulate a scenario that leads to not attacking someone.

This is a self-serving addition by developers who obviously think a great deal about themselves. I hope the pats they’ve given themselves is sufficient comfort as many of us laugh at their gesture and watch a little bit of the open-source community’s credibility drift away.

Via Patrick Austin’s photo stream, who takes some of the coolest photos of A2.