Great quote.

Quoted: "Whatever you have done in the past, do a 360-degree turn and go the other way," Sands said Wednesday. "She has to change her alleged friends, people sharing or selling her drugs. She has to lead a clean and sober life.

Quoted: Hollowed out by arrogance, corruption and a bloated military, the greatest empire the world has ever known fell. Is America doomed to follow in its footsteps? ... ... To prevent these unhappy scenarios from coming true, Murphy advances a set of policy prescriptions based on the Roman historian Livy's injunction that "what makes a society strong is the well-being of its people -- basic justice, basic opportunity, a modicum of spiritual reward -- and the people's conviction that 'the system' is set up to produce it."

I'm telling you guys, my startup is going to provide free tattoos and piercings. Also: Silly Hats.

Quoted: At once a hipster and a climber, he is all nonchalance and expectation. He is new, he is annoying, and he and his female counterparts are invading corporate offices across America. More than a third of 18- to 25-year-olds surveyed by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press have a tattoo, and 30 percent have a piercing somewhere besides their earlobe. But those are considered stylish, not rebellious.

ha. that's ridiculous.

Quoted: Shares of Yahoo surged this morning after a newspaper report that Microsoft had asked the online rival to enter formal negotiations about a merger. The two companies have had held informal discussions in the past, and Yahoo could fetch $50 billion, the New York Post reported, citing banking sources.

Right... Time to blame this one on 'Oldboy'.

Quoted: The poses in the two images are similar, and the plot of the movie, “Oldboy,” seems dark enough to merit at least some further study.

Nifty -- I don't see myself using this on a large scale, but it's the kind of thing that comes in handy when you're sitting around having teriyaki salmon and pumpkin cheesecake with your homies and can't figure out what movie to watch on your projector.

Quoted: The Xbox 360, along with Akimbo, will be among the first mass-market devices able to download high def television programs -- and the first we know of in the states able to download HD movies. The service is called Xbox Live Video, and the fall update enables customers to spend their Microsoft points on standard and HD television from CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Turner, and UFC, as well as HD movies from Warner Bros., Paramount, and so on

Quoted: The BBC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to work together on next-generation digital broadcasting technologies.

Quoted: A $1.4 billion anti-drug advertising campaign conducted by the U.S. government since 1998 does not appear to have helped reduce drug use and instead might have convinced some youths that taking illegal drugs is normal, the Government Accountability...

Ouch... Harsh review of Amazon's new Unbox service.

Quoted: Have you ever seen a really bad Hollywood movie and wondered, Did anybody in Hollywood watch this movie before releasing it? Did no one have the courage to stand up to the director or the studio head and say, "This movie sucks"?