Lifehacker points to 4 ways to make your family rules stick. I need to call a family meeting right away to apply these.

Who needs Roy Jones and Felix Trinidad when you can watch Louis Gray vs Mashable. So far, I’d say Louis is winning convincingly.

JkOnThe Run takes a look at Amazon’s Kindle. I’m mildly interested in the Kindle, but I’m not about to pay $400 for something unless I know I will dig it. Based on this review and my increasing far-sightedness, I’m thinking the lack of a back light is a deal stopper. Somebody must like them, however, since Amazon is currently sold out.

Brad Kellett takes a look at Office 2008. It’s Mac only. Sort of like Earl 🙂

The butcher is dead. Long live the butcher.

I wrote the other day about my issues with PETA- that when you become so extreme in your position, you lose the ability to convince the undecided and actually have a negative effect your cause. Now, PETA says smiling chimpanzees in CDW ads are not OK. Maybe CDW should use macaques instead. I’m all about animal rights, but give me a break.

Some good stuff tonight…

Here’s a different kind of alternative dispute resolution.  It’s much cooler than arbitration.  I once agreed (with the client’s consent) to settle a major business point in a large acquisition by flipping a coin.  We won.

Speaking of legal mumbo jumbo, this might be the most incorrect ruling ever.  As mentioned in the update, however, when something sounds this idiotic, there is often more to the story than we know.

Bonus (and hopefully last ever) legal tidbit: plaintiff’s lawyers everywhere are lamenting the fact that, as unbelievable as it may sound, monkeys and chimps can’t bring lawsuits.  Not even these monkeys.  Trying to rescue them.  Right.

The people who make Jericho are clueful.  They filmed two endings, in case they don’t get a third season.  Stuff like this makes me want to lift my ban on new network television shows.

Here’s a way to add public holidays to Outlook.  Now if they’d just figure out birthdays, we’d be all set.

All songwriters write songs about chicks.  Some of us actually tell the chicks about them.  Then there’s Ryan Adams.  He later took the video down, saying “I removed the videos ‘Sad Days’ and ‘Jessica’ because it is really just hard enough as it is. Good Luck, Jr. in your future.”  Personally, I think it’s cool he lays it out there like that.

Calling all entomologists.  Here are the 5 most horrifying bugs.

Here’s a nifty list of 200 free online classes.  I bet if you learned all that stuff, you could make a living from it.  Or you could just panhandle.

I recently dumped Bloglines.  Holoscan is next.  It makes my pages load slow.  Preview of things to come:  I am about to issue an RFP to recreate my blog in a WordPress template and move all of my current content over.  Get your pencils ready.  All page post links must be preserved.

Frank Paynter has a really interesting post about…well…I’m not really sure.  Fake babies, abortion, hippies, the Grateful Dead and Jean and Edna Ritchie all play a part.  I have no earthly idea who or what Firenze Ghia is.  But it’s a good read.  If Jerry Garcia was alive, he would make a great blogger.

I love it when people scam the scammers.  This is funny.

Star Trek is now on Joost.  That’s pretty cool.

For the three people who care:  the Crunchies winners have been announced.  One guess what won best of show.

Rory Blyth and that girl.  Rory writes blog posts the way I used to try to write songs.  It’s hard to explain, but that’s a compliment.  I say try to write songs because I spent teens of hours writing more than a few songs that aren’t nearly as interesting as some of these posts Rory cranks out, seemingly in one take.

Seth Finkelstein’s New Year’s Resolutions.  Good advice for many of us.

TDavid’s sons rock (star).  I played Wii Tennis for the first time at a New Year’s Eve party.  I thought it was a blast, which is why I can’t let my kids talk me into getting a Wii.

Warner is right- this is wrong.

Earl says that for him iTunes is about convenience.  I get that, but I want my music, just like my internet content, to be free-range, existing outside of the Apple, or Facebook, walls.  The deal killer for me was when I found out I couldn’t move music files directly from my computer to an iPod.  Rory tells me about ml_iPod in the Comments.

Steven Hodson talks about the same thing that got me all worked up with the Groundhog Day post.  I don’t know if it’s still getting pumped into Jake’s feed- I unsubscribed when it kept showing up day after day.

So what do you do when you find a giant 40,000 year old mastodon skull?  Auction it off, of course.

Coming soon to the Ocho: competitive video gaming.  I will say that I’d rather watch someone play Frogger than poker.  Or golf.