onewalrus @ MindSay

There is a recent event here which has the potential to become either very sticky, or an opportnity for Mindsay to illustrate the parameters of the phrase "otherwise objectionable" in the TOS. thatonebmxguy is a blog I have been following for some time. The guy is an excellent photographer who posts a variety of his creations. Apparently he has/had another blog here called bonedeath. I was unaware of it. In the past couple days he posted photos of dead animals he happened upon in his travels. That blog has now been deleted. It is assumed that Mindsay deleted it due to "otherwise objectionable" content. If that is indeed the case, I believe you have done a great disservice here.

In my daily browsing, I constantly happen upon something I find objectionable. Yesterday it was photos posted by a teenage girl of her two male friends with their genitals hanging out of their pants. There is another site dedicated to a teenage girl graphically describing her daily sex activities, with her taunting people to ask for more. I have spearheaded the removal of "watchmemasturbatelive" and the Crystal Meth recipe blog. Some blogs push the limits on a daily basis, others occasionally. This, I believe is, or should be the deciding factor in making decisions as to whether to delete an entire blog. (Again, if that is indeed what was done here.)

If it is the case that someone complained and you deleted the bonedeath blog, the practice begs for attention and alteration. At the very least, should not the blogger be given the opportunity to remove whatever a complainer has deemed objectionable?

I have to repeat, I did not see the dead animal photos, but cannot imagine that blood and carcasses are on par with blatant pornography and illegal drug recipes.

I am hoping that you will respond at length to this important matter and perhaps consider contacting bonedeath/thatonebmxguy with an explanation.

Sincerely, Pablo

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I urge all readers of this letter to voice their opinions on the inherent injustices of the "otherwise objectionable" phrase in Mindsay's TOS.

And I have to wonder, who are you bloggers out there who ignore the sort of blogs I mention above, but take offense to dead animals? Yes, it's true. In the USA we spend more on pets than on education! What BS!

How is it that ridemebareback has been around for so long, but has no blog entries? Instead you see only displays of oversized photos of grotesque women constant activity visiting young boys blogs to advertise her/his presense? And how many of you have received the spam comments always marked "not spam" from ridemebareback?

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WELCOME TO SHIMO TSUKI

Photo from Nuasa.org

What's in a name? If your name is November, a lot.

Here is a short list of some of the many names for November:

1. Shimo tsuki

2. National Novel Writing month

3. National Tobacco awareness month

4. National Diabetes month

5. Month of the Dog

6. Month of the Dead

7. Month of the small yellow daisies

8. Mi na Samhna

9. Frost month

10. Month of the Crysanthemum

Birthdays this month:

Nov. 1 - Lyle Lovitt, 49

Nov. 2 - Nelly, 31

Nov. 3 - Dennis Miller, 52

Nov. 4 - P Diddy, 35

Nov. 5 - Sam Shepard, 62

Nov. 6 - Ethan Hawke, 35

Nov. 7 - Joni Mitchell, 62 MrOrange, ? Myclette, ?

Nov. 8 - Bonnie Raitt, 56

Nov. 9 - Spiro Agnew, 87 MrOranges Dad, ?

Nov. 10 - Leonardo DiCaprio, 31

Nov. 11 - Sammi Sosa, 37

Nov. 12 - Robert Louis Stevenson, 135

Nov. 13 - Yanni, 51

Nov. 14 - Judge Wapner, 86

Nov. 15 - Oksana Baiul, 28

Nov. 16 - Martin Scorsese, 63

Nov. 17 - Owen Wilson, 37

Nov. 19 - Meg Ryan, 44

Nov. 20 - Bo Derek, 49

Nov. 21 - Voltaire, 311

Nov. 22 - Scarlett Johansson, 21

Nov. 23 - Bruce Hornsbey, 51

Nov. 24 - William F. Buckley Jr., 80

Nov. 25 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, 21

Nov. 26 - Tina Turner, 66

Nov. 27 - Jimi Hendrix, 63

Nov. 28 - Jon Stewart, 43

Nov. 29 - C.S. Lewis, 107

Nov. 30 - David Mamet, 58

I don't know about you, but I'm already exhausted from just thinking about all the shopping for gifts and clothes to wear to all these parties and rememberances.

Trivia:

-Coretta Scott King (wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.) paid the hospital bill when Julia Roberts was born.

-Lyle Lovitt majored in German and Journalism.

-Joni Mitchell started smoking when she was nine-years-old, the same year she contracted polio.

-Ethan Hawke is from the same family as Tennessee Williams, the famous playright.

-Martin Scorsese was one of the editors of the Woodstock movie.

-P Diddy's dad was a drug dealer.

-Bo Derek is nothing but a Long Beach gold-digger.

-Scarlett Johansson is the little girl in The Horse Wisperer.

-Leonardo DiCaprio is named after Leonardo da Vinci.

-Dennis Miller was once a janitor, like Joe Dirt.

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ATTRIBUTION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY THOUGHTS

Attribution and bibliography have all but disappeared in this world of ether and blogging. For myself, I think I'll bring it back. It's the ethical thing to do. I see most blog posts are copy and paste, but presented as original when appearing without attribution or bibliography. The PMS list we see today is not original and the source is not mentioned, only leading a person to believe the blogger wrote it. It's not fair, ethical or helpful in the sense that it only takes a few seconds to add a link to your source, which will then possibly provide readers with a window they would have otherwise missed.

>Here's an attribution for you:

The reasons bloggers don't cite their sources are laziness or subconscious

plagiarism. If one of the intents of blogging is to anonymously express

individuality, what it the point of posting the same thing over and over.

List after list after list is regurgitated endlessly here. HERE is a good

article briefly examining the hazards/benefits of originality. Is originality

undetected plagiarism?

"BLOGNAPPING", that's the clever phrase now adopted by bloggers who are too lazy to do anything other than clog up servers by posting the same uninteresting thing over and over. Think about this blognappers: If a post is interesting and insightful, it will attract attention on its own merits. Bombarding a blog service by replicating posts is nothing but annoying and indicative of your lack of originality. This latest "subconscious mind driven by love" post, will I am sure spread like cancer among all the fellow blognappers in support of their inane copy and paste mentality. What a waste of time, space attention and potential.

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Buckeye Cookie Bars

Ingredients:

1 (18-1/4 or 18-1/2 ounce) package
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1 cup chopped peanuts
1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand
(not evaporated milk)
1/2 cup peanut butter

Directions:

In a large mixer bowl, combine cake mix, oil and egg; beat on medium speed until crumbly.

Stir in peanuts. Reserving 1-1/2 cups crumb mixture, press remainder firmly on bottom of greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan.

In medium bowl, beat sweetened condensed milk with peanut butter until smooth; spread over prepared crust.

Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until set. Cool. Cut into bars. Store loosely covered at room temperature.

Makes: 24 to 36 Bars

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Bibliography:

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November

URL: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/nov.html

URL: http://www.talktofrank.com/azofdrugs/T/Tobacco.aspx

URL: http://www.thefeltsource.com/math.html

URL: http://schweitzerhome.net/blog/art/turkey.jpg

URL: http://www.smart-writers.com/images/write-a-novel.jpg

URL: http://www.getflowers.com/itemphotos/daisies.jpg

URL: http://www.mycookingblog.com/post/1-shirley/6661/Buckeye-Cookie-Bars

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