A German judge has ordered a Volvo dealer to compensate a man with big feet because there was not enough space around his new car’s accelerator pedal, a court spokesman said Monday. The man, a traveling salesman, sought and won a 5-per-cent reduction in the price of his Volvo C70 coupe by arguing that his leather shoes, European size 47 for a foot 29.4 centimetres long, did not fit beneath the dashboard.

Hey Sasquatch, on behalf of the car-buying public, thanks for giving the auto manufacturers another cause to raise the price of a new car.

Steven King, speaking in front of high school students:

I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright. So, that’s my little commercial for that.

Mr. K, may I bring you out of your fantasy world - I can guarantee that the average soldier can read better than anyone at a job that you can just “walk on.” It’s called the ASVAB. Do your research. You know how.

I bought my first Iron Man comic in 1975 (Junior High.) Since then, I’ve collected issues 1 through 100 (and a few more after that.) I’ve also collected the full run of Tales Of Suspense, including 39 where he got his origin (all except for eight issues.)

Yep, I’ve been waiting quite some time for this movie.

After-movie edit: In case you haven’t heard, stick around for the end of the credits.

A 12 MP Nikon for only $47? Needless to say, I had my credit card whipped out and ready… Until I switched over to the merchant page…

Just a flash card! Too bad they’re just a review site. I would’ve held them to it.

Look for this to be a best-seller…….. in about three years.

Forewords by Willie Nelson, Richard Hatch and Darryl Strawberry

During a normal web surfing session, where would you think that I spend over half of my time? The answer would be Google Reader. As of this post, I have 120 subscriptions listed there. That means that if feed readers such as Google didn’t exist, that would be 120 web sites I would have to visit each and every session to keep up with the opinions, news and information that interest me. The advantage of RSS can best be described as “Gathering Vs Hunting.” Conventional methods of web surfing involve searching, clicking links and bookmarks, etc. (hunting). With RSS, you just sit back and let the content come to you (gathering.)

So, does this mean that I have to read through 120 sites x the number of articles posted to each site? Not at all. Just scroll through the headlines of each. Reader can be set up to display either full posts or just the title of each.

If set to expanded view and the article is ridiculously long, just use the “next item” button at the bottom of the page.

See something that you want to save and come back to later? Just click the “star” located at the top and bottom of each item.

Over time, you may find that you have accumulated many feeds covering the same general topic, but the problem is that they are spread out all over your feed list. Simple solution: just create a folder and move those feeds to that one folder. Now you can click that folder to display all the feeds in it or expand the folder to read feeds individually.

And I would like to finish with another important factor: Bandwidth. A large majority of feeds only output the text and images of the article itself, which means you won’t have wait for normal page elements to load such as colors, background images and other formatting elements, along with various scripts (flash, java, etc.)

I submitted this chart to GraphJam a few days ago, but they must’ve thought it sucked, since it doesn’t appear that it was ever published. So… I’ll put it up here:

“Please, please, PLEASE tell me that there really aren’t people out there who think that they are going to retire on their Social Security! Do we really have people that stupid walking around loose with voter registration cards in their pockets?”

“Americans can be divided into two groups: those who divide Americans into two groups, and those who don’t. Or: makers and takers.”

“Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.”

“I really don’t care how hard it is to raise a family on minimum wage. Fact is, if you’re not bright enough to earn more than the minimum wage you’re damned sure not smart enough to be having children.”

“The one sure sign that a liberal has run out of ideas is when he accuses you of being a Nazi.”

“Ted Kennedy is a vile, repugnant slug who leaves a sticky trail behind him wherever he goes. And I’m actually being kind to Ted Kennedy on that one.”

“How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority? Then why in hell do you expect GOVERNMENT schools to teach students to think independently and not rely on the government?”

“Teachers unions are a greater long-term threat to freedom and prosperity than Islamic terrorists.

“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society’s losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job skills, achieve success.”

“Democrats appeal to people who are afraid to accept responsibility for their own lives.”

“Criminals don’t want their victims to be armed. Oddly enough, neither do many governments.”

“Guns cause crime like wet sidewalks cause rain, cameras cause pornography, and spoons cause Rosie to be fat and stupid.”

“The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.”

“Considering the crap they’re recording and presenting as music these days .. purchasing a CD ought to be considered as prima facie evidence of dementia.”

“The rich keep getting richer because they keep doing the things that make them rich. Ditto for the poor.”

“If you want the economy to fail, put the money in the hands of the failures. If you want the economy to succeed, put the money in the hands of the successful. The Democrats won’t like it, though, because failures vote for Democrats.”

“Letting welfare recipients vote is like letting the inmates run the asylum.”

“NO ONE HAS A ‘RIGHT’ NOT TO BE OFFENDED.”

I remember back in 1988, when Peter Tom Willis stepped in for for injured quarterback Chip Ferguson vs South Carolina and passed for about 250 yard in a blow-out. Not bad for a backup, huh. Since that game, PT has always been my all-time favorite Florida State QB (yes, even over the legendary Charlie Ward.) So, when it was announced in 1998 that PT would be the new color analyst for FSU football, I was really pumped. Now we find out that, after nine seasons, it has been annouced that PT’s contact with the Seminoles Sports Network will not be renewed. It seems that he was just a little too critical of the team’s play in recent years. Okay, let’s review, 2007: 7-6, 2006: 7-6, 2005: 8-5. Perhaps for a team that has won two national titles in the past 15 years, those are records unworthy of criticism?

It has also been rumored that his replacement would likely be from a list of other former players. Now who in the hell would want to step into THAT snake pit? Sorry, but I don’t want a color analyst who is just an ex-FSU yes man, announcing the game through garnet & gold colored glasses. Here’s an idea for you, SSN: put the color man on tape delay. If he says something that the Nole PC police don’t like, just cover it up with… the Nole Chant!!! Everything would be just absolutely rosy then.

I See Ya PT!

A man faces felony charges for selling counterfeit cocaine to an undercover sheriff’s deputy in December…

…When lawmen tested the substance, it came back negative for cocaine.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in this? A felony charge for NOT selling an illegal substance?