Schwa.

WHAT?! You're leaving us? Bunk. Oh, and congrats to yas! Stay on the Burning Man train for next year.

HELLO MY BABY...

HE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see the Wells Family is playing at the awards show. Saw them at the Tottenham Fest this summer and they are great (the girls are super hot to boot to boot) with sweet sweet harmonies. Babsy are you up for this one? i'll investigate tickets if you is.

that's why we keep ya 'round mr. m!

can we buy tickets for this giggles? I'm a bluegrass fan supremo! Hows about a heads up when you're playing around toronto next time

PalacePartyPooper

yup. cya there! shout out to the PalacePrincess! wuzzup?

wicked! i think baj's eyes are shut in all 3

Just remember before the backlash of shit i'm sure to get about this, i didn't write this article...just found it interesting. Facebook users: trading privacy for friends? Wed Sep 26, 2:12 AM PARIS (AFP) - Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private? ADVERTISEMENT The debate -- which some debunk -- is heating up after the once-exclusive Facebook recently began listing users' profiles on public search engines like Google and Yahoo! On the networking sites, users create profiles detailing their likes and dislikes, listing contacts, work and school background, and downloading photos to meet up, often daily, with old and new friends on the Internet. But to do this effectively requires posting personal information that could expose users to spying by ID fraudsters, teachers, employers, stalkers, even parents, not to mention advertisers looking to target their products. Catherine Dwyer, a lecturer at New York's Pace University who specialises in social networking sites, summed up the conundrum. "If you want any kind of interaction you have to be engaged and reveal things," she said. "Privacy means having a small number of friends, but that is not really consistent with being a fully engaged user." Data posted on Facebook, which was started at Harvard University in 2004 but has grown rapidly over the last year to reach a global membership of 42 million, is not in theory open to everyone. Customised privacy settings allow users to restrict access to people they accept as friends or those in their school or work network. This provides more protection than the older networking site MySpace, which Dwyer said attracts 47 million unique users in the US every month, where profiles are open to the public. However, when Facebook announced the new link with search engines like Google, it triggered concern that what began as a cozy tool for college students to stay in touch has bloated into a crass online directory. Facebook engineer Phil Fung defended the move as one to "help more people connect" -- which could translate into more advertising, thus more worth ahead of a possible public listing on the stock market -- and stressed that the same privacy settings would still apply. But a study released in Britain last month by global IT security firm Sophos found many members were not using these settings effectively. The firm created a fake profile and asked 200 strangers to be its friend. Forty-one percent agreed, giving the firm complete access to their profiles including enough information to "guess users' passwords, impersonate them or even stalk them," said Sophos technology consultant Graham Cluley. He said that though Facebook gave them tools to protect themselves, people were "undoing all that good work through carelessness and being preoccupied with the kudos of having more Facebook friends than their peers." Sophos warns specifically of the dangers of ID fraud posed by such behaviour, although Tony Neate, managing director of Get Safe Online, an Internet safety campaign sponsored by the UK government, cautioned against "scaremongering." The former police detective recalled a recent case of a woman whose purse was stolen in a nightclub in London -- thieves looked her name up on the Internet and used the details posted there to "run amok" with her credit cards. But such cases were rare, he said. "It's not about scaremongering but about education. Be aware of what you are putting online and what people could use." Sometimes the "spies" are unexpected. Users -- often teenagers or 20somethings -- have been caught short by university officials and future employers who have used the networking site to check up on a person's behaviour. Oxford University student Alex Hill told The Guardian British daily in July that she had been charged by university authorities "for breaching rules and being 'disorderly' on the basis of photographic evidence from Facebook." The student union has now advised students to tighten restrictions on their Facebook profiles, although its president, Martin McCluskey, said that many people continue to allow access to everyone from the Oxford University network -- which includes tens of thousands of people. For some users, the privacy stakes are even higher -- a political storm broke out last month when the media reported that the 17-year-old daughter of US Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani had joined a Facebook group in support of a Democratic rival candidate Barack Obama. She had to take down her profile. "We are really heading into new modes of publishing ourselves, we are kind of learning on the job," university lecturer Dwyer said. "People trust their own judgment." Charlotte MacCormack, a 17-year-old Facebook user from London, which now has the site's biggest network, conceded that it was "hard to be sure" who could access her details online. "On the other hand, if I were that worried about it, I wouldn't be on here," she said.

2B lawsuit accuses carmakers of keeping Canadian prices high Last Updated: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | 4:09 PM ET CBC News Canadian car buyers have been the victims of an illegal plot by automakers to inflate the prices of cars in Canada and discourage cross-border car buying, according to a $2-billion class-action lawsuit. The suit, filed by the Toronto law firm of Juroviesky and Ricci LLP, accuses the automakers of conspiring "to lessen competition and to unreasonably enhance the price of new cars sold in Canada," according to the statement of claim. Most of the big North American and Japanese vehicle makers are named as defendants in the suit, along with the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association and its U.S. counterpart, the National Automobile Dealers Association. The suit was filed on behalf of four Toronto residents who said they paid much more for their vehicles in Canada than identically equipped models in the U.S. The statement of claim alleges that the "price for identical product from U.S sources could be 25 to 35 per cent lower on average than in Canada" after adjusting for the exchange rate. The suit gives a number of examples of recent large price differences in the same vehicles when the Canadian dollar was trading above 98 cents US: * A Chrysler Grand Cherokee Laredo that was advertised for $29,215 in the U.S. and $36,215 in Canada * A Honda Odyssey Minivan that was advertised for $25,645 in the U.S. and $33,333 in Canada * A Range Rover Sport that was advertised for $58,500 in the U.S. and $78,300 in Canada The lawsuit covers anyone who bought a vehicle in Canada between August 2005 and August 2007. It requires court approval to get certified as a class action. Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that the defendants reduced competition by: * requiring buyers to agree not to export their vehicles * failing to honour warranties in Canada if vehicles were bought in the U.S. * threatening or penalizing dealers who failed to follow the automakers' rules The statement of claim's allegations have not been proven in court. In addition to $2 billion in general damages, the suit seeks $100 million in punitive damages. With the Canadian dollar near parity with the U.S. greenback, it has become easy to compare prices of similar vehicles on each side of the border. A survey by automotive consultant Dennis DesRosiers earlier this month showed that the price gaps among smaller cars were not large, but that at the luxury end, Canadians were paying $11,000 to $13,000 more for the same vehicle than U.S. buyers were. On Tuesday, Porsche became the first automaker to reduce its 2008 Canadian sticker prices to reflect parity. It chopped the price of its Cayenne model by almost $5,000. "We cannot ignore our customers and dealers in Canada who can look to the U.S. and recognize a substantial price difference," a release from Porsche Cars North America said. One of the lawyers who filed the suit was less than impressed by Porsche's action. "Their actions are too little, too late," Henry Juroviesky told CBC News. "I still don't think that their price decrease will account for the differential in absolute economic terms." Five years ago, when the Canadian dollar was worth 62 cents US, the cross-border price differential was reversed. Canadian car prices then were often thousands of dollars cheaper than U.S. prices, after the exchange rate was factored in.

call me.

Is there a Stash ring out there anywhere? Love the beginning riff to that one

Bertha here.

sorry ya'll, can't make it now. HAVE FUN!

What sort of liquor you drinkin over in the SoKo?

...thinking about it.

OH SHIT! I was the Duty Manager there for 2 years during college and it used to be called the Stable. Decent bar, i guess. The rest of the Wheels is super fun if you like go-carts, arcade games, putt putt, bowling, raquetball, swimming, ferris wheels and roller coasters though. They have decent food too in The Tree Room.

In for Friday....TONIGHT! Nooooobody caaaan do it like Mixmaster can CMON!

No idea where that is. You WILL feel lame, regardless.

NO SHIT! Max and I were laughing out loud at that one last night too

Now we need Mr. Fuji!!!

HOLLA!

i liked song 6 or 7...the "lubba lubba" song. This album is really gonna grow on me but in true Ween style there are some fucking nutters for songs on there too.

i've heard stories of pant pissing and couch biting. i'll pass.