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If you've been on the Internet anytime over the last five years, you may enjoy this:

Federal law bars corporations from contributing to candidates, and that's not good news for Stephen Colbert's campaign sponsored by Doritos and hyped on Comedy Central 4 nights a week.

Lawrence M. Noble, a former general counsel for the Federal Election Commission says, "These are the kind of things on slow days you'd debate until the late afternoon at the FEC, but there are serious questions that come up. In theory, he could end up having some campaign finance problems."

Colbert responds, "In accepting corporate money, I promise to respect federal election laws the same way I respect the "must-shower-before-swimming law at the Y. As a candidate, I am under no obligation to promote the zesty, robust taste of Doritos brand tortilla chips, regardless of how great a snack they may be for lunchtime, munch time, anytime."

Aaron and Gregory kicking off DrupalCon 2007.

The CivicActions Team is settling in Barcelona for our European retreat and DrupalCon and many of us have spent the day site-seeing...

All this influence of Picasso got me thinking, hey, I could do THAT!

And now we all can... make our own Picasso Avatar!

Oh, Billions of Dollars? Is there no dispute you can't settle?

(Update: Use this link rather than the YouTube video.)

"As a teenager, Kerry Jarrett never thought she would have the opportunity to own and operate a completely fabricated coffee shop and performance space. But thanks to Linden Lab's popular Second Life digital world, Jarrett, 31, has turned her dream into a virtual reality," reports The Onion.

CEO Jonathan Schwartz, of Sun Microsystems, recently announced the company will participate more fully in the Mac OS X version of the NeoOffice free and open-source (FOSS) software project.

Edward Peterlin, Chief Visionary of NeoOffice.org, has sent an open letter to Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz regarding Sun's announcement: