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I don’t usually read Fox News (I’m an MSNBC junkie), but my friend Josh forwarded me this link: Air Guitarists Rock Out for Championship Title: Donning a Samurai headscarf and red kimono — under which a Hello Kitty breastplate smiled — he leapt on stage and whipped up the crowd with his self-described “Asian fury” in a performance he called an homage to “Eddie Van Halen, Mozart and a little bit of Jimi.” These things really happen.

There was an interesting discussion on Slashdot yesterday about ADHD. I know I’m evil, but so help me, this comment made me laugh out loud. This one was pretty good, too.

I do think that ADHD is over-diagnosed these days. When I was student teaching and subbing, I saw a lot of kids whose problem was lack of discipline. And I don’t mean self-discipline. I mean their parents weren’t being parents. They didn’t know how to control their kids, so they medicated them. One girl in the eighth grade English class that I student taught was diagnosed and medicated during my time there. She became a total zombie, and her friends kept encouraging her to go off her meds so she’s be herself again. It was really sad.

This is not to overlook the genuine cases out there. I know there are people who really suffer from a disorder and really need help. I just think we’re overdoing it a bit. Makes me think of the article in The Onion on Youthful Tendency Disorder sometimes.

Check out Will Leshner’s KidzMail, a full featured email client for kids. Looks very cool. With many companies pumping out whatever junk they feel like, it’s good to see someone making a quality product for kids. Excellent job, Will!

This is a cool story. Good idea.

We finished all of Jungle Book 2 tonight. It wasn’t bad, but as I said earlier, Kipling is assuredly rolling in his grave. The highpoint for me was the closing credits, which featured Smash Mouth’s awesome ska-punk-swing-hip-hop cover of “I Wanna Be Like You”, which was probably my favorite song from the original movie. When I was 18 and planning on being a professional rock star, I thought “I Wanna Be Like You” would be such a cool song to cover. I had forgotten about until Smash Mouth’s rendition.

Is it just me, or John Goodman probably making a mint off Disney right now? I think he’s a voice in every Disney made these days.

So, what are all these sites I link to? Here’s a couple.

I just added Will Leshner’s blog, REALbasic Gazette. Will’s a cool guy who frequents the RB NUG and has helped me (probably without knowing) many times.

Etown, of course, is my place of employment. Yes, I do their website. Yes, it stinks right now. I’m working on a major overhaul though. Soon it will be powered by an unstoppable combination of Movable Type, RSS, PHP, PostgreSQL, mySQL, REALbasic, and Frequency.

Mike’s weblog is listed as well. If you visit and you’re wondering, no, he hasn’t been in a horrible accident or anything. He just hasn’t had anything to say, I guess. Frequency-powered!

Split Focus is David’s aptly named site. That’s all I care to comment. Frequency-powered!

Westwood is my church. Fully W3C compliant HTML hand-coded by Mike Schlossman.

Bill’s weblog is called The Other Way I See Things. You have to know Bill. Frequency-powered!

Bill has a blog-based game called Just Five Words that’s usually a real hoot. If you haven’t played yet, you should!

And there’s Desktop Joe. He doesn’t post often, but he posts more often than Mike. Frequency-powered!

CNN, reporting on the first full year of Maine’s iBook initiative: One of the first things Favreau learned last fall was to sit in the back of the class instead of in front. That allows him to keep an eye on the screens to make sure kids aren’t surfing or playing games.

Dang. Wish I could have been in on that.

Question: “Why haven’t we found the remains of a bigfoot that died of natural causes?”

Answer: “No serious work has ever been done to look for remains of surviving wood apes in areas where they are rumored to reside. No one should expect remains of such an elusive species to be found, collected and identified without some effort.”

Hmph. Sounds like an excuse to me.

Bet you didn’t know that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (1) exists and (2) has a website.

Gene Weingarten: The only catch, sale I said, prescription is that I am going to say that it is, in my professional judgment, the worst novel ever published in the English language.

(Well, half of it anyway. We watched some yesterday but had to stop for supper. I’ve written this review in Bill’s Five Words style.)

Kipling turns in his grave.