"In May, a tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts. Cellphones, in contrast, have attracted little religious outrage."

"Clerks II" *** (out of four): Kevin Smith has grown up, and he brings his original characters along for the ride.

I know I’m opening a proverbial Pandora’s Inbox by admitting this, but here goes: I was never a huge fan of the original “Clerks”. While I fit squarely into its geek/slacker demographic when the 1994 film was released - and I completely understood and appreciated its love for all things obsessively nerdy - I found it talky, stilted and dull. There. Let the flame war begin. That said – and for what its worth – writer-director Kevin Smith has definitely grown on me over the years. “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy” were throwaways, but with 1999’s daringly frank “Dogma”, Mr. Smith showed that he could actually tell a story that had a purpose and, better still, a point.

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For some reason AOL Research Labs thought it would be a great idea to release a 2 gig file containing search records from their users and simply replace names with unique number strings. They did this on purpose hoping to increase brand awareness of AOL and get their name on research papers. Yep, you read that right, they did this on purpose.

After a few days someone higher up in managment saw it, realized how stupid it was, and took the site down but not before it became mirrored all over the place.

The information given out by AOL easily allow a savvy internet detective to discover the identity of the search users since they do not filter out personal name searches, address lookups, or anything else at all. A user at Digg quickly found information on one searcher that indicates he's both a teacher and a pedophile. Paradigm Shift has found a guy who keeps searching up ways to kill his wife. And, of course, the goons over at Something Awful are finding all the good stuff.

So AOL users you can rest easy now that the search for "Nazi woman porn" you made last April is finally available for the world to see.

Update: AOL has put out a statement about the incident that reads, "Doh, sorry about that, we're idiots."

So, last week I discovered people are just uploading entire copies of stuff onto YouTube. You can actually watch all of Office Space, without giving three bucks to Movielink, or anything. Now, while I have an inkling this may be illegal, I'm not one to look a gift download in the mouth. So, I thought I'd start posting old tv shows for people to enjoy at lunchtime, and we'll call it the lunch hour veg. And for our premiere screening, how about the pilot episode of Arrested Development - shown after the jump.

The YesBut Lunch Hour Veg...Because it's not copyright infringement until they tell you to stop.

Regular readers may remember that I'm a huge comic fan, with boxes in the basement filled with rotting printed paper from my formative years. Just cracking open a comic from the late sixties and smelling that unique, musty paper smell fills me with all sorts of nostalgia. It a scent that collectors of comics, baseball cards and other useless but essential paper paraphernalia will know and love, and I've often said that whoever manages to capture it in a bottle would make a fortune.

While this isn't exactly the same thing, it's enough to make me want to gamble $35. A new scent called In the Library from I Hate Perfume is filled with notes of "Russian and Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish". This I have to have.

You can read more about unusual scents, including some based on Stilton Cheese, photocopier toner and pencil shavings in this article.

Did you see the Greg Brady ciip that went around recently? You know, the one where he's high as a kite during the scene? No, I couldn't tell either. Still funny, though. I heard he got it on with Marcia, Marcia, Marcia once? Must've been a little baked if he was getting it on with his sister.

So this made me think...have there been any stoners in classic tv shows. There must be ten we can turn into a list. Let's see, there was Reverend Jim from Taxi. And Johnny Fever...that's two. Um...the entire cast from that 70's show. Ali G gets high...but that's not tv, that's HBO (copyright). Know what? This is a pain in the ass. Let's do movies instead. That's easier.

10) Smokey - Friday
9) Bender - The Breakfast Club
8) Wooderson - Dazed & Confused
7) Sir Smoke-a-lot - Half Baked
6) The Dude - The Big Lebowski
5) Jay and Silent Bob - Clerks
4) Carl - Caddyshack
3) Billy & Wyatt - Easy Rider
2) Spicoli - Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1) Cheech & Chong - Up in Smoke

Well it definitely was easier. Maybe I should try the top ten mafia flicks, or top six Star Wars movies next. No, let's go back to stoners from tv. They just couldn't talk about it, or the network suits would boot them out the door. These were closet stoners, just like Greg Brady. And we've found ten of them.

- Ok, are you ready for this? Guess whether these people are porn stars or food network chefs...or maybe both.
- Crispin Porter has created another Burger King mini-site, and once again, I feel compelled to show it to you.
- Via BoingBoing, did you know that back in the late 80's, Garfield the cat got really depressing for about a week?
- Would you have thought someone could even FIND the ten poker movies required to put together a top ten list?
- And have you ever seen where Quentin got the idea for the opening of Reservoir Dogs? It's called the Wild Bunch walk.