OK, you are going to sing the US national anthem at a hockey game. In front of a bunch of Canadians. What's the worst that could happen? A. You forget the words. B. You walk away without finishing the song. C. Heehee, for C, you'll have to watch the video.

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Community Candy Dishes:

That’s a slightly misleading header; I’m all about free comfort food while being submerged daily into the nine-to-six seventh circle of hell. More specifically I hate community candy dishes that don’t have individually-wrapped-for-all-our-safety treats. With the amount of germs swimming around in that thing (see Chapter 2: Dirty Bitches That Refuse to Wash-Up segment) you might as well skip the M&M’s and just go around the office and lick everyone’s asshole one time… and don’t forget the janitor, I know he’s sampled the selection, he needs all the confectionary incentive he can get to keep the garbage properly sorted (Chapter 1).

Last Thursday morning, Alabama republican state senator Charles Bishop hit democratic state senator Lowell Barron in the face on the legislative floor (not pictured above). That kind of thing is not as rare as you might think. Political slugfests, today on the veg.

Diary of an Unborn Child (MP3), by Lil' Markie. Make sure you listen to the whole song for the full experience. Marilyn Manson has nothing on this.

From the recently reposted Cool and Strange Thrift Store MP3 Compilation at WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

Calling all iTunes/iPod experts! I need some help bending iTunes to my will.

Okay, here's the setup:

I have a stupidly huge music collection, too large for any currently available iPod. I also have a shiny new 160 GB AppleTV, which I love and actually CAN hold all my music (with room to spare).

I want to sync my iPod to a smaller selection of music and I don't want to manually manage the sync. Sounds simple, right?

Previously, I was using the check boxes to manage what went on the iPod, and the "Only sync checked items" option, but the downside is that unchecked songs will not sync to the AppleTV either, and there is no "Only sync checked items" option to turn off with the AppleTV. As an added issue, tracks that aren't checked won't play in shuffle mode, and when iTunes runs into them in a playlist it just stops playing music after the unchecked track. Stupid, I know, but that's what it does.

So I figured the way to solve my problem is to only sync to a select playlist, so I created a single playlist to sync to my iPod, using multiple smart playlists and such to automatically winnow down what goes on the iPod, and then selected "Sync Selected Playlists" and selected that playlist.

Here's my problem -- when I use the select playlist option, that becomes the only playlist that appears on the iPod, and I can't get any of my other playlists show up in the iPod.

When I use the Sync checked songs only method, it would sync all my playlists, and whichever songs were not checked just wouldn't be on the iPod, but the playlists would still transfer with the songs in them that were checked.

I want to automatically synch a smaller subset of my iTunes library to my iPod, without using the "Sync checked songs only" feature, but I want ALL my playlists to appear in my iPod.

How do I make that happen?

picture stolen from MoPhos & Photos

Series finale mania isn't a new thing here at YesBut. We've been covering our favorite tv shows since we started, and we'll probably keep it up until our very last post. (Don't believe me...check back here in three years for our 100 day countdown to Lost: The Final Chapter)

Anyway, back in August of 2005, to coincide with the Six Feet Under finale (which was awesome) we posted a look at some of the most memorable series endings of all time. Seems like a good time to dust it off and post it again...enjoy.

(even if no one else misses me talking about them)

- I really like these Quote/Unquote Bookends. A lot of fun, and they'd look very cool on any shelf. Also a great gift idea.

- The Abduction Lamp pays tribute to every UFO-gazing, alien-meeting slob whose ever had an anal probe and lived to tell about it. Wouldn't get it for myself, but it would probably be cool in a kid's room...next to the Millenium Falcon.

- And the Sword Cabinet picks up where the voodoo knife guy left off. Inspired by the classic magician's cabinet, not sure if I'd buy this one either, but it made me smile.

What did everyone think of the ending?

(Like it or not, I bet it's not what you were expecting.)

- Til death, or insane divorce settlement, do you part. It's the Forbes top ten most expensive divorces.
- For some reason, I'm really into trailers recently. Here's another one...1408. Actually looks pretty good.
- Saturday's SNL was a repeat of the best episode of the season. Check out Alec Baldwin with Tony Bennett.
- How does someone not address the Pope the correct way? Well, if there's anyone who could screw it up...
- And if you didn't see 60 Minutes, you missed as interview with a really extraordinary CEO...Barry Diller.

It had to happen sooner or later. LOL Logos was created in response to the 2012 London Olympics logo, but some of the submitted logo macros have nothing to do with that. Think you can come up with something better? They'd love to see it!