I am not 100% sure of all the details but a few days ago I heard Bodog.com, the online gaming portal had been forced to operate under a new domain, newbodog.com.

According to CasinoWire.com

Bodog were ordered that all domains were to be defaulted and transferred to 1st Technology LLC, a leading technology licensing company headed by Dr Scott Lewis. The reason behind this ruling is an alleged patent infringement.

1st Technology LLC claim that the method used by Bodog to transmit and produce certain multi media is illegal as it violates their patents. The patent in question was filed by Mel Molnick with the U.S. Patent Office in 1995 and published in 1998. The company originally sued Bodog in Nevada in November last year.

A judge had ruled in this initial proceeding that the sum of $48,937,456 should be paid by Bodog, who failed to appear in court. The case then moved to Washington and Bodog again failed to appear. The ruling to surrender all domains leaves 1st Technology LLC with the option to liquidate or monetize the acquired domains.

I was quickly reading David Naylor blog and I know he knows some people who have inside information. According to Naylor, his inside guy said

“If you can use a judgment to force enom to turn off domains, you could do the same thing to ICANN, which means you could sue anyone in the world and get their site turned off.”

From the little I understand, Bodog is not even an US company, their headquartered in the Caribbean nation of Antigua. So is this a case where some no-name Seattle judge made a ruling which in effect potentially shutdown a non American business?

If that is the case, then this is highly screwed up!

Some might argue George Bush confused this poor girl with America’s presence in Iraq.

Update: 8/29 - After watching this latest video, (Thanks Chris) I feel a bit bad laughing at this chick. She actually comes off a bit better on the Today Show.

I am in need of a web programmer who has solid PHP programming experience to help maintain and grow two existing websites. It is preferred candidate lives in or around the Los Angeles, CA area but it is not mandatory.

• 4 + years experience in development/programming
• Understanding of coding and design as it relates to the Web in terms of the required technical specifications and limitations
• 3+ Years PHP programming experience
• Demonstrated ability using Unix/Linux
• Experience with Wordpress
• Experience with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively
• 3+ years of web related development and support using Apache,
  PHP 4/5, MySQL 4/5
• Strong understanding of CSS/HTML standards and cross browser compatibility
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A police officer decides to make brownies out of the marijuana he confiscated. Both he and his wife end up getting a little too high, wigs out and calls 911.

You got to go check out Caveman’s Crib.

I think these guys set the bar for the most amusing advertisement. While in their crib, jump onto one of the caveman’s laptop. You can read his blog, “Caveman Musings”.

Last week Los Angeles was hit by one of the largest earthquakes since that scary 1994 Northridge quake. Today we had another quake and by now you’ve probably heard the news about the massive quake that hit yesterday where hundreds of people are presumed dead in Peru.

We are a few weeks away from giving birth to a girl and while my wife is on autopilot “nesting” I can not help but want to protect my new family.

With the help of my wife, this past weekend we put together an Earthquake Emergency Kit with enough supplies that should allow us to survive a major catastrophe for a full week. It’s quite the kit.

Back in the Northridge quake, we had no water or power for a few days and the water that did run was highly contaminated. Also, because we live in such a big city all the supermarkets were sold out on almost everything a few hours following the quake. Because goods were flying off the shelves so fast, looting began and all hell broke lose real fast.

That being said, we have built an emergency supply kit so we are not dependent on finding food, water, first aid or sanitary supplies. Additionally we picked up radios, axes, propane stoves, batteries and pet food.

Putting such a kit together requires a real gut check. You’re throwing items into a large duffel bag and you have to ask yourself, is this something that we need and will save a life?

There are plenty of earthquake emergency supply lists to follow and believe me when I say you need a list when shopping otherwise shopping can get out of hand.

One thing people don’t think about after a major disaster is the fact we become almost a cash only society. Since power is out, people are not accepting your debit / credit card.

So it is extremely important to have cash on hand. As for how much cash one needs is dependent of their life style and what they have planned in case of an emergency. In our case we said we need enough cash to “buy” our way out of Los Angeles and survive for a month or so.

Its scary thinking about stuff like this but knowing we have that kit in our house provides us with a sense of reassurance that we can survive in case of an emergency.

That’s right people, Weeds is back! If you’re not watching Weed’s on Showtime, then you’re probably missing one of the funniest shows on TV. Of course the best show on TV right now is Entourage on HBO.

If anyone from Hollywood is reading this, we seriously have to get Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) from Entourage and Doug (Kevin Nealon) from Weeds in the same room with each other and film them hanging out for a few hours shooting-the-shit.

It’s fantastic when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs get together and talk. On this post you will find the complete 10 part video interview plus the Prologue which includes The Macintosh Dating Game 1984.

Highlights | Bill Gates & Steve Jobs | 2007 D5 | 08:05

A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference.

Complete Video Series Below

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Get Simpsonize (From the Simpsons Movie)

Since our move across town we’ve picked up a new telephone number. With this new phone number came quite a bit of baggage from the previous owner.

I am getting on average 4 – 5 automated telemarketing calls a day. Everything from Mortgage Refinance to Carpet and Window Cleaning.

I for one should be one of the last people to complain about these automated sale messages considering I’ve made some excellent money selling these types of mailing lists and leads over the internet.

Here is a little tip when an automated machine calls your home or business. While the automated message is playing press the number 2 on your keypad. That should take you off their call list. It may not work in all cases but the majority of automated dialers respect this code.

Obviously you want to register your number with the National Do Not Call Registry and un-list your number with the phone company.