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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Pit Bull Bites Off Man's G*nitals NM 'A man whose g*nitals were bitten off by a pit bull remained in serious condition Tuesday, and the dog remained on the loose...' [Yahoo News]

Man accused of killing dog with sword UT [CNN] another neighbor revenge story...

Men 'not guilty' in dog torture case WA [ABC] (Huh? where's that pit bull? send it over... )

Match the politician to the dog breed [NBC] According to a poll, more people matched prez hopeful John Kerry to the poodle and George Bush to the Lab... (if dogs were political, protestors would be howling.)

Before you plunk down $20 for a disposable camera, think about the environment and try an alternative which won't hurt your pocketbook, but will give you value for your money.

I just purchased Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 10 at Circuit City and used a competitive ad  from another store to  lower my purchase price to $109. With a $60 rebate, I'll pay a net of $49, not bad for a great suite of very friendly graphic and photo applications.

I then bought a digital camera, on sale this week,  from Radioshack.com for $50: FlatFoto 1.3 megapixel with 16 meg onboard and a slot for a SD media card. The purchases makes me eligible for the $30 rebate from Microsoft for purchasing a non-disposable camera. Voila: my net cost for the camera is effectively $20.

I also bought the wellmade pawprint designed wireless "Pet Doorbells" for $10 (regular $20) and the very cool RadioShack Photo SlideShow PhotoFrame, for $50 (regular $130). The dogs haven't warmed up to the pet door bell yet (training sessions not included), but I've beened wowed by the SlideShow which includes an SD media card slot (and plenty of cables) so you can instantly project your photos on your bigscreen tv in a slideshow or on your desktop in the photo frame. My XP computer instantly regcognized the PhotoFrame when I connected it and I was able to add and delete photos from my computer's photo archive.

There are other cheap, but perfectly good digital cameras out there. I also like the DigiPenII, which was $30 a few months ago from SharperImage.com's clearance sales...