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Back on Memorial Day, we had a picnic with relatives. We offered my father in law a hot dog with sauerkraut. He looked at it and said “A dog with a skirt? Sure thing.”

I’m not extremely well-traveled, but still, I’ve never heard this one before. I wonder if it’s a PA Dutch term or just one I’ve missed?

At least I haven’t told my kids to “red up your room” yet (this apparently means “ready up your room” or make it ready, if I have my PA Dutch translation correct). I’m from Philly, where we drink glasses of “wood-er.”

And Mike, you can call it “Filthydelphia” all you want. They still make hoagies and cheese steaks that’ll kick your hometown’s sorry tail all over the place.

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I’m using as one of my web browsers the program Safari (I use 5 browsers regularly–Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, Camino, and Firebird). Unfortunately, several internal company builds of the Safari beta software have leaked out into the Internet. Dave Hyatt on his Safari weblog has asked that people not comment on the leaked builds, and people have in some cases reacted with hostility.

Personally, I’m surprised that Dave hasn’t been under pressure from his employers to yank this blog. I’m glad it’s here, but I don’t consider Dave under any obligation whatsoever to keep it up and running. I think that fact that it’s up at all is a tribute to openmindedness in the face of real world politics. Apple’s trade secrets are one of the only weapons it has to survive and prosper–I would expect no less of them than to enforce it vigorously. For anyone to expect anything else is naive at best.

The second DVD that will come out for The Two Towers will have extra scenes that bring it to over 3.5 hours of running time.

The movie cut version of The Two Towers will be released in DVD on my birthday (August 26), but I’m holding out for the extended edition–it will be released in November. It looks like they have some pretty cool extended scenes. They even promise to explain why they trashed the character of Faramir so awfully (in my opinion, anyway–he was a much more noble and wise character in the book).

This one’s mostly for my dad, who works with a cool airline carrier who owns a brand new fleet of 737s. The guy at this site is making a full replica of a 737 cockpit, complete with original components. Wow. I could never put even a plastic model together without using too much glue. What’s next, the rest of the plane?

Amazing–look at this 360 degree set of view of Parma. (You’ll need Quicktime to do it for Mac or Windows, but it’s worth it. Oh, you’ll probably want a fast Internet connection too).

This one is great–I laughed all the way through the page. It’s a joke send-up about the Nigerian email scam. Brad showed it to me this morning and he’s posted it on his site.

Alyssa may have to rethink her review of Finding Nemo. An AP news story talks about how fish who are flushed don’t actually make it to the ocean–they get chlorinated and shredded by powerful machines. Man, they don’t even make it as fish sticks. Thanks to Metafilter for the link.

Well, it’s time (and probably far past time) to wrap up Denny’s week. I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg, but the other stories will have to appear sometime in the future (including the one where I was run down by a car–luckily I went over it instead of under it). Thanks for listening (or reading, as the case may be).

It looks like they won’t be making the VW Beetle any more–not the New Beetle, but the air-cooled classic that’s been around for fifty years. Yep, they were still making it in other countries. Thanks to Metafilter for the story; you can check it out here.

There’s a good review of blog post writing clients at MadCow Studios and Frequency shows up as the strong favorite.

I can’t wait until the next version comes out.