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Love those cupcakes.  They are insipirng me to add them to my menu tonight.  Every year, I make a heart shaped pizza for my kids for dinner and I think we need some snarky cupcakes to go with.

I like my kids to have a balanced diet of junk food and snark.

I haven’t made it any further than the Clone A Willy link, but have to comment: “Insert your willy into the mold until it solidifies.” OK, until WHAT solidifies, the mold or the willy? See, this is the problem with the word “it” in some situations. Harm could be done to joy sticks everywhere.

Must check the cupcakes.

Aw, you linked me! So Awesome! Thanks!
Anyone wants the recipe for the vanilla five spice cupcakes i’ll be more than willing to put out… I mean give it up… i mean, er… come across…

So, I went to click on that free book link (I’ve never read a series romance in my LIFE, but free book? Gimme.), and I see this at the bottom in the Digital Rights section:

Adobe PDF eBook
Copy: not allowed
Print: not allowed
Reading aloud: not allowed

Please to explain? Reading aloud not allowed? Does that refer to those things that get your computer to read the text onscreen aloud, thus making it possible for blind users to use the internet? Or...what? I mean, what? I’m totally lost here. Reading aloud is infringement now?

(I am NOT trying to start another g-d copyright thread. Please, no. I am just very, very confused.)

Miri, I would LOVE to get that recipe. Five spice powder is such an interesting way to flavor a dessert.  I’ve made warm bananaegg rolls w/ five spice caramel toffe sauce and they are awesome!

A word to the wise on the Clone a Willy kit?  Make sure the area’s shaved.  Seriously.

Reading aloud is infringement now?

Perhaps they mean no reading excerpts to a large audience? I mean, if the NFL has decided that their games can’t be shown on TV screens larger than 45” without violating the NFL’s copyright (45’+ equals a “public broadcast"), maybe Harlequin’s copyright is violated if you read it aloud to audiences larger than, say, three people. Or one person, a dog, and two cats. Or two people and one dog and a parrot.

Regardless, the wording on it looks dumb.

Texas is sooo behind the times. Arizona passed a similar law in 1988, although the argument there was that dildoes were too difficult to clean.

Diana Gabaldon described it at the time. Various people diverged into matters such as the Dildo Olympics, dildoes as prostheses, Sweet Savage Dildo and heat-seeking dildoes. Judith McNaught baptized her keyboard, and got a freebie by showing the discussion to her repairman.

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closetcrafter: Sure thing! I’ll post the recipe at the link provided by TheSB’s or here for the lazy people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirimoonsong/2263086211/

Or two people and one dog and a parrot

I dunno, couldn’t a parrot be considered a recording device?

Wow, can we have a link to that video of Candy? Because I certainly need to watch it...at work...with pictures of Hello Kitty vibrators on my effing enormous monitor.

Miri, thanks so much for the recipe.  Can’t wait to make them.  If anyone is interested in the banana egg rolls, I got the recipe from epicurious.com

I think what they mean is you can’t use the file with the reading aloud feature in Acrobat. It’s an accessibility feature.

http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader/pdfs/reader7_accessibility.pdf

Thanks Jean. But that seems pretty shitty to me. Sorry, blind folks! No book for you!

Not that they’d miss much. It’s a pretty meh story.

I’ve never tried it, but I wonder if the reading aloud feature can be recorded?  I can record anything that comes through my speakers.  However, if you didn’t have to use Reading Aloud, I don’t see why you would.  I’ve tried one program like that and it made me want to pull my hair out-- that * measured * male * voice * reading * in * monotone.

A shabby ARC?

But it’s the surroundings that are important here, not the book’s condition!  (Well-read is GOOD.)

Well, if you wanted to record it, you could read it aloud yourself into a tape recorder, you know? It just seems a bit paranoid and weird to me.

Thanks for the quote from my e-mail. As a single woman in Texas my private life is of no concern to some idiot lawmaker or ‘authority’’ and I was hoping this stupid law would be overturned. I just wish Molly Ivins had lived to see this.

Speaking of reading aloud, there’s a great site for free recorded books (they use the Project Gutenberg Library for most of their texts). It’s at librivox.org . They are always looking for volunteers.

I went to download the free eBook and found nothing but this:

http://www.ebooks.eharlequin.com/DEB7CCB9-098D-4310-81D2-F2A4874676AC/10/126/en/Error.htm?ErrorType=130

Have they taken it down so soon?

Darn! :(