Have a great vacation.

And never forget that you're the hero, apostropher. I'm sure you can figure out a way to blog without a computer. I've heard that George Washington did it once.

bloody tosser, the closest to cool we'll get is the urine-like 86 degrees of the swimming pool.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/AZ/Phoenix.html

Hey, uh, Apostropher told me that while he's away, you should all go over to my blog and read it a lot and post comments and stuff. Yeah. Oh, and he said to click on the blogads, too.

Can I register as "Rusty Shackleford"?

Tempting as it might be, please don't. People pretending to be other people was the main reason I started requiring user accounts to leave comments.

Now that you got that BB link, I'm sure you'll be rolling in clickage without the paltry trickle of apos fans.

I got about 2000 hits from the BB link, but NOT ONE COMMENT.

Come on, Apostropherians, show me the love.

I've even created this special Apostropher-style quick-link-to-weird-news-story post just for all of you, so you can keep your commenting skills sharp while 'Pos is away. Go for it!

Scooter? Was your Rascal™ in the shop?

You see, shpx, that's just the sort of comment that could be made more directly and effectively at my own blog. Sign up for a comments account today!

And as you would know if you read my blog regularly, the thing in the shop is this.

Guys, besides his motorcycle stuff and more interesting take on things Japanese, GB does occasionally post on more meaty and controversial topics. It's just that Apo told him not to post on political topics during the July 4th break, because Apo didn't want to miss anything ...

Totally stolen from Sadly, No! , but here's fixing the internet.

Apparently, not all Decepticons are bad guys.

Uh... that's like, uh, copyright infringement or something.

Not really. I doubt your page is registered, so no Federal statutory protection. You could claim a common law copyright, but then you'd have to prove you have a prior proprietary interest in "parking your scooter," as depicted.

You misunderstand copyright law, shpx. First, the concept of "common law copyright" is entirely irrelevant here. Common law copyright is an obsolete legal doctrine that US courts rejected decades ago. And even so, your contention that "you'd have to prove you have a prior proprietary interest in 'parking your scooter'" is simply bizarre. Copyright protects specific creative works, not general ideas and concepts.

Moving right along to the law that actually matters, the U.S. Copyright Office website tells us:

The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright... Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time.

Then, on the "Copyright Registration" section, we find this:

Before an infringement suit may be filed in court, registration is necessary for works of U. S. origin.

The blog post in question, the photo, and the design of my blog in general, are not works of U.S. origin, since I am based in Japan. My thuggish, belligerent lawyers will be in touch presently.

I see your belligerent thuggish lawyers, and raise you.

Say hello to my counselor, our judge, and jury.

Also, my law firm is bigger than your law firm.