Remember the dates for this year's Arnold Classic: March 3-5 in Columbus. There will be interesting FBB and figure fields this year, and you might even get to see Arnold himself.
Sorry for the dearth of posts lately, but I've been very busy at work and I've also been working on a paysite backend system for fitness models and bodybuilders, using open-source and some commercial components. I'm expecting to launch the first paysite next month. Don't worry - it won't affect Amaz0ns. This is a free site and always will be. The only thing I might charge for here would be eBooks, if I could convince writers and artists to churn out quality content on a regular basis. I've actually written about this before - the idea would be to set a price point of $3 or $5 for a high quality story or comic book. I have no plans to implement something like this now, but I reserve the right to do so in the future without being bitched out for saying that I would never charge for access.
I've been encouraging disillusioned Windows users to try Ubuntu Linux lately. Ubuntu is a free distribution of the Linux operating system, and has the benefit of being small enough to fit on a single boot CD. So you can download the whole thing, burn it to CD, and then boot your PC off the CD drive to give Ubuntu a test drive. (Alternatively Ubuntu will mail you a CD for free, but you have to set up a Launchpad account first. That's also free.)
Another thing I've been telling everyone about is the i-Fusion by Sonic Impact. I got mine at Target but it's also available at Amazon.com. It's a high quality, truly portable speaker system for the iPod. It folds up into a solid little zippered case and it has a lithium-ion battery that is good for about 15 hours on a single charge! There's also a storage compartment in the unit for an iPod and for earbuds. I love my iPod but I'm not really someone who likes to wear buds or phones, so for me the iPod is all about its ability to interface with my car stereo and my home stereo, and now the i-Fusion. I've been taking it everywhere, listening to it all the time. I can't wait to take it camping when the weather warms up. Here's a review at Playlist.
Finally, we're coming up on the 4th anniversary of the first version of this site, "Lingster's Big Mouth", which launched on January 19, 2002. In some ways it's hard to believe it's been that long, but in other ways maintaining this site has been such a big part of my life for the last four years that it seems hard to remember what it was like before I had the responsibility. We're also coming up on the tenth anniversary of my first post that's archived at Google. There were others prior to that but they are lost to time, I suppose. It begins "Lo ye Immoral Hordes of Big Girl Fetishists-" and pretty much goes downhill from there. (It seems I was kind of an asshole in my 20s.) But ten years have gone by! Holy crap! How did that happen?
It occurred to me recently that if attraction to muscular women ever becomes the standard male attitude, I and some others like Marknew could wind up as weirdly quasi-apocryphal figures shrouded in mystery. You know, like when people debate who William Shakespeare really was, or Jack the Ripper. And of course it's always supposed to be someone famous, never some ordinary schmuck. "He was really the Duke of Edinburgh!" There was a great Superman story about 20 years ago where some future historian had proved that Superman was actually Ralph Nader, I recall. Another historian said, "Well, I think he might have been a reporter named Clark Kent..." And everyone looked at him and said, "Who?"
So in the event that some future historian reads this while trying to trace the evolution of male sexual tastes: no, I am not Ralph Nader. (But I do know where his office is located.)
If you're running Windows - any version - you really, really need to pay attention to this:
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Windows. Microsoft is also aware of the public release of detailed exploit code that could be used to exploit this vulnerability. Based on our investigation, this exploit code could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's system by hosting a specially crafted Windows Metafile (WMF) image on a malicious Web site. Microsoft is aware that this vulnerability is being actively exploited.
Your exposure may be lessened under certain circumstances if you're running Firefox, but it may not be. So it is critical that until Microsoft releases a bug fix - which could be tonight, for all I know - you should not visit any sites that you're not familiar with, nor should you download any images. You should set your mail client to view plaintext only, not HTML or images.
If you are running Windows 98 or Windows ME, or an older version of Windows like 95 or 3.1, you're basically screwed - you may need to upgrade, buy a new computer or switch to Linux.
I have decided not to change over to Joomla! from Mambo, at least for now. The Joomla! development team has forked off from the Mambo team, and people with Mambo sites (like me) are a little lost about what to do. I did a test re-install of Amaz0ns on Joomla! last month, but there wasn't any real upside to it that I could see. So I'm sticking with Mambo for now.
Another thing I've been telling everyone about is the i-Fusion by Sonic Impact. I got mine at Target but it's also available at 
. It's a high quality, truly portable speaker system for the iPod. It folds up into a solid little zippered case and it has a lithium-ion battery that is good for about 15 hours on a single charge! There's also a storage compartment in the unit for an iPod and for earbuds. I love my iPod but I'm not really someone who likes to wear buds or phones, so for me the iPod is all about its ability to interface with my car stereo and my home stereo, and now the i-Fusion. I've been taking it everywhere, listening to it all the time. I can't wait to take it camping when the weather warms up. 
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