NOTE: You do not have to thank me or comment on these "drive-bys". The ping to your blog is thanks enough for me.

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Hari at Hari's Corner raved about his 200th post. I was amazed.

For some reason, Edward at Urban Iconoclast doesn't like his ancestors.

Chris at Thermal took me up on the 10 Songs I Listened To Today tag I sent him, even though he CHEATED! Thanks, Chris, for your effort and the hand-off to Claire at A little piece of me.

Randy at Surfing The Chaos ranted about the knuckleheads at EMI and Apple. I agree with his assessment.

Jonathan at SmartWealthyRich .com reminded readers that the header art contest is still running. Too bad I'm not an artist in any way, shape or form. I can do stick men pretty good, but that's about it.

J Radke at the Secret Life of J Radke explained why writing a comic book is really, really hard.

Steve at Ramblings from the Marginalized told us why he's dumping Sitemeter and why we should too. I never used them, so no worries here.

Lee at the Online Marketing Blog announced a "subversive" new blog that plans to game Digg as the first social news site in their strategies.

Jer at nyquil.ORG complained of something that I just recently noticed: How "Blogger" and other services have your comment URLs point to a useless profile. I had one lady who didn't even know I had a blog, despite several comments I left. I didn't wonder about it until I started clicking on the links.

MacBros at MacBros' Place talked about Joost, and he still had invitations left for their beta program. I'll bet they're all gone now.

Lingo Slinger posted another great story in her "flash fiction" category.

Michael Kwan at John Chow Dot Com wrote about "Younaminous", a new search engine that aggregates data from Google, Yahoo and MSN and provides relevant results.

Goldcoaster wrote about EMI and Apple as well. More negativity. Why do companies like this think it's their right to gouge consumers?

At first glance, I though Coach at Can't Coach That was pointing me to another place that sells rice (as if I don't get enough), but he really pointed me to a blogger that does reviews and helps us make rice online. I live in Olongapo, not Subic, Spud. I'll have to return there to participate in the voting processes.

Chris at my.alt.blog posted a condom joke a few weeks ago that I missed. I didn't miss it this time.

RMButler at Dueling Denim posted a teaser, with pics to follow, of dueling denims at work. I had to stop and take a look at this blog because she lives in Phoenix!