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Every so often we hear the story of how a bird gets involved in a baseball game, usually by being in the way of the ball.

Dave Winfield had trouble with one up in Canada and got arrested for his trouble (scroll to item 6 in the list).

And a seagull got itself in the way of a pitch in a minor league game at Buffalo the other day (link includes both text and video).

Still, it should consider itself fortunate that the pitcher wasn't Randy Johnson (warning: optional video at site is not for the faint of heart).

All of which goes to show that baseball is no game for the chicken :-) </Jay Ward's Aesop>

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Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and Pixar have a new movie coming out next summer (2007) called Ratatouille. The first trailer is now online. Go watch it, and then compare the hand in the opening scene to the animation in, say, Toy Story. Wow, has the state of the art advanced!

Yes, that's the title character in the new icon. He's actually likely to be come a foodie icon (which isn't a real spoiler, given the trailer. So there! (Whatever that means :-) )

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Paste magazine has an article this week listing the top 100 living songwriters. Their explanation of the selection process: These are very personal choices. Though a collection of 50 writers and musicians helped compile the list, they were encouraged to vote for the songwriters they treasured the most, not the ones with the highest sales, the biggest impact on culture or even the greatest influence on other songwriters.

I have some serious disagreements with their list, myself. So...

( Here they are, counting up )

Thoughts? Who's omitted who ought to be there? Who should be dropped summarily? Shuffle the order to suit yourself. I'm curious. (Blue :-)