one of my jokes if we come up short in the financial planning of a project is that it is not a problem because we just sell a kidney. It was an idea i picked up from the illegal organ trade and the urban myths surrounding the subject (and we got 2 of them). It turns out to be legal in Iran to sell your kidney and the very serious economist suggests that more governments should allow the sale of kidneys to reduce the waiting list and the deaths of patients waiting for the essential blood scrubber.

it seems to be very successful in Iran although the street value of 2000-4000 USD is a bit disappointing. I always assumed 25K USD as the unit price; at 2K is going to take a lot of kidneys to close the gap on some of the projects and some teams weren't big enough to cover it and using 2 kidneys per team member is not good for the productivity..the cost of an office dialysis machine would have been prohibitive.

Since I am not one of the chromosomally challenged renting out my womb had never occurred to me and it turns out to be 6 times more dangerous than selling a kidney. The stuff you learn from the internet.

update by bert boerland: I closed the comments on this thread. After deleting some 100 comments of people who will sell their kidneys and their right arm, I decided to stop this nonsense!

I always get a good laugh out of the stupidity of the most powerful stupid man on earth. See some of the best quotes of G "doubleyou" Bush at Wikiquote

My favourites include:

I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
-The Washington Post (October 1, 2000)

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
- San Antonio Express-News, January 30, 2000

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
-Yahoo! News, August 5, 2004

Bush, official moron!

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Je gaat met een javascript disabled browser naar kieswijzer omdat je wilt weten aan de hand van een aantal stellingen wat je moet kiezen. Dom, want de wereld en dus de politiek is niet zo plat, maar ga je gang.

Helaas, de eerste steeling waar je het "eens", "oneens" of "weetniet" voor mag kiezen is:
Javascript is uitgeschakeld in deze browser

Lijkt me een duidelijke zaak, ik ben er mee eens! Maar ik ben bang dat 3/4 van Nederland hier "weet niet" op antwoord, het land van meningnietus, het land waar Dogma '66 net zo snel kan verdwijnen als de gekken van het Fortyn.

Having visited both the OSCON 06 Europe and the DrupalCon last week, I have lots new ideas and fresh content to blog. I'll try to post some of the ideas and most interesting sessions the comming week.

From the DrupalCon, the session about how to "youtube your Drupal install", was rather good. From the site:

Flunkarnold.com is a drupal site which allows users to upload .mov and .avi video files to the site, convert them to flash video files, and allow users view the videos using a flash video player. This site uses Amazon's s3 service to host the media content.

The approach behind this site was to keep Drupal as stock as possible, utilizing cck, ciews, and upload modules as the primary elements. A secondary script interfaces with drupal to process and move media to the Amazon service.

So what this basically says is:

• Let users upload video files in different formats
• Transcode these video's to flash
• Put the flash videos to an external webservice for cheaper bandwith and storage
• Create a thumbnail of the video and store this in a browsable gallery
• Integrate the video into your Drupal site
• and optional, let the admin or the user manage the content in the normal Drupal way (e.g. add taxonomy or free tagging, rating of content or users etc)