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• Learn a new skill: How to write a protest letter
  
  
• IOC gives go-ahead for transsexuals to compete. Huh?
  
  
• Oooh, look what I found: Bush's hotmail account. Peek inside if you want.
  
  How weird. I found this when I typed in ‘hotmail’ in google because I wanted to check my own hotmail account.
  
  
• Is it wrong that I like Hoobastank's "The Reason"? But it does sounds like Good Charlotte’s perfect-something-about-dads song.
  
  
• Also, I feel the overwhelming urge to pick up Franz Ferdinand's CD because there's something about, well, listening to a deceased Archduke, who was once heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and whose assassination provoked WWI.
  
  
• I would love for Quentin Tarantino to direct the next James Bond movies. As much as I love 007, recent films have been kinda...so, so. Technology and high tech gadgets are great and all, but the storyline is pretty stale. I love old James Bond movies of yore because it focuses on character development. It was character driven. It was old school spy. There isn't a Dr. NO of today's Bond films because there hasn’t been one evil character worthy of a cult-like status.
  
  He would be great for the franchise. Look what he did with Kill Bill.
  
  
• So Gwyneth Paltrow had her baby, a girl. She named it Apple. (Skid marks...) Hold on. Stop right there. Apple? She named her baby after a fruit. A FRUIT!!!...I hate fruit. And Chris Martin is extremely happy about it because, in his words, "I ain't no baddie, I am your baby's daddy."
  
  When you have a baby, you get a chance to name it whatever you want. There are probably millions of names parents could choose from. I'm continually shocked by the names parents choose for their babies. It seems that celebrity moms and dads go to the deep end when picking out names. Hello, Apple. You're a fruit. That's right. A FRUIT!!! But Blythe Alison Martin is quite nice.
  
  Also, I'm all for choosing distinctive names for your babies, but come on, this whole spelling names all weird is out of control. OUT OF CONTROL.

  Names with alternative spellings are on the upswing, like Jaxon, Kassidy, Mikayla, Jazmine and Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backward), as are mix-and-match names such as Ashlynn and Rylan. -- from Hello, My Name is Unique
  

  I think parents are getting confused. I'm all for distinctive names, especially when you pick out common names like Dylan, Mary, and Jessica (come on, everyone names their babies that).
  
  There is another route to distinguishing your baby, and for me, this is the preferable way. Instead, choose names from other cultures and countries. It makes sense for a different spell and actually will add to a name because it usually comes with special meanings. Plus, it's native to that particular region or culture, and will make for great stories later on.
  
  Your babies' names will be distinctive and special, but not annoying and cringe-worthy. There are only so many ways of spelling Dylan before it borders on RIDICULOUS.