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Is there a song writer in the house?

How would it feel to write your own lyrics and have some of the world’s greatest stars give voice to it? Click here to see how.

This is absolutely hilarious and the concept rocks. So go ahead create your masterpiece and do not forget so send it to me when its done. :-)

Arrested Development - review

In the recent trend of lazily-conceived, absurd reality shows it’s refreshing to a show that doesn’t fit a clichéd formula and challenges the audience’s intellect with hilarious results.This is the funniest show currently on television. All you need to enjoy this show is an appreciation for high-quality acting and incredibly hilarious writing. Michael Bluth is perfect as the under-appreciated do-good guy who’s just trying to keep his family together and himself sane. Other highlights of the show include GOB (George Oscar Bluth II), Michael’s lame-excuse-for-a-magician brother; George Sr., Michael’s incarcerated father (he was jailed for “shifty accounting practices”); and George Michael Bluth, Michael Bluth’s perpetually nervous 13-year-old son (who just happens to have a strange infatuation with his cousin, Maebe).

It’s a sit-com made with very high standards, it’s a career revival for Ron Howard who as the narrator has done an awesome job. The writing is as good as everyone says it is, the cast is on par with that of Seinfeld,Whenever new characters appear, they are inevitably played by people familiar to fans of edgy, intelligent humor. People like Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman are dependably good, Michael Cera is a standout, and David Cross is finally being seen for the talent that he is.

There are many bit and pieces lingering in the background that you might miss. when George Michael is dumped by his girlfriend and he trudgees home in a state of misery, you could hear sad Charlie Brown music. In the background, you could see a real - but bright red - dog house, with a real dog lying on top of it.

This comedy is smart where so many others are not. its one of the few shows on today that you find DO NOT have a laugh track which alone makes it unique, but with the excellent writing and acting make it a refreshing and hilarious change.

Bottom line, It could give Frasier, Friends and Seinfeld a run for their money any day.

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Ring

Top Dog: Best Sniffer

One thing I always hate to do is to find the best Antivirus program by trial and error. I have always heard about Kaspersky and NOD32 and i kinda liked NOD32. For free software, I always look towards Avast or AVG. Of course, that is what I knew. But what i did not know was that there are some new players in town.

Virus.gr tested quite a few different software companies to see how they would stack up against each other. How did the 147,000+ virus test pan out? Here are the results

1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 - 99.62%
2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 - 99.62%
3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 - 96.86%
4. BitDefender Professional version 9 - 96.63%
5. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 95.98%
6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 95.82%
7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 - 95.57%
8. BullGuard version 6.1 - 95.57%
9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 - 95.45%
10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 - 95.14%
11. AntiVir Classic version 7.01.01.02 - 94.26%
12. ViruScape 2006 version 1.02.0935.0137 - 93.87%
13. McAfee version 10.0.27 - 93.03%
14. McAfee Enterprise version 8.0.0 - 91.76%
15. F-Prot version 6.0.4.3 beta - 87.88%
16. Avast Professional version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
17. Avast freeware version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
18. Dr. Web version 4.33.2 - 86.03%
19. Norman version 5.90.23 - 85.65%
20. F-Prot version 3.16f - 85.14%
21. ArcaVir 2006 - 83.44%
22. Norton Professional 2006 - 83.18%
23. AVG Professional version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
24. AVG freeware version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
25. Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 - 82.23%
26. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 81.47%
27. PC-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 - 80.90%
28. VBA32 version 3.11.0 - 79.12%
29. ViRobot Expert version 4.0 - 76.22%
30. UNA version 1.83 - 75.44%

There’s the list and as you can see there are several towards the top that really surprised me.

I expected NOD32, Avast, and AVG to perform a little better than they did. The site reports that NOD32 and AVG definitely fought back at the heuristic testing. Heuristic testing is extremely important because that is what gives an Antivirus the ability to catch a virus even it is not in the database.

Here are the best performers in Heuristic Scanning

1. Nod32 2.51.30 - 41503
2. Vba32 3.11.0 - 32911
3. VirIT 6.1.9 - 16469
4. AVG 7.1.405 Professional - 13624
5. AVG 7.1.405 freeware - 13624
6. Rising AV 18.41.30 - 12214
7. McAfee 10.0.27 - 10708
8. Ikarus 5.19 - 7191
9. F-Prot 6.0.4.3 beta - 6247
10. Ukrainian National Antivirus 1.83 - 5506