I can't tell if this is annoying or awesome...

I was trying to copy and paste a line from an article on one of my favorite time-waster websites, cracked.com today when I noticed the clipboard had extra text added to it. Example:

If you hang around Internet message boards, about once a month or so somebody will announce they're fed up with America and want to move abroad. The reasons vary: they want to escape to Canada to get away from the corrupt corporations, or they fear a President Bachmann. Maybe they want to go to Japan and get a job as President of Anime.

Read more: 6 Reasons Your Plans to Move Abroad Might Not Work Out | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19363_6-reasons-your-plans-to-move-abroad-might-not-work-out.html#ixzz1V8U68X2Q

My first reaction is "wow, that's annoying, I bet they have some sort of javascript on the backend that does that." So, with a little bit of searching, I discover that a lot of websites are starting to do this and they use a service called tynt to do so. Rather than using a third-party to insert the text, another person has found a way to do it in javascript. It's a clever little script that doesn't modify the clipboard contents, but rather the buffer of selected text as it gets copied to the clipboard.

Now if i just want to post a one-liner to someone from one of these websites, I have to manually sanitize it through notepad. Thanks, web 2.0!

News and Notes

• Just got a new job, going to be dealing at the Horseshoe of Southern Indiana (the one in Elizabeth, not the one in Hammond, since there are two casinos named Horseshoe in Indiana.) I haven't dealt since the WSOP so we'll see how rusty I am.

• My good friend Matt got me to play City of Heroes/Villains with him. I'd played it off and on a bit before but never really got into it. I'm having a lot of fun with it now. I made a mind/energy controller and I enjoy having mobs attack each other instead of me. I'm almost level 30; I should hit that tonight and I'm going to be creating a new costume. The character customization in the game is awesome, 100x better than anything WoW has. My other favorite activity in the game is exploiting the Black Market (Auction House). People really like to leave a lot of money on the table at the benefit of dumping an item quickly.

• I haven't told any stories from the WSOP yet, but I promise I will. Here's a taste: http://bit.ly/q4Td03 I totally dealt this hand.