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MakeMeBabies.com, or why I will never sleep with Antonio Banderas

Antonio and I have ugly spawnI remember being a little girl, and watching my friends fuss about what their babies would like if they married George Michael, or Michael Jackson (so I am not only carbon-dating myself, but I'm also showing how naive my friends and I were). Oh, c'mon, I never fussed about these things. I was too busy playing with the Commodore PET.

The Commodore PET could only dream of doing the things modern computers (or little girls) do. Today, its dreams have come true with the introduction of (cough) MakeMeBabies.com. Okay, this site is for entertainment purposes only. The resulting child of any of these unions, holy, unholy, or otherwise, may not be true to life. Yet all of us here at Download Squad are wasting way too much time spreading our genes throughout Hollywood.

They'll thank us later, for sure.

The results of our fooling around (hate the game, not the playaz, guys) produced some interesting (if extremely disturbing) results. My (real life) husband and I had a blonde child that was much too good looking to have come from either of us. Never mind that neither of us are blonde. Antonio Banderas and I produced a child that had some serious facial issues. Interestingly enough, fellow Download Squad lady bloggers (why aren't the guy Squadders doing this too?) seemed to have children with similar facial issues. Actually, we all seemed to have the same child with Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, and Antonio Banderas.

So what do you all think? One trick algorithm putting similar features on generic children's heads? Or is it a deeper conspiracy? Do all the guys in Hollywood have the same genetic structure? Are they all inbred? Or maybe... Maybe it's all of us here at Download Squad. We'll never tell.

[via Jay Martinez.com]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Security, Web services

Babysitter ranking with HowsMyNanny.com


Thinking about getting a nanny cam? Why not try HowsMyNanny.com first. HowsMyNanny allows subscribers to get a unique license plate plaque that bolts on to strollers. Passersby can then report good or bad nanny behavior to the website, and parents will receive an email alert notification via email.

This unique service was started by a New York prosecutor, and parent. HowsMyNanny has the main goal of notifying parents and communicating potential problems when their children are being neglected by their care givers. Parents want to know when nannies are talking on cell phones for long hours, shopping for hours on end, physically abusing a child, or even showering children with love, affection, and patience. Parents joining HowsMyNanny.com have many different membership options ranging from $50.00 for one year, up to $36.50 for a five year membership. Users can also receive a free year of membership by referring the service to a friend.

[via webware]

Filed under: Fun, Kids, Windows, Freeware

BabySplat - entertain your little one

BabySplatBabies and toddlers seem to love computers and keyboards. Any of you with young ones out there know exactly what I'm talking about. Although they might enjoy pounding on the keyboard of a computer that's turned off, it's even more fun to do it on a computer that's turned on. How many times have you discovered 18 programs running that you didn't start, icons moved all over the place, and everything just seeming like a giant mess because your young one got to it?

It used to happen in my house a lot. Now, we just lock the doors to our computer cabinets, but when we want to let our youngest play, we run BabySplat. It's a very simple program that just pops up colorful shapes on the screen with every button push, and makes a host of cute and strange noises. My only complaint is that BabySplat doesn't seem to block out the "system" keys like the Windows key and context menu key, so my little one still tends to get himself in "Windows trouble" now and again. But with supervision, he gets a real kick out of working on the computer like daddy. I have to admit, it's not a lot different from what I do...

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