Sad to see Jeff go
So, Jeff (they guy who also does my job) quit last week to take a really good opportunity. It's sad because he's a really good guy and a very cool co-worker (as well as a fountain of knowledge for how to do my job). So after tomrrow, I will be here alone. This is good because it means more chance of me being "employee Noelle" rather than "contractor Noelle", but it's still sucks to loose a cool co-worker...
That's about all I have to say about that (RUN FORREST!).
Hydroelectric power's dirty secret revealed
Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of CO2 and methane - some produce more greenhouse gases than fossil fuel power plants [
more]
Cultured bone offers novel wedding rings
"It's for people who want to give a bit of their body to each other," says Nikki Stott, a jewellery designer at the Royal College of Art in London. She and her colleague Tobie Kerridge are collaborating with Ian Thomspon, a bioengineer at King's College London.
The tricky part is that the lucky couple will have to provide bone cell samples, for which the team will get ethical approval only if both people already need surgery. The most likely scenario is that both will need wisdom teeth pulling, Thompson says. [
more]
Gay men read maps like women
Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests. [
more]
Bill Maher: Christians have neurological disorder
Television personality Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," says Christians and others who are religious suffer from a neurological disorder that "stops people from thinking." [
more]
That's a good sport...
A good-natured Halle Berry, Oscar in hand, showed up Feb. 26 to claim her Razzie "award" for worst actress for her performance in last year's Catwoman, which also took the prize for worst film of the year, the Associated Press reported.
Beauty Pageant to Choose Miss HIV
GABORONE (Reuters) - There is a catwalk banquet, hordes of journalists, traditional dancing and time-consuming hair styling -- but at Botswana's beauty pageant every competitor must be HIV positive. [
more]
13 States Call for Raising Standards in High Schools
WASHINGTON — Thirteen states that enroll more than a third of the nation's high school students announced Sunday that they had formed a coalition to hold schools accountable for graduating students with the skills needed to succeed in college or in the workplace. [
more]
It's about time. Although, you know, we have an intern from Brazil who also went for a year abroad here when she was in high school, and she says that our public schools are still WAY better than ever their top private schools. That's just sad.
Well, there went this weekend
So Total missions accomplished = 1 today, and it wasn't the most important one...
Derek's Birthday was today so that pretty much ate the evening, and tomorrow is pretty much full day D&D, so I don't expect to get much done then.
Kinda sucks. Oh well, more for me to cram into the week.
re: More Random Links
Dude! That knife holder rules!!!
The smile that says where you’re from
THEY say “tomayto” and we say “tomarto”. And now a study has established that the Americans and British also have different smiles.
While we British smile by pulling our lips back and upwards and exposing our lower teeth, Americans are more likely simply to part their lips and stretch the corners of their mouths.
So distinct is the difference that the scientist behind the research was able last week to pick out Britons from Americans from close-cropped pictures of their smiles alone, with an accuracy of more than 90%. [
more]
re: Everybody needs a Cat!
OH NO!!! Now I want 8 more cats!!!
Everybody needs a Cat!
Odd thing for me to be saying, being the cat lover that I am, but we've got a good friend of ours who has to give up some of her cats. She would love them to go to good homes.
How can you resist this?
If you are interested, or know of anybody who could be, please forward them this page:
www.maclachlans.net/jennifer/cats/cats.htmlEven if you aren't interested in the cats, you should check out some of the beautiful shots Jen managed to get.
Going to look for some Zen energy to deal with this weekend.
I have a lot on my plate this weekend. Hopefully I can manage myself well enough to get it all done.
D&Ders, remember that dinner is over here and you need to be here at 3:00. We are still looking for someone to bring salad.
OK, everyone ready for guided meditation?
Go down the path and it leads you to your cave.
Step inside your cave.
Who do you meet?
Your power animal.
Slide.
These are a few of my favorite things
So, one of my vary favorite things to do is go back and read old pages of the blog - the very fist week was hysterical. Jay and Mike were at it about the ordering of the blog. I miss the good old days when lots of people posted a lot. I guess everyone got busier, and got their own blogs...
Anyway, my favorite thing I found today was:
Wendy, You
ARE a colourful snail with a powerful flashlight.
Want to play a game? Go find this one (sorry, search doesn't work since I don't let the blog get indexed).
Astronomers find star-less galaxy
Astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter. [
more]
REM Expanded Reissues Due In March
March 1 is the release day for reissues of REM’s entire Warner Bros. catalogue in deluxe two-disc editions, offering loads of previously unavailable material. All nine CD/DVD combos (Green, Out Of Time, Automatic For The People, Monster, New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., and Around The Sun) will be available March 1 at all retail outlets and at
www.rhino.com.
Every R.E.M. reissue will consist of the album as it was originally released on one CD, plus a DVD with a 5.1 surround sound version of the album remixed by Grammy winning engineer Elliot Schiener, web links, an expanded booklet that features new liner notes and rarely seen archival photos, documentaries, and much more.
Just saw Phantom again with Stephy
re: A little GAIMy in here...
Ya, I had been trying to delete those all damned day. Blogger wouldn't let me anywhere near the edit tools - but I just got to take care of it. Anyway, I was playing on sourceforge looking to see if there was a new update to the GAIM program and found it. I dig.
Downside - there's no title function and no bold options so all posts are without titles. What all of that was was me trying to get bold to work somehow. (I gave up)
Re: Gaim Blogger
Pretty cool tool, BTW.
How'd you come across it?
A little GAIMy in here...
FYI, here's how those three posts looked in your
RSS feed:
Gaim BloggerI found a very cool toy that will let ...
2005-02-24 13:42
Gaim BloggerI found a very cool toy that will let me IM the blog - awesome!
Yay Gaim Blogger!
2005-02-24 13:32
Yay Gaim Blogger!
2005-02-24 12:55
The third one (12:55) comes across looking like an empty post.
Gaim BloggerI found a very cool toy that will let me IM the blog - awesome!
I love little nuggets of strangeness in my music
"who are you?"
"I'm the enchanting wizard of rhythm."
"why did you come here?"
"I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe...."
- Beck: Hotwax
Here be Dragons! Wendy! Look at this!
Animal Planet is doing a special on the origins of Dragons, since they are the only animal that is recoreded all throught history and all over the planet. [
check it out]
Influenza has it's own red-state blue-state thing goin' on
You Wear Extra-Large Panties, Right Honey?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The delicate problem of how to dump a lover before moving on to the next one has been given a new twist by a Dutch Web site.
The site suggests women tell their partner they want a baby and men buy their girlfriend underwear that's too big. [
more]
New iPods
2 new Mini's and a 30 gig iPod Photo. Keep it commin'
Apple!
DUDE! Yahoo Rules!!! Check out the awesome formatting stuff you can do with Yahoo Photos now! They have it so you can take photos you have uploaded and add all sorts of effects, borders, etc. to them! They even have it so you can "save as" right into the album so you can have more than one copy! I totally dig the "neon" effect - here's me when I got my coveted toy! (That's Morgan in the back) The original and this one are both in the photo album.
Ya, I know, I am a Yahoo geek...
More nerdnessHere's my pumpkin with the solarized effect - This is awesome!!! Ya, I know, I could do it in photoshop, but these toys are free to all (like Fight Club), and that rules!
Little Fluffy Clouds
The way home today was soooo beautiful.
The hills in Pleasanton/Milpitas were super-saturated green and the sun was setting. The sky was that perfect blue with pink and purple clouds and bright orange ones where the sun was hitting them. Over he hills was a full moon which looked like it was glowing purple over a ocean blue backfground and covered with pink chiffon clouds. It was awesome.
If I had a camera, I wouldn't have stopped because nothing could have captured that and I wouldn't have wanted to miss any of it.
Court Rejects Appeal on Sex Toy Sales Ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. [
more]
WTF is WRONG with people??? Alaska Woman Charged in Genital Amputation
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A woman upset about an impending breakup with her boyfriend cut off the man's penis and flushed it down a toilet, police said. [
more]
Leo's Notes
Some of you, who are overly observant, have noticed the "Leo's Notes" on the sidebar.
You can read with me, one page a day, Leonardo Da Vinci's notes. There will be the last 10 days worth listed down there, or you can just jam on ahead.
I thought it would be fun.
Stars Take a Shine to Apple
Court: Wife broke law with spyware
A wife who installed spyware on her husband's computer to secretly record evidence of an extramarital affair violated state law, a Florida court ruled Friday. [
more]
Look, if you think he's having an affair and need to go that far, you should just leave, the relationship is clearly over.
Is you Mac Mini underdressed?
Constantine Tonight
If anyone is interested - I think we are going to like a 9:45 show or something. Call my cell if you are interested and I'll get you the low-down.
Writer Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide. [
more]
Steph sent this over: Microsoft recalls Xbox power cords
Microsoft is recalling power cords on 14.1 million Xbox consoles worldwide, following reports of injuries due to defective electrical components.
The company announced the recall on Thursday, saying it is aimed at protecting the consoles from electrical-component failures that can pose a fire hazard. So far, such failures have been reported in 30 consoles, causing minor injury or property damage, Microsoft said. Seven customers reported burns to their hands. In the rest of the cases, the defect caused smoke damage or minor damage to a carpet or entertainment center. [
more]
RE: A SCANNER DARKLY Trailer Online
Hmm, picking from the corpse of Phillip K Dick again, I see. I hope they don't screw this one up too badly, this is one of my favorite PKD novels.
re:Random Links
Wendy, those were awesome...
I like "I dream of Muffins" (#3).
Slightly decompressed
Went to the Hot Tub with Esther and now feel mostly better from plane gross-ness. Anyway, yeah, Colorado was very fun. I highly recommend snowblading! Hempy had a bunch of peeps with her so 7 of us had a time share all to ourselves (including a 2 person jaccuzzi in my suite!) and we had a really great time!
Tomorrow is shaping up to be way more hectic than I had thought! Lunch at Apple maybe, helping Esther move, doing some freelance work, cleaning the pad, and possibly going to see Constantine (anybody see that? Was it good?). We'll see if it all gets done.
Anyway, if you contacted me while I was gone, I'll catch ya tomorrow. I'm gonna go vedge to some DS9 and sleep.... YAY! My own bed, oh how I missed you!
A SCANNER DARKLY Trailer Online
And it looks really cool. It's done in the same style as Waking Life, where they actually hand animated over live-action film. And yes, that is Keanu... [
check it out]
Whedon Wooed For Wonder
Producer Joel Silver confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he is wooing Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon to write and direct a new film version of Wonder Woman. [
more]
Serenity Comics Due Soon
Joss Whedon, director of the upcoming SF movie Serenity, told fans that he will oversee a three-issue Dark Horse series of Serenity comics as a prequel to his upcoming SF movie of the same name, based on Fox's canceled SF western series Firefly. [
more]
Women Sue Over Gorilla's Breast 'Fetish'
WOODSIDE, Calif. - Two fired caretakers for Koko, the world-famous sign-language-speaking gorilla, have sued their former bosses, claiming they were pressured to expose their breasts as a way of bonding with the 300-pound simian. [
more]
Spain Doctor Rebuilds Penises Cut Off for AIDS Cure
MADRID (Reuters) - Two Kenyan boys whose penises were cut off to be sold for making anti-AIDS potions have had them reconstructed in Spain, the doctor treating them said. [
more]
Now, if they had been toted as being a cure for erectile disfunction, that would have been funny. I can just see my spam box filled with great subject lines about that!
62 emails later...
Hey.
Yep, I'm back. Yep, the trip was great - skiing was very fun (snowbladed, which rules), met some very cool new people, and Colorado was beau-ti-ful as always.
Nope, didn't have any internet and very little cell phone so sorry to everyone who left various correspondances, I'll get back to you by tomorrow.
I am very happy to be home, and need to regain hearing in my left ear through de-pressurization so I'll post more later.
Hope you all had a great weekend!
Random Links
Twelve
films about muffins
Clean your screen for free
"I... I can't believe I'm doing this"
Friday's Queen of Wands episode is a lot funnier if you've been following the lesbian subtext over the past few months, but the punchline made me think of a certain, special someone (for different reasons). <grin>
Midway to Turn Toons Into Games
Midway Games has signed a multiterritory agreement with Cartoon Network to publish video games based on five of the network's Adult Swim programs: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," "The Brak Show," "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law," "Sealab 2021" and "Space Ghost Coast to Coast."
Midway will develop and publish games for the console, hand-held and PC platforms.
Hitchhiker's full trailer is up!
And it looks really good actually! [
watch]
Straczynski Ends Trek Campaign
A day after calling for a letter-writing campaign by fans who wanted to see his version of Star Trek produced, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a follow-up message to the same newsgroup retracting his statement. "[B]elay everything I just said," Straczynski wrote. "In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened."
The two things that changed Straczynski's mind were a tip from a trusted source at Paramount, which owns the rights to the Star Trek franchise, that the studio is "giving the Trek TV world a rest" for a year or two, and an offer to run a series premiering in the fall of 2006, which Straczynski has accepted. In Straczynski's words, the Trek campaign is now "kind of moot."
The writer/producer apologized to fans and assured them that he hasn't abandoned the project completely. "We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes us," he said. "But in the interim ... my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of the night."
Midway Jumps Into Adult Swim
Video-game publisher Midway and Cartoon Network have joined forces to develop future games based on the network's Adult Swim programming block, the IGN Web site reported. The deal includes popular animated series such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Brak Show.
In a statement, executives from both companies said they felt the mature, cutting-edge humor of the late-night lineup was well suited to the video-game format. The first Adult Swim game is due in late 2006.
Hitchhiker's full trailer is up!
And it looks really good actually! [
watch]
Off to the wild wild east
Going to Colorado until Sunday to do some skiing in a proper climate. I'll try and get online and post some updates - will be back Sunday!
Re: Kasabian - Club Foot
And if you look in the lower right corner of the main iTMS screen, you'll see some links to a couple other free downloads for this week. There's even a Louis L'Amour audiobook for the taking.
Man with Tumor Robs Banks for Inheritance
ROME (Reuters) - Diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, a 53-year-old Italian father robbed more than 10 banks so he could build a big enough inheritance to leave to his children. [
more]
Kasabian - Club Foot
For those of you who do the iTunes Music Store thing (or iTunes, for that matter), you can get Kasabian's single Clubfoot for free this week. Frrrrreeeee! All nice and legal-like.
Revenge of the Sith Pics
For those of you who are interested. [
spoilage]
Defrocked Priest Sentenced for Raping Boy
BOSTON - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, whose crimes shook the Roman Catholic Church, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges Tuesday to a burst of applause from some of the many who accused him of molesting them.
As a wobbly, 74-year-old Shanley was led away in handcuffs, one man called out mockingly, "Goodbye!" [
more]
OMG, I can't even imagine... you're in church, you're 6, a guy who is pretty much god to you nabbs you and takes you to the confessional...
This is a trip
So one of my old clients posted on
craig's list to try and find me to do contract work with them:
Looking for Noelle Heany - web designer! (sunnyvale) (sunnyvale)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply to: sales@cgshirts.com
Date: 2005-02-15, 9:35AM PST
Hi Noelle,
I hope you are out there checking out Craig's list. I don't know if you remember us, but you did a great job on our website (we're the t-shirt people) I've been trying to find out where you are working now, but nothing seems to be turning up, so I'm giving Craig's list a shot. So if you see this - please give us a call or email. I look forward to working with you again!
Also if someone knows Noelle, please let her know about us, thx!!
keyword search: web designer, bay area , contract work , html , project manager , experienced web designer .
hope to talk to you soon!
karen
Century Graphics
408-616-7700
karen@cgshirts.com
Compensation: We don't have enough to keep you fully employed, but we would love to be on a contract basis
This is a contract job.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Reposting this message elsewhere is NOT OK.
wow. That's a pretty cool compliment.
Straczynski Wants To Reboot Trek
Inspired by a recent SCI FI Wire poll, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a message to a newsgroup urging fans to write to Paramount, owner of the rights to the Star Trek franchise, in support of a new Trek series that he and Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies) develped last year. [
more]
Hungry Man Holds Up Store, Demands Sushi
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man pulled a knife in a convenience store early Sunday morning and threatened to kill himself unless he was given a meal of the choicest sushi.
The 68-year-old unemployed man barged into the store in the western city of Osaka after first setting fire to his nearby apartment, police said Monday. Newspapers said the man claimed he couldn't eat because his state benefit payments had been stopped.
Police overpowered the man after about an hour, during which time he ate bananas and helped himself to alcoholic drinks and vitamin supplements. Police declined to say whether he got any sushi.
Re: Not me. Not my evil twin. Just a random person.
And now off to cough and sniffle my way through a fabulous dinner at Morton's
I love today's word of the day!
nefarious \nuh-FAIR-ee-uhs\, adjective:
Wicked in the extreme; iniquitous.
Not me. Not my evil twin. Just a random person.
Phone the dead
The device -- consisting of a cell phone, a super strength battery and a small loudspeaker -- comes in a waterproof container the size of an average shoe box which is placed in the earth about 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) above the grave. Thanks to two years of collaborating with an electrician, Bröther has developed a battery which will allow grieving friends and family almost a year of contact. [
more]
It amazes me what people will come up with...
Gizoogle
Forget Google!
Gizoogle 's tha freshest search engine on tha web.
Heres a motha fuckin' example.
www.CNN.com
Click here ta skip ta main content . Throw yo guns in the motherfuckin air. Internatizzle Edition |. MEMBER SERVICES, Click here fo' our playa n shit. The Web CNN.com. Hizzle Pizzle in tha hood. World . Im a bad boy wit a lotta hos. US. Pusha. ...
This cold is kicking my ass...
I hope none of you who don't have it, don't get it.
I'll sit in a plastic bubble at D&D.
AHAHAHAHA!!!! "Gay" penguins spark protest
BERLIN (Reuters) - A plan by a German zoo to test the sexual appetites of a group of suspected homosexual penguins has sparked outrage among gay and lesbian groups, who fear zookeepers might force them to turn straight.
...
He said the zoo concluded the penguins might be gay after seeing male penguins trying to mate with other males and trying to hatch offspring out of stones. [
more}
Woman Denies Sherry Enema Charge
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman indicted last month for allegedly giving her husband a lethal sherry enema said he was an enema addict who did it to himself, a newspaper reported Thursday. [
more]
Postcard for the Fuehrer or Current Occupant
BERLIN (Reuters) - German postal services are still delivering post for Adolf Hitler, even though the Nazi dictator has been dead almost 60 years. [
more]
This one is too good not to steal
Props to Kevin at the
Soul Cookie for this one.
PostSecret.comMy very favorite:
I looked for the same reason I watch my "Super Sweet Sixteen": It's too messed up not to.
Enchanted April
Saw Enchanted April through my blaringly horrible cold and thought it was wonderful, even though I went into it thinking it was a musical (it wasn't) and I normally have very little patience for non-musical, non-shakespear theater (which I apparently did tonight). Anyway, it's playing for a couple more weeks at the
SJ Rep if you want to see it. It's very funny, and you even get to see man-butt! (Stephanie went purple)
Madagascar goodness
Here's the full trailer for
Madagascar, which Al and Steve-O are working on. This trailer makes it look a lot better than the last one did. I wonder if my dentist will be showing this in his ceiling - I am getting rather tired of Nemo.
NEMO!!!!! God, I love doing that.
re: BEHOLD the WONDER of the SYMPHONIC ELF-MAN!
Anybody have $1K so I can go see it?
BEHOLD the WONDER of the SYMPHONIC ELF-MAN!
Elfman Debuts Symphonic Concert
On February 23rd, Danny Elfman will make his debut as a symphonic concert work composer. The 30 minute piece is entitled Serenada Schizophrana and is described by the American Composers Orchestra (who will perform the premiere performance at Carnegie Hall) as a "symphonic tour-de-force bringing audiences into the composer's radical and highly anticipated compositional shift to a new musical realm."
[
all of them thar words]
Die Hard 4.0?
Bruce Willis recently talked with BBC Radio. Willis told the BBC that "'Die Hard 4.0' is being written as we speak, and if all goes well we'll be shooting it in Autumn on the east coast of the United States."
Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday for ripping off her ex-lover's testicle with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex.
Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage in May last year after Geoffrey Jones, 37, who had ended their long-term relationship, rejected her advances.
She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then
hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying "that's yours."
Monti, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding at an earlier hearing.
(emphasis added by me)
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Outcast Star Zooms Out of Milky Way Galaxy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outcast star is zooming out of the Milky Way, the first ever seen escaping the galaxy, astronomers reported on Tuesday.
The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic space after being ejected from the heart of the Milky Way following a close encounter with a black hole, said Warren Brown, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. [
more]
Re: Bit Torrent Rules, yo!
Way to stick it to the man! Keep fighting the power! Word up!
Bit Torrent Rules, yo!
Just in case any of you were wondering.
(cue Paduan "that's stealing!")
Re: Stolen Blog: Why the Hell are we doing this?
If they don't create any new nuclear material and just use what is already in the old warheads, I'm fine with that. I wouldn't trust a 20 year old computer or other various mechanisms with nukes. No nuclear testing though. There's no reason for that.
Pilot Used Helicopter to Deliver Pizza
LONDON (Reuters) - A British army pilot has been disciplined by senior officers for using a tank-busting helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.
The pilot, based with Britain's 659 Army Air Corps squadron in Suffolk, eastern England, was on a map-reading training drill when he dropped off the pizza to his girlfriend who was taking part in an exercise 30 miles away. [
more]
West Hollywood May Ban Cosmetic Surgery for Pets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - All dogs go to heaven. And the ones from West Hollywood may now get there with their ears and tails intact.
The mayor of West Hollywood -- a liberal, pet-embracing city adjacent to Los Angeles that two years ago brought America a ban on the declawing of cats -- has proposed a new ordinance making "tail-docking" and "ear-cropping" illegal. [
more]
Rad.
Dolly's Creator Granted Human Cloning License
LONDON (Reuters) - The scientist who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was granted a license Tuesday to clone human embryos for medical research. [
more]
Isn't this where things start to go terribly wrong in the movies?
What happens when Graphic Artists get bored... 
What happens when Graphic Artists get bored... 
re: US right attacks SpongeBob video
Paduan added in the
CNN QuickVote on this. Makes me slightly less hostile toward the general public.
Coral reefs create clouds to control the climate
When temperatures soar, coral reefs might create cool shade by releasing chemicals into the atmosphere that promote cloud formation [
more]
Toe Tapping To The Dow Jones
If you're one of those high powered arbitrage leeches that needs a constant market feed you might be interested in the
Haptic Shoes, which vibrate in response to movements in the stock market.
“Spray-on homes” invented
Researchers say they have found a way to build cheap, sturdy homes in one day by spraying a quick-drying ceramic onto flimsy frames. The technology could help the world’s poor, of which the United Nations estimates there are 1.3 billion, they say. [
more]
US right attacks SpongeBob video
US conservative groups are up in arms over a music video featuring children's TV heroes such as the cheerful cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.Focus on the Family and other groups say the video - a remake of the Sister Sledge hit, We Are Family - is a vehicle for pro-gay propaganda. [
more]
Fucking ignorant assholes. This really pisses me off.
Stolen Blog: Why the Hell are we doing this?
U.S. nuclear weapons will follow new design
This reminds me of the old Jib Jab song-
Kerry: You can't say NUCLEAR, that really scares me . . .
What scares me more is that we're creating new WMDs. Not that I think anyone will actually mount a good old fashioned arms race against us, but Christ- why do we need these? What are they going to do with them?
The scariest part of all is that this administration has already proved that they don't need a good reason to do anything that they want to do. They just do it, despite advice to the contrary. So just where are they going with a renewed nuke program? Something tells me I don't even want to know.
Leave it to Beaver FAQs
In case you ever wanted to know. [
FAQ]
Red Faces Over Fire Crew's Emergency Pizza Run
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embarrassed emergency officials are investigating reports a Sydney fire station was unable to respond to an alarm because a fireman had taken the station's only fire truck to pick up a pizza and give some friends a joyride. [
more]
EBay Says It Will Reduce Some Fees
SAN FRANCISCO - Less than a month after announcing a price hike that enraged small business owners, eBay Inc. said it would reduce some fees and promised to improve customer service. [
more]
Bush Sends Congress $2.57 Trillion Budget
WASHINGTON - President Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan Monday that would boost spending on the military and homeland security but seeks spending cuts across a wide swath of other government programs.
Bush's budget would reduce subsidies paid to farmers, cut health payments for poor people and veterans and trim spending on the environment and education. [
more]
I Survived...
Although my cousin's dog did not - which was a terrible thing to have happen while you are visiting.
Oxymoron of the weekend: a sign that read "Vacaville Cultural Center"
Goign to bed now; I think I am sick.
And Guess where Noelle is going next week for skiing??
DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.
The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day. [
more]
Twisting
by They Might Be Giants [see "groove" for download]
She set your goldfish free
And now she's sighing
Blew out your pilot light
And made a wish
She doesn't have to have
Her dB's record back now
But there's not a lot of things
That she'll take back
(She wants) She wants to see you again
(She wants) She wants to see you again
Slowly twisting (Twisting)
In the wind (Twisting)
Twisting twisting (Twisting)
In the wind
She's not your satellite
She doesn't miss you
So turn off your smoke machine
And Marshall stack
She doesn't have to have
Her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now
But there's not a lot of things
That she'll take back
(She wants) She wants to see you again
(She wants) She wants to see you again
Slowly twisting (Twisting)
In the wind (Twisting)
Twisting twisting (Twisting)
In the wind
(She wants) She wants to see you again
(She wants) She wants to see you again
Slowly twisting (Twisting)
In the wind (Twisting)
Twisting twisting (Twisting)
In the wind
Ya, it's harsh, but it's a great song to listen to...
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A Quiz
Below is a list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of World War II, compiled by historian William Blum:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991- present
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998 - present?
Yugoslavia 1999
Now for the question:
In how many of these instances did a democratic government, respectful of human rights, occur as a direct result?
Choose one of the following:
(a) 0
(b) zero
(c) none
(d) not a one
(e) a whole number between -1 and +1
This quiz compliments of Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
Ben Chitty USN
65-9 VN 66-7 68 NY/VVAW peaceCENTER
P.O. Box 36, San Antonio, Texas 78291
Hello
So I tried out Hello yesterday (as you can see from my post). It's a pretty cool program that resizes, host, and publishes photos to your blog, including haveing a larger image available. It's all free, including the hosting thanks to google. Anyway, it's pretty cool for those of you who want to post photos here but don't have hosting available. [
Get Hello]
One comment: when you type in your caption, put the bold tags around it so it shows up like a headline....
From the makers of the Ducks Video: Lemon Jelly
Satan in the House
Well, actually, her cousin's house in Stockton, which is where I will be this weekend. Send me happy energy.
For you Lost fans out there
Microsoft Develops Halo Film
Microsoft hired screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later) to script a feature-film version of its best-selling video-game franchise Halo, to be presented as a complete package, Variety reported. [
more]
Sooooooooooo, then this is going to be aweful - why do it?
Bruce Campbell not in EVIL DEAD remake
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE, director Sam Raimi revealed what's in store with the EVIL DEAD remake he'll be producing.
"We want to find a director who will make the film his or her own, with a fresh take on the material," says Raimi. "I will be as involved as the new director wants me to be, but I don't want be looking over anyone's shoulder. I want the director of the remake to have the same freedom I had when I was shooting the original."
As for whether or not Bruce Campbell will appear in the movie (he will actually produce), Raimi reveals that our favorite chainsaw wielding actor will only be involved as a producer but don't rule out a future on screen reunion. [
more]
School Halts Adopt a Sniper Fund-Raiser
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. university in Wisconsin has blocked an attempt by Republican students to raise money for a group called "Adopt a Sniper" that raises money for U.S. sharp-shooters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The students were selling bracelets bearing the motto "1 Shot 1 Kill No Remorse I Decide." [
more]
Testing out Hello 
Some of the most beautiful images man has ever captured.
This one makes me want to cry it is so beautiful (from
Apod):
This was a baby not long ago (2002) -
see it grow here!
Rent Music? No, I want it mainlined into my bloodstream!
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart Style
Oh No! I may actually have to watch this! Here's the
press release in case you don;t belive me, and it has an application in case you want to try out for yourself!
Radar Police Stumped by Parking Ticket
BERLIN (Reuters) - An over-zealous policeman slapped a parking ticket on the windshield of a fellow officer's squad car while his colleagues were setting a radar trap to catch speeding motorists in a town in eastern Germany.
"Traffic regulations apply for everyone," Hans-Joachim Schneider, head of the Jessen town office, told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
The radar police had parked their squad car on the wrong side of the road -- facing the oncoming traffic. [
more]
Woman Accused of Giving Lethal Sherry Enema
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman has been indicted for criminally negligent homicide for causing her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema, a police detective said on Wednesday. [
more]
I ate iPod shuffle, A Poem
Back In January, when Mac-World was going on, I posted
this about the fact that it's funny that they mention that you should not eat your iPod Shuffle.
Today I saw this winner on
Kevin's Blog -
I ate iPod Shuffle, A Poem
SDCC news gets worse
Just when you thought the whole situation with downtown San Diego and Comic-Con 2005 couldn't get any worse, comes the following information from Jackie Estrada, posted in response to
a piece in The Beat!:
Meanwhile, all sorts of new restaurants and businesses are opening downtown. The bad news for longtime con-goers: Spaghetti Factory has closed its doors. I don't know what will be going into that space.
Labels: SDCC
Dude! Check out what I found on Amazon!
JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank
[
no shit]
Nitroused Trans AM vs. Nitroused Mo-Ped?
Black holes, but not as we know them
THEY are the most fearsome objects in the universe. They swallow and destroy everything that crosses their path. Everyone knows that falling into a black hole spells doom. Or does it? In the past few years, cracks have started to appear in the conventional picture. Researchers on the quest for a more complete understanding of our universe are finding that black holes are not so black, and perhaps not holes either. Furious debates are raging over what black holes contain and even whether they deserve the name. [
more]
Calif. Sues Over Sierra Nevada Logging Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California sued the Bush administration on Tuesday over its plans to expand significantly the amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains. [
more]
Whoo Hoo! Go California!
U.S. Loses Ruling on Gray Wolves
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves. [
more]
Happy Groundhog Day
If you get a sense of Deja vu today, do yourself a favor and go back to bed.
Phil said 6 more weeks of winter - which I don't really understand. The groundhog would only not see it's shadow if it were cloudy... Whatever.
Apparently he has seen it 95 times now and not seen it 14.
Dude loves his Mac
Or at least I hope he does!
When I get a notebook, I want it to be this one!
BTW
In case anyone hadn't heard - I am official through April 1 here so no panic that I won't have a job at the end of the week...
Animal Rights Activist Sells Her Skin for Charity
LONDON (Reuters) - Looking for a unique way to support the fight against animal abuse?
"It's the only skin you can wear and use with the express permission of the original owner," said Ingrid Newkirk of her tattoo. [
more]
Man Held for Cutting Pacemaker from Mother's Body
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas man is charged with cutting a pacemaker out of his dead mother's chest with a kitchen knife as part of a long-running dispute with a medical company, police said on Monday. [
more]
No Sex? No Pizza? What Is This, a Prison?
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Deprived of their flat-screen TVs, mobile phones, pizza deliveries and long visits from lovers, inmates at Mexico's top security prison complained on Monday they are being treated "like dogs." [
more]
The Cop Without a Clue...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish police officer has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues. [
more]
Genius! Although he should have laundered his money...
