Archive for April, 2006

Keep the evil neighbor from thumbing your data away.

The ISP giants are lining up against the Internet giants in a 2 round cage match. At steak is whether the ISP is allowed to give preference to specific internet services they favor, or if they have to provide neutral access to the internet for customers. Currently favor can be had in exchange for cash payoffs extorted from the internet giants by the Telcos, but in the future this type of tactic could be used against specific forms of traffic: encrypted email, VOIP (I bet the telcos would like to limit VOIP to their own offering providers instead of allowing traffic to go to another company they do not profit from); torrents (other high bandwidth less profitable traffic) etc…

Tech Giants’ Internet Battles

Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe. Piraha apparently can’t learn to count and have no distinct words for colors.

BBC Report

Just in case anyone got caught up in the gasoline price hysteria and forgot about the government collecting our taxes so and using the money to spy on us.

5 Cool things you can do with your iPod

Even though there really isn’t anything helpful they can do in the short term. They appear to be more than willing to jerk knees for public approval!

Video… Too funny for words.

Surprise Visitor at the White House Easter Egg Roll

I actually know someone who has done this, although for different reasons…
Committing MySpacecide

As much as I appreciate the effort, and the big splash it made in the news. Exactly how many cents per gallon is this going to reduce gas prices?

Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline

I believe the wholesale market for gasoline is running around 2.20 per gallon. Assuming 70% efficiency the crude we buy to refine into gasoline would cost around 1.95 per gallon. I’m not sure where I’m wrong here, but I must be missing something.

Let Us Spray

This could be some dangerous, hopeful, interesting stuff if it is true and ever comes to market.

For Windows users who would like to have iTunes sync with their music directories, here is the iTunes Library Updater.

Nice collection of AppleScripts to manage iTunes ♫

Just this weekend I had the priviledge of replacing a battery in an iPod mini. At the time I noticed that the storage media appeared to be an off the shell MicroDrive. I did not realize that iTunes would restore the lights on software when it synced…
Details here iPod mini 8GB Upgrade.

Via froogle it looks like $150-$200 will get you 8 Gigs, $100-$150 will get you 6 gigs, and $70 to $80 will get you 4 gigs.

SyncTunes allows you to sync your Mac iTunes tracks or podcasts to any mounted removable drive (flash card, cell phone etc)…

Now all I need to find is a program to automatically sync/update iTunes with my MP3 directories (So when I add/delete files iTunes will automatically update).

I wonder if we will see anything like The Loremo here in the states. One might think that if we can reduce restrictions on industrial emissions for the economic good of the country, we might be able allow the import of a few grey market cars.
MFG Site

First giving the ok for evolution, now a little give in comdom rules.

I thought this new Pope was supposed to be a interim seat warmer for the next big Pope…

Ok, so we pay the government to provide government services. Why do they need to surveil us?

Big Brother is Listening – ZDNet.com

Sexual Satisfaction Research

I can only wonder at the methodology and sampling techniques used for this study.

I only scored a 68. Not a very good score for someone so completely evil… I did note that there was not a single question about killing squirrels on the test, so it’s obviously biased against my particular brand of evil.
Machiavelli personality test

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