Archive for May, 2006

Everything is stranger in Texas.

USATODAY has a surprisingly in-depth article describing the NSA’s efforts to extort private information from the Telcoms. All the big Telcoms folded except Qwest…

Go Qwest!

Interesting program that can transcribe cords from ogg/mp3 files.

CLAM Music Annotator, chord analyzer

from Security Absurdity.com

Here come da bad news! I found this full of useful, if depressing information and links. It means I won’t lack work for a long time to come.

from Wired News

This one is fascinating and disturbing. I wonder what sort of protections the attorney writing would suggest. She does not suggest any which is my only complaint with the piece. I suppose it may have been beyond the scope of the article, but it is a good question.

XYZ Computing has done a review/comparison roundup of bluetooth headsets. So if you are the type who feels the need to look like a borg and walk around with a headset in your ear all day, or if you just talk to yourself out loud and want everyone to think you are not in need of medication…
here is the link

The good people at Edmunds.com have come up with a collection of the usual suspects in the driving to save fuel category. The interesting thing is that they actually spent the time to Quantify the savings.

ReleaseGuide.com keeps track of Movie, Music, and Book releases. That way you can buy that DVD the first week it is released instead of finding out months later that it’s out and getting it on half.com for half the price…  ;p

Web Developer’s Handbook

I like it when I can access the fruits of my tax dollars.

Microsoft just cannot resist the opportunity to play catch-up with google. Here is their own best price search engine…

Stellarium is a suave little desktop planetarium program. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac…

Imagine there are no iPod batteries.

It’s easy if you try.

No sending your iPod back to apple for a replacement.

(ok I’m going to stop the parody now as I cannot remember the lyrics to imagine).  ;-)

But you could charge your iPod by peeing on it from time to time…  ;-)

Play all your favorite old DOS games on the Home of abandonware DOS games.

If you have ever seen the Japanese hornets slaughter a bee hive on discovery channel, This little video will give you all the vengeful goodness…

Perspective Tutorial

All hail the German Purity Law, probably the single greatest achievement by mankind….

What exactly is in your beer?

Pirate radio station says they can broadcast under wartime loophole as long as Bush claims we are at “War”…

I do not believe the FCC agrees…

Hmmmm… I wonder if the cable companies are getting nervous
ABC.com: Full Episode Streaming

No Linux player yet….

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