Archive for the 'General' Category

Surprise Visitor at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Video… Too funny for words.

Surprise Visitor at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Luddites of the world unite and commit MySpacecide

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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

Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Let Us Spray

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

iTunes Library Updater

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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

Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ Managing Files

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Nice collection of AppleScripts to manage iTunes ♫

iPod mini space upgrade

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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.

Finally a iTunes sync utility that you do not have to have an iPod to use

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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).

German engineering yields 157 mpg

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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

Vatican ‘may relax condom rules’

Monday, April 24th, 2006

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…

Big Brother is Listening.

Friday, April 21st, 2006

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

Big Brother is Listening – ZDNet.com

Great Trivia

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Sexual Satisfaction Research

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

Machiavelli personality test

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

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

Instant translator via gTranslate

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

YAMA (Yet Another Mozilla Addon) – Highlight and translate any text in your Mozilla browser window instantly with gTranslate.

Penn & Teller — Bullshit

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

So this little Showtime show is rank pretty high up on my list of shows to watch. After 3 seasons, they finally found a topic I disagree with them on. The death penalty. While I would say it was a pretty fair and balanced show, their main obejection to the death penalty is that we are killing another human being. Well yea, that is kinda the point of it all.

I wrote this not necessarily to argue the death penalty, but more that I was happy I finally disagreed with them about something.

What can I say… It’s another stupid RIAA story

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

RIAA makes stupid statement, makes world plus dog guilty of infringement.

I wonder if there are any shared drives within the RIAA network…

Allergies…. Ugggg….

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I believe I have found a new example to use when describing desperation… Chewing up two Benadryl between snorts and sneezes (they are not very tasty by the way… the Benadryl that is) in order to hasten the allergy relief. Once you have sneezed over twenty times in a row, in less than a minute, the appeal of the function begins to wane…

Just thought I’d share. ;-)

So does anyone know if they have worked out the shot free weekly allergy treatments yet?

I found this link. Maybe if I could find a way to insert a tanning bed in my nose… :)

Peeps, Smoking & Alcohol

Monday, April 17th, 2006

More fine science from the people at peepresearch.org

The pleasure of finding things out – RP Feynman

Monday, April 17th, 2006

The pleasure of finding things out – RP Feynman

Former Green Peace founder makes case for Nuke Power…

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Wow an environmental activist admits that nuclear power is a good thing. Impressive, it only took 30 years for the knee jerking to end. I wonder if the coal and oil power plants have contributed to global warming in the interim…