Archive for the 'General' Category

I’m starting to see a pattern. Is is possible that people who have lost homes, loved ones, and posessions will be very frustrated and upset when a news crew shoves a camera and microphone in their face? Do we find it surprising that even as the victims of tragedy are trying to rescue survivors, locate family, and find a way to supply the basic necessities of life (food, water, sanitary conditions, shelter) for themselves and others, that the victims have a hard time understanding that people might be doing all they can to help?

India Quake Survivors Complain of Slow Aid

It is time for the second annual DARPA Grand Challenge; the unmanned, self guided vehicle race. This years race will cover 132 miles of obstacles in the Mojave Desert.

All the vehicles in the challenge have to sense, think and drive for themselves. Last year this proved to be an insurmountable task as the top participant from the first challenge only managed to complete 7 miles of the 144 mile course. This year’s challengers should be MUCH smarter, so hopefully someone will be able to finish and take the $2,000,000 prize

The Challenge starts on today 10/8/05. You can pickup your updates HERE.

If you have received the email about a Montana Mule killing a Mountain Lion to protect a couple of dogs (and I bet you have, as I’ve received it 5 times already)…
The picture is real, but the story is fake, the mountain Lion was dead before the mule tossed it around

I do however wonder why the rules change in the last scene…

Rapeman…

I knew there was a good reason… ;-)

Excellent online flash video game.
Dad ‘n Me

Ahhh, now people are finally catching on…

Louisiana’s money grab mirrors its political past

I just saw “The Corpse Bride” and loved every minute of it. Which means it will probably fail miserably at the box office and through the normal system of supply and demand we will get more “Mr and Mrs Smith” quality action films, and less of Tim Burton’s wonderfully twisted artwork.

I highly recommend it to anyone. Will go great for just one, a date, or a family.

Trailers

Reviews: here, here, and here.

FBI sometimes gets the wrong number

I feel safer, don’t you?

Sweet, Tanya Anderson a 41 year old disabled single mother from Oregon has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, among a laundry list of other offenses…

As much as I do not like to use of once trendy vernacular… You go girl! ;-)

Harvey Danger (one of those new fangled rock bands that the kids used to like) has released their next album for free. Just go and download it. Their release on the free download experiment is here.

Torrent download

Similar to Marti Gras but with much less alcohol. The goal however, is to collect money for Breast Cancer (instead of collecting beads).

Fourth Annual Blogger Boobiethon

See the funny short that seems contain msny of the animation elements that have stuck with Tim throughout his career.
Large (format: AVI – size: 66.3mb)
Medium (format: WMV – size: 13.6mb)
Small (format: WMV – size: 7mb)
Torrent(format: AVI – size: 66.3mb)

Info Here

Don’t know what happened, but all the links disappeared. :(

If you put an infinite number of marine biologists in an infinite number of boats. All lowering an infinite number of bait encrusted video equipment into an infinite number of oceans…. Eventually you will get pictures of a live giant squid…. Cool!

And it always could have. Ok, so I’m a little annoyed by the fear mongering tactics of the news media (but I expected better from the BBC). This link/post was put here as an example of using high impact insinuative headlines, not as a warning about bird flu.
Bird flu ‘could kill 150m people’

Homeland Insecurity strikes again.

This looks interesting.

Mighty Mice Regrow Organs

This one is more than just a bit strange…

Many people were probably not aware of the courthouse shootings here in Atlanta, and the saintly woman who talked the killer down. My favorite exerpt from her story is how she gave Nichols crystal meth (apparently she didn’t have any weed around)