I didn't do it! It's not my fault.

QOTD

2007-01-04T09:26:00.000-05:00

The older the Evil, the more terrible it is. -PeeWee

History of Religion in 90 Seconds

2007-01-02T08:54:00.000-05:00

Emo Flakes

2006-09-22T17:47:00.000-04:00

My friend's wife Shani came up with a new breakfast cereal...Emo Flakes! Black corn flakes that quickly go limp and grey in milk and turn the milk all grey... Jet black is too intense a color for the properly emo...

InstantMoto

2006-09-22T15:42:00.000-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Zoom Shop, originally uploaded by Samanathon. Apparently Motorola is going to start selling phone in vending machines like this. I wonder if not paying someone to sell i to you will lower the price... otherwise, I can't

2006-09-21T17:42:00.000-04:00

Mythbusters-Beat Finger Print Security SystemI haven't seen this whole episode, so I don't know if they bought a cheap lock that just made big claims for marketing, or if it's a product that actually has a good reputation in the industry. Either way, a lot of unsuspecting people might buy one of these thinking it's secure.

2006-07-14T15:54:00.000-04:00

Quick Change Artists on America's Got TalentI used to think that Batman and Robin sliding down a pole and being in costume on the other end wasn't realistic...

Bill and education

2006-07-14T15:27:00.000-04:00

There's an article over at Fast Company about Bill Gate's ideas for changing high school. Now that I have a kid (who won't be in school for awhile), I often find myself thinking about how I could make sure she gets more out of school than I did.I want to be able to teach her the really important stuff myself so some schmuck doesn't mess it up, but realistically I'll be working too much to spend

The pleasure of finding things out

2006-07-14T15:21:00.000-04:00

Excellent short 40 min documentary interview with Dr. RP Feynman- one of the greatest physicist of our times and a Nobel Laureate. I want to teach my daughter like Dr. Feynman's father taught him.

2006-07-14T14:03:00.000-04:00

Jon Stewart on Net NeutralityI was confused by this internet thingie, with it's pipes and other hullabaloo, but Jon explains it in terms I can really understand.

Will SanFran drop AT&T?

2006-07-13T13:57:00.000-04:00

Wired is reporting about some comments the mayor of San Francisco made about re-evaluating the city's relationship with AT&T in light of the recent NSA controversy. The company I work for currently has all of it's telecom services though AT&T, but the contracts are expiring in about a year. Unless AT&T offers me a really good deal, or it comes out that the other major carriers were in on this

Anna is a bot

2006-06-29T10:28:00.000-04:00

Here's video from someone named Basshunter about an IRC bot named Anna. I have a friend that gets mistaken for a bot all the time.

New Canadian tool can re-grow teeth

2006-06-29T09:19:00.000-04:00

With all the time I've spent in the dentist chair, I'veoften wished I could get a new tooth rather than a crown (and the accompanyingroot canal). Now thatmay happen in a few years. I'll be a bit skeptical for now; a lot oftimes these headlines of an amazing scientific advance are just hype or the commercialproduct is much farther away than they think.

Shortsighted marketing?

2006-06-22T13:48:00.000-04:00

I don't think it takes a particularly dirty mind to think there's something a little wrong with this kids camera as my friend ChrisD pointed out.In case you lack imagination JJ spells it out.I guess Mr. Mouse thought his proctologist was up to something and he wanted proof.

USB Teddy Bear stores files and releases frustration

2006-06-22T10:20:00.000-04:00

Engadget had this article about a teddy bear with a USB drive stuck in it. Now when you're pissed off at someone you can pretend to rip their head off by uncapping this USB drive. Makes more sense than USB sushi.

Record labels are more more evil than I thought.

2006-06-16T10:08:00.000-04:00

So apparently a fan asked Weird Al Yankovic if ha made more money from selling an album or a download. And this guy did some research into it. Turns out that some artists can make significatly less money for digital music as compared to the real album. I've never liked the idea of music I paid for being tied to a device or PC, so this is even more reason for me to keep buying my music on CD.

Converting Windows apps to Mac OS X or Linux binaries

2006-06-14T12:15:00.000-04:00

Cody Brocious (PyMusique) is working on a new project to convert Windows executables to native Mac OS X or Linux binaries. He is focusing on high-end gaming at the moment, though he plans to support other apps in the future. On his blog, he said: "My goal for the next 5 years is simple: Any piece of software, any platform you choose."This is all well and good, but this is a HUGE undertaking. And

3117 bastards

2006-05-18T15:23:00.000-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } debian, originally uploaded by z'Oliv. This poster made me chuckle cause it reminded me of my buddy's devotion to his favorite distro... and how fun it is to kick him.

Is Micro$oft a bully?

2005-02-16T10:09:00.000-05:00

Micro$oft has more governments negotiating with it than with North Korea and now it appears they are trying to throw their weight around like a country.Maybe the UN needs to levy some sanctions against them.

Truly wrong crafts

2004-12-28T11:21:00.000-05:00

As I was scrolling down through the pics on this page I thought "dorky, but not that weird" until I came to the last picture... maybe some mother had an ugly child they didn't want to look at...

Top 100 toys...

2004-12-27T23:18:00.000-05:00

My friend sent me this link to a list of the top 100 toys. It got me thinking about my memories...100. Finger Frights: If you put them on each finger and wave them at yourself you can pretend they are your loyal followers bowing to you. Fav toy ~'97-'9897. Weebles: Weeble Wobbles wobble but they don't fall down... The fuckers fall down if you take a hammer to them. Later in life they served

Yet another toy...

2004-10-19T09:23:00.000-04:00

Some inventor created a universal remote to turn off TVs. Check itout over at Wired. I'm always looking for new ways to be an asshole, hence this goodie is on my wish list.

Hamster Power!!!

2004-10-19T09:17:00.000-04:00

From Gizmodo: "There's no way I can construe this as being a gadget, really, but I feel it's my duty to realize when to step outside of our editorial boundaries and talk about hamsters piloting other, larger robot hamsters. This is one of those times. In fact, I think that HamGear may be even cuter than the panda that does the same thing, which almost makes it breaking news or something. (Thanks

Non-virtual pong

2004-10-04T16:44:00.000-04:00

Some geeks made an elecrto-mechanical pong game. Makes me wonder about real world versions of Donkey Kong or Q Bert...

Bluetooth P2P

2004-09-14T14:17:00.000-04:00

Ran across this mention of people sending files anonymously via bluetooth. I think there is ALOT of potential for this kind of thing to become the next hot trend. Awhile back I saw several articles about something the Brits called "Toothing", where they would proposition each other for a quickie via bluetooth chat. Trading porn sound more plausable than making porn.

New Batman movie in 2005

2004-09-14T14:03:00.000-04:00

It's hard to tell if it's going to be cool from the preview site. But the "Batmobile" looks pretty sweet... kinda like a Bat Tank (Xmas hint). Looks like Christian Bale got the lead role. If you haven't seen it, check out his movie Equilibrium.

Security or health problem

2004-09-10T10:05:00.001-04:00

This article over at Computerworld talks about a 'war drive' around the Republican National Convention... they found more than 7000 wireless devices... that sounds like quite a bit of microwave energy to me...

Security or health problem

2004-09-10T10:05:00.000-04:00

the iMac G5 is out...

2004-08-31T12:14:00.000-04:00

Apple has finally released the new iMac G5. I don't like it. The placement of the ports is stupid; there's no neat way to route the cables (I'm sure there will be alot of after-market products for this purpose). I hate slot loading optical drives. The thing doesn't adjust as much as the previous one; were there problems with the old mechanism? It looks nowhere near as cool as the previous one

Nevermind the product...

2004-08-31T10:00:00.000-04:00

Sometimes when I'm reading this guy's reviews, I think he longs for a more creative writing outlet... Check out this review.

Scripting News: 8/27/2004

2004-08-27T08:22:00.000-04:00

Scripting News: 8/27/2004: "'Your blog's comments section continues to amaze. It's like some kind of zoo, but with idiots instead of exotic animals.' " -MIT student

digital camera found in the woods

2004-08-26T16:45:00.000-04:00

A cool story with cool pics.

Lost Friends

2004-08-26T16:32:00.000-04:00

This guy had a good idea; it put up so a page of people he's looking for so if someone Googles their name, they'll hopefully find his page and get in contact. I wouldn't mind finding Michael Skinner, Kevin VanBuskirk (aka Shaddow Dancer)... I guess the other people I'd like to see I could find if I got off my lazy ass...

Hey there partner! What y'all lookin at down there?

2004-08-26T09:26:00.000-04:00

I think I need a Search Engine Belt Buckle.

Cool clock

2004-08-20T14:00:00.000-04:00

My wife sent me the link to this clock... kinda geeky and kinda artistic...

The hip bone connects to the crucifix?

2004-08-19T10:35:00.000-04:00

The Sedlec Ossuary is beyond bizarre.

Finally! Now I can sleep at night...

2004-08-10T15:16:00.000-04:00

It's about time someone came up with a bed to make me feel secure at night. With one of these I'll finally be safe from the boogeyman.[Via Engadget]

Cringe has a way with words...

2004-08-10T14:07:00.000-04:00

From the latest issue: On M$ Money... "Still, trusting Microsoft to handle your money seems a little like hiring Oprah to guard the Oreos. One day you’ll wake up to find nothing but crumbs." hehehehe... Cringe is the man...

A new way to carry your phone

2004-08-06T11:42:00.000-04:00

The Phone Safe is a work-through phone-sheath that you wear on your forearm. You might look like dork talking on it, but it would be convenient in some situations. Check it out (via Red Ferret Journal via Boing Boing)

Stress from your system tray

2004-08-05T14:08:00.000-04:00

Ran across this while checking out Outlook add-ins (Check out the rest of Dave's stuff, it's pretty cool). I'm not putting down this programmer's efforts in little system tray goodie, but don't we get enough stress from our computers already? I may be interested to know if there is an eminent threat, but I don't need a constant reminder in the corner of my screen of something I can do nothing

too geeky?

2004-08-04T09:03:00.000-04:00

I found myself looking for good baby names in the list of names that latest MyDoom variant uses to spoof emails. Alexis, Allison, Amanda, Ashlee, Christina, Emily, Jessica, Madison, Samantha, and Stephanie sound good. Currently my wife likes Madison. I think we're settled that if it's a boy he'll be Alexander. 160 days to go!

a poem about michigan

2004-08-04T00:39:00.000-04:00

My sis Zept found this one... A Poem, by Henry Gibson (of laugh-in fame): It's winter in Michigan And the gentle breezes blow, 70 miles per hour at 52 below! Oh, how I love Michigan When the snow's up to your butt. You take a breath of winter air And your nose, it freezes shut. Yes, the weather here is wonderful, So I guess I'll hang around. But I could never leave Michigan 'Cause I'm frozen to

not THAT cool...

2004-08-03T11:35:00.000-04:00

Found this on Boing Boing... It's interesting, but it's not super cool or anything.I can see the idiots in the media getting a hold of this story... "The new hacker gun will assult computers from half a mile away! Run and hide! The hackers are coming!"Originated from Engadget

BlogChalk

2004-08-02T18:31:00.000-04:00

This is my new blogchalk:United States, Michigan, Detroit, English, Evil, security, chaos. :)

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

2004-08-02T17:55:00.000-04:00

This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The original posting for this experiment is

Undocumented label feature for unread emails in Gmail

2004-08-02T17:45:00.000-04:00

Cool Gmail trick (via redemption in a blog via TIMELINE via gmailwiki): create a label named "Unread" and Gmail automatically lists all unread email when you call up that label.

Target targets trendy religion

2004-07-29T14:02:00.000-04:00

Found this one on BoingBoing... I heard that Kabbalah was becoming the new trendy religion with celebrities, so seeing this at Target shouldn't surprise me. Here's a bit of the description of this piece of string: What makes this particular piece of string so special is, in part, the fact that it has traveled to Israel, to the ancient tomb of Rachel the Matriarch, and returned, imbued with the

GMail wishlist

2004-07-28T23:55:00.000-04:00

Here's a wishlist of features for GMail. I'd really like to be able to run filters on existing mail.

genius@werk

2004-07-28T19:18:00.000-04:00

2yrs later

2004-07-28T17:41:00.000-04:00

I hate this thing

2004-07-28T16:02:00.000-04:00

This is my phone. It rings too much. I very rarely like what the person on the other end has to say. I hate this thing Originally uploaded by DeadFly.

Flickr

2004-07-28T15:48:00.000-04:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Touchpad PDA (with free rant thrown in!)

2004-07-28T11:50:00.000-04:00

I've kinda got the PDA itch again... The new iPaq hx4700 has this new touchpad navigation that looks really cool. But it is $600+! The Dell Axim X30 is also very tempting at half the price... *sigh* I just want a useable device that does it all; is that too much to ask for? One of the other new iPaqs, the h6315 seems close, but the lower performance bugs me. Maybe if there was a compact flash

Undocumented IOS

2004-07-27T17:11:00.000-04:00

Just ran across this list of undocumented Cisco IOS commands and thought I'd pass it along. Kinda old though...

Gotta love computers

2004-07-23T17:17:00.000-04:00

This guy got a vanity license plate for his motorcycle that got him 200+ parking tickets.

9-11 Commission Final Report

2004-07-23T11:35:00.000-04:00

It's available in PDF format here.

Goodbye old friend

2004-07-21T14:43:00.000-04:00

Found out recently that an old friend of mine died. Don't know the cause of death for sure, but it sounds like a heart attack. He was only 31. I hadn't talked to him in awhile. It seems the older I get, I seem to have less and less time for seeing friends. My words of wisdom for the day: Visit or call that old friend today; you may not have a chance to tomorrow.

Favorites vs. Bookmarks

2004-07-21T14:20:00.000-04:00

Like nearly every Wind0ze user on the planet I use Internet Explorer for at least some of my surfing because not everything works right in FireFox. Iw ant to be able to either use FireFox's bookmarks in IE or IE's favorites in FireFox. I Googled the hell out of this topic and either got instructions on how to import IE favorites into FireFox, people saying "me too" to the same problem, or

Bottle Cap Tripod

2004-07-21T14:16:00.000-04:00

I ran across these rather simple plans for a tripod. Simple, but I like it. Maybe I'll use this to mount my camera for use as a webcam. It'll probably be mounted to a bottle of Dew... no wait, I'll drink the Dew then it'll tip over... maybe diet Dew; that tastes like piss...

Retro phone

2004-07-20T11:51:00.000-04:00

I like alot of retro styled stuff... I think using new tech with old style stuff is cool when it's useful. But I just don't get these handsets from POKIA. Cords BAD! This bluetooth version has a high degree of coolness though.

P2P for the people

2004-07-20T10:39:00.000-04:00

There's a good article on Wired News by Kim Zetter. It talks about OutragedModerates.org and their use of P2P networks to distribute government documents that are normally hard to dig up. What they're doing is important, but I don't get why doing it via P2P is a big deal... everyone using P2P is just looking for porn anyway... BTW, also check out The Smoking Gun, Chilling Effects, The Memory

Cool bookmarklet

2004-07-20T10:06:00.000-04:00

Jeff Mesnil has whipped up a couple bits of javascript that are pretty cool. They use frames to allow you to split a browser window horizontally or vertically.

Phone or camera

2004-07-15T20:28:00.000-04:00

This Samsung camera phone has similar specs to my camera. I wonder how it does as a phone.

2004-07-13T16:46:00.000-04:00

It's official!

2004-07-13T16:01:00.000-04:00

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has declared that Internet Explorer is a piece of shit. Use Firefox instead.

Jump!

2004-07-06T21:45:00.000-04:00

Why the hell don't they make them take this thing down?

Hey! My iPod is just too small!

2004-07-06T17:10:00.000-04:00

I can see the artistic value in retro stuff sometimes, but turning an iPod into a big clunky brick just seems stupid to me.

Murder with style

2004-07-06T11:58:00.000-04:00

Doesn't everyone need a gold plated AK-47?

2004-06-30T15:01:00.000-04:00

The Republican agenda

2004-06-29T12:22:00.000-04:00

I guess the influx of protitutes into NewYork shows the true character of our political leaders.

VP Potty mouth

2004-06-25T00:55:00.000-04:00

Apparently Cheney is human! He told Senator Leahy to "Fuck off".

Retail Linux store opens

2004-06-25T00:50:00.000-04:00

A computer store that carries only Linux goods opened in Toronto,

Micro$oft Borg Networking RC1

2004-06-24T14:26:00.000-04:00

Actually I think this article is making too big of a deal about this. I'm kinda surprised M$ got the patent on this; I can recall several other companies working on "personal area networks" that used the body as a conductor.

Civic minded drug dealers?

2004-06-23T15:58:00.000-04:00

My god, bureaucrats are stupid. Hey, let's try to collect taxes from drug dealers! You know that this wasn't just one idiot... These sorts of things always go through a committee.

New Group Policy Management Console

2004-06-23T15:37:00.000-04:00

Looks like Micro$oft came out with a new version of the Group Policy Management Console.

Get a BMW for your iPod

2004-06-22T11:59:00.000-04:00

Apple now has an adapter to interface your iPod to your BMW's audio system. I always thought the Range Rover looked like an iPod with wheels

The first handheld PC on the market

2004-06-17T17:34:00.000-04:00

Sony beat OQO and Flipstart to the market with this little gem. I REALLY want one of these little guys... I'll probably wait until they offer "instant on" capabilities.

DNS attack?

2004-06-16T13:40:00.000-04:00

Supposedly the DNS infrastructure was under attack, but only Akamai seems to have been affected. Sounds kinda fishy seeing as they had another outage in the past couple weeks that they admitted was their fault.

Just WOW!

2004-06-16T01:11:00.000-04:00

I love cool cases and this is the ultimate in cool. Gives me a lot of ideas...

Amazon Bombing?

2004-06-15T14:10:00.000-04:00

You've all heard of Google Bombing well now there's Amazon Bombing. Here's another example, and another from the Register. Should be much easier than Google bombing since there is a lot less data that is used to determine what should be linked. Hmm....

FAT Patent

2004-06-15T11:43:00.000-04:00

Microsoft is trying to patent the File Allocation Table. Most likely this move is intended to be a pain to the Linux crowd, but I have a feeling a lot of companies will have a problem with this.

Missed opportunity...

2004-06-14T17:05:00.000-04:00

Rather than worring about signs being stolen, the people of the town should try to market their city to tourists based on the name.

Maybe just my dog is an idiot

2004-06-14T15:32:00.000-04:00

I study of a border collie showed it had a vocabulary of 200 words and learned new words quickly. I think my jack russell has a vocabulary of zero. He only seems to be able to tell if you're saying something nice, or scolding him. Oh well, he's cute and good to nap with.

Makes you wonder...

2004-06-14T15:19:00.000-04:00

After going to a fertility clinic to get help having a child, a German couple was told to try having sex! I'm kinda surprised that instinct did get the job done. I'd also like to know how their parents kept them in the dark so well...

Pig Vampires

2004-06-09T17:42:00.000-04:00

This pig blood might be better used as a weapon in Afganistan.

Wanna dig through owl poop?

2004-06-08T11:50:00.000-04:00

Go check out "The Top 25 Weirdest Items You Can Purchase Through Amazon".

Where to draw the line?

2004-06-07T17:44:00.000-04:00

An article over at ZDNet cites a study that reveals that 70% of coders take stuff they've written between employers. A royalty-free repository with no strings attached would be one solution, but the vast majority of snippits are GPL, so you couldn't use them in a comercial product. Yet another reason I like the BSD style license.

What else would you use an armored bulldozer for?

2004-06-07T12:05:00.000-04:00

The people in this town saw this guy building a tank and never thought he might be up to no good? The idiots deserve to be run over.

If you build it they will come...

2004-06-04T15:44:00.000-04:00

Contemporary Cargo Cults is an interesting read. Not sure if I necessarily agree with some of the generalizations, but it's food for thought...

:-)

2004-06-04T11:27:00.000-04:00

Never really thought about it before, but apparently this guy invented smilies.

The reason for Linux

2004-06-04T09:51:00.000-04:00

Sun is going to open-source Solaris in some form. Who knows what form of license it will be (I'll bet it's not GPL), but I can't see it making much of a change in Sun's sales. The article makes the interesting point that the reson Linux was created in the first place is that Solaris was too expensive.

60GB iPods apparently on the way

2004-06-03T13:48:00.000-04:00

Toshiba let it slip that they are making a 60 GB 1.8 inch hard drive and that Apple is buying them. Oops!

Gigabeat G21

2004-06-02T11:08:00.000-04:00

The Gigabeat G21 looks like it could be an iPod killer, but for now it's only in Japanese. You can still get it in the US at Audio Cubes.

mini me?

2004-06-02T10:54:00.000-04:00

Does this look like a stick of deodorant to anyone else?

It was on the internet, it must be true!

2004-06-01T17:46:00.000-04:00

It appears that quite a few news agencies don't understand satire. It'd be pretty funny if the US weren't in such a shitty position right now... *UPDATE* Now it appears that there might be some truth to the rumor after all.

Cost of the war (in dollars)

2004-06-01T11:55:00.000-04:00

It's not the death penalty, but...

2004-05-28T09:44:00.000-04:00

Hopefully the spammer sentenced to seven years in prison will discourage others. Maybe we'll get a death sentence for a virus writer...

Bizarre wreak

2004-05-27T20:20:00.000-04:00

Check out the photos of this accident. Weird.

CA contributes to the Linux kernel

2004-05-24T16:55:00.000-04:00

LinuxWorld is reporting that Computer Associates has contributed a bit of code named K-Gem that will hopefully provide a standard method for event notification.

What's your terrorist quotient?

2004-05-21T16:27:00.000-04:00

In an example of statistics gone wrong, politicians may have been talked into letting the same technology that terrifies them make important security decisions. This article talks about a database that's supposed to help find terrorists based on a wide variety of factors. If their initial list was 120,000 people, then we either too big of a terrorist problem to handle or they're idiots. What

FSF declines SCO request

2004-05-21T12:57:00.000-04:00

The FSF had declined SCO's subpoena for infomation it want's for it's Linux lawsuits. What surprised me about this was how readable the subpoena is... I was expecting alot more legal mumbo-jumbo.