The Rigged-Up Net

Dixie Chicks Tour Bus in SA Fender Bender At least one band member was on the bus during the 4AM wreck. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-A00E4B82-6787-494D-8242-95C17594B432.asp?0na=x22234501&cp1=1

Texas Number One in Drunk Driving Fatalities Texas leads the nation in the number of fatal accidents caused by drunk driving, according to new figures released by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-1C898EC8-7A6F-4FE2-BB98-0CC73DF7DF7E.asp?0na=x22052A0-

Mayor: Smoking Ban May Fail Garza for the first time acknowledges that the smoking ban may not pass this year. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-41EF7990-5382-447D-9DED-4F678C931B59.asp?0na=x22152B1-

Three San Antonio Roads May Become Toll Roads Toll roads in San Antonio may become reality. TXDOT is coming forward with a new proposal. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-7EBB3055-4DD5-4AB9-8F94-EAF63B63AD41.asp?0na=x22137L0-

Tight ties may be bad for eyes Men who tie their neckties too tightly could be increasing their risk of a sight destroying disease, suggests new research http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993996

‘Crack’ nicotine in cigarettes varies widely The level of the most addictive form of the drug is 35 times higher in some brands than others, researchers find http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990

Tx Senators On The Run…. Again! Democratic state lawmakers fled Texas on Monday for the second time in three months to thwart a Republican drive to redraw the state’s congressional districts. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-B38ED097-E912-4867-A115-C868266A66B1.asp?0na=x22129W1-

By fusing images, Lehigh professor detects concealed weapons http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/lu-bfi062403.php (Thanks Dirk) UPDATE: Ok people – enough with the “where are the pics”… Here’s the link to the slides that show the pics since its a bit hard to find: http://www.ece.lehigh.edu/SPCRL/IF_NonvisualSensors/ImageFusionSeminar.pdf

NEW: Lotto chief says claim Jan. 29 jackpot today or lose it Texas Lottery Commission executive director Reagan Greer made a last-ditch plea today for the winner of the Jan. 29 jackpot to convert the unclaimed ticket to riches. http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1031803&xld=180

Angelia sent this to me… all this matrix stuff is getting outta hand… http://www.sivanet.idv.tw/siva/kungfu.swf

Self-help genre gets a good mocking You shouldn’t laugh at another’s misfortunes. But it’s so much fun, particularly when those in question deserve it. Who Moved My Soap? is a delightful exercise in schadenfreude ? laughter at the expense of others. http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2003-07-27-soap_x.htm

Happiness helps fight off colds Happy people are three times less likely to get a cold, according to researchers who squirted cold virus up the noses of volunteers. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993989

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Comedy legend dies at age 100, leaving behind wealth of TV, film credits http://www.msnbc.com/news/944998.asp?0na=x2107110-

It can pay to think small A Jolly Roger flag hangs in the third-floor window at ServerBeach’s headquarters in downtown San Antonio. Richard Yoo is the founder of a web hosting company called ServerBeach and also founded Rackspace, another web hosting company. The flag symbolizes the company’s renegade outlook, said Richard Yoo, its 28-year-old founder. […]

From Slashdot. “Xenarc Technologies have introduced a cool new in-dash DIN-form-factor Car PC. It features built in hard drive, audio/video, and GPS, among other things. Estimated price will be about $1200. I can’t even begin to list the possibilities for mobile computing bliss.” http://www.xenarc.com/product/cp1000.html

Texas House Bill 281 – cell phone use in cars – effective 9/1/03 Sec. 545.425. USE OF TELEPHONE; OFFENSE. (a)An operator may not use a telephone while operating a motor vehicle unless: 1) the vehicle is stopped; or 2) the telephone is used without use of either of the operator’s hands. (b) An offense under […]

Carlie sent me a Pez bomb today… check out the photo! (I put a quarter in the picture for scale)

Will there be a baby boom over the next decade? http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=N&label=2003-07-23-boom.jpg

Poetry website goes from bad to verse Vogons, fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will recall, wrote poetry so bad it could kill. Now an experiment to create poems on the web looks likely to automate the awfulness of Vogon verse. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993971

Woman Uses Blood As Weapon Against Police Officer A routine traffic stop along a quiet street turned into a bizarre crime scene in New Braunfels. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-217F796A-94DD-4287-A98D-3235AFCFAC6B.asp?0na=x2206110-

Recent research shows that there are 5 stages of sex: The 1st stage of sex is Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when you first meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face. The 2nd stage of sex is Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been with […]

David Filo, Yahoo’s co-founder and largest individual shareholder, sold company stock for the first time last week, netting around $3 million before taxes and fees. http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1030_3-5052964.html

Eat fish, ward off Alzheimer’s. Research finds omega-3 fatty acids boosts memory abilities. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-07-21-fish-usat_x.htm

From Slashdot: Home built CD changer contraption Building some sort of gadget that changes the CDs in my cd tray is something I have often thought about. Mostly in the context of ripping my CD collection or burning a backup of my 5 gig photo collection. http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

First human tongue transplant successful The surgeons who gave an oral cancer patient a donor tongue believe he will be able to talk and eat normally, but not taste http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993964

Good read… make sure you read all the pages… gets funnier… http://genmay.net/showthread.php?s=ca40545a09e0d9f96fb7aa0860a7096c&threadid=169126

How many adult men and women still live at home? http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=N&label=2003-07-21-nest.jpg

Paul found this first… but I couldn’t understand it since it seems these dorks decided to over-dub on top of the original song… so I goggle’ed for the lyrics. http://tom.madoka.be/stuff/funstuff/mp3/gigflapping/gigflapping.html

Are old drivers road hazards? Cause of accident questions if age is to blame; officials caution against criticizing older drivers’ skills. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-17-elderly-usat_x.htm Another story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-17-older-drivers-usat_x.htm Chart: http://www.usatoday.com/news/2003-07-17-license-chart.htm

Ok, large drive support works fine on Debian 3.0 mips. This is good news…. you can check out the dmesg output below.

I think its amazing that, according to this article, that GM makes more reliable cars than VW. Weird. http://channels.netscape.com/ns/wrap/linker.jsp?turl=http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/08/pf/autos/bc.autos.durability/index.htm

ServerBeach announced Debian this week… lots of press over it. Web Host Directory http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=1500 Host Review http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/030716ServerBeach.html Web Host Industry Review http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/ser071603.cfm Host Chart http://www.hostchart.com Host Buzz http://www.hostbuzz.com/ (links to SB Web site) HSPstreet.com http://www.hspstreet.com/archive/d.taf/w,s/id,13302 Web Host Magazine http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?000124.html Top Hosts http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?000124.html

Cooking in College “I don’t cook very much. I’ll sometimes eat dry Ramen noodles out of the bag,” said Jeremy Martin, who is transferring to the University of Dallas in Irving. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-A4A69524-17FE-4640-A5D4-5E0AA5CC790F.asp?0na=x2228130-

Wow! I’ve been MAJORLY quoted in this one: WEBppliance Pro For Windows 2003 Comes To Hosting Providers http://www.hspstreet.com/archive/d.taf/what,show/sid,11/id,13321/cid

Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993942

Unknowingly Girl Saves Pennies For Crack Pipes A 6-year old saves up her pennies for a present for mom. She ended up with a handful of crack pipes. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-76F36694-2BBD-4FE6-9AD9-D604266FCABE.asp?0na=x22139Q0-

Debian 3.0 installs (fairly) cleanly and (farily) easily on the RAQ2 without a screwdriver. HOWTO is here: http://people.debian.org/~pm/deb-cobalt-howto.txt It runs kernel 2.4.18 – but I don’t konw if it officialy has large drive support, so I’ll have to test it out… if so… this thing may become my new fileserver. Very exciting. 😉

Head size gives autism early warning The brains of autistic children undergo an abnormal and dramatic growth spurt in the first year of their lives, according to a new study. The growth makes their heads markedly larger than those of normal infants. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993948

This about 90seconds long… its amazingly funny… Ping-pong gone Matrix. http://www.riggedup.net/funny/kin10.wmv Thanks Bart!