The Rigged-Up Net

Your Linguistic Profile: 80% General American English 15% Yankee 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Make fire from a Coke can and chocolate… Really – I’m not shitting you. Coke Can Fire

Allendale Pharmaceuticals president Gene Detroyer, left, and chief scientific officer Robert J. Staab pose with the Today Sponge boxes in the packaging area of Norwich Pharmaceuticals in Norwich, N.Y., in this July 11, 2002, file photo. Allendale Pharmaceuticals of Allendale, N.J., said Friday, April 22, 2005, that the Food and Drug Administration approved U.S. sales […]

Fascinating: Bug Tricks

San Antonio is home to four of the highest paid executives in the country, according to an article released Friday by Forbes.com. Four San Antonio CEOs rank among the highest paid in America

Well that explains it! The city’s score makes it the worst major city in Texas for allergies. Austin ranked 26th in the country, Dallas-Fort Worth ranked 36th, Houston ranked 50th, El Paso ranked 72nd and McAllen ranked 76th. San Antonio ranks as worst city in Texas for allergies, study shows

Austin is the 10th healthiest city among the country’s 50 largest cities, according to a new study. Study: Austin among healthiest U.S. cities

People love photoshop… and there are tons of tutorials for it. But its very expensive. Gimpshop is a mod on the free and open Gimp image editor – and the UI emulates Photoshop… so if you love photoshop, but don’t want to pay for it… Gimpshop is for you. GIMPshop for Windows The GIMPshop homepage

We went to Disneyworld today and it’s supposedly the happiest place on eartth, it looked more like people were in hell. Our Orlando Vacation: Day 3 “The Happiest Place on Earth”

A researcher at the University of Alberta has shown that parents are more likely to give better care and pay closer attention to good-looking children compared to unattractive ones. Dr. Andrew Harrell presented his findings recently at the Warren E. Kalbach Population Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Researchers show parents give unattractive children less attention

Rackspace, is once again ranked as the most reliable hosting company site this month Rackspace Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during March

Designated the HP iPaq hw6500 series, the GSM/GPRS/EDGE devices are aimed at exploiting opportunity represented by the remaining sentiment towards pocket PC/exchange devices as well as the desire amongst corporate and SME users to have instant, always-on email in the same fashion as the popular BlackBerry from Research in Motion. HP to deploy smart phones […]

So at about 2am, the building fire alarm decided to go off…. repeatedly…. over and over again until about 2:30am. As far as anyone can tell, its a false alarm. [grumble]