The Rigged-Up Net

This is good stuff… Being a small sample of the boo-boos and blunders proudly displayed at the anti-war rally in San Francisco on September 24, 2005 DOWN WITH LITERACY!

I was wondering when they were going to do this… PSP Memory Stick Duo to Compact Flash converter

Hooray for the red, yellow and orange! Those are the colors featured on the newly redesigned $10 bill, the third currency denomination to add splashes of color to the traditional green of U.S. currency New $10 Bill Gets a Colorful

Divx Create is free – today only…. DivX Create

This is very impressive… up-to-date locations of where all the cabs are in certain cities… wow! Google Ride Finder

D00d! I love EARL! How can you not, especially when they go “OLD SCHOOL!” 😀 It airs on Tuesday nights… http://www.nbc.com/My_Name_Is_Earl/

HSL is pretty cool! Sunlight Direct is one of the main companies that makes HSL stuff…. Click here for a video clip about it. Click here for Sunlight Direct’s website

Quicktime 7 for Win32 is out… which adds supports for the H.264 video codec. However, when you go to download QT7 for Windows, you have to download the Quicktime and iTunes bundle… which is fine if you actually want iTunes…. but if you don’t, here’s the link to the standalone Quicktime installer: Standalone QuickTime Player

Ok, whats interesting was that I had this on my todo… basically, set up a random VPN server so I could securely connect to it while I’m roaming on some random public wifi network. Google beat me to it – oh well. 🙂 Anyhow, its a basic MS-type 128-bit PPTP service and the userid/password are […]

You can now send mail from Gmail using a different email address… which is cool – now you can send or reply to email using a different profile. Sweet! How to send e-mails from any address using Gmail’s SMTP server

Oh wow – class action lawsuit again Palm about their crappy Treo… FINALLY! Palm Sued Over Defective Treos and Palm being sued over Treo

Wineries have come under scrutiny because the fermentation process that turns grape sugars to alcohol releases ethanol, methanol and other organic compounds into the atmosphere, where they react with sunlight and heat to form ozone, one of the components of smog, air regulators said. ‘Wine Smog’ a Growing Concern in Calif.

Wow, you can build a vacuum form table just like the one they have on MythBusters… cool! Build a Vacuum Form Table

A new theory proposes that mad cow disease may have come from feeding British cattle meal contaminated with human remains infected with a variation of the disease. Theory: Mad Cow May Have Come From Humans

All about DRM, and why it sucks: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music

I LOVE IT! Although many physicists think such ideas are claptrap, it would be ideal if the United States could teleport U.S. soldiers into “a cave, tap bin Laden on the shoulder, and say: ‘Hey, let’s go,’ ” said Ranney Adams, spokesperson for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in the […]

Interesting discussion about Gtalk For now I’m discouraging people from switching to Google’s new IM network. It simply does not offer enough benefit to justify further fragmentation of the IM world. We’re probably never going to see meaningful innovation and advancement of IM utility until we find a way to get past the horrible plumbing […]

Buy now, pay later: It’s been the mantra of American consumers for decades. The results are obvious in the ballooning balances on credit cards and mortgage loans, and in the mushrooming U.S. trade deficit, which reflects the nation’s nearly insatiable appetite for cheap, imported goods. Debt Load Makes Americans Vulnerable

I’m so glad someone else agrees… SIP Rulez! Google Talk And Skype Are Boring, And Here’s Why

The Fed chief on Friday cautioned Americans against thinking the value of their homes and other investments will only go higher, saying “history has not dealt kindly” with that kind of optimism. Greenspan: Housing Market Will Cool Off

AMEN! These hints–many of them previously unpublished–can help you avoid the plague of poorly written SQL statements 25 SQL Commandments

The trend among college women has prompted some sexual behavior experts to light-heartedly refer to the term “LUG,” or “lesbian until graduation,” said Craig Kinsley, a neuroscientist at the University of Richmond who studies the biology of sexual orientation and gender. Survey Finds More Women Try Bisexuality

The other day, for $40 I bought an eight-port gigabit ethernet switch. And then I bought a pair of RTL8169 GigE NIC’s ($12 each) for a couple of linux servers I have. Then I decided to use the onboard Marvell Yukon GigE NIC on my workstation… at which point WinXP decided to freeze everytime I […]

As a devotee of a diet movement called caloric restriction, or CR, she believes that consuming less will allow her to live longer. It’s a notion she learned from her father, CR pioneer Roy Walford, and one she’s comfortable sharing with a national audience. Dieters Eat Less to Live Longer

The economists’ analysis, based around a mathematical model, suggest that more people would have won a million – and the contestants have taken home more overall – if they were less risk averse and willing to gamble. But contestants would also have suffered some staggering losses, against human nature. “Most people are not reckless,” says […]

How to build a $500 MythTV box…. The $500 Dollar Mythbox Project

So it seems that the placebo effect is not purely psychological: A brain imaging study, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, has revealed that our bodies’ natural painkilling system might play a role in the placebo effect. Placebo effect causes a natural high

For those of you guys who know my buddy Alec – He’s going in for open-heart surgery on Tuesday. He seems to be in high-spirits and he’s at the Mayo Clinic, so it looks like everything will be ok. 🙂

Its funny – Tivo is such a great product, but they can’t get the business part of it figure out… now they’re adding DRM and some other stupid “auto-delete” feature… its like they WANT to fail… TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows

This is pretty cool: Estimate the value of your current or prospective home by getting recent sales information for homes in your area. Home Value Search

“There have been reports linking double-dipping to hepatitis and this is actually what closed the tattoo parlors in New York City in the 1960s,” Geronemus told Reuters Health. “More recently there have been reports of hepatitis C with the placement of tattoos and that could lead to a debilitating illness.” Think twice before getting tattoo, […]

Can’t wait – starts Sept 22nd… there’s a short preview of the show on the site: Inspired by Chris Rock’s life…. everybody hates chris

Oddly interesting to watch… The Difference Between “Nigger” And “Nigga”

“Asians live in a more socially complicated world than we do,” he said in a telephone interview. “They have to pay more attention to others than we do. We are individualists. We can be bulls in a china shop, they can’t afford it.” Asians, Americans Show Perceptual Divide

Millions of Americans take steps to reduce their risk of heart disease, such as taking cholesterol-lowering drugs and watching the salt in their diets. But most people don’t know how to protect themselves from cancer, says Karen Collins, nutrition adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research. Many people worry about possible environmental causes of […]

Fire up your PVR’s folks… another season of Nip/Tuck is on its way… w00t! 🙂 The cast members of FX’s Nip/Tuck ditched their surgical scrubs for designer duds Saturday night to celebrate the premiere of the show’s third season (Sept. 20, 10 p.m. ET/PT). This night’s a lift for ‘Nip/Tuck’

Cool, its like Netflix… but for how-to videos! 🙂 TechnicalVideoRental.com

There’s a form letter at the bottom of this page you can use to request your info… Are you curious what kind of information the U.S. government has collected about you to test their Secure Flight passenger screening system? Want to find out whether the system works? Did you fly in the U.S. during June […]

Dammit, the google guys beat me to it! [grumble] My jet’s pretty big, how big is yours?

Here are some pics of the Ford CEO’s Excursion – totally pimp! Ford CEO’s Excursion – Pics!!