November 2008
How to Use Twitter to Report Voting Conditions &... →
On election day, there are bound to be problems. A grass-roots, non-partisan initiative to call them out via the Internet has been launched - The Twitter Vote Report is urging those with Twitter…
Florida GOP email: "Blacks are Voting! Blacks are... →
The Hillsborough GOP Chair, David Storck, distributed an email saying the early voters are a threat. That’s because “car loads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes…
tired and ready to leave work.
I think I’m getting sick …wonderful timing.
October 2008
Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction: 5 Scary... →
Documentaries used to have a reputation for being boring, but recently documentary filmmakers have unearthed some seriously scary stuff, from power-mad executives to brainwashed little kids. Yeah, it…
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The World Most Pointless Questions Answered →
They’re those baffling questions that pop into the brain when you’ve nothing better to think about, and only the appliance of a large helping of science can answer. Now a new book by the experts at…
Top 10 Useless Bond Skills →
From the tuxedo wet suit to free falling deck umbrellas, these are priceless.
AP: Palin actually does "Spread the Wealth Around"... →
McCain & Palin summon antidemocratic images of a communist state to attack Obama’s tax plan and his comment about spreading the wealth. But in August 2008, Palin said “And Alaska we’re set up, unlike…
Spoofing Shepard Fairey's "Hope" Posters →
Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” design might be 2008’s most seminal image—his nomination in the Top 100 TIME’s Most Influential People poll is most certainly forthcoming. But the poster’s also become a…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners (GRAPHIC... →
The competition, run by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine, attracted more than 32,000 entries from 82 countries. WARNING: Graphic pic of Polar Bear and kill at the link.
Dog vs. Crab →
Notorious Basebrawls. Best (Worst) Brawls in... →
Fun list with pics. Definitely not complete — list includes mostly recent stuff — but some classic brawls featured (e.g., Pedro vs. Don Zimmer; Juan Marichal hitting Dodger catcher Johnny Rosebero…
Tim Burton: Top Five and Bottom Five →
Which Tim Burton film is the best? We break down the famous director who brought us classics such as Ed Wood, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and misses like Planet of the Apes and Sleepy Hollow. With such a…
The Republican Party is dead →
The Republican Party is dead. Yes, I’m saying this before the election. Even if McCain wins, which could happen if Obama supporters stay home thinking the election is in the bag, the GOP still has…
If Obama wins Virginia - it's over →
If Obama wins Virginia - it’s over. That simple. He is comfortably ahead in all of the blue states that John Kerry won in 2004. He is very likely to win all of those. He is also comfortably ahead in…
Is negative coverage of McCain bias.....or just... →
Why is the media so negative towards McCain? Could it be because the McCain campaing is a mess? When there’s nothing good to report, is reporting the bad stuff bias? Not really!
http://tinyurl.com/58rjfj “Row vs. Wade” (too bad I missed this t-shirt)
http://bit.ly/1p6XNs If Obama takes Virginia= he wins; If he takes North Carolina = it’s a landslide.
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who would have thought: Vista Beta 2 cd key’s activate the PDC build of Windows 7 …weeiirrd.
thank god this week is almost over.
Opera Browser Not Allowed in iPhone App Store →
The NY Times profiles Opera Software, the company that distributes the Opera browser for multiple platforms. According to the article, however, Apple is not allowing an iPhone version of the browser…
8 Ways To Make A Raptor Even More Deadly →
October is raptor month. What better way to honor this than to create bizarre ways they could be more deadly?
Science study by MIT contradicts global warming... →
A simultaneous world wide increase in methane was observed in 2007. This contradicts theories stating man is responsible for increases as it takes a year for gases from industrial north to reach…
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http://is.gd/5gE7 Windows 7 will have at least one new font: Gabriola
I should be productive this evening, but I doubt that I will be.
stupid MS Word trick: type =rand(20) … where 20 can be replaced by any number to generate random text. bigger # = more text.
Windows 7 - cold start to desktop in 21 seconds. Consider me impressed!
23andMe: Time Magazine's Invention of the Year,... →
“We are at the beginning of a personal-genomics revolution that will transform not only how we take care of ourselves but also what we mean by personal information.”
Obama Not A Socialist, McCain Admits (VIDEO) →
In an interview with Larry King that aired last night, John McCain admitted that he doesn’t think Barack Obama is a socialist
7 Mind-Blowing Projects From Microsoft Research →
Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right? Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who’s been running Microsoft…
installing Windows 7 …we’ll see how this runs
the boot screen for Windows 7 (at least the current version of it) is gorgeous!
1st impress. of Win7 (for the pre-beta) …very speedy, looks nice but most of the fancy stuff isn’t here yet, small but nice improvements.
Windows 7 bit of interest:”Adaptive brightness” service, remote desktop via the network explorer, “Virtual disk” service, cool stuff :)
The 8 Most Ridiculous Viral Videos of the 08... →
Thanks to the internet, now anyone can stand up in support of their candidate, and have their voice heard by millions… no matter how totally insane they are.
sweet a fire drill…very exciting.
we get to play with bone and skull casts in anthro today… that should be fun.
Dogs can read emotion in human faces →
Dogs are the only animals that can read emotion in faces much like humans, cementing their position as man’s best friend, claim scientists.
Jon Stewart: John McCain's Air Quotes Are Di*k... →
John McCain has finally put the concerns of women where they belong: in derisive air quotes.
Personal Space and Urinal Selection in Male Homo... →
This is a paper I submitted as a sophomore to EFB 480, Animal Behavior. I got an A. Pardon the horrible sentence structure and other mistakes, it was written at 3am. This doesn’t just deserve an A,…
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