<font color="#800000">Snow?</font> Snow?

Quick Thoughts
* Underwhelmed by all the snow we don't have ... yet. They are still saying we should get 3-6" ...
* And I am feeling sicker ... really unsweet.
* Seriously, last reminder (+ Blegging) : TrafficAxiom, is running a free upgrade as a limited time offer (ENDS TODAY) ... and when you sign up you can use me as your referrer! (and thanks to Greg)


News
* Iraq : Car-bomb kills ~100 ... wow, and condolences + prayers! ... and CNN says it is up to 110 now ... sadly, some now say 115 ...
* Lebanese govt = out? ... Lebanon's pro-Syrian government resigns, two weeks after the assassination of a former prime minister ... an entire govt resigning is a relatively rare (and, in this case, welcome!) occurrence ...
* Qatar signs $20B in deals ... ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch ... Natural Gas ...
* Fed : Income down, spending flat
* Saddam to be caged during trial ... befitting the animal he is ...
* 10yr old boy crushed by giant snowball
* More humane euthanasia ... this shelter will be 'no kill' by 2007 ... more adoption outreach and rescue programs (like this one in Virginia!) still needed! ... And Virginia Shepherd Rescue needs foster homes, help if you can ...
* OBL wants al-Zarqawi to hit the US ... naturally ...

Interesting
* Terri : Euthanasia, political football ... and more here ... must read ... thanks Beth! ... and how about we all get together, and impeach Judge Greer? ... just a thought ...
* ISS getting supplies
* University of Colorado staffers, sheep to the end, defend Ward Churchill
* Arabs against al Qaida? ... finally ...
* National ID privacy scare - FUD?
* PoliPundit's answer to the illegal immigration issue ... found via Malkin :)
* Thoughts on Bush's budget, and the poor ... and welfare reform ...
* 10yrs old : Yahoo, Apache, eBay, Amazon, Netscape ... does Netscape really count, seeing as they are part of AOLTimeWarner now?
* Why Hawaiians != Native Americans
* Flat Tax, at work ... in Europe, not US :(
* CAFTA?
* More Dean notable quotables
* GlobalFlyer nears takeoff
* More on accountability in public schools
* Skype + txt
* Hacking Remote Control signals
* More on the 'dominoes of democracy'
* Unemployment : France=10%, Germany=11% ... US=5% ... so, who has the right idea here?
* More thoughts on Public School, evolution, big bang
* Saturn's radiation belts, on film
* Hot air on Wash Post Op Ed page ... is that a surprise to anyone?
* 'Progressives vs. Progress'
* Nuclear Korea, back at the table ... another failed tantrum / delay ...
* NBC - 'Network Blaspheming Catholics'
* Canada redefines spouse
* Qwest sweetening MCI bid (again)
* MS WMV in patent trouble?
* Sandisk intros waterproof USB flash drive
* 2 more retroviruses than can jump monkey-to-human
* Opera (the browser) against phishers
* The (cough) softer side of the black Panthers ... "No mention of Betty Van Patter, Alex Rackley, or more than a dozen others tortured and/or murdered during the Black Panther Party's heyday"
* CPU Cheat Sheet
* XBOX clusters?!
* RFID + DartGun?
* A little history of ringtones
* Teens not afraid of HIV ... young and dumb ...
* True Pope tidbits
* Keep Pantani in your prayers ... help if you are able! Go USMC!
* New season of Stargate, filming has begun
* US life expectancy hits all time high
* Thoughts on school vouchers
* More arguments against govt-run health care systems ... "nationalized British Health Service has been murdering tens of thousands of women for over twenty five years. They now admit it ... Handing over your health to the government increases the likelihood that you will become part of the next great silent medical pogrom."

Funny
* New OOTS ... re-ambushed, and go faster!
* More UF on pop-unders
* Air Force Outsources physical fitness program
* Canseco claims he injected Goldie Hawn with botox
* Females snubbed again in best actor category
* European protesters spell only 25% of signs correctly
* McGruff the Crime Dog arrested in kitty porn sting
* Fossils are a hoax
* Those tapes were due to a 3m cocaine binge
* Bush Diary
* San Diego deluged with up to .03" of rain
* Website Idea Generator

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Quick Thoughts
* More snow (maybe) coming ... sweet.
* Feeling sick ... unsweet.
* Friendly reminder + Blegging : TrafficAxiom, is running a free upgrade as a limited time offer ... sign up(using me as your referrer)! (and thanks to Greg)


News
* Iraq : al-Hassan (#36) captured ... Syria making nice? ... and I wonder who gets the $1M?
* Pope makes an appearance ... at his window, that is
* Iraq : Bomb kills 8 ... condolences for those killed near Mosul ...
* Jessica Lunsford still missing, no clues
* Russia moves forward helping Iran go Nuclear ... for "energy use only" ... we shall see ...
* Thoughts on (public) High Schools ... Bill Gates says ""America's high schools are obsolete" (while giving $700M to try and help)
* Global anti-smoking pact?
* Federated (Macy's, Bloomies) to buy May Dept ... $11B ...
*
* Protesters protest, despite govt ban ... in Beirut ...

Interesting
* Rallies to save Enterprise
* Putin seems to believe Bush fired CBS employees over Ra^thergate ... that may be how it works in Russia, but not in the US ...
* Your Visa to get RFID? ... hmm, I can think of several ways this could be abused ... (especially when no signature is required for anything under $25)
* Unreal Engine 3 preview
* Russia trying to go to Mars?
* How to save Skype vmails
* Kilogram getting reworked?
* Your nickel gets a bison
* Thoughts on news aggregation / presentation ... um, like what I am doing here :P
* Introducing the "Count Every Vote Act" ... haven't read it yet ...
* 1TB of memory per square inch!
* 'Dyslexia' is actually hyperactivity?
* Buy a Cray, on eBay

Funny
* Broken Video - #1 ... and #2 ... and #3 ... links found here
* UF on MS's pay for bugs policy ... and makes an old-school reference to Gates' 640k is 'enough for anyone' ...

<font color="#800000">Babysitting</font> Babysitting

Quick Thoughts
* I find myself babysitting my beautiful 8m old daughter (pic at the end of today's post :) ) this morning - and let me take just a few seconds to say that as I sit here holding her, with her holding her morning bottle (of breast milk), that fatherhood is truly amazing ... actually, now she is asleep in Daddy's lap. Watching her grow, develop her personality, and reach milestones (she crawled for the first time on the 22^nd) is the best experience in the world. Knowing that I helped make such a precious thing, and that this tiny, little person is totally dependent on us (my wife & I) really changes your perspective.
* I have signed up for a new clickie - TrafficAxiom, and they are running a free upgrade as a limited time offer ... sign up! (and thanks to Greg)


News
* It is official - BTK has been apprehended
* Iraq : 2 killed in Baghdad, pipeline hit ... condolences, and to the US forces over there and to the Iraqi security forces - keep up the good work!
* S. Korea : US chopper (Apache) crashes, 1 GI killed ... during training, condolences & prayers ...
* Yemen : Court upholds death sentence in USS Cole bombing ... good!
* Egypt : True democracy coming? ... "President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday ordered a revision of the country's election laws and said multiple candidates could run in the nation's presidential elections" ... another example of Democracy 'breaking out'? ...
* Togo's President resigns ... the right wins again
* USAF pilot's remains finally come home ... was shot down during the Korean War ...
* Japan, back in space ... just waiting for the US to get back out there (with people, that is)

Interesting
* Mapping the source of terror funding
* Legal reasons Terri must not be murdered
* Twice in the grinder ... "Made me pretty damn embarrassed to be a 'rear area warrior'" ... and it makes me proud to be an American!
* Thoughts on taxes, govt spending, etc.
* More truth on Social inSecurity ... "the trust fund "assets" total nearly $1.7 trillion in Treasury IOUs. Having already spent the money, the government in effect owes this debt to itself. Thus, to redeem these bonds, the government will have only four options: raise taxes; reduce Social Security benefits; reduce spending elsewhere; or borrow on the world market."
* More on LokiTorrent abusing the trust people put in it ... they don't even fight, handing the MPAA a victory, $1M, and all of the data on his servers ... regardless of the fact that he could have (probably) won the court case if he had a spine
* Battlestar Galactica, episode 1 (33) - available online, free, commercial free, plus deleted scenes!
* WRT Bush - "In Reagan's Footsteps "? ... even 'Der Spiegel' (leftish German newsweekly, which two years ago devoted an entire cover story to advancing the "Blood for Oil" thesis about U.S. ambitions in the Middle East) is now asking "Could Bush Be Right"? (the answer, BTW, is "YES!" :) )
* Honor killings ... ah yes, the religion of peace!
* Artificial atoms, quantum computing
* Toss Bashar Assad out
* Reparations finally a dead issue? ... funny : "chief appeasement officers"
* The pen, revisited ... "no grip" ...
* 'Give a little piece of yourself' ... wedding rings made out of your own bone ... creepy / icky ...
* nForce4 for Intel!
* Thought on Iran; censorship, protests, and Ahmad Batebi
* More thoughts on Canada's dropping out of the Missile Defense co-op ... "Canada has decided not to invest in its own self-defense"
* The power of ten ... just a zero, right?
* Blogs for Terri, vs censorship
* Video of Malkin subbing for Hannity ... covers a good range of topics - Terri, immigration, etc.

Funny
* New missile defense plan ... Oh, Canada!
* Pen-arate? ... same concept, butwit lighters
* UF : return of the pop-under

<font color="#800000">Pick a title, any title</font> Pick a title, any title

Quick Thoughts
* All our lovely snow is melting :( ... but we might get more next week!
* Prayers to/for the Pope, Terri Schiavo and little Jessica Lunsford
* Several links today were found via MadTech, go read him (after finishing here, naturally :P)
* Wow, "Dayside w/ Linda Vester" interviewing Omarosa ... they are having a (verbal) catfight; adding snide comments like dearie, honey ... doing old-school "whip it out and measure style" credential comparisons ... LV ends the interview with : "you clearly have studied a lot but still don't have a clue" ... nice!
* Gratuitous Blegging : Sign up for clickies, with me as your referrer:

News
* Terri : DCF requests additional (60 day) stay, investigating abuse charges ... and a petition w/ 100k(!) signatures is being delivered to Jeb ... and the Vatican weighs in ... UPDATE : Terri has just received (another) extension!
* Pope is off the ventilator! ... still not allowed to speak ... some reports are saying he was never on a ventilator ... after receiving the trach he is reported to have (jokingly) written 'What have you done to me' :) ... developing ...
* Iraq : Terrorist ('cell leader') captured ... major catch!
* Iraq : 7 killed, including 3 US GIs ... condolences ...
* Suicide-Terrorist kills 5 at nightclub in Tel Aviv
* More on the missing 9yr old in FLA ... Jessica Lunsford, 4'11", 70lbs, Brown hair & brown eye ... no Amber Alert issued (does not meet all criteria, so let's get the word out the old fashioned way!)
* BoA : 1.2M accounts jeopardized ... back in December they lost some tapes, baggage handlers suspected ... wow, and this following ChoicePoint's Charlie-Foxtrot (more on ChociePoint below :) )
* FollowUp : "Hate Crime" charges dropped against Christians in Philly ... they were being prosecuted for reading the Bible ...
* Viacom posts $18B+ quarterly loss
* Qwest sweetens MCI offer ... when $8B is not enough
* PG-13 movie includes profanity ... including F???, S???, A??whole ...
* Vietnam +1 Avian Flu case
* US Economy growing better than expected ... imagine that, lower taxes & other pro-business moves yield a better economy ... hmm, whoddathunkit? ... and this, in spite of illegals costing the US $68B per year ... as many smart people are saying, a country that cannot secure her borders is not secure! ... and illegals buying houses with fake IDs? ... and more thoughts on our federal budget, deficit, etc.
* ANOTHER teacher-student sex instance ... added 'bonus' - toddler was in the backseat
* VA's next gubernatorial race : Kilgore vs Kaine vs Potts ... you tell 'em, Jerry
* ChoicePoint execs cashing out? ... let the investor lawsuits begin!
* Iran hiding nuclear technology in tunnels?
* Rice to London, but not middle east
* HIV infection rate in blacks doubles
* Adult Stem Cells work wonders ... without killing any babies(a la ESCR), wouldjya look at that?
* Powell criticizes Iraq troop levels ... um, yes and no ...

Interesting
* 'Freedom Of Religion' not 'Freedom From Religion' ... well said!
* European racism, making a comeback? ... required reading!
* OptimizeXP ... and making XP start faster
* Inside HIV, protein magic
* Handheld laser 'pointer' - that can burn through a plastic cup!
* Soros, funding terror? ... no surprise there!
* Firefox 1.0.1 released ... click there, click free download ...
* Thoughts on ACLU's "No crosses on Federal property" crusade ... or, more accurately, a picture ... demonstrates a slight problem in yet another poorly thought out & misdirected ACLU plot against this country
* Librarians don't like bloggers either
* Regulate salt?
* Did you know that the NC legislature is trying to retroactively mangle last years
* Cool - math + art
elections?
* Speculation : Trade Cheney for Condi, and prepare voters for 2008?
* Student expelled for writing a paper ... What bias in education? (Ward Churchill is not fired for aiding potential terrorists, but this student gets expelled for advocating spanking in the classroom) ... and, speaking of Churchill, just where is his thesis anyway? ... oh, and look - he forged works of art!
* SC&A : Are we living in 1984 right now, or will we be soon? ... very interesting post!
* The army as a gangster training ground? ... I had never thought of that ... funny : "no blood for bling-bling"
* MS clamping down (just a little) on WPA fraud
* UK recalls 140+ foods
* eBay, price-gouging?
* Stellar eclipse, March 3
* Scientific fraud - DDT ... Malaria, once near extinction, now one of (if not the) greatest dangers to humans
* Missile Defense system component (Aegis) successfully downs inbound missile ... Canada still withdrawing ...
* Ladies : secretly getting pregnant can land you in court! ... just read, its funny & true
* Google Calendar? ... still waiting on GBrowser too :)
* Making WiFi guests comfy
* Specter still an obstruction to progress?
* Compare and contrast : SCO & the Titanic ... "Captain Smith didn't steer his doomed ship towards the iceberg, he hit it by accident"
* Low-cost home surveillance system
* Simplifying CSS?
* SC&A : Think about patriotism
* United States Designates Muhsin al-Fadhli a Terrorist ... this was done back on Feb15, and as Cao points out the MSM is ignoring this ... again, what media bias?
* Coulter, on the "Gannon-gate" that wasn't
* Thoughts on Condi's wardrobe ... FWIW - I thought she looked just fine ... and now I feel just a bit homo posting a 'fashion' related link, not that there is anything wrong with that ...
* BTK suspect/'person of interest' arrested
* Gay men read maps like women?
* How can MS kill Linux?
* Solar Tower
* The first-ever WWW picture!
* Nero6 OEM - FREE!
* Nanoscopic measuring
* Filename extension list
* China walks out of Wireless LAN Security / Standards talk
* Phytoplankton, fed by floods?

Funny
* Pope prescribed Marijuana ... "The concern is that we'll find the Pope sitting in his hospital bed in a few days listening to rap-hop music and raving about murdering nurses"
* 1988 Dodge Aries - a new definition of class ... hot stuff, baby
* UF : Supports updating your Firefox!
* US Voting machines make democrats disappear
* Bush hosts G1 Conference
* New martial art : Thai Dai ... only for the bright, bold and color-blind
* Mike Piazza weds Alicia Rickter, still a homo
* Michael Jackson hospitalized for emergency bleaching procedure
* True : Stupid human tricks, or what love makes people do
* Bush fires nickname aide
* Nickie to stick around after all
* Flash Game : (NSFW/Sound) Drop Kick The Faint ... funny!
* Bush vs Kerry - in pictures!
* Sad? : Ransom Note Generator
* True : T-Mobile +1 victim : Fred Durst ... not really 'hacking', BTW - even calling it social engineering might be a stretch ...
* True : Do we elect 5yr olds? ... "he started it"
* True : Hard Drive Wind-chime!

Quote of the Day
SPEEDing|VoNK: You can't use Knoppix as a server can you?
bob: Why not, People use windows as one.
thanks BASH!

<font color="#800000">Snow!</font> Snow!

Quick Thoughts
* Still on Percoset, still running slow ... and sadly unable to enjoy the snow we are getting :( ... and it is a big storm, supposed to drop up to 8" around here! … ok, so it didn’t quite hit 8”
* FOXNEWS : Amber Alert issued for a 9yr old in Florida (ticker not showing it?)
* Symantec has raised the Internet ThreatCon to 2, based on a Trend Micro AV issue (.arj vuln) and a Cisco ACNS vuln ...

News
* Iraq : Car bomb kills 15 in Tikrit ... 4 others killed elsewhere, more condolences for those innocent people killed ... site updated, sadly death toll is now up to 30 ...
* Bush : "Iraqis are experiencing their own 1989"
* US-Russia, united(?) against Nuclear Terrorism ... and pro-Democracy ... ahem, note that words != actions
* Pope back to the hospital ... and getting a tracheotomy? ... update : Pope is trach'd, "serene" and recovering ... was elective (non-emergency) ...
* Texas courthouse shooting kills 3
* Weekly jobless claims come in a bit higher than expected ... however, the 4 week moving average is still down ... and durable goods orders down a bit
* Oil hits 4m high ... hovering an easy $16/barrel too high ...
* Asian banks - no dollar dumping
* UK rolls out official govt virus alert site
* Canada refuses further participation in North American missile defense efforts ... US to continue anyway ...
* Sudan 1, food dye, poses risk worldwide
* UN Refugee Chief Lubbers quites ... more dominoes down, how may until Kofi?
* Wal-Mart -$7.5M ... discrimination case ... note that this will almost certainly be reduced by ~$4M+ (and expect an appeal?) ... still seems a bit high to me!
* People are sick : 7m old infant was abused, sexually assaulted ... "suffered damage to every vital organ and her tongue had been nearly severed" ... what is wrong with people? If the parents did it they deserve the harshest penalty possible, and then some. If not - how did this happen 'under their supervision'? Atrocious ... and, in unrelated news (aside from both being terrible examples of what humans are capable of) : Father kills 2 kids, self ... 1yr old and 2 yr old killed, 3 others live ...
* Female Suffrage in Saudi? .. more 'fallout' from the success of democracy spreading through Afghanistan & Iraq, maybe?

Interesting
* Sign a petition to help save Terri ... and read about the 'exit protocol' here ... understand what they are trying to make Terri go through ... and you can make a donation for Terri ... and more here, 'Terri is not a houseplant'
* XBOX Hacking w/o opening the case! ...'soft mod' ...
* Ward Churchill's money trail ... "prominent, mainstream liberal organizations" ... and Ward is caught, on tape, supporting / advocating / providing instruction on terrorism
* IT people working too hard ... ain't that the truth!
* LokiTorrent owner a scumbag ... the lawsuit was a hoax, he took the money and ran ... ?
* The power of pessimism - in keeping your stuff safe
* Recharge your cel phone with a mobile turbine!?
* More thoughts on the abuse of 'Eminent Domain'
* Some thoughts on the BBC's ('Bush Bash central') rants against America ... we stick to our principles, amongst other 'evils' ...
* More thoughts on Ward Churchill ... and I disagree, he should be fired, and the 'problem' is getting much needed publicity ... free speech != hate speech, and even when free speech is free it doesn't prevent you from being fired by non-government institutions!
* Scientific tabloidism?
* Ice Shelf collapse - Global Warming not at fault
* Psychedelic drugs - a beneficial use?
* EDS closing 21 US, European centers ... more work to India
* Compression algorithms against HIV
* HP releases 'secure router'
* More thoughts on Media bias
* When cops are stuck between crime & politics ... " Special Order No. 1", and other reasons James Hahn may be ousted as Mayor ...
* FBI releases Sober warning
* Real people making real money in real estate
* Software that learns to translate by reading
* Thoughts on Russian democracy ... not great, but could be much worse!
* Martha trying to re-CEO herself ... excuse me, I thought this was expressly forbidden? Interesting ...
* Bratislava a good, and meaningful, place for Bush & Putin to meet
* Next XBOX to have a removable Hard Drive? ... 'xPod' ...
* Spaceplanes, in 2007?!
* Soccer link to motor neuron disease
* Advice for ChoicePoint victims
* Hubble, +1yr to expected lifespan ... 2 gyros work as good as 3 ...
* Gator (of GAIN infamy) CPO hired @ DHS ... they also have ex-DoubleClick'er ... both leave a bad taste in my mouth ...
* Sails making a come back? ... for cargo ships?
* Free SSL Certificate project ... and everyone should get a free personal certificate form Thawte! (can be used for S/MIME (email encryption & signing))
* Google cheat sheet - unleash your inner power searcher
* Another Pay-to-Surf program ... $.75/hr, auto-site rotation ... have a spare 'always on' PC at home? (Oh, and be sure to keep the spyware blockers up to date)
* Grow your own Breast Implants? ... stem cells put to (cough) good use!
* ESCR : Bush "vs" Romney?
* Thoughts on "A Twelve Step Program For Identifying and Eliminating Organizational Change" ... how to prevent change, how to identify those stopping change, etc.
* More on Paris Hilton's phone being 'hacked' ... some good thoughts, that more people should follow (including a reference to the SANS Top 20 list :) )
* Question : ' What percentage of Iran's population is under 30 years old?' ... wow! ... and read the comments, very interesting ...
* Japan.gov survives DDoS attack
* Misc Thoughts on Lebanon ... including the 'important quote of the day', below ...
* The (odious) ACLU rides again, against cops this time
* Korn losing drummer, as he is going to focus on his religious beliefs?
* Student suspended for 10 days for a little rubber band indiscretion ... facing expulsion ... WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SCHOOLS IN THIS COUNTRY? ... More reasons to home school ... and here's another example - Principal, having instituted successful teaching policies, relieved of of instructional duties ... and by successful programs - I mean they were ranking #2 in the state ... "If someone goes outside the system to actually teach their kids in an effective manner, they are shunned and smeared"
* More thoughts on Social inSecurity ... found via Conservative Insurgent, who also offers this tidbit - "if Social Security is so stable, why not eliminate the current Thrift Savings Plan that Congress enjoys and bring all members of Congress under the security umbrella of Social Security where they too can reap the bounty with the rest of us"
* Use PayPal a lot? want a quick / easy way to calculate fees?
* Mating Crisis? ... seems like just about everyone I know is not only married, but actively reproducing!
* Trust your gut instincts!
* AmericanSpectator's way of representing the AARP, while humorous (and not to far off base) it makes it easy to sidestep the issue : that AARP has an extremely liberal agenda ... Oh, and DefectiveYeti brings us a humorous re-interpretation (sadly, he links to DailyKos - sorry)


Funny
* New OOTS! ... some ambushes just don't quite work
* True : PC PitStop put $1k in their EULA ... and proves that noone reads them!
* Increasingly, terrorists are chattering about Brad and Jen
* "Extreme Makeover" show admits it substituted supermodel Tyra Banks for contestant
* Airbus 380 causes despair in travelers
* Death by Blog
* The next James Bond? ... Kerry, Carter, Moore ... left out Kennedy-Bond, with two alternatives for drowning the evil of our world ..
* US sure N(uclear) Korea has nuclear weapons, lost tribes, unicorns
* Bush's approval rating jumps 12% among past evil rulers
* Common sense horoscope ... "Keep sulfuric acid away from children"
* Jews can't farm?
* France celebrates the end of Freedom Fries ... "W" Ketchup still kickin'
* Bush boosts spending on GOP Spinal research
* True? : NeoCon Circle Jerk ... excellent company to find yourself in! ... read the linked-to site if you want 'the other side' of the argument
* War on Terror Ends in Surrender
* Internet - better without trolls!
* More words of wisdom ... such as "A successful marriage isn't finding the right person-it's being the right person"
* Some late White Trash Wednesday

Offensive = yes, Funny = yes
... but only in that it helps to get the word out to those who might not be interested!
* Terri : Saved by 'Endangered' designation
* Terri : Diet Book
* Terri: Michael to auction Terri off
Thanks to Beth for pointing these out!
* True! : RVB having a PaintBall event! ... sadly, it is in Texas ... (the state, not the chick in black armor)

Quote of the Day
Contemporaries remember Hunter S. Thompson as ravenous, mutant 40-eyed lizard-demon
thanks TheOnion!

Important Quote of the Day
"It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq ... I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world... The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
Thanks Chrenkoff

<font color="#800000">Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?</font> Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?

My Response to imao's question - "Who the Hell Do I Think I Am." (This is an example of a meme :) )

1. Who the hell do you think you are?
I am Timmmaaaayyyy! Or TJ. A 30yr old, half-alcoholic, college drop-out ... although I gave up alcohol for lent, and am making plans to return to college. I have a beautiful wife & amazing 7m old daughter, and two German Shepherds. I drive a jacked-up Jeep Wrangler, which (sadly) spends all of its time on pavement. I am a United Methodist (Christian), and very Conservative.

2. So, other than blogging, what's your job? Do you work at some fast food joint, dumba**?
Network Design & Support, Information Security.

3. Do you have like any experience in journalism, idiot?
Proud to say, NO.

4. Do you even read newspapers?
Rarely, sometimes I read their sites though!

5. Do you watch any other news than FOX News propaganda, you ignorant fool?
Not often, although I don't get to watch FOXNEWS very often ... those of us who have jobs can't watch lots of TV ...

6. I bet you're some moron talk radio listener too, huh?
Nope, I drive into work at 5am - not much talk radio going on then ... so I listen to CDs - currently George Thoroughgood. In the past I have spent lots of time listening to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson (my favorite band / artist) as well.

7. So, do you get a fax from the GOP each day for what to say, you @#$% Republican parrot?
Faxes are for old people! And red lights are for cops! (sorry, inside joke)

8. Why do you and your blogger friends want to silence and fire everyone who disagrees with you, fascist?
I want people to speak their mind, but I want them to be well informed when they do so.

9. Are you completely ignorant of other countries, or do you actually own a passport?
No, and No.

10. Have you even been to another country, you dumb hick?
Yes, as long as they don't (didn't) require a passport (e.g. - Canada, Jamaica).

11. If you're so keen on the war, why haven't you signed up, chickenhawk?
I am too old, and I can serve the country better in other ways. If it came down to it I would not hesitate to volunteer.

12. Do you have any idea of the horrors of war? Have you ever reached into a pile of goo that was your best friend's face?
Yes, but not from personal experience ... and no. Oh, does CounterStrike or REDvsBLUE count??

13. Have you ever reached into any pile of goo?
Yes, but not by choice. And does picking up after my German Shepherd Dogs counts ...

14. Once again, who the hell do you think you are?!
I am someone who was sickened by what I was seeing in the mainstream media during the last ~1.5 years of Bush's first term, and part of the process of becoming more informed included posting what I find ... mostly for my future reference (that was the original purpose of my blogging effort - organizing information / resources), but made available for all to share. And indexed by search engines, to boot!

<font color="#00FFFF">Save Terri</font> Save Terri

An email I sent today ... (after signing the petition, that is) ... I encourage everyone out there to get informed about Terri's plight, sign that petition and send a similar email (modified to reflect your views, naturally) ...

ATTN : president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov; jeb.bush@myflorida.com; lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov; speaker@myfloridahouse.gov

SUBJ : Terri Schiavo

Good morning, best wishes to all of you.

I am writing you this morning, as I am sure many others are, to ask that
each of you do everything within your power to prevent Terri Schiavo from
being murdered.

Let me say, that I support the 'right to die' for those who have proclaimed
their decision and meet a very specific list of criteria. Terri fulfills
neither of those criteria. Additionally, in Terri's case, under her
circumstances, this would not be mercy. Rather, it would be outright
murder. This decision was not reached lightly, and there are many resources
I have poured through to reach this conclusion.

To summarize - I support legislative, judicial and executive efforts that
will stop the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo.


Sincerely,
TJ Evans

<font color="#800000">Still down, but not out</font> Still down, but not out

Quick Thoughts
* Down - as in on Percoset. Not Out - as in stuck at home.
* Child Abduction emergency alert issued in MD & VA ... 9m old is missing, suspect may be armed, and is/was wearing sweat suit & is driving truck with ladder rack ('Amber Alert ticket' not showing it yet :( )
* Bush, speaking in Germany, called for renewed Nuclear Power efforts here in the US ... Sweet!
* Ward Churchill's appearance @ University of Hawaii got a standing ovation
* O'Reilly just interviewed a freelance reporter on the deplorable practice of our border patrols; let me just say that a nation that cannot (read : will not) secure its borders is not secure!

News
* Read about Terri Schiavo ... this might (probably will) be the most important thing you read today! ... UPDATE(16:17EST) : emergency stay extended until 5pm FRI! ... and Cao raises an excellent point - where are 'the big boys' on this one? ... or, atleast she forwards a thought from Superhawk ... regardless, still an excellent question!
* India : Avalanche kills 200+ ... death toll still rising, condolences for all of them!
* Iran : More on the recent earthquake; death toll hits 500
* Iraq : Allawi trying to keep his job ... and, sadly, more violence - including a US GI being killed. Condolences for all of those killed, and prayers for all wounded / still fighting
* US Supreme Court to address the 10 Commandments ... it is embarrassing that this case made it this far, and I sincerely hope the Court shoots it down once & for all ...
* British store selling 'danger food'?
* More on the Bird Flu ... 'could kill more than SARS' ...
* Winn-Dixie, Bankrupt
* Mt St Helens still active, drops a slab of rock
* Airport inSecurity?
* Perchlorate found in Breast Milk across the US ... as well as store-bought (cows') milk, lettuce, water ... level is within ;safe limits; for adults, but a baby's threshold is much lower ...
* The Labour Party might be arrested under a law they are pushing ... amusing, but not good ... more importantly - it exposes a flaw in the wording of the law
* Another teacher-student sex case ... like a plague ... in this case, the 27yr old teacher is being "charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape"
* Cali : Storm death toll reaches 9 ... and one airport; 3^rd heaviest rain ever
* Meet the Jackson jury ... selected in record time

Interesting
* More on the Bush assassination plot
* Synthetic enamel for your teeth ... my hurting, enamel-less, heavily drilled teeth could sure use this!
* MS releases out-of cycle, 'critical' patch for XP
* Introducing GoogleMovies! ... I still wish Google was less blue, in more ways than one
* HIV starting to reveal its secrets
* Flickr + TiVo
* Logitech X-530 5.1 5-Piece System with Subwoofer Speaker for less than $45!
* Australia takes stance against kiddie porn ... ISPs will be held liable, with fines up to $55k ... I think this is going to be very hard to enforce for the ISPs ...
* Beijing makes 'major' purchase of Windows ... contrary to the policy it announced last year, saying it would support only home grown apps, etc.
* Arnold, telling it like it is ... upsets nurses, teachers
* Li-Ion battery +300%, & recharges in minutes? ... or 'hopeful hype'?
* EU trying to tackle RFID privacy issues
* Congress representation, graded for you convenience ... Virginia does pretty well (except for Moran, Boucher & Scott - if only we could get rid of them ... hmm ... :) )
* Some thoughts on Unions ... and how they want to kill Wal-Mart (I added that part)...
* Open Source VOIP PBX
* OASIS not open enough?
* NC to legalize Prostitution? ... and more 'fun' in NC
* Perle on France, Germany
* Quite a life story, thank you for sharing Raven ... and prayers for her & her husband!
* PS - Ward Churchill's tenure was a mistake ... seriously!
* Figures of speech ... the use of dysphemisms should be limited ...
* The curse of the Iceman?
* Podcasting not going to change the world? ... maybe true, but the same was said about blogs ...
* Dutch firm helps you dump your significant other ... a sad example of what we have all come to ...
* Astronomers spot 'dark galaxy'
* Sony (completely) drops the Clie ... no PDA for us ...
* 9/11 victim ID effort has ended ... over 1000 victims unidentified / unidentifiable
* India - the next knowledge superpower?
* Being frozen for 32k years doesn't stop these little buggers
* WiMax - the good and the bad ... but no ugly!
* Roaming ducks pose Avian Flu threat?
* NetGear WGR614 802.11g Wireless Router for $9.99!
* No AMD @ Dell!
* The good folks at SysInternals have released RootkitRevealer ... on the heels of "Rootkits coming to Win*" ...
* PowerPod; a TrackerPod for your camcorder
* Raptors ranged far and wide
* The rise of the weblication?
* McCain - how liberal is he?

Funny
* True : Students pay 200quid for a laptopbag of potatoes
* White Trash Wednesday, sayings
* Bush gets the munchies
* Jude Law's first 100 days, as People's SMA
* Cuba's aid package to tsunami victims arrives - 10 blankets, box of cigars ... read what the response was :)
* Minnesota isn't comfortable asking for more interstate funding,
* Baby : Office chair a quart low
* Town replaces jury with 'Magic 8 ball'
* I support the occupation of Iraq, but not our troops
* BBspot Labs Tech Tips
* True? : Russian scientists develop tablet to prolong drunkenness
* "No Name-Calling" Week Degenerates into Violence
* Use of word "crisis" reaches crisis proportions
* Rapper MC Bush
* Miller Brewing pestering local man to drink responsibly
* Baby : The correct way to calculate the age of your child is "((F-5) + ((S*3) / (W2 - A)) - C) months" .. timely, since today is (according to the calendar anyway) Riley's 8m birthday!
* Another dose of Wise Words ... such as "It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a little dirt"
* Put those seniors to work!
* Black Superheroes need Affirmative Action
* Elevator Disco
* Write-in candidate ‘Yankee Go Home’ wins Iraq election
* Baby : Tired of looking at same 4 Uterine walls ... "I'm not even a child yet, and already I'm being treated like one"
* True : SC&A : Destroys poor Abigail, and her Magic Garden ... and wow, she is WAY out there. Her little magic garden could use a dose (or 5) of reality ...
* Yeti Sports - this is still hilarious!
* True'ish : Iraqi govt to-do list

Quote of the Day
vapoR: lately my mother has been complaining about how much time the dad has been spending in the computer room..
vapoR: she comes up to me and goes "For Christmas, I want you to get your father a gift that will get him out of that stupid computer room!"
vapoR: so i went out and purchased him a wireless router :p
thanks BASH!

<font color="#800000">Percoset = a day off of work</font> Percoset = a day off of work

Quick Thoughts
* Not moving too fast today, please be patient ... Percoset is good ... wow, have made it quite a long post today - sorry!
* Riley, on the other hand, has crawled, for the first time, today! Sweet!
* Sponsor MadTech in his March of Dimes 'Walk America'! ... UPDATE (022305) - I made my donation, and my employer matches!!

News
* Bush assassination plot ... 23yr old, was a high school valedictorian, now working with/for al Qaida ... had been held in Saudi Arabia for 1-2 years ... developing ... name = "Ahmed Omar Abu Ali"
* High Court to review assisted suicide law ... Terri's fight goes on ... note that, in general, I support 'assisted suicide', but in cases like Terri's this would be murder ... and USSC also to review BitTorrent!
* Blog for Terri, great site for info! ... and more on Terri, and her 'winner' of a husband, here ... and UPDATE : Judge has issued emergency stay until 5pm tomorrow; until after further court hearings
* More on Iran's latest earthquake ... "hundreds killed" ... condolences ...
* NATO commits to help in Iraq
* More on the recent Amber Alert - car found, suspect in custody, mother & son still missing ... worst feared, suspect (he might be the father of the unborn child, btw) charged with 3 counts of murder! ... UPDATE : speculation=bodies of all three found, sadly. If true, condolences for them and prayers to their family and friends ... UPDATE : some reports now saying 'not all three bodies' have been found / recovered ... UPDATE : Scumbag has admitted to smothering both (all three, counting the unborn child) and burying the bodies.
* Don't forget about, or underestimate the successes of, Afghanistan! ... I certainly haven't, especially since my brother in law is over there now!
* Annan - "United Nations is 'Vital to Humanity'" ... I think it is just vital for his employment, and to keep him out of prison
* Man forcibly incarcerated for being, of all things, fat
* It is Tuesday .. Kerry, sign your 180!
* Pope : "Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of 'Ideology of Evil'"
* More UNfinished business ... 6 years, no progress (except maybe back into civil war), status quo @ the UN
* Eminent domain - when the govt says "all your base are ..." nevermind; this is a serious abuse of power! ... and undermining the basic property ownership rights of all US citizens!
* Sowell's random thoughts for the day ... timely, relevant, worth reading! ... ends with "People who oppose the privatization of Social Security call it "a risky scheme." But is anything more risky than turning money over to politicians and hoping that they won't spend it before you retire?"
* Chirac 'snubs' US - disrespects NATO, talks up the EU (what is French for douche :P) ... YET more reasons (in addition to their valuing $ more than freedom) for us to forget about France and Germany; not to sound rude / crude / egotistical - but seriously, how long would their precious EU last without the US on the global 911 speed dial ... and more details here ... since the first link was pretty light in details ...
* Iran jails editor for 14yrs ... 'insulted leaders' ... ah, yes - Iran, bastion of freedom ...
* more on Nuclear Korea's (cough)"willingness" to return to the 6 party talks
* More on Cali's extreme weather ... rain, mudslides, etc ... 6 have been killed - our condolences to them!
* Oil back up over $51! ... and DOW plummets ~147, and dollar slides ... interesting and queer, given the overall good position of our economy! .. was this mostly due to OPEC threatening a production cut? ... and maybe just a tad of speculation, naturally ...
* UN/ITU to take ICANN's job? ... I am vehemently opposed to the UN getting any new power, especially in my field :(

Interesting
* Gates & Buffet wrong on the US$?
* Santorum talks up Bush's Social inSecurity reform plan ... which is good, but Santorum is also pushing for a minimum wage hike ... which is bad, because - remember - minimum wage increases are bad for everyone!
* Democrats taxing the poor, for/via their sins?
* Hate mail for the troops? ... this is just sad ...
* Hinchey unhinged, Rove an evil mastermind ... "Rove doesn't have to scheme to make Democrats look like idiots. They do a fine job on their own" ... oh, and a comment on Google vs Blogs ... and his comments here, in mp3 format ... 2.8MB ... and, also from LGF ... is this going to be known as (gasp) 'Hincheygate'?
* British Sex Ed hits new low
* GW deserves a holiday, on the right day! ... and more on GW here ... and yet more here ... and here is GW's first Inaugural Address
* Judge not?
* UT2003, the training tool for the future!
* Cabir still infecting cel phones
* More on ChoicePoint, and ID theft
* Cops cleared on all counts, yields no media blitz? ... what media bias?
* UN hiring (former) Kerry aides to run a blog? ... 'cuz they worked so well for him, right? let's hope Kofi gets the same end-result ...
* Those crazy Scientologists ... cruise sets up 'assist' tent on 'War of the Worlds' set
* Scott Ritter, traitor?
* Pulsars making (gravity) waves
* RNC has a 6-to-1 financial advantage over DNC
* More on the search for life on Mars
* More Personal Area Networking, at 10mbps
* Children need flu vaccinations more than the elderly
* Thank our Troops!
* More on the biggest explosion ever recorded (by us, anyway :P )
* Can terrorists build a nuclear bomb? ... and how hard / easy is it, anyway?
* Free boxes from the USPS! ... max of 500 per order
* Cato's recommended fix for Social inSecurity
* EU = socialist?
* December' 26^th tsunami revealed ancient city
* Computer screens are BAD for your eyes ... added to the list of the biggest dangers to your eyesight ... new term - "Computer Vision Syndrome"
* 3M Security glass ad ... real money in there??
* Turn old gear into useful things - like Cyrix CPUs into hotplates! ... I suspect they have officially been slashdotted; i.e. - site not currently available due to the user load
* Wormability formula to predict next major malware outbreak
* Thoughts on the next generation of gaming consoles
* Can TiVo be saved?
* Artificial eyes by 2010?
* Who was Bush talking about when he said "I'm looking for a good cowboy" ... and some comments on that statement
* Borders to be secured by volunteers? ... the return of the 'minuteman'!
* More on another MS patent - 'IsNot'
* If you think getting deuced (fired for blogging) is bad ... these people are IN JAIL due to their blogs
* 'Piss on Bush' ... shocker : made by a socialist! ... such a sad, sad thing ... and I wonder what the reaction would be if an American company put out something similar with Chirac, Putin, Schroeder and/or the country of Belgium on it? Or maybe Iran, Syria and Nuclear Korea?
* Glorifying the Drug Trade in Mexico?
* Addictive maps from Natl Atlas
* 'Does Dan Ra^ther work for al Jazeera?'
* Court slaps FCC, WRT DigitalTV & DRM
* WiFi @ 80mph!? ... and more on WiFi 'stealth attack' vulnerability
* IBM's Hurricane souping up Xeon servers?
* HP + planned obsolescence? ... hard-coding 'stop workie' dates on cartridges?
* Portable / Solar charger for your iPod
* WinXPsp2 failings ... and, did you know that WinXPsp2 throttles uncompleted, outbound TCP connections to 10 per second ... for P2P'ers, or those of us who use tabbed browsers, that is not so good. Now you can fix it :) ...
* Looking for a .DLL?
* Brocade's now-ex-CEO has a pretty big golden parachute ... not as big as Carly's, but $910k/yr + private jet, etc. is still pretty darned healthy!
* Free surge strip! ... in-store only (CompUSA) ...
* SWEPIII pictures (& spoilers)

Funny
* Male escort infiltrates al-Qaida
* Bush in Europe: a faux pas already ... sprouts and waffles cause protest
* MS releases XBOX05 ... "identical to the original, but built with an integrated fire extinguisher and smoke alarm"
* Things not to put on your resume ... like "I am extremely loyal to my present firm, so please don't let them know of my immediate availability"
* True : Poking the bear
* Scientists confirm smelt it / dealt it correlation
* Drunken dog rampages neighborhood
* Public television fails to make children gay, PBS President resigns
* True? : Competency, the career killer?
* Bush tapes up the ante
* TRUE : Amusing Veritas FAQ ... what is Unix?
* True : WhatIsMyIP.com site apparently just sold for $386k ... guess I will quit using it now, use whatismyipaddress.com instead :P (make sure you are running popup-blockers!)

Quote of the Day
loderr13: hey, what's worse than finding a worm in your apple?
loderr13: give up?
loderr13: Finding OSX in your apple.
thanks BASH!

<font color="#800000">Colitis</font> Colitis

Quick Thoughts
* So, late Saturday night my stomach started hurting. Kinda bad, but I thought I would live. Sunday, early afternoon, the pain started getting worse .. oh, and i started vomiting. After a few hours of this I decided to take a little trip to the local emergency room. After almost no wait to get triaged, a noticeable wait to see a doctor (it felt like forever!), I finally got some IV morphine & anti-nausea stuff. Felt much better, got some sleep, etc. Early (~1am?) Monday morning I got rolled over to the CT department, and that went just fine - aside from an exit-only part of my body being used as an entrance for a plastic tube & a small amount of Barium, that is. In the end (no pun intended), my appendix was just fine (I was afraid that would be the source of the problem - a friend of mine just went through that not too long ago (Hi Mike!)) and it was 'just' some Colitis. Whatever you call it, it hurt like hell. So I am home now, and feeling mostly all better ... that may be due to the Percoset, Cipro, and Flagyl ... and I am stuck on a bland diet for a day or four. Anyway - that is my excuse for not posting on Sunday, or earlier today. :)
* And, a Happy President's Day to everyone ... especially to George Bush :). Oh, and to Jimmy carter, who (amusingly enough) has a nuclear attack submarine named after him now.
* FOXNEWS just quoted littlegreenfootballs.com, a great site / blog by the way!

News
* Iraq : Offensive under way ... and FOXNEWS (TV) reports 4 US GI's killed today, condolences for all of them and prayers for their families
* Amber Alert - Pregnant Mom and 7yr old missing, car found
* New al-Zawahiri tape
* HUGE ID Theft potential - ChoicePoint reports 145k possibly affected
* Nuclear Korea says it may return to the 6-party talks
* Bush out to mend fences
* Putin getting tough on Islamic Militants
* Cali weather kills 3 ... rain, mudslides, sink-holes ... condolences for all of them and prayers for their families
* CDC - 'Avian Flu' is the world's #1 threat ... and what we are NOT doing to stop it ... "People transmit flu before they become ill themselves so it would be almost impossible to stop it by watching or isolating sick people"
* Member of the MSM laments over the MSM's problems
* Hunter S. Thompson suicides ... no more 'gonzo journalism' for him ...

Interesting
* Computer Vulnerabilities to (finally!) receive a unified rating system? ... and how about unified naming as well?
* WinXPsp2 to hit auto-update on April 12th ... I am all for it, but you should be ready / prepared :) ...
* Wireless becoming more secure
* UN says no to human cloning
* Wanna see inside a volcano? ... or wanna check for nuclear material inside an otherwise innocent looking truck?
* 'Tiny' Super Massive Black Hole
* Illegal Cel Phone jammers 'selling like hotcackes' in NYC
* Whaling did more damage than thought
* Review of Halo 2 ... and I agree, the plot could use a little work (and the ending - ugh!) ... but still an awesome game!
* Old School games, free! ... Doom, Hexen, etc! (lots of them!)
* Gravity vs Dark Energy - what is causing the acceleration of the expansion of the universe?
* Intel goes 64 bit (finally) ... "Pentium 4 6xx-series"
* Longhorn has a real name? ... e-XPedition ...
* GigaPixel photography
* Martian tundra?
* Want a quieter PC?
* Anti-Blair site causing a bit of a stir
* Titan is geologically active
* Cel Phone Hacks
* 4GB USB2.0 HDD for $100

Funny
* New OOTS ... trees are evil, sneaky assassins!
* New RVB PSA released! ... cold & flu season
* UF : SCO asks MS/Bill for help
* True : Ohio State President Put on eBay
* Bush tapes cause President to cancel Amsterdam leg of tour
* I'm a self-abusive cokehead -- why am I not famous?
* 37% of Americans believe Jack Bauer is real
* Yoda's illegitimate children
* ALF wins in Iraq
* iPod to play ads
* Dean will not defend yee-haw crown
* Freehand drawing with letters
* True : Stupid computer tricks
* Who sez you can't take it with you?
* Too much of a good thing?
* Abe and George drive hard bargain
* NSFW : Funny Toyota AC commercial

Quote of the Day
@insomnia: it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
@insomnia: cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
@insomnia: that's the first one
thanks BASH!

<font color="#800000">Too sleepy to make a title</font> Too sleepy to make a title

News
* Brent captured ... one less serial rapist, pedophile on the street
* Indonesia +1 earthquake ... 6.9 ...
* Stern / Sirius insider trading probe
* BushClinton tour earthquake/tsunami affected region

Interesting
* 'Dental Chaos' caused by cooking
* Intel vs TCPIP greed ... I/OAT ...
* Texas vs 'municipal Internet access'
* IE7 ti 'kill Firefox'?
* RFID security?
* Shuttle return-to-flight delayed

Funny
* MacGyver Utility Kit, on eBay ... paperclip, rubberband, pen cap, twist-tie ... all the important things you need to make a nuclear bomb, except bubble gum

<font color="#800000">The last Friday of this week!</font> The last Friday of this week!

* I have JUST received my 10,000^th hit ... w00t! ...according to StatCounter, in the last ~2 months
* Gratuitous Blegging : Sign up for clickies, with me as your referrer:

News
* I was wrong, Terri Schiavo matters ... I was also wrong on this issue, but am past that now ...
* Iraq : Blast kills 30 ... outside a Shiite mosque ... update: 5 blasts kill atleast 35 ... condolences to all of them ...
* Cali : 2 killed in train crash ... 2nd train crash this week
* Iraq : Iraqi died ... in the "Palestinian Hanging" position ... that is decidedly not good
* Baby, born 3m early, lives (with a little medical (arterial switch) help) ... birth weight - 1.5lbs
* US research vessel runs aground, on a reef ... whoops!
* Police find $5 million inside idling, unattended truck ... Um, is that where I left it? My apologies, please return it, thanks ... (always said i just want a 50lb bag of 20's :) ) ... but you can still charge the driver with the illegal stuff :)
* No charges against Cosby
* Cryptographers tell Hollywood what we already know : DRM WILL FAIL ... unfortunately, there might be a way to make it work ... we'll see :)
* Texas -1 murderer
* Google demotes blogs' search rankings? ... I still come up 4^th and 5^th for "NIF", and 1^st for tjevans ... :)
* Pro-Kyoto (GreenPeace) protesters beaten back by Oil Traders ... they were trying to 'paralyze the oil trading', and got bruised skulls, kicked out to the pavement, etc. ... cuz, you know, those traders are pretty rough guys (well, compared to GreenPeace I am sure they each look like Hercules - I mean, even the French (including Ogre :P) can take on GreenPeace! ) ... found via The Donegal Express
* Plague kills scores in Congo ...
* China, US - measuring it
* Taxpayers +1, Lawyers +0 ... Bush signs Class Action lawsuit reform into law
* Exxon surpasses GE in the 'Largest Company in the World' contest
* Mankind is causing Global Warming?
* Manhunt for rapist, pedophile in Colorado ... He was just recently out of prison, on parole - WHY DO WE PAROLE PEOPLE??

Interesting
* Social inSecurity : The good new : 2042 is not the important year; the bad news : 2018 is!
* NYC : No more Big Apple ... going to a gay name instead ...
* Forsake this website ... claims our military is worthless, overpaid, etc. Read the articles - the funny part is that his salary #'s make me feel sorry for our troops making SO LITTLE! ... thanks Cao!
* 2LT Ilario Pantano
* Vioxx returning?
* Geffen : "Hillary cannot win" ... wow, and sweet
* Martian water, wider, deeper
* Moore pocketed $50M off the sheepleft
* Blood is good for you ... Dracula had it right? ... "blood from young mice introduced into their older counterparts .activated stem cells in the old muscles that allowed them to recover from injury'"
* Greenspan : "Social (in)Security is not in a crisis" ... "but emphasized that Congress must quickly address future funding problems in the program and far larger shortfalls in Medicare" ... if "we must move quickly" doesn't that kinda sound like it is a crisis? Are we playing semantics here?
* Gamma flashes more frequent on Earth than previously thought ... "relativistic runaway breakdown" ... "sprites and elves" ...
* Qwest or Verizon? Bidding war for MCI?
* XBOX360 - revealed ... curvy, HD-ready, "faceplate-able" ...
* 802.11g vs 802.11a ... 'a' does have some benefits!
* Like VOIP, but the V is for Video ... or maybe call it IPV (IP Video)
* Cool - TinyApps!
* Skype on a cel phone! ... and a VOIP over cel 'hack'?
* Bluetooth sniper rifle makes another appearance
* MS's Catch-22
* Meet a rabbit, circa 55M years ago ... "Gomphos elkema"
* DDR3-1066 introduced!
* Everquest knows their audience - introduces the /pizza command ... brings up a window, in which you order from Pizza Hut ... now you truly never need to leave EverCrack!
* BYO / DIY : Flight Deck
* Webcam 1, burglar 0 ... awesome!
* NYT to buy about.com ... why, so they can lie/spin search results?
* Free Flash intro for your site?
* Small step = giant leap (for robots) .. and more here
* SawStop - limits damage you can do to yourself with table saws, etc.
* Chemical Imaging Camera captures tiny UFO?
* VOIP firewall
* Down with "one China"
* Natural Fission Reactors?!
* Rootkits (finally) coming to Win* ... "SpyWare that is impossible to clean"
* London +1 300mph, hovering train?
* Cel Phone radiation not a threat
* Brightest Galactic Flash Ever ... from 50,000 light years away
* T-Mobile has (more!) Security issues?
* This 3yr old is smarter than you ... makes it into Mensa
* MAC-Spoofing made easy - "SMAC" ... not free :(
* ISS came close to losing a crew member?

Funny
* True : Morissette Becomes U.S. Citizen ... what makes it funny is that less than 1 year ago she was slamming the US over censorship and said (basically) that we (Americans) all live in fear of nudity ... and naturally, being a Canadian (with a flip-top head) she is declaring herself a Canadian-American. Two problems - hyphenated nationality is just wrong, and if you must do so American should come first :)
* Fun with Bumper stickers
* Mass suicide could save social security
* US launches probe droids to Iran
* Cosby accused of molesting self
* Bush admits pulling a 'James T Kirk' with Saddam
* Muppets indicted on Felony Charges
* Fatal Attraction not a good Valentine's Day movie
* Missile defense test a rousing near-success
* Nuclear Korea claims it is producing Paulie Shore movies
* Jokes in DC ... "A" just goes to show how 'blue' Google is, which we all know already
* NSFW: March 14^th is the man's response to Feb14^th
* True? : Proof that Nickelback sucks ... two songs, two years apart, eerily similar ... :)
* The Screen Savers blooper - they should get a popup blocker

Quote of the Day
Wardave: My girlfriend tells me I'm lazy and have no ambition
CancersDan: Dump her
Wardave: I should but that's just way too much work
thanks BASH!

<font color="#00FFFF">Cute Kid jokes</font> Cute Kid jokes

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah". The teacher asked, " What if Jonah went to hell?" The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say,'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, She's dead."

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.." "Yes," the class said. "Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?" A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and! posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."

... thanks Aaron!

<font color="#800000">One more day, just one more day</font> One more day, just one more day

Quick Thoughts
* OK, so since it is still currently early on Thursday it is two more days ... get over it.
* A quick (cough) THANK you to the VDOT project team that decided not to finish the construction on I-495 on time (all lanes were too be opened NLT 05:00), causing serious backups before 05:30AM as all traffic from the other side of 495, I95, and I395 that wanted to get to Tyson's had to loop through Edsall Rd. Good Move, guys. Oh, and the people involved in the (atleast one)accident this caused probably have a word or two for you.
* Symantec released an alert for TCP/1433 ... MS-SQL ... keep that one firewalled off, patched/up-to-date, and secured. That's all.



News
* Rice : Syria is atleast partially responsible for blast ... and Iran, Syria - partnership? ... and more on Russia selling 'advanced' missiles to Syria
* Goss : Nuclear Korea capability growing
* China surpasses US as world's #1 consumer ... and our 'tech leadership' being challenged / questioned ... blame H1B's, among other things ... "I have seen not just the future but the present of technology at ISSCC, and it looks Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, Taiwanese, Japanese, Indian, Pakistani, etc."
* USDA permitted questionable meat into US?
* Missing Teen found, alive
* The word "blog" has now been used on the Senate floor ... :)
* Negroponte nominated as (the first) Natl Intel Director
* Iraqi defense bolstered by "pop up" units
* Instead of SCO vs World, now it is Nasdaq vs SCO? ... couldn't happen to a nicer company :)
* Iran vows to retaliate if attacked
* Qwest releases its $8B offer for MCI ... and speaking of MCI/WorldCom - (ex-)CFO admits he lied to court
* Charges against "Anti-Gay" group dropped
* Real Estate - too hot, too coll, just right ... surprisingly, Northern VA not listed as too damn hot
* Bangkok car-bombed, 5 dead
* Brits lose just a wee bit of Plutonium? ... enough to make 7-8 nuclear bombs?? Or do they just not measure it correctly?

Interesting
* Dean already providing entertainment! ... requests media blackout of debate (What?? Isn't the point of holding a debate to get your opinions heard??) ... anyway, he changed his mind ... (maybe Kerry showed him how to do that?)
* More on Kyoto ... waiting to fail ...
* More on the MSM vs Bloggers
* For $3B 90% of the US could have WiMax! ... 70mbps wireless, w/ 30mile range!
* More terrorist threats on US ... see, what media bias??
* Finsbury Park Mosque reopens
* The time to prepare to Bird Flu mass-vaccinations is now ... "change in policy reflects growing fears that an H5 pandemic is likely"
* The Tech Oscars
* knee-jerk law creation bad, an example ... and more stupid law examples
* Castro inspired CNN
* iPod, the movement, hard to kill
* South Dakota : House panel OKs making abortion a felony ... if/when Roe vs Wade is overturned, that is.
* More on Churchill ... don't let this issue die until he is fired!
* Liberals and Peter Pan
* MS going AntiSpyWare in IE7
* Orbital Hotel in 2010?
* Illegals don't show up to court? ... I wonder why?
* IVF embryos missing something?
* More on the (accidentally) free Napster
* Wanna make a NES game?
* Forget LCD, let's talk NCD ... NanoChromics Display
* More on Intel's laser breakthrough ... Photonics ...
* Extreme Skier dies in avalanche while making skiing film ... condolences ...
* "Bush Boom" continues ... economy good
* Who said "While the United Nations may not be able to take humanity to heaven, it must act to save humanity from hell" ... Hint : the UN should fire him ... and* Who said "I don’t have the slightest clue who Hillary really is" ... hint : he's a Democrat ...
* Syria sending a warning to France? ... which is expected to surrender any minute now
* Scott Ritter lands new job - with Al Jazeera! ... found the right place for his Anti-American spewings
* Comrade Carter?
* Thwarted suicide bomb attempt ... no virgins for him?
* Sucker punch tax coming to you? ... AMT attempting to rear its ugly, misbegotten head
* Minimum wage, maximum harm
* NY GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik makes an excellent statement
* MS recalls XBOX power cables (In Europe)
* Cassini takes snaps of Titan's massive crater
* Windows Server 2003 is more secure than Red Hat Linux
* Moon Naming
* Firefox hits 25M downloads! ... see pic above :)!
* MS's new download policy ... explicitly blocks WINE!
* Lions and Tigers ... make Ligers?
* MS teaches 1337$p33k

Funny
* New OOTS today ... when in doubt, slay living the leader :)
* TRUE: Mil gives us the final answer on the difference between men and women
* Bush reaffirms support for global warming
* Cel Phone + Microwave
* HP says Women are no good at technology
* We must appease the Volcano God
* Greenspan endorses private accounts, beatdowns
* Ban on hunting with dogs sees huge increase in hunting with cats
* Baby : Parents detest whine reflex
* Few remaining Democrats show solidarity
* Hilton files patent for "That's Hot"
* Soda Zoo ... expansion / extension of Soda Constructor!
* Don't speak out against MoleMen
* Snooze = Lose
* Canada on Prozac
* Doug Mientkiewicz; Douche
* More on JackoGate
* MBA-speak ... "what are this restaurant's core competencies?"
* Marine jokes
* Limos for Liberals
* Random Law and Order Plot Generator
* True : America, where even the poor have cel phones

<font color="#800000">One week later than last Wednesday</font> One week later than last Wednesday

News
* Iraq : New video of kidnapped Italian reporter ... prayers for her!
* The (broken) Kyoto Accord goes into effect ... and Gore bloviates on this, and the automakers fight against Cali ... I think he just wants some attention ... and more here ... "greatest economic fraud in the history of mankind" ... and "it is all about symbolism"
* Another MyDoom variant ... :(
* Lexus SUV having some brake problems
* Help save Terri ... and more here
* Today is Wictory Wednesday! ... all about Social Security!
* MSM vs Bloggers : Tulsa World sues blogger, for linking! ... and check the pic below :)
* More UN badness ... "inspectors spent days drinking"
* Iran : We will shoot down drones
* Life on Mars!?
* Israel says Iran will be nuclear within 6m!
* CIA issues China warning
* Specter has Hodgkins ... while I disagree with many of his stances, I pray for the best for him!
* Officials warn of future terror attacks

Interesting
* Kerry-180 Blogburst starting ... sign up :) ... and Kerry still delusional ... "Americans accepted that I could be the commander in chief", No John - we refused to let you mislead us ... and more Kerry-quote-fun ... and yet more Kerry fun here , as he votes for Bush's Iraq war funding bill
* More thoughts on Islamofascists ... and more here, specifically WRT the (murdered) Armanious family ... and yet more here on that family
* 'A 12yr old girl has been charged with murder for killing her 9yr old sister, in a dispute over a hamburger' ... what is wrong with people?? ... found via It Is What It Is
* Cisco's security lineup - ATD
* A friendly review of the 1^st Amendment
* Your opinions and beliefs are WRONG?
* Whistling helium, GPS and Gyroscopes
* Rovers find new rock type
* Air pollution affects fetal development
* Napster (accidentally) gives away free music!
* Academia under siege
* SHA-1 broken?
* WAP/Router/FW+VOIP - from Linksys (Cisco)
* Analysis of 8yrs worth of email
* Want to help save Enterprise? ... here is how
* Open letter to Mr. President
* Ra^thergate continues, 'War inside CBS' ... and more here
* Biden on Iran
* Is Linux 's security a myth?
* RePost : An excellent article on Religion in America ... and lots of great comments (on both sides of the issues)
* Dean is no moderate
* States owe the Fed some $?
* More on Cali's mile-tax
* AARP, hypocrisy, Social inSecurity
* Sad but true : Republicans spending too much ... found viaCFG ... and more here
* Russia selling weapons to Syria ... contributing factor in US recalling our ambassador?
* Snopes: Reliably Liberal and Liberally Unreliable
* India's deadly lies
* Phantom Limb feeling?
* Speaking of Judicial Activism ... "Judge orders multi-billion dollar tax increase"
* Imagine that, Gun Control doesn't work!?
* MSM heading off to the tarpits?
* UN analogy : "a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former"
* PATRIOT (Act) Debates
* The world is changing?
* No NHL, official now
* This car knows how you feel
* Tax reform? ... let's hope so, and think FAIR TAX!
* Math and Language skills developed independently
* Skinning GMail! ... Firefox only ... wink wink, nudge nudge
* Windows KB shortcuts
* Humans just got older
* Photonics for the masses, from Intel?
* Sun dumps OS coders ... Solaris & Linux ...
* OPEC being pushed to the limit?
* HIV testing for everyone? ... if everyone would give blood they would get tested then :)

Funny
* True'ish: The Best of Dean ... thanks Gindy!
* OOTS#149 is sappy filler art ... I wish he would hurry up, quit his job, and start doing three of these each week!
* North Korea claims it possesses Ben Affleck film
* Deep Throat illness offers new clues to identity
* ACLU goes off the cliff (as usual / expected) with this amazingly amusing flash demonstration! ... found via It Is What It Is
* True'ish: Navy to Commission Attack Submarine Jimmy Carter ... and more here
* The correct way to say Happy Valentine's Day!
* White Trash Wednesday!
* Soft G or Hard G? ... important distinction!
* PC-Clueless old people, bait & switch sales tactics, and fun!
* Wacko Jacko's real reason for the hospital trip ... WARNING : in poor taste
* The Machine ... shockwave game
* Evolution of a programmer
* Smoke vs Work, either way your dying ... thinking of you, T
* Space Bathroom, the video
* The "truth" about Stephen King
* Nuclear Korea's confessions prompts others to confess as well
* Salesmen thrilled with death of Arthur Miller
* True : Help name Sean Hannity's puppy
* Bush taps high school student for global warming help
* Blair's UK election campaign begins
* Purim postponed due to inclement weather
* True?: Dean makes racist joke?

Quote of the Day
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them ;-)
thanks SurinderXX!

<font color="#800000">Got Nothing</font> Got Nothing

Quick Thoughts
* I am leaving work early today to give platelets, aka Apheresis. Let me take just a second to say that everyone (who has good blood, that is) should give blood ... and even better, if you have a high platelet count, sign up for Apheresis. It is a way for us 'normal people' (not in the Armed Forces, not Police nor Fire Fighters, etc.) to save lives. Go do it; and get your work to host blood drives too!

News
* Iraq : Firefight in Baghdad
* China coal mine explosion kills 203 ... condolences to those lost!
* Lebanon's Army on 'High Alert', after killing of ex-PM Rafik Hariri in bomb attack ... and riots ensuing ... and US recalls Ambassador to Syria
* UK to test all immigrants for TB, AIDS
* Missile defense fails test again
* More Oil for Food fiasco fallout
* UN peace keepers arrested for sex crimes
* Hotel (& US Early Warning System) being sued on behalf of tsunami victims ... sharks in the water, and totally repulsive (even if it is fun to watch the French get sued it is still wrong, in this case)
* States to tax drivers BY THE MILE? ... this is just wrong on so many levels; especially for those of us (like me!) that CANNOT AFFORD to live close to where we work ...
* ex-Priest Shanley to be sentenced ... actually, he has now been sentenced to 12-15 years ...
* 'Zoloft boy' gets 30 years!
* Homeland Security Chief Chertoff confirmed
* Game being blamed in cop shooting ... ridiculous!
* Twin cyclones in S Pacific, to combine?
* San Diego case linked to NY case of 'fast-acting HIV' strain
* 'Zoloft boy' gets 30 years

Interesting
* Ancient tsunami scrambled fossil record
* Have blog, lose job? ... the word for getting fired for your blog is 'deuce', as in - "I've been deuced"
* Vonage Blockage?
* Shuttle 'heat shield repair kits' chosen
* Potatoes to help vaccinate against Hep-B? ... and more here, is this too late?
* Friday the 13th, 2029: giant asteroid will narrowly miss earth
* Using AIDS to cure Cancer?
* Mother kills baby by severing arms, jury - 'no trial needed' ... another example of ways our legal system fails us
* NightVision from scraps, and other cool creations
* Carly gets a parachute that totals $45M
* Foxy Felon mugshots ... and part two
* The WinXP Tweak Companion
* 500VA UPS for $9.99
* Nuclear Blast 'Calculator'
* Google is very (98%!) blue ... I sued to like Google :( (OK, I still do - but I totally disagree with their politics, and their AdSense polices) ... even MS is 60% blue :( ...
* FBI stepping on CIA's toes?
* WiFi "Evil Twin" attacks
* Hard Drive Failure ... just for you Greg K.
* Climate Change : Menace or Myth?
* Google redefining Public Domain, to not mean free
* VOIP for GIs?
* Green Tea's record against cancer grows
* PC shipments slowing ...
* Space tether
* Replacing lost ear hair may restore hearing?
* The first mouse demo ... and hypertext, etc.!
* Unions pro-Bush ... on this issue, anyway
* String Theory, the site
* The no-www effort ... I agree!
* Blocking Estrogen may stop lung cancer growth
* T-Mobile launches WiMax Net access for UK trains
* MS AntiSpyWare to remain free for personal use
* Frank, the tumor, confirmed gone
* More ESC lines made available

Funny
* Bloody Penguin baseball ... not in good taste, and my best is 703 ...
* True/Sore-Loser : Kerry says US would be 'better off' with his military proposals
* 100% of Republicans approve choice of Dean
* Bloodless coup a real letdown
* Thousands of Forgetful Men Remind Their Women "Atleast I did not try to kill you on Valentine's Day"
* Moore gets B&J Ice Cream named after him ... "The Waffle Truth"
* ' My insomnia is so bad, I can't even sleep on the job.' ... and others!
* Mud+ released
* TFA chews up, spits out another ES major
* Baby : Kindergartner masters swearing
* Three year old successfully circles the globe
* America vindicated: less destructive than nature
* NAACP introduces legislation expanding Black History Month to 35 days
* Canseco claims he did steroids with Bush

Quote of the Day
chiks: Is aluminum better than steel in most cases?
SJr|Tecra: No, what would you be more scared of -
SJr|Tecra: the man of steel or the man of aluminum?
thanks BASH!

<font color="#800000">Happy Valentine's Day</font> Happy Valentine's Day

Quick Thoughts
* Why must we celebrate these manufactured ("Hallmark") Holidays? Specifically for Valentine's Day - shouldn't tell our significant others how much we love them every day? Why do we need a 'special day' in order to do so? I think it is all an evil plot to give women an excuse to be mad at men; they know that in some way or other we will mess something up. For example, I failed to remember it was Valentine's Day as I was leaving the house this morning ... so although I kissed my mostly-asleep wife goodbye, I didn't mention what day it was. She will probably tag me for that. I should get a pass on account of it was too early ... brains just don't work right before 5am. Oh - and its not like I forgot about Valentine's Day altogether ... that is all squared away. Now, on to the 'important stuff' ...

News
* Iraq : Post-election celebrations, politicking ... and Terrorists assassinate more cops, hit pipeline ... shows how dedicated they are to stopping democracy, and why we must ensure it happens! ... and condolences for those killed, prayers for those injured
* Verizon underbids Qwest, still gets MCI ... financial stability wins? ... still cost them $6.7B (and remember MCI also includes UUnet and Digex :) )
* US PTO rejects application for Human-Animal hybrid ... which is actually what the applicant wanted to happen ... just read it
* Earthquake : Baby81 finally goes home, with his parents ... DNA prevented the other 8(!) couples claiming to be the boys parents from getting him!
* Ray Charles picks up 8 Grammys
* Mickelson wins again, pockets $954k (now the top earner this year (it is only mid-Feb) ... and he was wearing a BearingPoint visor the whole time :P)
* Help Save Terri Schiavo ... while I support the "Right to Die" in general, in this case there are lots of 'questionable' details (mostly around her husband's motivation and possible involvement) ... and more, from a medical perspective, here

Interesting
* A real American Hero ... Capt Rozelle, amputee, returns to Iraq
* Robo-soldier ready to roll ... and Skynet ready to become self-aware :)
* GM pays $2B to avoid buying Fiat
* Opposites may attract, but they don't hold a marriage together?
* Historical Maps of the Internet
* 'Internet Public Library'
* Pluto's mystery to be solved ... in about 10 years, if we are lucky
* Hitch made $45M+ opening weekend ... I went and saw the Incredibles, for my Nephews 9th birthday - good movie, BTW. Very Entertaining! (And Happy Birthday Jacob!)
* FollowUp : Some Saudi's are violating the law and (gasp) celebrating Valentine's Day ... and here I was complaining about having to celebrate it :P
* Overclocked to 7.2GHz!?
* Map of Middle Earth
* Future Mail ... send emails to yourself; reminders, bail-out pages, etc. :)

Funny
* TRUE : Chris Rock : "Only (gays, idiots) watch the Oscars" ... oh yeah, and what makes this really funny - he is hosting the Oscars!
* Should be a new OOTS today! ... but not there yet ... :(
* New RVB! (#49)
* TRUE : Blog Whoring/Pimping ... I offer all of those services as well, and guarantee a lower price ... :)
* UF presents the truth, about TechTV :)
* Nerd Inside ... ASCII & free time can be an entertaining combination
* Jesus makes poor showing at Frag Fest
* Condi offers to give France Michael Moore
* True : Love is an addiction ... can't wait for the lawsuits! Your honor, I was not in a right state of mind when I got married, the counselor said might as well face it, you're Addicted to Love
* Unlikely Geek Deaths ... it doesn't mention sex with supermodel ...
* Camilla and Charles Inspire New Wal-Mart Furniture
* Bill Cosby says accusations stem from friendly "buck-buck" competition
* British public vote for Charles to marry Keira Knightley
* Parents delighted science grad quit for arts
* Topic Drift
* How to find a Valentine

Quote of the Day
LadyAerowen: I'm allowed to have my own opinion, burra :P
burrahobbit: I don't know where you got that idea from but it is wrong
thanks !

<font color="#800000">Sunday's Best</font> Sunday's Best

Quick Thoughts
* I will hopefully post more later, maybe not until tomorrow ... :( ... OK, I added more - happy?
* Also - Congrats to Charles, who('s wife) just had a healthy baby girl (today)!

News
* Iran warns US not to "play with fire" ... oh, and US is spying on Iran, with UAVs
* Anti-malaria medicine used on GIs causing problems? ... Lariam/mefloquine causing 'hallucinations, confusion, psychotic behavior' ...
* SAIC employees about to be victims of ID Theft? ... stolen : "computers containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information about tens of thousands of past and present company employees"
* Neo-Nazis on parade, in Dresden ... "marring the official 60th anniversary commemoration of one of the fiercest Allied bombing raids of World War II"
* "Miracle in Kansas" ... woman unable to speak for ~20 years starts talking
* Big office building ablaze in Madrid
* S Korea and N Korea, let's see what happens ...
* More on the new, fast-acting HIV strain ... and why we should all study, and learn lessons from, history ...
* Aussie's training their troops right, complaints from the left

Interesting
* RePost : Islam vs the world? ... read the article, and read ALL of the (very numerous!) comments!
* More on the suicide ring
* Edinburgh Black Box can see the future?
* GoogleMaps + GPS, integrated!
* Reverse lookup dictionary
* Free 64MB USB flash drive ... $10, with $10 rebate!
* Review of the Cell CPU, part 2
* More on Podcasting
* Get Linspire/Lindows free! ... go here, hit apply coupon, and type in Lindows ...save $49.95!
* Eclectic fix for Social inSecurity
* Dems don't trust the voters?
* More on "Bush != Hitler" ... "If he were, Jeffrey would be in the Bush Youth doing patriotic exercises in shorts every morning and singing the special Texan lyrics to the Horst Wessel song, and he wouldn’t have time to do dioramas of dissent"
* Schools are stupid sometimes ... 6yr old gives a gift to a friend, get 'busted'
* MSM vs bloggers
* Saudi vs Valentines ... well, it is a manufactured ("Hallmark") holiday ...
* Remember : Ward Churchill actually helped train terrorists
* Dean actually said "The Democratic party makes capitalism work"
* Is Specter actually doing some good?

Funny
* ... check me tomorrow! ...

<font color="#800000">Illegal Gay Marriages 1yr old today</font> Illegal Gay Marriages 1yr old today

Quick Thoughts
* It was 1 year ago today the San Francisco violated Cali state law by issuing Same-Sex Marriage license, and indirectly helped re-elect Bush :)
* Sidenote - I like people who leave comments (whether they agree with me or not), but out of courtesy please leave an email or site URL so I can reply to your comments! I'll be nice, I promise. Oh, and please do not use profanity ... it will be deleted, and it lessens the value of your comment :).

News
* Iraq : Car bomb kills 17 outside Hospital ... and a judge was executed ... condolences for all of those killed ...
* Drug resistant HIV found ... and more here ... from 0 to full blown in 3 months!?
* More on the Christian Egyptians murdered in NJ
* Cali storms kill 3
* Not Confirmed Yet : Chinese helicopter shoots, sinks Indian submarine
* Attempted 'fetus theft' foiled ... the mother killed the attacker!
* McD's pays $8.5M in Trans Fat lawsuit ... $7M in charitable donation, $1.5M for public awareness ...

Interesting
* Eason-gate over, because he resigned! ... and more here
* Some Dems willing to talk about Privatized Social inSecurity!
* Verizon close to MCI deal
* Credit Card offers a (cough) sweet interest rate - 70% ... atrocious, and abusive of the poor people it targets ...
* New fishing line changes color based on amount of pull
* IdiomSite ... why you say what you say
* Simulations show how Black Holes regulate Galactic formation
* "More blood for Oil" ... hello France, Russia, China, etc.
* Government "incentives" are wrong.
* Carly, now ex-CEO of HP, gets $21M severance package ... that's about $21M bigger than mine :)
* A Guide to Logical Fallacies
* QUANGOs?

Funny
* The BEST Valentine's Day shirt ever! ... its got poetry, hex, and AYBABTU reference!
* ... maybe more later ...

<font color="#800000">Like you have anything better to do?</font> Like you have anything better to do?

Quick Thoughts
* So, I have 110 Gmail invites ... anyone want one? Or 5?
* Oh, and Thank God It's Friday!
* My apologies for this post being so long; and it is still early! (17:15)

News
* Iraq : Gunmen kill 11 ... and Rumsfeld in 'surprise visit' ... and 12 more killed in car bomb
* N(uclear) Korea : Pyongyang now calls for bilateral talks with US ... in place of the 6-party talks that they just dropped out of (again) ... but US says no ... and Kim Jong-Il to pass leadership to son ... just as he inherited from his father
* Dam bursts in Pakistan, kills atleast 43
* Trade 'deficit' reaches all time high
* 'Activist lawyers fear 'chilling effect' from verdict' ... that is total BS. The fact is Lynne Stewart is a terrorist sympathizer who knowingly & willingly assisted terrorists! ... and you can get the real story here! ... and more thoughts on Lynne Stewart
* Baby, head wrapped in plastic bag, thrown out the window of a moving vehicle ... another baby-related, absolutely atrocious occurrence! What is wrong with people?? UPDATE : this was a big hoax. What is wrong with people??
* Earthquake : Death Toll at 162k, with 26k-140k still unaccounted for
* Valentine's Day Mass-Suicide foiled
* Apple stock, 2:1
* Democracy; the last, best hope for the Middle East?
* Russia to build a nuclear plant for Iran? .. Russia will supposedly collect the fuel rods, anyone want to take bets on how many they "cannot account for" after a few runs?

Interesting
* The (cough) Power of Unionization ... and Cramping for Unemployment
* Dragon Optical Illusion ... COOL! Watch the video, download the directions to make one for yourself!
* Review of the federal budget ... andanother review (I think the second one is better in its analysis / breakdown) ... and a few more thoughts on it ... and a few thoughts on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit $ ... and lawmaker (Bill Thomas, Cali) proposes an alternative budget ... we should just use the FAIR TAX instead of his proposed VAT (which will complicate our already spaghetti-like tax code)...
* The Death Star, aka Saturn's moon - Mimas
* HP to help throttle virus propagation
* Judge astonished by SCO's lack of evidence ... what everyone has known for quite some time!
* Let's first agree that Social inSecurity is a broken system, here's why
* Dean vows Democratic comeback ... just like he vowed to take the White House? ... he also says the Democrats "are a party of the future, while Republicans are the party of the past" - to which I reply, which planet is he living on / what Democratic party is he talking about?! ... and 'Deaniacs on Parade'
* Some thoughts on Hillary, and her transformer-like qualities ... the word Decepticon comes to mind!
* PVR that record 10(!) channels at once! ... "SnapStream Hydra" .. NICE!
* LifeHacker, on how to get that interview
* KDE on Win*?
* Homeless Vets?? Lend a hand! ... thanks Matt!
* Why the Earth hums
* "Hacking" OnStar
* Intel, Qinetiq create "quantum well" transistor
* MPAA gets LokiTorrent shut down ... TorrentStop also shut down, MPAA on its crusade to PWN the world ...
* Sun shuns Intel
* Democrats in NC don't care about the law?
* MS pitching top-side display for laptop lids
* Deer vs Ginseng?
* Teach Evolution ... but use stickers?
* Why dreams are forgotten
* 128MB CF card for $17.99
* PETA bankrolling arsonists?
* Dutch Parliament votes against software patent directive
* Virginia withdraws droopy drawers ban ... your right to look/act sloppy/stupid has been protected
* Lucrative College Degrees
* Taunting Liberals? ... :)
* Broken Heart Syndrome, the picture
* Arab bank pulling out of US ... under assault by the feds
* Ward Churchill, from a different perspective ... and a little graphic, showing what Churchill believes (or says, anyway) ... and 'another Churchill', this one named Francisco Gil-White
* Who said "I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming."
* 19% ignorant when it comes to Social inSecurity issues?
* More Eason-gate fun
* Fallujah, the REAL movie
* Germany rejects call to charge Rumsfeld with War Crimes ... "sanity prevails"
* Homosexuals yes, Soldiers no ...more on-campus hypocrisy, bias
* Social inSecurity, not unfair to minorities!
* More Bush=Hitler nonsense
* Everyone should be an organ donor, like Clare Ekins
* Multi-player Pacman hops device to device
* Self-Replicating robots ... sounds like Stargate, eh?
* A look at Orion's Belt
* Octopus arms the key to robot design?
* Domain slammer busted
* F-Secure users urged to patch ... ISS found a (cough little hole ...
* UN has to explicitly tell its staff not to have sex with the people they are they (ostensibly) to help / save ... more reasons for the UN to kindly go away ... starting with Kofi and Kojo :) ... and more thoughts here

Funny
* New OOTS! ... orange is the new green!
* Virginia bans marriage between couples who wear droopy pants
* True : Block Clock
* Kim Jong Il confident nukes will finally catch attention of Jodie Foster
* True : Congolese boxer accused of casting spells to win matches
* Vermont caught trying to sneak over to Canada
* Boxer to run for President ... and watch the animated .gif!
* True : Cops pull over woman ... so her boyfriend can propose
* True : Dial-a-Fairy-tale ... for all you lazy, rich parents ...
* Dean to head DNC, begin transformation into Wussy
* Polar Animals plan global warming summit
* Photoshop : Break Dancer
* True : TMFT : Building a glacier to climb
* Papa Smurf Threatens Global Domination
* Baby : Hair Reported Missing/Inaction
* Cell phones challenge asian females for accident risk
* Top child star faces new challenger
* Eason Jordan was right; some reporters were 'targeted'
* True / Ironic : Prostitution Vigilante Hooked For Pimping
* True'ish : Top ten Conservative reactions to the news that they "got" Jeff Gannon , oh - and in case you didn't know, here is the run down on the whole 'situation'
* Photoshop : Alton Brown

Quote of the Day
playamj: I need some creative ways of asking this girl I like to the prom...please post some ideas thanks!
secks: You can try walking up to her and pushing the use key
thanks BASH!

Guns cause crime, like flies cause garbage
thanks Old Man, over @The Wide Awakes

<font color="#800000">A letter to Alcohol</font> A letter to Alcohol

(Thanks to Tom for the following snippet)

Dear Alcohol,

First and foremost, let me tell you that I'm a huge
fan of yours. Your many sides and dimensions are mind
boggling (different than beer goggling, which I'll
touch upon shortly). Yes, my friend, you always seem
to be there when needed.

The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer with the
game ... and you're even around in the holidays -
hidden inside chocolates, you warm us when we're stuck
in the midst of endless family gatherings.

Yet lately I've been wondering about your intentions.
You see, I want to believe that you have my best
interests at heart, but I feel that your influence has
led to unwise consequences, briefed below for your
review.

1. Phone calls: While I agree with you that
communication is important, I question the suggestion
that any conversation of substance or necessity takes
place at 5am.

2. Eating: Now, you know I love a good meal and,
though cooking is far from my specialty, why you
suggested that I eat a kebab with chili sauce, coupled
with pot noodles and some stale crisps (washed down
with chocolate nesquik and topped off a Kit Kat) is
beyond me. Eclectic eater I am, but I think you went
too far this time.

3. Clumsiness: Unless you're subtly trying to tell me
that I need to do more yoga to improve my balance, I
see NO need to hammer the issue home by causing me to
fall down the stairs. Completely unnecessary.
Similarly, it should never take me more than 30
seconds to get the front door key into the lock.

4. Pictures: This can be a blessing in disguise, as it
can often clarify the last point below, but the
following costumes are heretofore banned from being
placed on my head in public: indian wigs, sombreros,
bows, ties, boxes, upside-down cups, inflatable
balloon animals, traffic cones, bras.

5. Beer Goggles: If I think I may know him/her from
somewhere, I most likely do not. Please do not request
that I go over and see if in fact, I do actually know
that person. The phrase 'let's shag' is heretofore to
be rendered illegal. While I may be thinking this,
please reinstate the brain-to-mouth block that would
stop this thought from becoming a statement,
especially in public.

Furthermore, the hangovers have GOT to stop. Now, I
know a little penance for our previous evenings
debauchery may be in order, but the 2pm Hangover
Immobility is ccompletely unacceptable. I ask that, if
the proper steps are proactively taken on my part
(water, vitamin B, bread products, aspirin) prior to
going to bed/passing out face down on the kitchen floor
with a bag of popcorn, the hangover should be minimal
and in no way interfere with my daily Saturday or
Sunday (or any day for that matter) activities.

Come on now, it's only fair, you do your part, I'll do
mine.

Alcohol, I have enjoyed our friendship for some years
now and would like to ensure that we remain on good
terms. You've been the invoker of great stories, the
provocation for much laughter, and the needed
companion when we just don't know what to do with the
extra money in our pockets. In order to continue this
friendship, I ask that you carefully review my
grievances above and address them immediately.

I will look for an answer no later than Thursday 5pm
(pre-happy hour) on your possible solutions and
hopefully we can continue this fruitful partnership.

Thank you,
Your biggest fan.

PS - I 'gave up' alcohol for Lent, thanks for reminding me Tom!

<font color="#800000">What are you giving up for Lent?</font> What are you giving up for Lent?

Quick Thoughts
* So, read the title ... what are you giving up? Are you going to make an effort to be a better, more religious person? Leave a comment, let me know.

News
* Lynne Stewart going to jail ... where terrorist supporters belong!
* Houser approves tougher drivers' license standards!
* Senate approves class-action lawsuit reform!
* N. Korea drops out of NPT ... oh, and the N is for Nuclear - as in they have admitted to having nuclear weapons ... this is bad ... oh, and they blame it on us ... and another thought here
* Iran trying to get nuclear as well ... also not good ...
* Carisa Ashe kills her baby, only punishment : tubal ligation ... HOW IS SHE NOT GOING TO JAIL?? This is a TERRIBLE Situation, that is a GREAT example of a problem with our legal system. Repulsive.
* Some thoughts on Omar Khadr ... the 'poor, abused Canadian' ... who just happens to be a proud member of al Qaida ...
* Iraq : Vote recount underway
* Prince Charles getting married, again
* XBOX 'hackers' getting sued ... "you purchased, like and play our games, so we will sue you" - solid business choice (cough) ... oh, and the DMCA rears its ugly, bloated, misconceived head again ...
* More on Churchill ... received standing ovation for saying those who died on 9/11 deserved it, and that we as a country deserve more 9/11's ... I sincerely hope he is fired; the right of free speech doesn't stop an employer from not wanting to employ an incompetent, outspoken, rude, inconsiderate and (quite simply) wrong individual, especially one that public $ is paying for! He should be held to his own statement - ""I do not work for the taxpayers of the state of Colorado" ... let's make that true! (And naturally, the ACLU supports him ... and just like when Gatewood agrees with you, that is an indication that you are wrong)
* The FAA was warned about hijacking pre-9/11?
* Bush seeks addl $600M for Tsunami aid ... not to sound callous or anything, but FWIW I am against this; I think the $350M + military/logistic aid is more than generous ... I don't mind the "$35 million for early-warning and disaster-mitigation efforts" part, but the rest could just go away ...
* EU drops Kyoto ... that's because it is fundamentally flawed; which I why the US never signed on (and why Russia shouldn't have)
* Pope, back in action
* Arkansas +1 Earthquake ... 4.2 ...

Interesting
* Help get the REAL ID act approved!
* WSJ running late ... and more on Eason-gate
* What is "An American"?
* The Folly Of Gun Control
* Is that a LCD projector in your pocket, or ... ? ... make is 1024x768 and you have a winner!
* Browser Wars, on again ... currently, IMHO - Firefox wins hands down :)
* Full Color Night Vision ... sure beats Dark Vision!
* Octopuses form, use quasi-joints for heavy lifting ... when you don't have elbows, make one ...
* Saturn's true colors
* Drug-sniffing dog case may open way to warrant-less net recon
* USB-LAN adapters, head to head
* Why is MS only releasing limited source code? ... inappropriate comments? ... that would be funny to read those!
* Smart People Choke Under Pressure?
* Galactica gets a 2nd season! ... but Enterprise still ends this May :(
* 4GB Hitachi MicroDrive = $130!
* Social inSecurity : What transition costs?
* More on Kerry ... dereliction of duty, effective theft of tax payer money, treason?
* Liberal Economics 101
* Decent round-up of Pro-Bush world events ... Iraq, Iran(?), & Afghanistan - poppy plants 'disappearing' ...
* Quotes from other generals ... like "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace" ... what Mattis said wasn't really all that bad ...
* More on Social inSecurity ... "70% of those polled acknowledge it will go bankrupt if nothing is done" ... and that isn't even the biggest problem :)
* Sexually abusive teacher allowed to keep teaching with only a warning, finally indicted ... more reasons to home school; or at the very least KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING - ask questions, be involved, DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT!!
* UN to be subjected to SarbOx-like 'transparency' requirements ... about time!
* Marriage under siege ... not in Virginia?
* Time to just ignore Churchill? ... I agree. Once he is fired, that is ...
* More AARP buffoonery
* Military teleportation?
* Bloomberg, RINO, losing seat?
* Is the Administration focusing on the wrong problem? ... Social inSecurity instead of Medicare/Medicaid
* Cosby +1 Sexual Assault allegation
* Yahoo releases toolbar for Firefox
* Spray on testosterone

Funny
* Should be a new OOTS today! ... soon? UPDATE : Strip will be late today as he is finishing up the BOOK (I pre-ordered 2 :) ) ... and sometime in March plans on going to a M-W-F schedule, instead of M-R! More More More!
* OBL's Valentine's Wishes for USA
* True : The Best Gifts
* Flintstones : Way too gay
* Product placement ruins Super Bowl
* New Hawking Algorithm Generates New Hawking Algorithms
* Iran concerned that 'attack not on U.S. agenda'
* "Virtual Jihad" may be hindered by poor dial-up connection, indolence
* Bush promises to bring troops home, through Iran ... and Jamie Fox wins Iraq elections!
* Dating the spontaneous person not so much fun anymore
* Anorexic realizes she just has to eat
* Mario elected to NFL Hall of Fame ... better than Marino :P (Hi Eddie!)
* McDonalds CEO Dies As Big Mad™ Unveiled
* Project Manager leaves a 48-slide PowerPoint as his suicide note ... "three-dimensional bar graph illustrated the growth of Butler's sorrow"
* True : Winning female athlete actually a man!
* Bush Diary : GoDaddy good
* Coke doesn't make you gain weight ... "radiation may not kill, burning fossil fuels may not cause global warming" ...
* Virginia : plumbers fear law might penalize their buttocks cleavage
* The Power of Grapefruit
* Never Lose Your Wireless Mouse Again
* TRUE : EXCELLENT Star Wars Dorkery ... with captions like "Sith of the Dance"!

<font color="#800000">Ash Wednesday, & Doggy Doctor Day</font> Ash Wednesday, & Doggy Doctor Day

Quick Thoughts
* Sorry for the delayed posting today; had to take Mädchen to the Veterinary Surgical hospital. The good news, it is probably not her hips. The bad news, still gonna cost $1k+ ... (UPDATE: it cost $1390.58 :( )
* MS released a bunch of security bulletins last night; several are critical ... patch you (Win*, and Office*) systems! ... (Symantec raised ThreatCon to 2)

News
* Wictory Wednesday! ... re-elect Santorum!
* Carly Fiorina out! ... still pockets $21M, and more leadership/staff to go? ... and stock goes up :)
* Tsunami aid, delayed, stolen ... "only 30 percent of those affected by the tsunami had received aid"
* US wants to oust IAEA head
* Pope misses Ash Wednesday (for the first time)
* Churchill not backing down ... and he should still get fired!
* Brother, Sister kill/bury mother, (2) grandparents
* Rumsfeld to China
* Karl Rove, now the Deputy Chief of Staff ... that'll keep the libs hopping mad!
* More UN mismanagement ... in the "World Meteorological Organization" ... UN, mismanagement - aren't those synonyms?
* BBC producer killed in Somalia
* Indonesia +1 Earthquake .. either 5.7 or 6.2, spurring some panic ... no reports of injuries ...
* Medicare Drug benefit : $720B ... on Bush's hitlist, one step after Social inSecurity?
* Wear 'low riders' and get fined, in Virginia
* Scalp a 16yr old, and the cops will be mad with you
* Madrid Car Bomb : 43 injured ... hmm, electing a communist didn't stop the terrorist attacks ...
* White House vs Washington Post (again)
* Cop-killer caught

Interesting
* What's your party?
* Bush, Rice on Iran
* The REAL ID act ... and good reasons to support it!
* Star leaving the Milky Way at 1.5M mph
* Plans for mission to the Moon, Mars
* These ants can direct, slow their fall
* Carrots vs Cancer
* Extra-Planetary diamonds? ... that's one way to pay for space missions; until the market is swamped :)
* Analysts grilling Google ... sell off coming soon?
* France active in Hitler's program of genocide?
* North Carolina, Democrats, NC Supreme Court
* Why John Kerry? Why Ted Kennedy?
* Hillary's virtual transformation continues ... and by virtual, I mean it isn't real and people are being suckered in ... and wanna stop her?
* Ronald Reagan, the stamp
* AARP is a liberal lobby ... so says Art Linkletter, and he is spot-on!
* WorldCom legal woes; was Ebbers warned?
* Trojan disables MS AntiSpyWare
* Inside Google Maps
* Olajuwon's mosque unknowingly funded some terrorists ... primarily an example of why you should ALWAYS know where YOUR donations are REALLY going ...
* FreeBSD dropping Beastie, replaced by (competition)
* NASA says the Earth is warming
* "Dean Scream" contest!
* Soldier's uniform hanging in front of house ... despicable example of free speech ...

Funny
* ... too busy, maybe later ... after Ash Wednesday Service @ Church ... ok, fine - here's one:
* True : Beer Bottle Attack saves life
... PS - that's all for today!

<font color="#800000">Safer Internet Day</font> Safer Internet Day

Quick Thoughts
* Gratuitous Blegging : Sign up for clickies, with me as your referrer:

News
* Today is Safer Internet Day
* Dean is the only candidate DNC Chair ... in a one horse race, even a lame horse can win ...
* Saudi Arabia, Dubai and terrorism ... Dubai + Diamonds = terrorist$ ? ... and more on Arab targets of terrorism
* Iran claims desire for peace ... but adds a threat, and a boast, in there as well ... and Democracy in Iran?
* China to take the Nuclear Power lead? ... building meltdown-proof ("pebble bed") reactor ... more reason for us to permit more Nuclear plants to be built :)
* UK to limit immigration to English speakers ... excellent! If only we could follow suit ...
* 50 killed in fighting in the Philippines
* Ford owner's lose Focus? ... big (~359k) recall
* USMC 'Indian givers' of Purple Hearts ... cite 'administrative error'
* Churchill -1 speaking engagement ... still waiting for his racist, intolerant, anti-US butt to be fired (currently under review) ... and Dustin Craun should just go away, or join the ACLU
* Deep Throat to be revealed 'soon'? ... and a quick bit of speculation WRT who DT is ...
* Review of the budget
* More on the Gap / Twin-deficit myth
* Mermaid baby? ... Milagros Cerron, "born with her legs fused in a tight coating of skin - giving her the appearance of a mermaid", and has other (serious) birth defects ... prayers for a good outcome, and that she is able to persevere the years of therapy she is about to undergo!

Interesting
* Iraq : More thoughts on the vote ... and more here; Kurds in #2 spot
* Some thoughts on Bill Clinton, UN, and one leading the other ... and you can donate here
* Thoughts on a new form of fair taxation
* Iraq, training, and Kennedy's ignorance/lie
* AOL fighting for survival
* Thoughts on France ... "we need France as an ally if for no other reason then to keep them from becoming an out right enemy" ... but if they are an ally only when it suits them, are they really an ally? ... and check here :)
* Thoughts on Religion, State and our obligations to both
* More on media bias
* Another pro-VOIP ruling from the FCC
* Hubble's demise planned out
* Turn your PocketPC into a iPod
* Google's answer to MapQuest
* More on the Cell (CPU) ... and more here
* Brown Dwarf stars, and life?
* Your gums and your heart, related
* CellSocket - Do you use you cel phone as your home phone, or want to? Check this out ... sadly, only for Motorola phones (so far, anyway)
* Early motherhood brings shorter lifespan, to the mother?
* New Orleans gets some new cameras
* Lab monkeys 'scream with fear' ... proof of lab animal abuse ...
* Some truth on Kinsey ... repulsive, as he truly was ...
* Cisco's stock is nearing 52wk low ... time to buy?
* Some thoughts on Reagan, Conservatives, Bush
* Man bites off Parrot's head ... wtf?
* Playing with the Iranians?
* Watching Jordan Eason
* The truth about Iraq & Terrorism
* Saying words, vs following them up
* Thoughts on China (and Russia), and how they are threats to the US
* Some thought son PETA ... :) ...
* What do Cuba, Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia Have in Common?
* More thoughts on the 'mass exodus' from the US to Canada ... :) ...
* Dems on thin ice?
* Arlen Specter, still not serving us well
* New Zealand, good for pedophiles

Funny
* Pentagon Sets Rules of Engagement for Journalists ... "We're there to kill terrorists, not journalists," said an unnamed Pentagon official. "The new rules are designed to make it easier for our personnel to distinguish between the two, since they're often found together and have similar objectives."
* Legislation to ban urban legends
* Iraqis paint fingers purple to pick up women ... Democracy has 'just given men another way to lie to you'
* Typo leads to Tori Spelling being sworn in as Secretary of Education
* "Monster Truck Madness" sweeping US
* Fast Food Wars: The Merchandising Strikes Back
* Pentagon admits creating secret spy unit in order to torture in peace & quiet
* True : 4yr old drives to store
* Signs You've Joined the Wrong Software Company
* Boy discovers that money spends much easier than it earns
* Travel Advice for Mars
* Dragon Models: "We Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists"
* Some Social inSecurity questions
* McCartney's wardrobe security revealed
* UF : Get paid for what?
* True?: Teresa Heinz Kerry
* True(!) : Sexiest Plumber

<font color="#800000">Real Life</font> Real Life

Quick Thoughts
* Real Life is all up in my grill today, so posting is delayed ... possibly until tomorrow ... nevermind, delay over!
* Check out the Riley pic below ... :)
* The US Dollar hits a 3m high vs the Euro
* WRT Bush budget cuts - in general, GOOD. Cut under-performing agencies' budgets, cut some farm subsidies (and cap those that remain!), cut some local development pork (that is a state/local responsibility, not federal!) ... and gives our soldiers a raise!

News
* Spanish Consulate standoff over ... or maybe not?
* Iraq : Suicide bombers, Mortars kill 30 ... more condolences to all of them killed, and prayers for those wounded ...
* The upcoming US Federal budget ... $2.5 trillion in 2006 ... and More here on Bush, budget, cuts
* Patriots win, now lose some staff
* Judge arrested for DUI/DWI
* Iraq : al Sistani says "demanded that Islam be the sole source of legislation in the country’s new constitution" ... that is not a good sign ...
* Germany might arrest Rumsfeld? ... good luck ...
* (ex)Priest convicted
* Oil down a bit ... still $10-20 too high ...
* Peace in the MidEast? ... a(nother) cease fire called ...
* More Oil for Food Fiasco Fallout ... another senior UN staffer suspended ... just waiting for Kofi's # to come up, and Kojo's for that matter ...
* GI demoted for mud wrestling ... that's why you don't let cameras in ...

Interesting
* Multi-Browser DNS Spoofing Flaw
* Why we are in Iraq
* Good News from Afghanistan ... and I hope, and pray, that my brother-in-law is doing well over there as well!
* France does not surrender to Google
* Google biased? ... and more here
* Divining rod being used on Mars?
* Caffeinated beer!
* More on Black Holes ... forces for creation?
* Superbrain chip ... "supercomputer on a chip"
* More on France's wine problem ... and even better, it is atleast partially the US's fault!
* Team America: banned in Korea ... one more reason to like it :)
* A few thoughts on Lent
* Nuclear Weapon re-design ... make them last longer ...
* More Phishing
* Co-Operative Linux ... Linux & Win*, side-by-side, no VMWare required ...
* We consumers, as prawns
* Voting with their feet ... some leave the US; good - make it easier for US to win future elections :)
* HVD - 200 DVDs on one disc ... > 1TB of data, and read speeds of ~1gbps ... but don't get too excited, still ~2 years until the standard is ratified!
* Coral Reefs create cloud
* BYO XGA Projector! ... for $300!
* Intel's Foxton coming soon ... dual-core Itanium
* 'MechAssault2 : Lone Wolf' review
* Kazaa logging user downloads? ... not good for Kazaa, or for their users ...
* GM puts Pontiac out to pasture
* RFID the dead
* AskJeeves buying BlogLines
* Free CBTs
* LoJack your Mac
* Who said ''I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether ... hint : he recently lost his Chair position, and may be losing his job
* Social inSecurity myth ... and more thoughts here
* Moore "catches O'Reilly in a lie" ... just another fable, like his movie ...
* InfoSec tools : Open Source vs Commercial
* Marijuana : how it harms your brain

Funny
* Miss a SuperBowl ad? They are all here
* Heaven Fails ISO 9000 Audit
* First Janet Jackson jokes arrive in Iraq
* Lack of "Super Bowl Surprise" leaves satire site without material for Monday morning ... contains 50% profanity ...
* Super Bowl Results : What Can You Do?
* A Wedding Card
* New OOTS ... Xykon on the move, kind of ...
* AskJeeves.com involved in murder conspiracy
* Man called 'Sri Lanka' receives $22 million from Red Cross
* Captain Kirk fires Scotty for general crappiness of his communicator
* The South Unlikely to Rise Again
* Waiting for the Gulf of Mexico to Reach Crawford, Texas
* True : A poem, about the French ... and - also funny, and true : The French, on their leisure time

Quote of the Day
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in, and then the trouble started.
thanks Aaron!

<font color="#800000">Just a Saturday</font> Just a Saturday

Quick Thoughts
* FOXNEWS is reporting on Iran, being even more nuclear than we were afraid of? ... est. 3-5 years until nukes fully developed, but even so this really puts into question the 'peaceful intentions'!

News
*Iraq : Attacks kill 23 ... condolences for all of them, including 2 US GIs
* Afghan jetliner crashed, all aboard believed dead ... condolences for all of them, including ~6 Americans
* Big Win for Big Tobacco
* More on UN/Kofi's Oil for Food revisit ... still not admitting guilt for himself or his son ...
* Torture, Starvation used by parents against (5 of) their (8) adopted children ... John & Linda Dollar - Home Schoolers, child abusers ... there is not a punishment severe enough for these two 'wonderful' individuals. These children's lives have probably been ruined for ever.
* More on Ward Churchill ... 'won't apologize', and I won't apologize for calling for his termination ...
* Woman starved her 3 children to death
* RIAA sues dead people too
* More on Gregoire's stolen, fraudulent election

Interesting
* Doing something nice, get sued? ... sad commentary on our society, both WRT the neighbor that sued and our society (that let her win) ...... found via It Is What It Is and Long Time Gone and Mark Levin Fan .. :)
* Diplomad shutting down?
* Where the 'hot jobs' will be ... BearingPoint?
* It fights pollution, blood clots
* How to tie a tie
* Mozilla releases Sunbird
* 'Intro to hacking'
* Greenhouse Gases could make Mars livable
* A look at the Dog Star (Sirius)
* John Edwards has been found!

Funny
* NSFW(?): Women, doing their duty to fight terrorism?
* Ted Kennedy left his lunch behind ...
* Your face on methamphetamines? ... found via It Is What It Is
* Lose some time to surfing this site ... thanks The Donegal Express
* True : Playing games ON buildings

<font color="#800000">The weekend is here, have a can of beer</font> The weekend is here, have a can of beer

Quick Thoughts
* Well, its almost here. I can taste it. The weekend, not the beer - that would be bad as I am at work right now ... PS - the title is a quote, stolen directly from Don & Mike ('radio gods')
* Anyone recommend a good CISSP training program? In class, online, books ... whatever. Gonna get serious about it now, partially Hung's 'fault'.

News
* Iraq : 15k troops coming home ... getting back to pre-election levels, leaving 135k there (along with the "136k trained Iraqis", of which ~30k are fully ready/trained)
* Secretary of State Rice heading to Europe ... it feels good to be able to say Secretary of State Rice
* Afghan jetliner, lost in snowstorm? ... prayers for the ~100+ people on board, although it is a grim forecast
* Iraq : 3 Marines killed ... our condolences to them, their family & brothers-in-arms
* More on Social inSecurity ... margin loans, hardly!
* Bush pushing for Social inSecurity, pension reform ... and let me say that I am tired of the federal govt bailing out all of the airlines' pensions ... the PBGC seems almost criminal, please correct me if I am wrong on that ...
* Annan (finally) orders some disciplinary actions ... strangely, doesn't fire himself ... or discipline his son ...
* Ward Churchill about to be fired? ... we can only hope! FWIW - please remember that free speech is not always free; yes - the Govt can't arrest you for it but (in extreme cases, like this one) civilians can stop buying your stuff, stop employing you, etc. ... and more here
* Japan reporting its first Mad Cow related death ... possibly contracted in UK ... condolences
* Note to members of the Armed Services - don't actually say "it's fun to shoot some people" ... although, if you are a USMC General you will only get counseled, not disciplined
* Rumsfeld offered to resign twice ... while O'Reilly would have liked that, I disagree and think its good he is still onboard!
* EU to outlaw 300 minerals, used in over 5000 products? ... between that and not believing in free speech ...

Interesting
* Iraq : Another story of valor
* Wanna buy a bridge? ... seriously, NY is selling/leasing properties ...
* Job market : moving up? ... expected #s : unemployment=5.4%; January=+215k jobs ... good good good
* Exploding star (20k light years away) caught on film ... by the soon to be defunct Hubble ...
* A little poem .. on Democrats, Gun control and life in general
* More on Judges, pro-Terrorist? ... assigning the rights & privileges of US citizenship to them ... sad ... hopefully the US Supreme Court will right this wrong, and slap some of the wrong/ugly out of Judge Joyce ... found via Cao's blog
* Zombies, Spam, Death of the Internet ... well, maybe not its death - but more spam! ... I still think ISPs should simply block TCP/25 unless the user requests it to be open; in fact - ISPs should block all incoming traffic (permit responses, permit VPN ports, and work-around the non-standard apps (Xwindows, FTP, etc)) ... but (again) - if a user wants to expose his/her machine they should be allowed to, just not by default!
* Saturn HotSpot found ... on it's south pole ...
* More on Dark Matter
* A few thoughts on CNN, media bias, and the 1^st Amendment
* Bears are bad! This one isn't anymore ... bad as in powerful, not as in evil ... it had killed atleast 2 people in the last 72 hours, and finally found its rightful place (below us) in the food chain ... GRAPHIC PIC, if you have a weak stomach don't go here!
* Check out this math! ... lasers, gravity, time machine
* Anonymous, on the Internet? Are you?
* Napster : A fully integrated flop?
* More on Magnetars
* Speed Test your Internet Connection ... easier than DSL reports version, and FWIW - mine is 6.879mbps (at work)
* Anti-Smoking fascism coming to NC, VA?
* Wash State throws out the estate tax ... now they should just throw-out the 'Comrade Governor' :)
* Karma strikes White Supremacist
* Defeat Byrd!
* Call a Penalty on the Congress? ... 15 yards for intentional obstructionism?
* A soldier replies ... the name of his blog makes it worth a read(schadenfreude)! ... found via Malkin
*Which nation in the European Union imposes the highest tax burden on it's citizens? "> ... hint : it's tax-to-GDP is 51.4%, which is less than 6%a above the EU norm (sad!)
* A less-than-obvious downside of legalized prostitution
* More Karma; "Life ain't fair"

Funny
* Man sues McDonalds and Paris Hilton for making him fat and stupid
* Dismissed Jackson jurors sign book deals
* Blue state firefighters make statement with new paint job
* Liberals go door-to-door forcing guys to marry each other
* Tara Reid Wins 2005 Nobel Piece Prize
* Baby : Odd Tooth Brings Equally Odd Slobber
* Any similarity between you and a human is purely coincidental! ... and more there :)
* True/Sad : Mom makes heroin delivery ... to her son ... at his school ... and she was violating a court order in seeing the boy! ... the upside is that the 41yr old is going bye-bye now
* Napoleon Dynamite soundboard
* A few thoughts on Andrew Sullivan's 'retirement'

A quick MeMe
* My first post @ TWA!

Quote of the Day
@Vegetarian: I can't wait 'til I die, I'm either gonna' have "BRB" or "AFK" on my tombstone
thanks BASH!



Thanks Cao, and never forget :

<font color="#800000">Another Day, another $.02</font> Another Day, another $.02

Quick Thoughts
* Lower taxes & tax reform, good(FAIR TAX even better!). Social inSecurity reform, good (privatization even better!). Nuclear Power & reducing our dependence on foreign oil, good. Border Security, good. Temporary Guest workers, I am still not so sure about that. Jeering the President during HIS speech, sad (especially given that they had already preemptively attacked a plan (about which they knew no details about), and that they knew they were also going to have a 'response' to his speech afterwards ... they just can't wait their turn, nor be civil).
* Riley went into strafe mode last night! (standing up, 'walking' sideways (whilst holding onto the crib rail, that is)). She can also 'walk' as long as someone provides the balance for her ... although she doesn't crawl yet :( ... speaking of Riley, I have uploaded new pics (check near the end, Riley's first computer!) ... a couple of pics below, at the end of this post ...
* On this day in 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed, enacting Income Tax ... so many comments, so little time. Mostly like "91 years of Uncle Sam taking our money" or something around the repressive tax structure we live under ... I'll leave it at that!

News
* Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ... confirmed, vote = 60-36
* A good month for the US of A
* Iraq : Violence resumes, 28 (including 2 US Marines) dead ... condolences to all those killed, and prayers for all of 'the good guys' over there
* Thoughts on Bush's SOTU ... in short - great speech ... and more here ... and transcript & video here ... oh, and PWL LiveBlogged it
* Some thoughts on the rebuttal to the SOTU
* Citizens Against Government Waste chimes in
* Georgia's PM (Zurab Zhvania) poisoned, dies! ... accident, suicide, assassination ... ?
* Did the US knowingly permit Saddam to sell oil to Turkey, Jordan Syria & Egypt in violation of sanctions? ... that is decidedly not good. The apparent justification was the stability of the region ...
* Ukraine sold nuclear-capable missiles to Iran, China
* USMC missing recruiting goal ... first time in almost a decade
* Vietnam : bird flu frenzy, killing all ducks ... 13 people have died in the last month ...
* Software Patents, reloaded ... EU/JURI does something worthwhile
* Frank, the brain tumor, has been removed
* 16yr old girl missing ... "police believe she was picked up by Lester B. Joy, 24, a convicted and registered sex offender"
* WorldCom Director's settlement nixed ... hopefully to pay more, and hopefully out of their pockets (not just their insurance)
* Qwest to buy MCI? ... on the heals of SBC buying AT&T ...
* Iraq : Citizens kill 5 terrorists ... excellent; keep up the good work!
* Governor Kinky? ... as opposed to a kinky governor (Clinton?) ... he is campaigning against the wussification of Texas, sweet!
* EU to ban Communist symbols? ... swastika already banned ... guess they don't quite have that freedom of speech thing over there ...
* Iraq: Dean says it is MUCH worse now! ... remember, he is the next (likely) DNC Chairman

Interesting
* Un/Under-reported Heroism
* Personal aviation / Flying cars
* AARP cooking its Social inSecurity numbers?! ... and A quick example of Social inSecurity at work
* Cautious Optimism for Bush's statements? ... I'd be a little more positive myself, but we shall all see ...
* Augmented reality, in real time
* Some excellent thoughts on Social Security ... quotes CATO, "Most of us are accustomed to thinking of a trust fund as an asset. That’s what it would be if we had one. But in the case of Social Security, the trust fund is really a liability" ... and an excellent point-counterpoint Social inSecurity ...and some more : a breakdown of how to determine if it is a crisis or not ... "If you want it saved, don’t want to pay more taxes and don’t want your benefits cut ... you’re just living with your head in the sand, dirt, or local snowdrift"
* InmatesStudents running the asylumschool?
* Missing matter, found?
* Artificial Neon Sky show created ... Aurora-ads coming to you?
* Who said "Members of Hamas are soldiers in that war" ... hint : he is probably the next DNC Chairman ... and Janeane joins him on the stupid comments side of the room ... and how about An endorsement for him? :) ... and more on this wonderful individual ... ok, fine - it is Howard "it's hard to talk with my foot in my mouth" Dean.
* Global Warming timetable released
* I am firmly convinced that she does not exist on our plane of reality
* Kazaa-gate
* Bring out your dead ... websites
* GOP Power Ratings
* The Insurgency Revisited ... found via TigerHawk
* Don't get deuced : how to avoid , or fight, getting fired for Blogging?
* More on Titan
* Curbing climate change would require 'huge emissions cuts'
* Real-Time Particle-Based Fluid Simulation
* Liquid metals
* Dell ships an almost unleaded desktop
* Dyslexia slows your reactions?
* RC from your PC?
* Kilauea activity
* High Speed ... "At .0000237 mph Bamboo is the world’s fastest-growing plant"
* Your average "Sherry enema someone to death" ... unusual ... BAL got up to .47!
* DNA vaccine vs TB
* Dante Culpeper, Indian giver?
* Upcoming iPaq : more Treo, than Treo?
* Botnets vs AdWords
* Ill fated Beagle2 should never have been built
* Volvo's 'future proof' car?

Funny
* New OOTS! ... camping, weapons, skunks ...
* State Of The Union delivered by plastic action doll
* Bizarro Bush apologizes for no WMDs in State Of Union Address
* Rock Cam being canceled? ... not enough hot rock action?
* Groundhog predicts nuclear winter
* Baby: Crawl enabled
* Bush proposes using freedom to balance budget
* Ka’Al Rove masterminds Iraqi election win
* Washington under siege ... and a parting shot about Global Warming
* Love at 1st site : What occurs when two extremely 'interested', but not entirely choosy, people meet ... and other amusing tidbits!
* C# compiler errors
* Short guy doesn't have it where it counts?
* White Trash Wednesday : Missed these yesterday
* How to fold a shirt ... dunno why, but this still makes me laugh.
* New Iraqi fighting force
* NSFW : SNL/Deniro as DHS lead ... thanks John!

Some InfoSec from SANS:
* Developing a Security-Awareness-Culture
* Creating a Secure Linux Logging System
* Egress Filtering For a Better Internet
* Need to generate a System Security Plan?
* Need some templates for various policies?
* Webcast : Internet Storm Center, Threat Update
* FDA CFR21p11 compliance



And these are the reasons I do everything I do:

<font color="#800000">Ground Hog Day</font> Ground Hog Day

Quick Thoughts
* Ground Hog Day, in fact - even the thought of it, is pretty inane. And FWIW, we have "6 more weeks of winter" coming. Shocker; given that it is all of 20 degrees outside now.
* More importantly - the State of the Union is tonight (in 30 minutes)!
* Although it pains me to give Clinton any credit for anything, aside from gratuitously abusing the office we (not me) elected him to, as a fiscal conservative I have to give a shout-out because 6 years ago (1998) he submitted a balanced federal budget for the first time in the US in 29 years. Not saying it was a good budget, but atleast it was balanced :).
* Gratuitous Blegging : Sign up for clickies, with me as your referrer:

News
* Comments on, and expectations of, the upcoming State of the Union
* Wictory Wednesday ... Tired of Democrat filibusters? If we pick up a few more Senate seats, they won’t matter anymore! You can help make that happen by donating to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and - Wanna join, or see current members?
* DHS suffering from 'turf wars' ... shouldn't be a surprise, but it is a disappointment!
* Germany's unemployment hits 12.1% ... that is the Europe model, right?
* NYT says Dean is the DNC Chair ... partially because he sold this as a way to keep him out of the 2008 Presidential runnings ... oh, and I hate quoting the NYT('all the news thats fit to spin')! ... and remember - (cough) Bush is the divider!
* Wacko Jacko's ex-wife to be a witness - against Jackson!
* SBC axing 13k ... through attrition, not RIFs (and not until after the AT&T deal closes)
* Google hits $1B in revenue
* Adelphia going 'hard core'?
* Corporate Jet crashes into car, building during (failed) take-off attempt ... 14 injured, no deaths!
* Rabbi spreading herpes during circumcision?
* Marine in Cali needs a liver ... type O blood type a pre-req ...
* Terrorism in our midst?
* Earthquake : 9 Survivors found on remote island!
* N. Korea sold nuclear material to Libya?
* Fed raises rate .25%, as expected
* FBI, Internet Surveillance and the EFF
* IRA will not turn over their arsenal ... no peace for you ...
* Iran : We will never stop our Nuke program
* Crips -1 founder ... Stanley "Tookie" Williams to be executed

Interesting
* Enterprise canceled, effective May (Friday 13th, BTW) ... will finish current season, but then end ... that's too bad, I thought it was pretty decent (except for the theme song, that is) ... and you can help save the show!
* Castro, voice of reason that he is, calls Bush deranged ... hahahha ...
* Cao quotes Charlie Daniels, on Gitmo
* Worse than OBL?
* Another reason to not drink and drive!
* Speed-up Firefox, the right way
* Aussie's can get 8mbps broadband for $30/mo ... with 20mbps coming 'soon'. I WANT SOME OF THAT! .. no, wait - I want some of this : Hong Kong has 100mbps!
* Those 'positive'(cough) Liberals
* Adware-infested PCs worth $3/ea to the scum that operate the Ad-networks
* 3D graphics for your cel phone
* Michelin introduces the 'Tweel' ... tire+wheel, all sans air
* Thoughts on UK anti-self-defense laws?
* OS shootout
* Monkeys like (some) pictures
* Video of British C130 being shot down is a hoax ... but plane did break up in air ...
* Download Solaris 10 ... multi CD or (one) DVD!
* Wardriving as a privacy tool
* Cancer drug vs Smallpox
* 30m PS2 mods ... no soldering!
* Ace, on Eason Jordan's and Ward Churchill's criminal insanity
* All children to receive Psychiatric screening, whether parents want it or not?
* Malkin vs Robinson
* Are bloggers journalists?
* Who said "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." ... hint : she will be running for President in 2008 ...
* Happy Birthday Ayn Rand
* Jybe : shared browsing for Firefox and IE ... shared as in you & someone else see the same site (think no more walking user through steps) ... possible security issues aside, this looks (i.e. - I haven't tried it yet) cool!
* Upcoming Newsweek to feature Darwin vs ID
* More on Wash State re-vote effort
* NAACP 'resisting' the IRS?
* Liberal barking mad,m and full of hypocrisy?
* Thoughts on Buffet's thoughts
* Paid blogging? ... note to Sony, et al - I will gladly accept $25/month from you!
* The 'next Space Shuttle', aka the Crew Exploration Vehicle
* DDoS attack in progress - against Heise.de
* Orbital Overload - Space Debris
* Torvalds joins anti-patent struggle
* Swift's UVOT sending pics back
* Linux Live shoot-out
* Arctic Ice sheet now an awakened monster?
* Student keylogs teacher, goes to jail
* How to study
* More on Grasso's "excessive compensation" ... very much so ...
* Jabber rootkit?
* This mole eats faster than you!
* Build your very own database-riven website
* Digital mirror shows your future self ... should be applied to spouses?
* Reproducing robots? ... this sounds like a good sci-fi plot ...
* A site dedicated to Abandonware ... the logical follow-up to Vaporware :)

Funny
* Iraqi insurgents in league with Cobra ... calling GI Joe ... knowledge is power! ... and Bush action figure performs daring rescue maneuver ... and Mattel pulling out of Iraq ... "Zarkawi is seen promising to continue killing American toys until, 'all the American infidel children surrender.'" ... and Gene Simmons kidnapped as well ... and Dolls, Action figures speak out ... and US retaliates by kidnapping Cobra Commander ... and Bert & Ernie mounting rescue operation!
* There was a new OOTS (finally) the other day ... and it shows the Probability of Random Encounter law, Go Joe!
* 30 Things You Didn't Know About Your Office Tech Guy ... " He was ecstatic to learn Jeri Ryan is single again." ... she is?? Sweet!
* Cosmic Justice/Karma meets guy trying to 'door' a bike rider ... true or not, pretty funny! ... found via href="http://johnmccrarey.com/archives/2005/02/02/wow/">LTG
*White Trash Wednesday : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
* 180 trillion(!) leisure hours lost to work in 2004
* FOXNEWS buys al-Jazeera
* Iraqi's accidentally elect Saddam Hussein
* Couple gives birth to dress-up doll ... my wife seems to believe this too!
* Clinton will help, "Sex Up" tsunami victims
* Leading Alarmists excited about Bird Flu
* Blooper : Christmas music for the ho...
* Cel phone lost, found - grueling 4 minutes!
* al Qaida Forms Christian Rock Group
* T.O. will play on top of Mitchell's shoulders
* God denies any involvement in T.O. healing
* Robot upset that dog won't get off the couch
* Baby : Baby baggies curb kid kicking
* Patriots Catch Eagles in Super Bowl
* Scottish DUI test
* Crime a Bigger Threat Than Bunnies
* Sad : Dangerfield still gets no respect
* The Gay Rooster : Wisdom beats youth
* IPA saves lives ... now that must be good beer (Killians is better)
* Weird : Phone up the dearly departed
* An argument against webcams!

<font color="#800000">Doctor Day</font> Doctor Day

Quick Thoughts
* I get to go to the doctor today; and see how badly I have messed-up my body over the course of 30 years. Weight a little(ahem) high, Blood Pressure a little high (due to weight), Lungs all good, EKG normal ... no hernia (turn head, cough) ... blood work still out - details to follow, in days?

News
* Pope hospitalized ... many prayers ...
* More on the Egyptian family murdered in NJ
* Iraq: 'It would be nonsense to ask foreign troops to leave' ... tell Kennedy, Dean, et al that ...
* More UN Oil for Food Fiasco - Kojo admits involvement?!
* Iraq: Borders re-opened ... couldn't we leave them closed just a bit longer?
* Iraq: Prison riot; 4 killed
* Military 'Death Pay' to go WAY up ... the least we can do for those who die in the service to this country
* Nissan : Hybrid don't make sense
* Nepal govt dismissed, state of emergency declared
* More on Ward Churchill ... He 'resigned' his Dept Chair position. Step one complete ... now we just need to get him fired from the staff altogether, which may be happening!
* Study shows the human brain is not fully developed until 25 years of age, so I am really only 5. Right?
* Spain arrests 4 Moroccans ... continued Madrid fallout
* MSNSearch launched
* Connecticut residents accidentally ordered to evacuate? ... dude, a DoS on the EBS ...
* Iraq: No missing soldier : it was a toy/hoax! ... funny : PWL shows a few other suspected hostages
* Republican playbook on Social Security: "Saving Social Security: A Guide to Social Security Reform"
* Abolish ALL prisons? ... that's what this group wants! Amazing moonbattery!

Interesting
* Kerry Blames Bin Laden: No, No, John. You're Being Far Too Modest ... "Bad Stuff + John Kerry = Bwahahahahahahah"
* HP introduces the 'crossbar latch' ... "this is the next transistor" ... "will result in computers thousands of times faster" ... more Halo2 for everybody!!
* UK taps US to help avoid Global Warming Catastrophe?
* Frost drops out of the DNC race, Dean one step closer?
* Saudi Arabia - "publishing and promoting hate-filled, violent propaganda abroad" ... and you can get the report(.PDF) here
* The Left is Worth Nothing?
* Thoughts on Levin, and his thoughts on Judicial Activism
* Tsunami relief, revisited
* IRS Summons can be ignored ... you should still pay your taxes, but I agree with Gindy : a govt agency should have limited powers, and require the legal system to be involved!
* Punctuated Disequilibrium ... rain forest into savanna ...
* Contributions vs bribes
* Solaris 10 released
* MadTech on Buster, lesbians
* Wanna run OS X on a PC?
* EU now ready to step forward and help ... a day late, and a Euro short ...
* Roads can cause congestion
* Skype (finally) available on Mac, Linux
* UN *still* funding terrorists
* Solar Sail : Earth to Mars in 1 month?
* "Hot Stuff", for kids??
* Islamic website tracking Christians?
* SpecOps can (now, finally) spend money to fight terrorism
* Liberty via Thoughts, Quotes, Pics ... found via LTG
* The mother of Wacko Jacko's accuser, revealed ... and her name is, coincidentally (and through marriage) Janet Jackson!
* Fish wine?
* Mark Levin on what would happen if Libs had control ... and he introduces a new word : Islamonazis
* Iraq: Disabled child used in suicide attack on Election Day
* Top10 Apple Failures
* So, your star wants to be a magnet ... magnetars ... sounds like a villainous group on a cartoon ...
* 'Zero Intelligence' (i.e. - random) buying mimics stock market ... what does that say about your broker? :P
* Now THAT is an engine!
* Scanned Images of Early American Docs
* Iraq Election Day, from some of those in Iraq
* Google gets authorized to sell domain names ... but doesn't plan on selling any? Future bundling options?
* A Wish List for a Men's Magazine
* MS Office XML, open for all ... or maybe not!
* Even Reid and Pelosi think Kennedy is off base
* NYTimes misleads? ... on the GDP this time
* Rewriting the laws of war
* 2008 Democrat Power Ratings ... and look at the #1 slot ...
* NYC's Gay High School
* UN, still useless, does not see genocide in Sudan
* More on the Cell processor
* Dems wanted to filibuster AG ... again, the word is obstructionist ... luckily, they didn't have the votes ...
* SuperBowl getting Candid Cameras
* What kind of democracy do we have in Iran right now? ... read the comments, excellent!
* Thoughts on gay marriage in Oregon

Funny
* Gonorrhea Lectim
* Which website are you?
* Tim Russert regaining consciousness after one-hour interview with Kerry
* Charles Graner To Oversee Hazing Rituals, College Fraternity Pledges
* ACLU Warns Against Purple Finger Parties
* Bush 'quotes' ... "I am going to kill everyone in Iraq. That's my ultimate goal. The protesters were right. I'm a Nazi, and I've fooled you all."
* Are we there yet?? ... cool Bush pic ...
* Social Security Shortfall Located, "Haliburton's Got It"
* True: La Shawn Barber, on Voter Intimidation & the NAACP

Quote of the Day
LancerNZ: How do we know bash.org isn't really an FBI recording site?
thanks BASH!