Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Interesting Stuff

7/31/2007 12:40:24 PM
this guy covered his back with nintendo tattoos!!! Awesome!
7/31/2007 12:40:12 PM
Backdoor entry is now so mainstream, some guys request it on the first date. So, what's your take on the once-taboo act?
7/31/2007 12:30:37 PM
You’d think that astronomers would have found all the different classes of AGN â€" extraordinarily energetic cores of galaxies powered by accreting supermassive black holes. But this new type is so heavily shrouded in gas and dust that virtually no light gets out.
7/31/2007 12:30:31 PM
Alfa Romeo rolled out the US-bound 8C Competizione at the Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance in Michigan. Alfa says it'll cost over $200,000, and fewer than 100 will be imported. Finally, it's out in the open so photographers can get some decent shots. Youch, it's hot.
7/31/2007 12:00:23 PM
Well, this makes them look smarter than us...
7/31/2007 11:50:07 AM
Crystal meth abuse is a serious issue in South Africa. The local name for the drug is 'tik', and the prevalence of its abuse has been referred as a 'pandemic'. So you can imagine it comes as quite a shock to us that, at a recent opening of a new Drug Rehab Center, the speaker was interrupted by our Honourable President asking "What is tik?"
7/31/2007 11:40:32 AM
Kevin Garnett is leaving Minnesota after the Boston Celtics agreed to acquire the All-Star forward in a multiplayer trade with the Timberwolves, a Celtics official told The Associated Press on Monday.
7/31/2007 11:40:10 AM
Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia, has laid out plans to create a new search engine that focuses on quality results, rather than complete and total crawling."The new Wikia search service will combine computer-driven algorithms and human-assisted editing when the company launches a public version of the search site toward the end of 2007"
7/31/2007 11:30:20 AM
Absent a proper apology, CNN anchor T.J. Holmes confessed, "just kidding". More like, OOPS and everyone should know it across the nation
7/31/2007 11:30:03 AM
win-get is an automated install system and software repository for Microsoft Windows written in pascal (for the command line client) and php for the online repository. The ideas for its creation come from apt-get and other related tools for the *nix platforms.
7/31/2007 11:10:08 AM
the NY Times Editorial Board has stated -- blandly and without qualifier or source -- that it was Vice President Cheney who sent him.
7/31/2007 10:50:14 AM
Should not the "moderate" imams of On Faith have been asked in direct terms whether they are, or are not, negotiating with a gun on the table?
7/31/2007 10:40:08 AM
Feast your eyes on this, car technology and high-mileage nuts. It's a Honda Accord that runs on diesel. It gets 62.8 miles a gallon on the highway, but otherwise looks and feels like a regular Accord.
7/31/2007 10:40:03 AM
The default Guitar Hero controllers are alright, but this guy's made a custom GH guitar himselfâ€"out of stuff he had lying around the house. He took the circuit board from a PS1 controller, a strap, miscellaneous household junk, and fashioned a Guitar Hero-esque guitar out of it.
7/31/2007 10:30:08 AM
The United States ranks at the bottom of industrialized countries in vehicle fuel-economy standards, but would jump far up the list if legislation to boost mileage requirements clears Congress and is signed into law, according to a report released on Monday.
7/31/2007 10:30:08 AM
Finally, thanks to NASA Spitzer Science Center's scientist-and-artist Dr. Robert L. Hurt, we've a gorgeous overhead view of the entire Milky Way galaxy! 93-ish million miles from the tip of the yellow arrow you, thru squinting + much imagination, can even see DIGG's diggers, Reddit's redditors, Slashdot's slashdotters doing what comes naturally...
7/31/2007 10:00:05 AM
Veteran rockers Led Zeppelin, who have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, are to enter the modern age and offer an album of specially selected tracks to download on the internet. If you know much about Led Zep, you know how protective they are of their songs and have seldom allowed them to be licensed and have long opposed digital music.
7/31/2007 9:50:05 AM
[H]ere’s the kicker: Manson took over 150 hours of Scientology courses, rejected it as too crazy, and then went on to murder a whole bunch of people.
7/31/2007 9:30:07 AM
Nice article about organizing a photowalk
7/31/2007 9:30:04 AM
PopPhoto's Christopher Badzioch has a wealth of tips for getting incredible macro-focus photos of the insects in your yard -- from dramatic outdoor lighting to "studio shoots" with captured critters.
7/31/2007 9:10:02 AM
Despite the pleas Bart writes on the chalkboard, the movie gets leaked on BitTorrent, the Pirate Bay Goes Simpsons, and yet, despite all it still rakes in big bucks at the box office.
7/31/2007 8:50:05 AM
"Anyone who has traveled to the Middle Kingdom would agree that the country's public restroom facilities leave a lot to be desired."...
7/31/2007 8:30:10 AM
Probably not what you were thinking :) CRAP = Contrast / Repetition / Alignment / Proximity and all design starts from these four basic principles.
7/31/2007 8:20:05 AM
Most guys know about the nice guy paradox. It’s where they’ve been told since they were young â€" both by women and by society in general â€" that women like “nice” guys. And because they’ve been told this over and over, most guys grow up trying this approach only to have reality pee in their faces.
7/31/2007 8:10:11 AM
On why he chose Sony:It seems that Sony, or at least the Santa Monica studio, understands that games are not mere products of commodity, but works ofexpression and personality. From my point of view, this understanding leads to the ideal relationship between game maker and publisher. The game maker is given space to be creative...
7/31/2007 8:10:06 AM
Feeling stressed? Taking on lots of new commitments? If you answered yes to those two questions, you may need to take a close look at your love life, according to a team of German researchers.
7/31/2007 8:00:03 AM
If you thought the Circuit LED sex positions was ridiculous, how about some Terminator intercourse?
7/31/2007 7:50:04 AM
How do you express numbers in your writing? When do you use figures (numerals, digits) and when do you write out the number in words (letters)? That is, when do you write 9 and when do you write nine?
7/31/2007 7:40:06 AM
These are great tips for both health and diet. Count me in!
7/31/2007 6:50:03 AM
About Porn Pilfering. Best Buy is on the offense, launching an internal witch hunt to unmask the "rogue employees" responsible for exposing Geek Squad's pervasive culture of porn pilfering. Their first victim is the Geek Squad supervisor of the Santa Clarita store, one of the only Best Buy locations whose former employees were quoted in articles.
7/31/2007 6:20:02 AM
You may love Ubuntu, but the designer of the popular Linux desktop SimplyMEPIS is going back to Debian for the heart of his Linux distribution and here's why.
7/31/2007 5:20:11 AM
Republican Ron Paul and Democrats Gravel, Kucinich, and Obama are the only candidates who, in 2002, stood their ground and didn't jump on the war bandwagon. ( ... there's plenty of "oh yeah we shouldn't have done THAT" candidates around these days ... ). We need leaders who can think for themselves and not be swayed by the politics of the moment.
7/31/2007 5:10:05 AM
The Spicegirls website has created a vote-poll style thing to vote for a city for them to play in. Everyone vote for Baghdad, Iraq (make sure the B is upper-case), you have to input an email, but don't worry you can just put a fake one as you do not need to confirm it.
7/31/2007 4:00:05 AM
Ninja's don't have access to extra-dimensional vortex energy magic. The pirates aren't Undead-Davey-Jones-fish pirates.
7/31/2007 4:00:04 AM
After rolling back his claims doesn't have to obey an executive order designed to protect classified national security information because he believes that the Office of the Vice President is not an “entity within the executive branch,” Vice President Dick Cheney refused to say today whether the OVP is part of the executive branch.
7/31/2007 3:40:03 AM
BitLet is a cute web-based Java applet that allows you to download .torrent files on a computer that doesn't have a BitTorrent client installed. Very useful if you want to share a torrent with your BitTorrent illiterate friends, or if you're on a computer that doesn't have a BitTorrent client installed.
7/31/2007 3:20:04 AM
Some nice tips on ways to possibly predict the weather
7/31/2007 3:10:06 AM
Most climate change scientists model Earth systems from the ground up, attempting to account for all climate driving forces. Unfortunately, small changes in the models can lead to a broad range of outcomes, inviting debate over the actual causes of climate change.
7/31/2007 2:50:03 AM
FTA: A group of House Democrats will introduce a resolution calling on the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) will sponsor the measure. It will be dropped in the hopper tomorrow.
7/31/2007 2:40:08 AM
Despite the company being challenged on all sides by competition, Google especially, he still plans to move on.

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