As subtle as a flying brick.

Archive for November, 2004

Spam the spamming spammers.

Take care of the spammers during your idle times..Bill Gates promised to end spam. Now lycos is letting you take a shot back ala SETI. Get your copy and make love not spam.


abandonia.com

abandonia.com … home to abandoned DOS games, for discussion and download.


Religion in Star Trek

Religion in Star Trek. In which Ex Astris Scientia (an extensive Trek fan site) explores the future of faith and religion as depicted by each generation of the Trek universe, with elucidation on Gene Roddenberry’s own antireligous view of faith and science via Daystrom Institute Tech Library (another fan site).


Karate Kid, The Musical

A musical for stage, based on the 80’s cheeseball film classic The Karate Kid. Now playing at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in NYC. Somewhere, Ralph Macchio is crying.


Exploding lava lamp kills man

A 24 year old man left a lava lamp on his stove, and it exploded. A shard of glass pieced his heart, killing him instantly.
I thought the story might be bull, but went right to the Kent Police Department site and found this press release. It has a little more information that the AP report.
What sort of idiot do you have to be to put a glass sealed lava lamp on your stove?


Still waiting for Batman vs. Superman

Superhero Hype! Is waiting for June 17 driving you batty? Does being patient until July 1 seem less than fantastic? Have no fear. Superhero Hype! will keep you up to date on all the latest news and rumors in the exciting field of comic-book-to-movie adaptations.


Robodump

I need one of these for my workplace


Mmmmm…shiny

Endless AOL CDs can fill your mailbox, but some people seem to love them. Others have found creative outlets for their AOL junk mail. Still more people simply love to collect the buggers, although some for grander purposes than others.


A bit of the ol’ ultra-violence

Whack Your Boss. Finally, a place to express your rage without harming a soul. Whack your boss, here in cyberspace, so you don’t have to. The challenge: Find seven ways to whack your boss.
The sad part is, I like my boss, so I don’t have any rage to get rid of, but I can picture a few non-work related people I’d like to put in this program.


Someday, computers will only be the size of a football field.

Hercules! Not the shiny muscle man from the past, but a handy emulator for IBM S/360, S/370, S/390, and z/Arch mainframes. Unfortunately, because of IBM’s bullheadedness, you can only run operating systems released when the world was young, unless, for whatever reason, you decide to run something released after the Reagan Administration.
You can learn how easy you young whippersnappers have it now, but beware: to effectively use most of these systems, you will need to descend into Hell.


Fake Lego burned to heat Finnish homes

A multi-ton shipment of Chinese fake Lego that was seized in Finland is being incinerated at a heating plant.

About ten tons of counterfeit Lego blocks were destroyed at the Kymeenlaakso waste processing plant in Anjalankoski on Thursday. The plastic will be mixed with other waste and burned at a district heating plant in Lahti…
Johannes Qvist, regional manager of Lego in Finland said that in addition to commercial considerations, the destruction was also a safety issue, as the pirated Legos do not comply with toy safety standards.


Praise the lord and pass the ammunition

Once an eBook and now a website, A Christian’s Guide to Small Arms is described by author Gospel Plow as ” a primer for the Christian who is beginning to reject the false theology that requires him to be a pacifistic patsy in the face of heathen hordes.” Snip:

The most probable scenario that the Christian American, called to fight for God, family, and country, will be presented with is that of the guerrilla resistance. He will be facing an enemy occupational force that will have great superiority in materiel and organization. Outside sources of supply and instruction will not be likely. The wisest course in this situation is to choose weapons and tactics that minimize supply, training, and maintenance problems.


Anime Popeye

In a desperate anime situation, Popeye is called in to make sense of it all.


This CEOs Broken As Well, Can We Have Another?

McDonalds CEO “Flipping Burgers at 15” Quits Due To Colorectal Cancer You know, losing one CEO to coronary heart disease is unfortunate. However, losing another to colorectal cancer just seems careless. An increased occurrence of both diseases is linked with the consumption of red meat, especially processed red meat cooked or seared at high temperatures. Not exactly a good advertisement for McDonalds. Maybe it’s time to recruit some people who haven’t been enjoying the free employee meals quite so much?


Must .. Go .. Must .. Work out.

My back is feeling a lot better now, I slept funny last night and it got all cramped up, but I did some exercises this am and feel -muxh- better. And on that note, I’m off to the gym to work out for an hour or two. But maybe first I’ll stop at the Farmers Market and get a quesidilla, mmm Wayne is the bomb.


Pornoholics

Addiction to porn is destroying lives, Senate told. Experts compare the effect on the brain to that of heroin or crack cocaine.


Its gotten a little busy

Its gotten a little busy lately, so I havnt had a chance to warbike since August, but since I was talking to some people about my warbiking maps, I thought I’d re-post them so, here they are.
Images were outdated, redoing spring 2007


Yeah, you’re fired.

How not to pull a car out of the water: A visual guide.


MPAA fileswapper lawsuits begin

The Motion Picture Association of America has filed the first wave of lawsuits against fileswappers and released a program to detect file sharing. The MPAA also announced it would make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user’s computer as well as any installed file sharing programs. The organization said the information detected by the free program would not be shared with it or any other body, but could be used to remove any “infringing movies or music files” and remove file sharing programs.

Sources-
www.sideeffectsofxarelto.org/xarelto-lawsuits/


Hunting on the internets!

Texas officials wary of plan to hunt by Internet. Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms. "We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said ‘If you just had a gun for that.’ A little light bulb went off in my head,"


Marvel Battles Role Players

Marvel Comics sues NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, the makers of the online game City of Heroes for player created content they feel infringes on their copyright. If Marvel wins the case, all game developers can expect to be held responsible for the behavior of their players. This case covers similar ground to the proposed Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, which is before a Senate Judiciary Committee. Introduced to crack down on illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks, the bill would hold technology companies liable for manufacturing products that encourage people to infringe copyrights. The language of the bill caused an uproar among technology and consumer advocates who claimed it would kill innovation. If successful in their lawsuit, would Marvel be able to sue the makers of pens and pencils for producing products that allow people to create pictures of copyrighted characters?


Ashlee Simpson, you’re our last H.O.P.E.

Trade in your Ashlee Simpson CD here.. A group calling itself HOPE (Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment) are offering to trade your Ashlee Simpson CD for one by one of Elvis Costello, The Ramones, X, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Aretha Franklin, Mr. Bungle, Ray Charles, Abe Lincoln Story, Grateful Dead, Neil Hamburger, Joni Mitchell, and Brian Wilson. Next target is the film "Taxi".


because next to maps, I love rules

The Complete Rules to Calling Shotgun. and the subsequent amendments.


Grand Theft Tendo

GrandTheftTendo For those of you still rockin’ the 8-bit NES, but want to play GTA III on it.