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Wanna see someone ruin their PSP? You’re in luck. And now you know why movies about hackers and computery things are always wildly inaccurate.

I can’t put my finger on it but Lileks is particularly amusing today.

Due to popular demand, it’s lighter, it’s brighter, it’s tons more fun! If I were really cool I’d do some beveling action at the top, but I’m not feeling that cool tonight. Especially since there is a not inconsequential chance I’ll completely redo it again tomorrow. Holler if you see any unreadable fonts or really hate it or whatever.

Some of the new VAIOs are going to be made from carbon fiber.

So you get a meme: type “[your name] needs” into Google, bold the results that are true, skipping of course the people that did this before me.

1. Kristin needs monthly prayer and financial support as she moves to Spain – I’ll take the prayer and money, but I’m not moving to Spain for it.
2. Kristin needs to move, of course, and check other corners – I always forget to check the corners
3. Kristin needs a family who can provide her with nurturance, consistency and love. – one family is enough, thanks
4. KRISTIN NEEDS TO DO SOME SORT OF UPDATING – I’m working on it, STOP SHOUTING AT ME!
5. Kristin needs help chalking and speaking at freshman classes about our kickoff meeting – I never touch the stuff and freshmen are icky.
6. Kristin needs volunteers for grilling and event coordination – You organize the barbeque and I’m totally there
7. Kristin needs help – no doubt
8. Kristin needs her family now more than ever – not really, no
9. Kristin needs to be represented – Reprezent, yo
10. Kristin needs to invest in a full-length mirror – I have two, thanks

EFF has cracked the not-so-secret code that Xerox laser printers print on every page.

It frightens me that Amazon just sent me an email congratulating me on creating my wishlist. Uh, yeah, that was 6 years ago.

Also, basmati rice is amazing. I’d do my impression of an Iron Chef taste tester with the delicate texture and the reminding me of the slopes of Mt. Fuji and all, but I’m sure you don’t need to see that.

w00t! Yes, you did come to the right place. I just spruced it up a bit. Obviously more needs to be done, but it’s a good start. Feel free to tell me what you hate about it.

UPDATE: The good news about the comments is that it’s not the theme. The bad news is that I don’t know what it is yet cause I was really betting on the theme.

FURTHER UPDATE: Problem solved. MT import/user issue. Comment away.

So I can answer my phone. Not quite as lame as the mp3 player sunglasses, but right up there.

It’s actually about safety and an armed society, but those that charge puppy-blending are going to go wild.

Dance Dance Revolution on your calculator. Why didn’t we have this when I was in school.

Mark Steyn on the death of Russia and the rise of China.

Apparently the Cardinals and the Astros had a game last night.

It was a dark and stormy Karl Rove.

via Instapundit

A couple is duking it out with signs along the highway.

“They must be very angry to do this in such a public way. It is certainly very immature and we would urge them to seek counselling… they seem furious.”

Jonah is done with Miers, for now.

Word is that former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made a brief visit to the Oval Office and accidentally drank some of the tap water. Shortly thereafter, he showed up at National Review in a tie-dyed muumuu, set fire to a very sensible bra, and chided editors for opposing such an admirable American womyn.

As I’m sure you know, my birthday is coming up soon.

C’mon, it’s almost $1,500 in savings!!!

Finally, you can order a PEZ mp3 player.

via Engadget

If you’re going to get breast implants, they might as well play music or something.

Results here.

I didn’t catch a major disease or die today. Yet.

If I put .6 kilometers ^2 in acres into Google I get 148.263229 acres. But if I convert .6 kilometers to miles first .0.372822715 miles and then do 0.372822715 miles ^2 in acres I get 238.606538 acres?

UPDATE: The correct answer is, of course, 90 acres.

The Manolo has made me laugh out loud.

Form of: An Instant Messenger! Microsoft and Yahoo team up their instant messengers to slay the evil AOL.

You want to be politically active, but you don’t want politicians to use you? Good luck with that.

Ah. Finally a way to figure out how far you ran/walked using teh Google.

Okay Google, get on the ball. I need the calculator to tell me how many kBs and Kbs are in an M and vice-versa.

New teen girl squad! Teh funnay.

Some Australian dude is actually the heir to the British throne.

Western government’s reaction time in helping Pakistan is too slow. Nobody saw that one coming. World’s policemen, world’s emergency managment, anything else we can do for you?

The warehouse where Wallace & Grommit stuff was stored has burned down.

UNICEF bombs the Smurfs. I never liked those annoying little smurfs anyway.

I had completely forgotten about some of these bits. The typewriter, Billy Joe Jive. On the other hand, I was singing one, two, three, Four, FIVE, six, Seven, eight, NINE, ten, eleven, Tweeeeelve just this morning.

Curse of the Furry Things doesn’t have quite the same ring.

The mystery contents of the soda that closed down Penn Station have been identified. Turns out it was Green River.

The Shining as a romantic comedy.

via Fark

Maybe it’s cause it’s late, but that’s funny.

Crash cymbal! (direct video link)

AOL is buying Weblogs, Inc. I’m fearful for Engadget.

The Guardian is reporting that the EU, obviously unimpressed with the US’s refusal to relinguish control of the Internet, will be forming several comittees and forums with a mind to forcibly remove control of the Internet from the United States.”

Might as well just give up now.

Don’t tell the script-kiddies that it may be possible to DOS cell phones. Yes, I know DOS is not actually a verb.

Or at least, “I neeeed this” mode. Nice watches, yo.

This doesn’t mean I’m going to stop complaining about how much I have to pay, or how the government is spending it.

I got my wireless router set up, paid my water bill, AND installed WordPress from scratch! All in one evening. Imagine how the world would change if I applied myself regularly.

Email? He emailed the information? Why not just sky-write it?

I think I need this for my basement.

Picking the legal online music download program that’s right for you.

via Slashdot

Piglet gets the boot. In England. You know, where he came from. Ah, tolerance.

NASA: pork or beef?

The odds aren’t in your favor.

I’m not convinced we want to teach robots to self-assemble. Pretty soon you have a nanite civilization in your main computer system wreaking havoc.

via Engadget

For the reallllly long car trips when rock-paper-scissors just isn’t enough.

via Fark

British “surfers” taking on Hawaiian surfers. That’ll go well.

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Blu-Ray backers strike back at HDDVD backers. woo.

Um, Oliver Twist—the book— isn’t that depressing.

So, Plame is out of jail and talking now. No doubt this is of vital importance.

The first polygamous civil union has been registered in the Netherlands.

Spacemonkey’s birthday is tomorrow and someone let him near MS Paint. It’s not pretty.

The reason the Gulf Coast is suffering from hurricanes is that hurricanes form over warm water. Why would God punishing everyone, Christian and non-Christian? Whatever happened to no longer saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes and set their childrens teeth on edge? Does God now punish the righteous for the deeds of the unrighteous?
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Popular British barometers have no idea what blogging is. Galileo unavailable for comment.

via Fark

Oh, this changes everything

MIT wants to manufacture and distribute 100 million or more $100 laptops for kids in developing countries.

Space shuttle might not have been such a hot idea after all. Der. And like a stunning number of bad ideas *cough*double-knit polyester*cough*disco*cough*, it all started in the seventies.

Having run out of the insane and the poor, in Mexico doctors now learn to operate on robots.

It seems Louisiana is being greedy. Careful, we don’t feel that sorry for you.

And if a third-party devestates the Republicans, I won’t feel too bad. I have this funny feeling a Democrat won’t be spending too much more than the Republicans are, and maybe it’ll shock the Republicans back to that whole fiscal repsonsibility thing they used to say they believe in.

btw, Anne Applebaum has a great book on Soviet gulags, appropriately titled Gulag: A History

Bible literacy, eh? Welcome to Calvary Chapel. Yeah, those backward, anti-intelectuals who just teach the bible.

Grab a zip tie. Do it now.

It’s all about MEEEE!

via –> him

The Manolo, he has made me laugh aloud. Okay, this one too.

Of course, it’s not like I”m sitting here depressed or anything, but it’s still an accomplishment.

No freaking way! Hmm, a few blogads, some google ads might spruce the place up a bit…

Happy Birthday, Google.

Key sentence:

Nature is not really a reliable source for ethical norms

Don’t tell the RIAA that people have been recording songs off the radio for decades.

I made ginger ale! From scratch. It’s dead simple too. Very tasty. Next time I’m using a little less ginger, cause I’m not a huge fan of ginger, but wow! It’s all fizzy and everything. Science is fun!

Surprisingly little bad language in this fisk of some BBC reporter that is upset that Americans are so charitable because it puts a damper on “the revolution”.

Give every state delegation jurisdiction over the pork outlay for another state. The delegation that cuts the most gets a 10 percent increase in its own outlay. Let them bleed one another dry instead of the rest of us, in other words.

That’s why it’ll never fly. They’d just trade each other projects.

Missed it by that much.

Conspiracy theorist weatherman quits his day job.

Won’t you get in the way?

If you meant to send in your check to the IRS in San Fransisco this month, but hadn’t yet, good news for you.

Together again. The fabled Hasselhoff and Iced T album.

Widgets, teh cool. Teh waste of resources too, of course. But it’s so handy to know my computer’s mood.

A blogging handbook for you!

Somehow I doubt the future will be all roses and rainbows, no matter how intertwined we become with machines. People’s basic nature hasn’t changed noticablely in the last 4000 years of recorded history, I don’t know see why having really nice gadgets implanted would change that. Not to mention that a significant chunk of the world won’t even accept genetically modified food, how’s genetically modified people going to go over? Still, if you want to send me the book so Kurzweil can change my mind, my wishlist is to your right.

A record setting number of Idaho National Guardsmen would rather stay in Iraq.

But funny.

The directions for the Plusdeck2, hilarious.

* According to computer manufacturers, the way how to open case and make certain 5.25″ bay is different.

* Before connecting power cable to Plusdeck2, check connecting part and be careful not to connect reversely.

* It doesn’t matter to connect with any slots because connection card is connected with computer only physically. But if you install nearby soundcard, it can cause noise.

* If you use other screws, not the provided screws, it doesn’t fix well or long screws might connect to inner parts of Plusdeck2 and cause trouble.

* Don’t push by force. It causes trouble.

* If you disassemble to eject tape inevitably, use following ways.

No doubt the Libertarians are going to have a field day with this.

Clippy is dead, long live Clippy, but only if you upgrade to Office 12. Tough decision.

No wonder they’re worried about a pandemic.

Four Indonesians are already confirmed to have died since July from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed a total of 64 people in four Asian countries since late 2003 and has been found in birds in Russia and Europe.

Six other patients are still in a government-designated hospital in Jakarta suspected of having avian flu.

I’ve seen it on three sites now, it must be important.

Mars is warming. No doubt the ensuing blizzards and rises in sea tempertures will kill everyone there.

This is my first attempt to copy a delicious pot roast of my friends without using canned cream of mushroom soup and dried onion soup mix or being home to spend time on it in the afternoon. I have enough MSG and modified food starch in my system as it is. So here we go…
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Baylor gets some R-E-S-P-E-C-T from Starbucks.

Gets the fact that a song isn’t even worth the 99 cents they’re currently charging.

Okay, so I care a little. Engadget has what you need to know about Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD summary.

What is this whole “speaking truth to power” thing anyway? Is it some hippie thing? If I drop some acid will it make sense?

New evacuation order for New Orleans.

Like every other mutant killer disease, flu-like symptoms are the first indication that the next big pandemic is upon us. The anti-virus may or may not have any effect on the situation.

LaShawn Barber: America is falling, falling.
Dean Esmay: Don’t be silly.
I’m going to use my SEP field.

Hop to it, mateys.

Mac fanboys worry me. I save my boxes, but for moving, not decorating, purposes.

There’s no going back on global warming. We can stop worrying about it now right?

Calvinism vs. Armenianism. Normally I avoid this fight, but surprisingly, the comments are interesting.
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Seems that most of Instapundit’s readers are of one mind on that.

When were you leaving then? Take Alec with you. And Eddie Vedder.

Inapropriate peer 2 teen choice behavior!

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Good jorb, Iran. Way to work and play well with others.

RIP

Not that that’s setting the bar very high.

For all your super-sized treadmill needs. There’s something about Alaska too. And an elephant.

5 blades! Gillette’s new razor has FIVE blades! Where will it end?!

Yo.

*stolen straight from EO

It’s Constitution Week! Why it needs a whole week instead of just a day is unknown at this time.

E-card if you need it.

Suicide by staple gun? Not thinking too clearly, eh?

Hamas blows up the wall between them and Egypt, for reasons I’m not clear on. Are they mad at Egypt?

VDH vs. Arianna Huffington.

UPDATE: Buffering….buffering….buffering……

Tom Delay delcares a trim, lean federal budget.