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A l33t primer for parents. Your kiddies pwned j00.

I have won 2 million euros!

Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 31st of
Feb. 2005.

By the 31st, eh?

If Coeur d’Alene is ever attacked by Orcs, we have a place to defend ourselves from.

Now that’s a good idea. You know, the decline in revenue from removal of traffic cameras could more than be made up for by fining stupid people.

via Fark

Why the life on Mars story hasn’t taken off yet. That and all the previous false alarms.

Oil traders fight their way back into work through the Greenpeace protesters trying to block them. Heh.

I guess I’ll skip getting DDR2 and wait for the DDR3 to come out.

IMAO is now a group blog. Make sure you check the author before reading now.

Cheese and onions. No, not really. That we would take care of Syria before Iran.

Life in Mars.

BTW, Comedy Gold

So lame. Don’t “reimagine” them. Start over with new characters. Cause that’s what they are.

Scammers got, potentially, 100,000s of credit data reports.

The Kyoto Treaty goes into effect today. Now to see if anyone meets their target reductions.

Microsoft says it will create IE 7. Did they think IE 6 would last forever or something? There were no more advances to be made in browser technology? Are they high?

Frank J. says:

Plus, most bloggers I have met in person are crotchety loners who are uncomfortable in large crowds, so the mob part is slander.

He has a great point there.

Leaked Hitchhiker’s Guide preview. There’s a few parts in there that I don’t remember from the book. Makes me nervous.

A new group in Idaho wants to bring moderation to the government. Interesting idea.

J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame says he has a 5 year Star Trek arc that he would be willing to make. That would be hot.

UPDATE: Never mind. But don’t think I won’t bring this back up in a couple years.

The Tulsa World doesn’t want a blogger linking to them. Um, that’s what the internets is all about there champ. HyperText Markup Language. Learn it, love it.

The problem with the UN.

All this derives from a UN culture in which the free nations have met the thug states so much more than half way that they now largely share the dictators’ view of their peoples – as either helpless children who need every decision made for them, or a bunch of dupes whose national wealth you can reroute to your Swiss bank account, or a never-ending source of fresh meat.

I need to get one of these.

What the heck is he talking about?

Dean declared that though the Democrats have tried to follow maybe 25 of the 27 main values of the New Testament, they have been poor at communicating this story.

via Evangelical Outpost

Making me use IE to watch a video does not endear me to your site. I have Windows Media Player installed, just play the freaking video. Whether I use Firefox, Opera, or IE shouldn’t matter. Interoperability and all that.

Sincerely,

Kristin Hoppe

Their roles in the blogosphere.

The Left seems to want to be where conservatives have been for most of the last 50 years: shooting from the outside in; questioning fundamental arrangements and assumptions about the role of government; griping about media coverage; standing athwart history, yelling stop. Meanwhile, conservatives have had enough of that. We’re slowly, inexorably, moving in on, or replacing, the ossified institutions of the old regime. It will be a long, long struggle and I still think liberals have the commanding heights. But the good news is that for the first time in our lifetimes, the liberals look like they want to switch places.

Walk into Mortor. With old skool animated gif action.

This is where you should buy your chile pepper seeds.

While bloggers do tend to be a bit too self-congratulatory for my taste when they bring down some journalist or crack open a story, they aren’t evil or stupid.

Most of them.

UPDATE: An excellent fisking.

It’s Valentine’s Day. I guess this means these will be on sale tomorrow.

Probably when postmodern thinking took over art. I could draw some stick figures if that would help.

Ray Kurzweil plans to live forever.

Eason Jordan quit.

Opera’s Chief Technology Officer chews out Bill Gates on “interoperablity”.

Ten Reasons by VDH

Peasant’s Quest: The Movie. It’s like Peasant’s Quest only LIVE!

You may remember him from your American Lit. class. Death of Salesman was probably the second most painful thing to read in that class. Nothing will ever beat The Sound and The Fury though.

Sometimes it’s good to look back at the good old days.

How to tell a Democrat from a Republican

The lifecycle of a news story

Google’s PigeonRank

Another accident.

Keep in mind these are not 5th graders, these are college students writing this dreck.

Your homework: Write a better essay on lasers and their practical application.

Software company is suing modders.

“If they’d offered a competing video game with Tecmo’s code in it, it’s a legal issue. But here, they have simply offered a way for legitimate game owners to modify how the game looks on their screen. Its like a home customization kit. It’s not competing in any way with Tecmo’s product. In fact, you have to own Tecmo’s product to use this stuff.”

Yahoo! released a toolbar for Firefox.

Worried that the US might be paying too much attention to Iran, North Korea says it has developed nuclear weapons in response to the US’s being so mean to them.

It said Washington’s alleged attempt to topple the North’s regime “compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by its people.”

Care to let the people vote on that Kim?

I’m not a complete n00b when it comes to cooking, but I cannot get the hang of eggplant. From now on, eggplant is out. At least the large purple ones are. Maybe I can work with the smaller ones. Cause those are just lying around the grocery stores around here.

But this part made me laugh:

Now comes the most detail yet in the Bible as God explains step by step how to build an ark. Yeah, people popping out of nowhere and giants wandering around doesn’t need any explanation, but we learn how the ark was built down to about where each nail goes.

At least now we know where Jesus got his interest in carpentry from.

US coasts could be hit by tsunamis. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Head of GoDaddy.com was the founder of Parsons Technology.

And anyone that was offended by that ad must not watch TV much.

The Baby Name Wizard. Seems my parents were always just ahead of the curve.

via Reason.

A star is escaping the Milky Way galaxy.

Flashmobs against 419 scams

You might want to consider dusting the inside of your computer. Unless you are hoping to burn it out to get an upgrade.

First of all, it’s interesting that in America to proclaim something a scandal all you have to do is add “gate” to the name and everyone knows what you mean. Secondly, all the links you need, and more, to keep up with Easongate.

Don’t forget Poland. Okay, they probably aren’t doughnuts, and I’m not Catholic, or Polish, but those look good.

It’s still legal to make fun of lawyers.

Q. What’s wrong with lawyer jokes?

A. Lawyers don’t think they’re funny and other people don’t know they’re jokes.

via Fark

Bring back Enterprise. It won’t work, but the whole idea of fans paying for shows and having them available on torrents…veddy interesting.

I want to be able to store my bookmarks online and configure any browser I happen to be using to use them. Yes, I could just set up a page, but I want the convienence of a menu. Too much to ask for?

I wonder if this one will crack open or remain a blog only story.

UPDATE: Ouch

Okay, the setup: 6:30 yesterday morning, two guys, mid 40s-ish in a big white diesel truck come through the espresso stand. Driver guy has no clue what he wants, so I start with Passenger guy. He orders a chai. I start in on the normal questions, beginning with, “Hot?”

“What else is there?” somewhat hostile.

“Well, cold.”

“What? D**m Californians getting everything bass ackward….”

“Um, what size?” I say trying not to laugh, while Driver is cracking up.

Driver finally decides he wants something chocolatey and minty. I suggest he might enjoy chocolate mint. So he orders a double chocolate mint iced.

Hilarity ensued.

Maybe you had to be there.

Coffee flavored Coke. My prediction: it won’t taste like either.

Longhorn is coming. No, really.

All the Superbowl ads.

via Inoperable Terran

Seperating church and state.

via Instapundit

Georgian (like near Russia) prime minister dies because of a heater malfunction. KGB decided poison wasn’t going to work or what?

Here’s how you do it in the blog world.

Scientists think they found that missing matter. Phew!

via The Flying Space Monkey

The lack of posting, it’s all my sister’s fault.

Dean makes Hillary look like a model of moderation.

Let the states take care of their own computer recycling. The feds don’t have to do everything.

Iraqi citizens sticking up for themselves.

I have a few quibbles but it’s a pretty good list.

North Korea was exporting nuclear stuff to Libya. I hope they’re sure about this.

How would you like your paper?

via Endgadget

Eason Jordan. See also here.

Intellectual property laws are going to need to be looked at sooner or later. See this. And this. And of course there’s the whole music/tv/movie problem.

UPDATE: Copyrights and weblogs.

In the coming years.

via Instapundit

On the radio this morning was a couple of DJs that are shocked, shocked to discover that Social Security might not be all that. And their callers were too.

Two things. First, depending on government handouts for substenance is foolish and/or desperate. Secondly, I figured out Social Security wasn’t going to work for me when I was 12 or 13. It’s not that hard a concept to grasp. What is wrong with you people?

UPDATE: Here’s an interesting dialogue.

This Guilford College guy hits a 85′ winning shot in a basketball game and then does it again for the camera. (video link in story) And that’s why you always have to get that last shot off, boys and girls.

via Fark

Sunni clerics are declaring the Iraqi elections illegitimate because Sunni muslims didn’t vote in large numbers, because Sunni clerics told them to boycott it. I don’t think they understand how it all works. Or maybe they do.

via i am always right

The anti-gay marriage amendment failed. Not to worry though conservatives, it’s still against the law.

Enterprise has been cancelled. All that’s left now is The New Voyages. And the DVDs, of course.

Congress is looking at extending the telecommunications tax to cover the internets. Harsh. Besides, aren’t dial-up and DSL already taxed cause they use the phone line?

Of the Bells.

I’m doing my taxes from the comfort and safety of my computer.

Whew! I don’t owe money, nor did I give the feds an excessive amount of money to hold on to interest free all year. Buying a house was teh smart.

It’s just a doll. That happened fast.

UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg’s response.

Google can sell domains now. But they aren’t going to. For now.

Iraq on the brink again.

via Inoperable Terran

UPDATE: A good point.

Lileks examines Bill Moyers panic attack.

Another H2G2 Review. Manages to bash Bush in there too.

And I found this nice quote page while I was at it.

Because it’s Monday

Bill Moyers says that post-trib Christians are all about destroying the environment.

via The Corner

UPDATE: Evangelical Outpost

Blaster variant hacker given light sentence because “although he was 18 at the time of the attack, his maturity level was much younger than that”.

Yeah, well, welcome to the internet, judge, home of the immature and socially retarded. Lousy excuse.

How and why a comment spammer works.

Of course the bottom line is: STOP BUYING THAT CRAP, IDJITS!!!

Are men funnier than women?

A good sense of humor is never going to compete with a 90-mph fastball in terms of babe appeal, but it’s a better path to alpha-male status than, oh, say, learning to program a Radio Shack TRS-80 home computer. (I did that! So lonely!)

Tired of playing games on your computer? Enjoy Doom from the comfort of your living room with lots of fiddly little pieces to step on in the dark.

And the way he sways back and forth…

Mark Steyn.

Kerry on Meet the Press. Transcript here. Here’s a bit of fisking. There’s plenty more in there. His plans for pulling out of Iraq, let’s not “overhype” the Iraqi election, America isn’t any safer. It’s a happy fun read.

More

This says something about minimum wage laws, but I’m not sure exactly what.

Test your wire splicing knowledge. 14/18

A screening review.

A poem. Awww, ain’t dat touchin’

If you heart Karl Rove. There’s something for everyone on the internets.

VDH

It is a peculiarity of our political system that liberal pacifists get a free pass to bomb and war as they please, even as fiscal conservatives are allowed without much censure to run up large deficits.

If you’re still using Lynx, you might want to upgrade. Not only will the cops not beat down your door, there’s pictures on the internets now.

Fight, fight!

via Instapundit

Lileks rocks today.

I haven’t been writing about this here because I’m just taking the long, long view, and haven’t the time or inclination to argue with people who think “No WMD!” is the argument equivalent of a spreading a full house on the green felt table. It may seem so, but unfortunately we’re playing chess. However the election goes will be one thing; how it’s reported is another. The thing to watch is the position of the Damning But, the old DB. The DB will probably bob up in the first or second paragraphs of most dispatches. “The election went as planned in 95 percent of the country, but violence marred polling in the disputed Sunny D Triangle, where insurgents opposed to Tropicana Juice fired automatic weapons into an juice concentrate factory.” That’s one spin. “The election, long anticipated as a flashpoint for insurgent activity, went off with few delays. Despite sporadic gunfire marred the overall mood of success in several provinces, observers said that the process was ‘smooth as a Sade groove,’ adding that they were annoyed Sade had simply faded away instead of letting her career end with a tasteful layout in Playboy.” See? No DB there. We’ll see.

Also a Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper review.

Twinkie Sushi. Mmmm, raw twinkies.

Well, this is appalling. And I just have to figure that there is more going on behind closed doors that we really, really don’t want to know about.

UPDATE: Michael Jackson: failed experiment? Just a thought.

Don’t be bashing on privatizing social security based on Chile’s system.

Even many middle-class workers who contributed regularly are finding that their private accounts – burdened with hidden fees that may have soaked up as much as a third of their original investment – are failing to deliver as much in benefits as they would have received if they had stayed in the old system.

And it’s the principle of the thing anyway. (I used to say that about high school. I don’t mind school, it’s the principal of the thing…) I think I should be able to prepare for my financial future any way I want. The government does not need to hold my hand, thank you very much. They should concentrate on shooting down earth-shattering meteors.

So, the speaker works, the amp works, the speaker plugged directly into the amp works. Which leaves….the wire. The wire strung behind finished walls. w00t!

On the plus side, a meteor strike that kills off civilization seems unlikely.

The whole MMORPG thing is way out of control.

Typo.

Even though editors and producers know the facts that 90 percent of Americans believe in God, and that 74 percent say their faith and only their faith gives them the most elusive of modern grails, a sense of inner piece.”

And here’s the perfect place for this screencap of iTunes:

While somewhat appropriate, the song is “Lord Reign In Me”.

Smaller is really cool until you try to get your hand in there to upgrade the RAM or want to put in another hard drive. Then the full size tower seems like a fabulous idea.

Manichaeism and social security.

The pay-as-you-go system was a huge political and economic experiment; and the generation of today’s children will witness its failure.

Fantastic. Stuck in the middle with the albatross firmly chained in place.

I’ve always wondered about, and been faintly suspicious of, the Spokesman-Review‘s interest in and promotion of the local bloggers. While most of the mainstream media seems to be confused by or scared of bloggers here is a local paper encouraging it. So I went to the meeting tonight to find out they whys and wherefores.

Well, it’s because they get that blogs are a fantastic source of information because someone, somewhere knows exactly what’s going on and what it’s all about. The trick of course is finding that someone. And they want transparency in their news process. Shocking, I know.

I really think they’re on to something. We’ll see what happens.

UPDATE: Phil’s take on the meeting. And Bill’s

Death toll from San Francisco earthquake revised upwards.

via Fark

Douglas Adams gets an asteroid named after him.

Spray-on spacesuits.

Ticks may or may not be indicative (evil reg. req.) of voting propensities.

Dr. Nadelman concluded, “We do not believe, however, that tick-borne diseases are likely to be a major factor in the 2008 presidential election.”

Oh, I don’t know about that.

Evan Coyne Maloney has a new video. It’s like they all read DU.