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Star Trek TOS is available in a boxed set.

Elephant herd main suspect in antelope escape.

Golkar would be a great name for a villian in a cartoon.

Golkar: You haven’t seen the last of me yet, Suharto! *shakes his fist and limps away*

I don’t know exactly how this impacts anything, but I do know that mayo causes negative normal stress if I find it on my sandwich.

Microsoft is licensing Hotmail spam.

What I’m getting from this story is that it is hopeless to expect NASA to send me to Mars.

After changing the stadium names to things that roll off the tongue like “Qualcom Stadium” it naturally follows that things like this are coming.

Gore says his new network is not going to be biased to the liberal or democrat side. I hope he’s right, but I’ve yet to see a youth or younger people oriented network that’s not. Of course, as today’s kids are more conservative than previous generations, maybe Gore is ahead of the curve on this one.

How Bias has changed the way the media presents itself. And how the media hasn’t changed.

via Instapundit

I actually saw a John Kerry bumper sticker this morning. It’s the first one I’ve seen in Idaho. It was on a Jetta with a couple of bikes on the top and a couple of old hippies in it. The only thing I can figure out is that they must have been visiting from Sandpoint.

As many as 600 people were evacuated as a 9,000-acre fire in Riverside County between Corona and Lake Elsinore approached their homes.

I drove right through there yesterday morning.

Interesting article from Reason on Earth Day 1970 and its predictions.

Three decades later, of course, the world hasn’t come to an end; if anything, the planet’s ecological future has never looked so promising.

It’s all a matter of perspective.

Weta Digital and their computers.

Now it runs the third largest supercomputer on the planet if you count the number of processors, 3300, it can call on, says Scott Houston, chief technical officer at Weta.

The Techno-cosmic Mass. I have read some of Original Blessings, and Fox is nutty. Or if you prefer, Fox is a New-Ager that calls himself a Christian. Why anyone else would consider him a Christian is beyond me.

Some math major has kept his gas receipts for the last 25 years and plotted them and adjusted for inflation for you. Nifty, but it doesn’t make me feel better about paying $1.95/gallon.

And yes, it’s all about making me feel better.

via Instapundit

Sorry kids, I had to visit California. Regular posting to start tomorrow morning, or possibly afternoon.

While I hesitate to say I Am Always Right is always right, he’s awfully level-headed and amusing. And he’s a fellow north Idahoan Idahoian, he lives in Idaho.

There’s nothing more entertaining than Slashdot discussing nerds.

Okay, Abbott and Costello are more entertaining.

Bonus Link: Klingon Google page

protein wisdom “interviews” Ted Koppel.

protein wisdom: “– so duration, then? Interesting. …And you expect most Americans will believe that?”

Ted Koppel: “Well, I do have a very deep voice.”

via Instapundit

Today two jets have left contrails coming from the northeast toward Geiger. That’s two more than normal. Is there a airshow or something or is Canada invading?

So, I meet one of the qualifications.

via Instapundit

Walmart has started using RFIDs.

Someone, somewhere is doing their job. And while it’s government statistics, it can’t be total lies, can it?

The invisible car. I assume it’s Invisible Jim’s.

Dull today, wasn’t it? Maybe something will come up tonight. In the meantime, I’ll throw this link out.

You gotta love the classics.

Grocery shopping just became hard work.

Andrew Stuttaford is clearly confused. He doesn’t like Dr. Pepper AND he doesn’t like McDonald’s fries. What is wrong with this guy?

Anyway, here’s his interview/article about the lady eating nothing but McDonald’s for a month to prove that SuperSize Me is a bunch of hype.

The British think NASA is a bunch of prudes.

But that denial may hide a reluctance, in a nation where the showing of a nipple on national television provokes a religious outcry, to discuss the rather delicate subject of sex in space.

via Drudge Report

I’ve often (okay, a couple of times) wondered what would happen if states started picking, er, voting for senators again.

Oh, and the RIAA is still suing people. Or more correctly perhaps, the RIAA is suing IP addresses.

Yellowstone should be safe for a while.

Here’s a reason to breathe easier: Civilization probably won’t be crippled anytime soon by a pulverizing volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park.

allofmp3.com is back in the news, and Apple has changed iTunes DRM.

The government has learned that blogs exist and are a handy way to get information.

Who could have seen this one coming?

China yesterday ruled out full and free elections in Hong Kong for the foreseeable future.

Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise.

That pretty much sums up the site.

If the weathermen in Irkutsk (whick I vaguely remember as being in the northeast of Russia on the Risk map) get the weather wrong, they pay for it.

via Fark

Stuttaford on Ireland’s health police.

A wedding dress. Freaking hilarious.

via Fark, naturally

No more Oldsmobiles? Gosh, what am I going to drive when I get old?

Barely a week after the American CEO of McDonald’s dies, the founder of Japanese McDonald’s dies too. What’s going on here folks?

Tomorrow we’ll have night and morning low clouds, clearing to sunny and 70 and the anthrax is holding just offshore.

via Fark

Social conservatism is becoming cool. Old hippies are sure to freak out at what their children have become.

Scientist fired for saying so.

“I am advocating common sense, something often in short supply in America’s approach to health. Our society doesn’t seem to believe in a happy medium, only in extremes. The notion that we have to protect ourselves from the sun all the time is misguided and unhealthy.”

I think I’ll go outside this afternoon for a few minutes and try this so-called sunshine. Doctor’s orders.
via Instapundit.

The UN at work.

via Instapundit

Hey, there’s a new beta Opera version out. Hurry, hurry, hurry. I’ll let you know how it works after I’ve taken it for a test drive.

I don’t get these, so I appreciate the Register keeping me informed on the latest trends.

Vander Waals force and its application in office supplies. Soon to be a major motion picture.

Kids that don’t drink as much Coke are less likely to be obese. Duh.

I love how they call it “fizzy drink”.

I have been wondering exactly what Kerry proposes to do about Iraq. It’s too late for the old “Bush lied” thing. We’re in Iraq, we’re in the middle of building a government, now what? Send in the UN, which has done so well in all their other nation-building activities? Brilliant.

Tons of fun games with such relaxing music.

Interesting comments on Jesus t-shirts between Ambra and Joe over at Evangelical Outpost. After the others jumped in it peters out though.

The Webby nominees are out and they seem rather left-leaning. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe right-leaning websites all suck. Could be. Either way, you should go vote for your favorites.

I got ten bucks that says this never happens.

The report, Future Flooding, looks forward to 2080 but says that the threat is already growing and most of the worst of its predictions will have happened by 2050.

Happy Earth Day!

Darn thing froze up. You missed some great stuff. Now I have to go back and find it. Geez.

Mark Steyn again.

BUSH HAS gone along with Sharon because it accords with his post-9/11 assessment of the Middle East: The biggest gamble can’t be worse than Moussa’s stability. Indeed, the Israeli government’s new Hamas Assassination-of-the-Month program usefully clarifies the bottom line: A high rotation of thugs is better than the same thug decade in, decade out. Poor Rantissi, killed this weekend, seems unlikely to get the glowing send-off from European obituarists they gave to his predecessor, the “revered quadriplegic spiritual leader,” Sheikh Yassin. Already, bigshot terrorists in Gaza are said to be reconsidering their applications for next month’s vacancy.

via Instapundit, who has tons of good links today.

“If their money is green and there’s enough of it, OK,” station owner Frank Kovas, a self-described political conservative, told the Tribune.

And that, boys and girls, is what makes America great.

The always entertaining Mark Steyn.

I happened to watch the speech from the United States Naval Academy where I was taking part in their foreign affairs conference and I can tell you the questions I got from the midshipmen were a lot smarter than the ones the President got from the blow-dried blowhards. What do you think your biggest mistake was? Are you going to apologise to the American people? Do you think you’ll lose the election? If you had to name the most pathetic loser to occupy the Presidency, would you have difficulty coming up with a name other than your own? Etc, etc.

I, Robot featurette with the director. And speaking of movies that are nothing like the book, Around the World in 80 Days. Why even use the name when the plot and the main characters are completely different? Pay off the copyright owners and name it something else.

I think that’s Greek for “the cattle are dying”. But Volokh Conspiracy has this excellent point.

via Joyful Christian, who had more to add.

Okay, this annoyed me.

Answering only questions in English, Mr Vanunu said he was “not totally free” because of the restrictions Israel had placed on him, including a ban on travel outside the country.

Speaking briefly in Hebrew, he accused Israel of being a dictatorship and an apartheid country because of restrictions imposed on him preventing him speaking to foreigners.

Real dictators kill traitors. And oppressing one person is not apartheid. Let’s not be tossing these words around so much.

Also, when you break the law because that’s what your conscience demands of you, don’t be upset that you are forced to suffer consequences for your decision.

Common sense rears its head. Yes, contrary to popular belief, we don’t need rules to regulate every little thing that annoys us.

A rocketpack that works. When will they be available commercially?

Baskin Robbins free ice cream night is coming. Woohoo!

via Fark

Mini-tornados could be a problem on Mars. I suggest fresh-scented Bounce to fight that nasty static cling.

Hey, Bob’s on To Every Man an Answer. If you can hear footsteps that’s me stomping by his office so I can be supercool and on the radio.

We Built This City is rated as the worst. song. evar. Yet even now it’s going through my mind. It’ll be stuck for days.

And DDT. I want to see some outrage about the genetically modified foods that aren’t being used to save people’s lives too.

All that jive.

Toshiba’s HD-DVD stores up to 30 gigabytes, but can close the quality gap with the Blu-ray by using more efficient compression software than the MPEG-2 standard already used in DVDs and planned for the Blu-ray. One of the several compression schemes that may go into the final HD-DVD standard is none other than Microsoft’s Windows Media 9 software.

I was all for HD-DVD, but now I’m torn. I’m still not buying my DVDs again.

Okay, I have to tell you something. Secretly, I want a 12″ Powerbook, with the Superdrive. They’re just cool. And now, an even better deal.

A big date in history. Waco, Oklahoma City Bombing, Lexington and Concord, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, lots of stuff.

A liberal critiques Air America, which would be the new liberal talk radio network, not a Disney movie about a dog that saved a platoon in WWII.

And thanks LA Times for sharing, without your really, really, really annoying signup that I haven’t managed to force my way through yet.

via National Review

Out of work? Worried about outsourcing? Auto repair is teh new hotness.

via Slashdot

Thoughts on what justice is at the Volokh Conspiracy.

Lileks takes Sullivan to task on his gas tax idea. Good stuff.

This is classic.

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979.

Exciting new stuff on the shape of the universe.

If they are, then our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up.

via Slashdot

Australia’s government is actually getting rid of a commisssion that failed. And they aren’t kowtowing to the race card either.

South Korea and North Korea might be getting along better soon. Won’t that be nice.

Okay, what I’m getting from this article is we need some sort of Centeral Intelligence Agency chief. I’m pretty sure we already have one.

Under the proposal, management of the government’s 15 intelligence agencies, and control of their budgets, would be put under the direction of a single person. That authority is now scattered across a number of departments and agencies.

Isn’t this what the Dept. of Homeland Security is supposed to be doing? What are those slackers doing over there?

So, the CIA didn’t hack it, we get the Dept. of Homeland Security. The DHS doesn’t hack it so we get another new thing. Great, but ditch the old ones first.

I thought chopping trees down was bad, but this article says that paper is better than plastic for the environment. Also, doesn’t oil come from all the dead organic material? All we need is a catastrophic flood or chopping down more trees and viola, more oil.

And blu-ray is evil. I’m not buying my DVD collection again.

Some Klingon movie is coming out at Cannes in May.

Everyone stop emailing the freaky chicken website to everyone you know. We’ve seen it.

Oh, how did this get here? The UN notices Iraqi nuclear material is showing up in Europe.

I still wouldn’t rely on McDonalds to provide me with a healthy diet.

And on a related note: McDonalds is trying to help your lifestyle.

From taking over the world, Osama’s willing to back down to just being left alone. It doesn’t seem to be working though.

Sedna’s rotation is baffling scientists.

“I’m completely lost for an explanation as to why the object rotates so slowly,” Brown said.

There remain some possibilities for a rational explanation.

And if those prove false, they are going to go with the irrational explanations. I suggest space monkeys.

The Mars rovers get a software update and keep looking at even more rocks.

And you probably should run your Windows Update if it so applies.

I don’t understand all the uproar over the AdWords. It’s not like you have to use Gmail or you’ll die. But Google is looking into changing their AdWords policy.

Arafat is talking nonsense.

Such a United States commitment, Mr. Arafat said, would destroy all hope of Middle Eastern peace, Reuters reported from Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Because Palestinians have been so committed to peace before, right? I mean, you could hardly tell they were wanting to drive Israel into the sea because they were so dedicated to the peace plan until now.

Volvo unveiled a car (last paragraph) made of Legos at the New York International Auto Show.

Attempting to duplicate this Lego vehicle? Lego officials admit that it would take the gross domestic product of a small country to attempt. The upside? Volvo figures if it did sell the vehicle, it could be offered with the industry’s first 100-year rust-through warranty.

Drudge’s headline for this story is a crack-up. “TENET STUNS WASHINGTON: WE’RE STILL NOT READY!” Stunned? Really? Surely no one who works with government expects to be able to turn huge bureaucracies around in a year or two.

It just gets more and more wrong. I’ll go see it though.

And the site is not for the bandwidthly challenged.

The US military is pulling out of the DMZ. I hope the South Korean protestors are happy with us now.

via Drudge Report

Babylon 5: Season 5 is available today.

Just like Victor Davis Hanson says, Western armies will smash the living daylights out of non-Western armies in a head-to-head battle.

Which wasn’t the point of the article, but still.

John Hawkins brought up the Hampster Dance, which I haven’t thought about since, uh, 199something, and look at the frightening thing they have going. And that is not the original music.

Is there just too much excitement for you here? Try the Dullest Blog in the World then.

Answering his email.

A price hike looks likely. Good luck with that.

Kerry says:

“We cannot and we will not pass America’s problems on to your generation. But the fact is, this election is not just about what we’re going to do, it’s about what you’re going to do,” Kerry said in remarks prepared for an appearance at the University of New Hampshire.

Great. End Social Security, that’ll help me tremendously.

I found it interesting how partisan the economic cycle is.

The report listed a drop of five points during President Reagan’s two terms, a decline of 12 points during the presidency of Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, and a 23-point improvement under Clinton.

I wonder if this holds true over a hundred years or so, or if it’s just a fluke.

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results

Davy Crockett, libertarian. I hear he killed himself a bear when he was only three. Plus, Ron Paul, whom more polititians should emulate, gets a mention.

I would have put it all on black.

via Fark

Whoa. Instapundit has a new look. I like it.

And he has a bunch of stuff on the whole 9/11 commission thingy. Here’s my favorite part:

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Neal Boortz:

Lost in all this is how the Clinton administration, which did virtually nothing to fight terrorism for 8 years, is getting a complete pass. Clinton turned down a direct offer to hand over Osama Bin Laden and yet Bush is the one that is being raked over the coals for somehow not doing enough. The reason is we are in an election year, and the Bush-hating Democrats want to politicize the tragedies of September 11th. Where’s the outrage about that? The Republicans wouldn’t be able to get away with that for a second.

Yeah, what’s with that?

Hybrid SUV coming soon.

Some potential hybrid consumers have balked at sticker prices, unsure how much the technology will cost. Ford has not yet released pricing for the SUV, but J.D. Power and Associates reported this week that the premium for a hybrid vehicle averages approximately U.S. $4,000 over the standard-model price.

Such purchase costs could take years to recoup, even with significant fuel savings. Yet hybrid vehicles offer other benefits, including buyer tax breaks, single-driver use of high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes in some commuter markets, and a cleaner green conscience.

I can’t afford that clean a conscience. Pave the planet.

Clinton and Gore testified to the 9/11 Commission privately. Where’s the uproar? They had 8 years to do something. I want public hearings. Okay, I don’t really, I just think the lack of uproar is a bit biased.

via Drudge Report

Easter, being a rather important holiday for the church and requiring more time and attention than usual, is going to seriously curtail posting for the rest of the day, probably.

UPDATE: Or if you want a cool 3 CD set of the bible–NKJV for no apparent reason–and messages from Pastor Chuck, Pastor Bob, and Kay Smith, lovingly hand assembled by yours truly, just let me know. Free swag is good stuff.

Big old Windows exploit discovered.

There’s a trojan horse for the Mac now. It’s all downhill from here.

via Drudge Report

For those that know just enough to be dangerous, here’s a little program I stumbled across that will examine video files and let you know what codecs are being used.

I passed my CPR class. They’ve dumbed it down a lot since the last time I took it. If you need CPR or a Heimlich just let me know.

I’m reading the Command Post today. Any time there’s major geo-political trouble they are the place to be.

VDH.

This probably isn’t a good thing.

Sabine Westphalen, a court spokesman, said the “urgent suspicion” against Motassadeq on the murder charge had now been downgraded to “adequate suspicion”. There was still “urgent suspicion” that he had belonged to a terrorist organisation, she said, although this was insufficient to keep him in investigative custody.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal agree. My suggestion for reform is knocking the building down and putting in an outdoor skating rink.

via Inoperable Terran

Geez people, learn to take a joke. Yes, I know, how insensitive of me. Perhaps I need reeducation.

via WorldNetDaily

Apparently, the US music market is doing fine. I’m confused.

So sorry, please try evolving into something useful.

Why even smart people believe dumb things.

For the purpose of this article dumb=non-scientific.

via Fark

It’s one song after another. And there’s some Jerry Sienfeld/Superman stuff too.