January 2008
28 posts
01-28-08 Maniac Monday - ski video for mortals →
Because I can’t right now. (No way to link directly to the video, so find it in the list on the right and enjoy!)
Spanish driver sues dead crash cyclist for damage →
“I’m also a victim in all of this, you can’t fix the lad’s problems, but you can fix mine,” Delgado told the newspaper, ahead of a January 30 legal decision on his suit. Maybe Sr. Delgado should look up Tucson’s Melissa Arrington, who laughed when a friend congratulated her for taking out a “tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one...
L.A.-San Francisco on Megabus - $1! →
Book in advance and you stand a good chance of scoring a $2 roundtrip from LA to SF and back. Buses also go to Phoenix, San Diego and Oakland.
“People are really freaked out by eating the meat from a clone. They want it...”
– Annalee Newitz: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Cloned Meat
BBC NEWS | US military pondered love not war →
Not new, but in the news again and worth a re-read. Besides a “gay bomb” which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistable” to each other, “researchers pondered a “Who? Me?” bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks. Indeed, a “Who? Me?” device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say. However,...
“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now.”
– Stairway to Heaven lyrics - I’m pretty sure no-one, not even Led Zeppelin, knows what that means.
Watch What You Put on Trailer Hitches →
It’s one thing to dangle fuzzy dice from a rear view mirror, but decorating a trailer hitch with a large pair of rubber testicles might be a bit much in Virginia. State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles Hmmm… what is more obscene? The rubber testicles or the gas guzzling vehicles from which they are usually hung?
“I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to...”
– Mike Huckabee, campaigning in Michigan. He did not specify which God’s standards should be applied in lieu of the constitution.
SpaceTime™ →
3D browsing for Windows. Gimmick or powerful tool? Give me a Wii -inspired controller so I can wave my hands to flip through my browser windows a la Minority Report and I am right there. Until then.. maybe not.
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac... →
Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer. Works great, and tastes good, too! No need to install Windows or OpenOffice on your Mac to work with Excel or Powerpoint as long as you have network access to a Windows machine with those applications. Run RDC over Hamachi...
Huckabee Stands by 'Christ' Comment →
[Huckabee] … endorsed the Baptist convention’s statement of beliefs on marriage that “a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.” No sir, don’t think he’ll get my vote. I don’t do submission, even if the Christian Domestic Discipline loonies claim it is “so...
Breaking Away - With its grayish skew, could... →
Semi-seniors? Oh Puh-LEEEEZE!