Geeky Poll of the Day
Posted onIf you know what the number one result is to this Most Used Key Combo poll, I’m sure you, and possibly another player, are smiling right now.
Throwing Out A Spacesuit
Posted onThe astronauts at the ISS are stuffing an old spacesuit with discarded clothes and a radio transmitter and will then toss it out the door into space. The transmitter will send recorded messages in six languages to amateur radio operators for several days before eventually re-entering Earth’s atmosphere and burning up. The project, called SuitSat-1, […]
Truthiness Is Tearing Apart Our Country
Posted on“Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don’t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don’t know whether it’s a new thing, but it’s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn’t seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but […]
James Lipton recites K-Fed's PopoZao
Posted onEven though this post is filed under “music,” PopoZao, Kevin Federline’s new soon to be hit single (because shit’s a hit if its played enough these days) should not be classified as music. Chris posted this MTV clip of K-Fed grooving to his own song at a sound board and while many in the blogosphere […]
Comments are Shut Down Until Further Notice
Posted onThe spam barrage continues. I hope that by taking down the comments feature for a few days, the spambots will leave my little blog alone and I’ll be able to add comments back to my site. In the mean time, I am experimenting with a couple of different comment verification systems. I know that I’ve […]
Under Spam Attack
Posted onMy site is currently under a crazy comment spam attack. I have received over 1000 spam comments in the last 24 hours and if this continues, I am going to have to disable the comment feature which would fucking blow. All comment spammers should die a horrible death. As a short haired blond crazy woman […]
State of the Onion
Posted onThis year both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day. As Air America Radio pointed out, “It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog.” Via Moeller
Nikolay Valuev, aka the Beast from the East, aka the Russian Giant
Posted onNikolay Valuev is 7 feet tall and weighs 323 pounds. He’s also boxing’s tallest and heaviest champion (he controversially won the WBA heavyweight championship back in December, 2005) and punningly the newest next big thing to hit the boxing world. Feel free to start the Andre the Giant comparisons now. While Nikolay reads Tolstoy and […]
"Kind of Muddled?" Try Indecipherable!
Posted onThis actual verbatim exchange between a citizen and our President comes from an appearance by Bush in Tampa on February 4, 2005 as he tried to save his Social Security Privitization plan: WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: ‘I don’t really understand. How is it the new plan going to fix the problem?’ PRESIDENT BUSH: Because the — […]
My NXT Robot
Posted onLego is currently developing an updated robot kit for their Mindstorms division called NXT and I am so pscyhed to get one. I have never built a robot before, though when I was a child I dreamt of doing so and even figured out all the pieces I needed to ad-hoc acquire. While I got […]