Most Americans can agree that the Bush administration has made a lot of mistakes over the past seven and a half years. The biggest blunder isn’t Iraq, the economy, Katrina, or getting caught in any number of embarrassing moments. No, the worst thing they’ve done is get the American people involved.
The best thing for a [...]

The servers that handle email for the House of Representatives is overloaded. So much so that they’re limiting the email that gets through.
What’s not clear is on what basis are they rejecting the email? It’s very possible to setup a rule to bounce messages based on a regular expression. Anything appearing negative gets tossed, positive [...]

Here’s a site that aggregates stuff on C-SPAN and other generally boring channels. There’s usually some great nuggets hidden on these channels but you have to sit around for hours to find them. Here you can let some asshole do it for you and pick up the feed.
C-SPAN Junkie/

I found this funny comic book style slideshow explaining the subprime mortgage problem. Found here Using the full screen link (second icon in from the bottom right) is the best way to view it.

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I don’t know if enough people get just how random things are. Today was a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
For the past several days all I’ve been hearing is how much it’s going to rain on Saturday (today). Hurricane Ike was coming and we were supposed to be in its path so the [...]

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Here’s a video of Sarah Palin claiming that Iraq was God’s task. It’s funny because the insurgents and terrorists also believe that what they are doing is [...]

Google appears to be coming out with their own browser called Chrome click here for screenshots. Do we really need another browser? We already have three major ones and countless niche browsers.
Looking at the interface and feature set doesn’t reveal anything extraordinary. All the features I seen listed are already included in browsers such as [...]

Why is a common response to the question “Did you hear that?” something to the effect of “Hear what?”.
Clearly, the answer should have been no. People are strange.

Online security is a pretty hot item. People want to feel safe when they browse the web or interact with others via instant messaging. Currently, many of these activities are done in plain text without any encryption.
It would be very trivial to setup a wireless hotspot in a busy area and wait for someone to [...]

Or at least they seem to more than any other demographic around my neck of the woods. On my trips to the library and Barnes & Noble I always notice that a large portion of the patrons tend to be of Asian decent especially in the sections that I frequent.
I have no hard data of [...]

I found this somewhere. I’ve seen things like this before but keep forgetting to blog about it. It’s really crazy how the brain is able to fill in gaps and make changes on the fly that we don’t even realize.
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Ever wonder who clicks on the links you get in spam messages? There must be some fools who are clicking the links or else spam would no longer exist. Somehow I picture a 40 year old lawyer trying to make his cock larger but maybe that’s just me.

Contrary to what most people believe, love for ones kin is not intrinsic or innate. Supporting this claim is the fact that infanticide or the termination of a child’s life before 12 months has been observed in many species of animal to include homo sapiens.
In modern day West Africa, children must not be born head [...]

Who likes white noise? If someone asked me that, I’d think they were retarded for even having to ask. Sadly I’ve found that people must like the sound of static for some reason.
A site called SimpleNoise has a little Flash thing that plays nothing but static. I then found some applications you can download that [...]

I use virtualization a lot. I have many Xen images at home for testing and I ran VMware Fusion on my Mac for running Linux and other operating systems. Being cheap, I had the “stolen” version.
I found out about an app called VirtualBox. It runs under Linux, Windows, and Mac and actually runs pretty quickly. [...]

I received an email back from Seed magazine. They were very nice and admitted the error. Here’s the reply.
Thank you for your interest in and your email to Seed.
The information regarding the possible diversion of U.S. funds to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran was reported in a February 6 letter and February 7 [...]

I’m becoming very skeptical about what I read. I’ve just read an article in SEED magazine which stated the U.S. funded Iranian nuclear development via a Russian proxy setup by the IPP in order to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Of course I was really intrigued because that’s a pretty huge goof if it were true. The article [...]

It’s an election year so there’s much to blog about. Turning on the news, I’m hit with a ton of coverage on both sides of the fence. Generally, I find it all shit. A politician is trained to say anything and everything to get themselves elected. They pander their asses off to get the votes [...]

I thought this was pretty funny. I tried to contact Time Warner support this morning and found the contact page missing the phone number. Looks like the person in charge of the site forgot to actually enter the phone number.
Here’s the actual page

Geeks, especially computer ones have a common trait. We all seem to be extremely helpful while not actually being altruistic and are often dicks when providing a solution to a problem.
If you unleash a problem to a group of geeks be it by Twitter, IRC, or a mailing list, the show of support is generally [...]

Randomly thinking about getting fish. I like fish.

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Reading a paper title “Self-Knowledge, Self-Esteem and the Gifted Adult” by Stephanie S. Tolan and came across the following excerpt which I thought was dead on.
As one moves downward from the range of “normal” intelligence, the number of mental abilities individuals exhibit is increasingly restricted — and so the range of activities and behaviors of [...]

Arguably, the last big thing to hit the internet was Web 2.0 which is basically websites with user generated content. Sites like digg.com, gamevee.com, youtube.com, etc are perfect examples. Their whole sites are driven by the users who create content for no money.
The biggest thing on TV in recent years has been reality [...]

It looks like the Baghdad museum is making a comeback. If the threat of getting killed weren’t so high, I’d actually like to visit. Here’s an excerpt from Time.

In the shadowy halls of the Iraqi National Museum, the remnants of Babylon seem largely forgotten. The carved stone forms of 2,000-year-old rulers are scattered [...]