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Saturday, March 20, 2004


Find out about presidential campaign donations by area & by specific people - Fundrace.org.


Deadwood sounds like it could be worth the time.


Roll Tide. Get some.


Are some pigs more equal than others? Is that why people are harrassing these guys? Newsday.com: Whites-Only Scholarship Stirs R.I. College.


Monday, March 15, 2004


Penn & Teller's influence - Evil dihydrogen monoxide. (via Fark)


The guy making 'Sky Captain' Mr. Invisible and the Secret Mission to Hollywood. (via /.)


Saturday, March 13, 2004


Sometimes an underappreciated student has just had enough. See this rant. (via boingboing)


Sunday, March 14, 2004

Wednesday, March 10, 2004


This is the latest popular quiz. I'm a 73. Libertarian Purity Test.


Sunday, March 07, 2004


Gimli is a right-thinking guy - who knew? - John Rhys-Davies on National Review Online.


The most popular page on the web this week - Touring Chernobyl "dead zone".


Saturday, March 06, 2004

Friday, March 05, 2004


I love listening to science geeks - Mars Exploration Rover Mission.


Scientists are resetting cells. So we can live forever. How nice.


Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Tuesday, March 02, 2004


New gadgetblog from gizmodo founder - www.engadget.com.


Monday, March 01, 2004


Fianlly a sci-fi/fantasy movie brings it home - OSCAR.com - 76th Annual Academy Awards - Winners List - Lord of the Rings brings home 11.


Naval Academy prof. on Clausewitz- PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 2004.


My mother's people have come to their senses after a century of temperence foolishness - Wales - Whisky launch revives tradition.


Stalinist Red Crabs taking over Barents Sea - Stalin's last army - hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to invade Europe.


The real John Kerry - elitist swine.


Saturday, February 28, 2004


Not surprising, but the anticipated next step - NASA Ponders Signs of Water-Bearing Mineral on Mars.


Friday, February 27, 2004


Censorship is back. This is a leading reason to vote Libertarian - BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis.


Apparently on 1/13/04 - Earth was almost put on impact alert...


Thursday, February 26, 2004


What's going on in Haiti? - Rebel Fighters Converge on Haiti Capital.


Monday, February 23, 2004


This is what I love about technology. Take something mundane - a computer - and replace it with something compact, portable, and really cool - A computer made up of 5 'pens'. At Wave Report.


Saturday, February 21, 2004


Run Ralph Run! Less than Pleased with Bush, but this ought to seal the deal for him - Nader to Jump in Presidential Race.


I just registered for EBay & PayPal this afternoon (to sell off some junk). Why do I feel like I've signed my life away?


This man is the best columnist writing today. Period. Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.


Friday, February 20, 2004

Thursday, February 19, 2004


One of the best Flash games I've seen: GROW move items to the middle to build rubegoldbergesque devices.


Scientists have revived eight million year old bacteria. I'm a pro-scientific reaearch man, but it is a little spooky.


Redesigned and ready for some market forces: Yahoo! Search.


Wednesday, February 18, 2004


This is the best way to get my kids interested in The Battle of New Orleans RevMen Movies. Scroll down past the bikini babe & click on BONO Realplayer. Worth it.


Sunday, February 15, 2004


I found a lot of information at this site. Kerry appears to be even worse than advertised - Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.


This place is a lot of fun - moviemistakes.com.


Saturday, February 14, 2004

Friday, February 13, 2004


The maker of the Quizno's commercials: We like the moon at rathergood.com.


Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Tuesday, February 10, 2004


Hot on the trail of KaZaa, a fine headline:Wired News: Please Don't Squeeze the Sharman.


Monday, February 09, 2004


The latest browser is out: Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded.


Intersting read, includes Rulon! - MJ FEATURE: The 25 Toughest Guys in America.


It's finally happened - I've started by own country in the Pacific: Jennifer Government: NationStates.


Sunday, February 08, 2004

Friday, February 06, 2004


These are the most disturbing commercials I've seen in years:Quiznos Subs.


Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Monday, February 02, 2004


A Denis Dutton book review of DOUBT: A History -The Great Doubters and Their Legacy From Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson - (washingtonpost.com).


Saturday, January 31, 2004


Thank the Law of Averages (our household god) for Georgia making "idiot fundamentalist redneck" news instead of Alabama for once
- CNN.com - Georgia considers banning 'evolution'.


Victor Davis Hanson on War on National Review Online: The Mind of Our Enemies.


Rover News - Reuters.


Thursday, January 29, 2004

Wednesday, January 28, 2004


Now just aggravating & usually wrong, but hard to ignore - OSCAR.com - 76th Annual Academy Awards - Nominees.


Let the arguing begin: Indians pitcher from Japan performed in a gay video Ohio News Network.


Tuesday, January 27, 2004


A great column summing up the evil of banning DDT - The Australian: Christopher Pearson: Green errors began with DDT.


Monday, January 26, 2004


I always like Dennis Miller, even when he was a little leftist. Now that he's playing for the home team, I might even tune in: My Way News.


Sunday, January 25, 2004


Rover News:
Opportunity lands while Spirit sleeps
Opportunity is already taking pictures
JPL for the latest


Saturday, January 24, 2004


The Second Mars Rover on this mission, Opportunity, is about to land and the software problems with its twin, Spirit, are being worked on. European orbiter, Mars Express, has found the best evidence yet of the existence of Martian water. (mercurynews.com)
It'd be nice to have somebody there to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.


The second-best use of broadband (behind ESPNRadio broadcasts) - IFILM.


The World's Most Dangerous Geek - Justin Frankel, who invented WinAmp & Gnutella and then went to work for the man - AOL. An actual interesting article from - RollingStone.com.


Flash game alert - Dolphin Dash - nonstop, addictive, surf guitar. Must stop know...


Fill out the questionaire & it let's you know which candidate has the most similar views - AOL Presidential Match Main - Maybe we should make everyone vote this way...


Friday, January 23, 2004

Tuesday, January 20, 2004


Dean's lost - check out this video - FOXNews.com and this article.


This may have decided the title of toughest South Korean ever - a POW returns home after 50 years - The Washington Times.


Monday, January 19, 2004


There are several gems in this AP article: Space Race vs. China, space-based weapons & missle defense, and did anyone know that the moon is a source of potentially unlimited energy in the form of the helium 3 isotope -- a near perfect fuel source: potent, nonpolluting and causing virtually no radioactive byproduct in a fusion reactor?


Sunday, January 18, 2004


Nutty but conceivable: Does our water come from space snowballs?


The Editor of the skeptic argues that Mr. Christian and the other Bounty mutineers were driven by their evolutionary desire to return to their Tahhitian women:A Bounty of Science.


Saturday, January 17, 2004


The most prominent historical figure of North Alabama: The Wheeler Legacy.


Friday, January 16, 2004


Admittedly I am a proponent for chaos. So it's no surprise that I'm entertained by the endless parade of unintended consequences that Sims Online has become. People played The Sims because they could control their world and build up an entertaining fantasy self, much as we geeks have been doing for years. By making it an online world with few controls, they allowed the adolescent in everyone to run wild and unleashed the tyrrany of those with too much time on their hands. Chaos indeed. I'm entertained.


Thursday, January 15, 2004


Neil Gaiman interviewed Gene Wolfe about Wolfe's new book, The Knight.


Wednesday, January 14, 2004


Been waiting for this one - Mars Fullscreen panoramic image in Quicktime VR - QTVR from panoramas.dk.


A kid in Fort Worth was suspended for accidentally sending the message HEY! to all the computers in his school. Some 'educators' are stupid.