Archive for October, 2006

200 Gigabytes isn’t what it used to be.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

We’ve all seen it, and some of us pobably even believe it. There we are, minding our own business and there it is, someone starts waxing poetic about ‘formatted’ versus ‘unformatted’ Hard Drive storage. You may even hear some salf-assigned pundit say something like, “Well, of course once you format a 200GB drive you’ll find the formatted capacity is a bit less.”

Codswallop! (more…)

Galactic Traffic

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Hubble, despite being several years past its designed EOL, continues to produce results. Astounding results, even. How cool is this?

Why every boy needs a cellphone

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Sure, everyone knows girls like cellphones, but now we know why every boy needs a cellphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ubXnzoQuM

Kevin Tillman reflects on the Iraq War

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

“Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and
humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly
kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not
charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that
overt policy of torture became the fault of a few “bad apples” in the
military.”

–Kevin Tillman, Pat Tillman’s brother

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/

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Olbermann Is Mad as Hell and he’s not going to take it anymore!

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Olberman on MSNBC

Olberman makes a compelling statement in which he makes it clear, to anyone who’s been living under a rock for the last 6 years, just what a lying crock Bush is and what a tyrranical threat to our liberty the so-called “Military Comissions Act” is.

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Ooooo ow ow ow that hurts!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/18/austrian_roofer

Spodcast

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Rumor has it the boys at Spodcast are preparing a new show. Spadger Spadger Spadger has Internet back, and JJ is back from a month of holiday. OK, perhaps not a month.

Spodcast.org

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Album Covers fight over Shaun Cassidy

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

One of the best YouTube’s I’ve seen.

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