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...
1.24.2004
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.
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.
1.23.2004
One of our favorites, John Stossel, has a new book out this week: Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.
1.20.2004
From the Sad but True Department: Republican Congress spending like 'drunken sailors' - OpinionJourna.
This may have decided the title of toughest South Korean ever - a POW returns home after 50 years - The Washington Times.
The Weekly Standard: Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda before 9/11.
1.19.2004
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?
1.18.2004
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.
This will cut into my free time: Five million World War II aerial photographs to be posted on the Internet.
From the Decline and Fall Department: Move over, Hello Kitty: New characters are taking over the kingdom of cute.
1.17.2004
1.16.2004
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.
1.15.2004
1.14.2004
A kid in Fort Worth was suspended for accidentally sending the message HEY! to all the computers in his school. Some 'educators' are stupid.
Been waiting for this one - Mars Fullscreen panoramic image in Quicktime VR - QTVR from panoramas.dk.
1.13.2004
The New York Yankees
Circle I Limbo
Militant Vegans
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind
Scientologists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow
Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle IV Rolling Weights
Bill Clinton
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled
River Styx
PETA Members
Circle VI Buried for Eternity
River Phlegyas
Osama bin Laden
Circle VII Burning Sands
Creationists
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement
Greens
Circle IX Frozen in Ice
1.11.2004
1.10.2004
This article reminded me that "The Bear" by Faulkner had more effect on me when I was 17 than perhaps anything I've ever read - Jonathan Yardley at washingtonpost.com.
VDH's latest column demonstrates that little has changed in U.S.-European-Middle Eastern relationships in the last 30 years - until the current efforts of the U.S. & Israel.
1.04.2004
1.03.2004
Brit govt. asked the people to come up with a bill;The people want to be able to legally shoot burglars;MP calls Brits bastards;Govts. don't really want to know what people think. - Independent.co.uk.
Love gadgets, love calculators (bought one through the mail from TI in 1974 to do stats for a homemade baseball game). So I found this one interesting:
The CURTA Calculator Page
12.31.2003
PL pointed this one out:eBay item 2450501898 (Ends Jan-05-04 04:38:41 PST) - Aircraft carrier (deommissioned ) for sale
Poor Man’s Hero-Controversial Swedish Libertarian Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world.
Sites we've been looking at lately:
Longest Running TV Shows
NBC.com- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
12.30.2003
It appears that I'm finally a terrorist suspect:
FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs.
12.29.2003
A NYT series of articles that examine trends for 2004: 2 Industries Converge: Media and Technology in 2004.
12.26.2003
Virginia Postrel - Light Unto the Wealth of Nations:How Christmas displays illuminate a strong economy, in Reason.
Reason and Faith, Eternally Bound - NYT column mentioning our boys - Dawkins & Dennett in the good fight for Reason.
Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist, has been cleared of the ridiculous charges of "Scientific Dishonesty" brought by leftist "environmentalists".
12.25.2003
Check out this 360 degrees panorama of Bryant-Denny stadium in Tuscaloosa the The University of Alabama.
12.24.2003
Our intelligence people can't get everything, but this is a big one:
U.S.-Russia Team Seizes Uranium At Bulgaria Plant.
12.21.2003
12.17.2003
From DEBKAfile, a site focusing on international terrorism, this observation - Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive.
Orson Scott Card - a scifi legend - explains how the Democratic presidential candidates and their mass media are trying to hurt America's war on terrorism for short term political gain. And he's a Democrat.
12.15.2003
New York Film Critics Circle surprisingly gave its Best Picture award to Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King. That's a good sign, not that I ever had any doubt.
12.14.2003
New Iraqi Leaders Confront Their Former Dictator - How differently it would have gone if he were questioning them.
12.13.2003
I'm glad that there is so little for our government to worry about that they can focus on this: Nasty Language on Live TV Renews Old Debate (TechNews.com).
12.11.2003
2004 Will Be the U.S.'S Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years, The Conference Board Reports in a Revised Forecast - It appears that the economy won't be the place for leftists to attack President Bush.
12.05.2003
This is the most popular new personality quiz online - Spacefem.com: Your Color. I'm Yellow - ffff00.
I can get annoyed with our government, but sometimes they get things right:
Bush Repeals Steel Tariffs and Return to Moon May Be on Agenda.
11.21.2003
11.20.2003
An excellent Slate column about the THG obsession sweeping sports Needles and Pens - The sportswriter's obsession with steroid scandals.
11.17.2003
The One - On ESPN2's chess championships, Garry Kasparov tries to stop the rise of the machines. - I saw some of this, it was fun. I must admit to pulling for 'man' in this one.
A column from August about Alabama's own Roy Moore by my favorite reformed English socialist - Moore's Law - The immorality of the Ten Commandments. By Christopher Hitchens.
11.16.2003
We may be CourtTV junkies, but I just can't see how this guy got off COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - Millionaire Durst acquitted of neighbor's murder.
From Ain't It Cool News a four-hour wrapup of Farscape is in the works. I really enjoyed the show, but its friday showtime clashed with football & I'd fall behind the complicated plots & then have to catch up. I'm fired up about the finale getting done.
11.15.2003
(In a Dr. Phil accent) What you've got to do is get tough and stop expecting therapy to solve your problems - Telegraph | Arts | We need to pull ourselves together.
11.14.2003
With the season slipping away for Alabama, it's time to be thinking about recruiting - TheInsidersRecruiting.com: Scout™ Database.
An informative column on why American's can't get good intelligence in Arabic countries by Spengler in the Asia Times.
11.13.2003
More reality becoming cyberpunk - CDs 'could be history in five years' - storage media is the key people.
11.11.2003
Since we've gooten Bellsouth Broadband recently I've been reacquainting my self with sites like - IFILM. There's a lot of entertainment value there.
Along those same lines, but more fun is this one - Which famous artist most reflects your personality? - Quizilla.
I took the Myers-Brigs personality test at SimilarMinds.com - Free Personality Tests and Community and came out a "Promoter". If: Bored, then: Give it a try.
10.28.2003
Machinima is a new art form combining video games, animation & filmmaking. It makes perfectly good sense. I've observed that video games are becoming more like movies, so why not just make them into movies. They had a film festival recently.
10.26.2003
10.25.2003
The Alabama Crimson Tide football team is having a tough year.
The 51-43 5OT loss to despicable Tennessee is the latest indignity.
10.24.2003
Amazon.com: Search Inside the Book allows you to search the text of thousands of books. I'm in favor.
10.22.2003
One show that we do enjoy is on HBO: Carnivàle. It's odd, ominous and incredibly well-done. The best scripted show on television since the first season of the Sopranos.
NYT article about low TV ratings this fall. They can't understand why TV viewing is down. Maybe the shows are just awful.
10.17.2003
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