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Post-modernism

Rethinking personal evolution. Post-modernism is about creating a synthesis encompassing, integrating, and synergizing the existing, mutually exclusive domains of religion and science. A new spiritual paradigm, if you like buzz-words. Most of us have evolved far beyond the pre-industrial, that is, agrarian, monotheistic religions. Blind faith stopped being relevant before WWII, so you practically have […]

Updated: Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Stupidity Threat Advisory System Homeland stupidity threat: Note: The site moved. This one is too good to let get away.

snakes on a plane sex bit

Snakes on a Plane [2006] [R] – 8.9.6 I was poking around in the access log trying to figure out why recycled canvas isn’t talking to its server and found the following entry: 80.4.10.129 – – [23/Aug/2007:05:32:37 -0700] “GET /~void/category/snakes-on-a-plane/ HTTP/1.1” 200 15854 “http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=snakes+on+a+plane+sex+bit&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6” It […]

Solid-state harddrives at Tiger

Just testing that I can still post by email… From the Samsung Blackjack of Leslie Ellis … From my latest toy. —–Original Message—– Sent: 8/12/2007 9:06 PM Subject: Solid-state harddrives at Tiger Solid-state harddrives at Tiger or http://tinyurl.com/2x6jjo

Text Messaging – Bad 4 UR Health?

Did Text-Messaging Lead to N.Y. Crash? Take a giggly cheerleader. Give her a Cinderella driver’s license, an SUV and a cell phone. Then throw four more cheerleaders in the vehicle with her. What do you get? Well, moms and dads, you get a fiery crash. My cell phone account gives me a complete list of […]

Drawing Flowers in Excel

Ok, so they’re not flowers, they’re lemniscates. If you are using IE 5.01 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later and the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components, you can play with this interactively by clicking on the flower. IE may give you a security warning. Apparently IE doesn’t trust Excel. The equation is ampl + PM […]

iPhone's Innards

Under the Hood: Inside the Apple iPhone | Video Imaging DesignLine Since I have little interest in spending a week’s pay on a telephone, I rather enjoyed seeing one disemboweled.

I am bored

I needed a 390pF 200V cap. I had 16 390pF 50V caps in 0603 size. Fun.

Mishaps are like knives

I worked late Thursday night because I’ve been having trouble getting there on time. Typically I leave at around 8, and it’s a 45 minute drive home. I’ve been in that place where… well, it’s as if I need to stop and let my mind catch its breath, if that makes sense. Instead, I just […]

Hauppauge Hybrid Video Recorders

New Hauppauge WinTV Products for Windows Vista – PVR Wire I was looking at TV tuners for my husband’s computer the other day and thought “who needs TV on a computer?” Shortly after that he sent me an email entitled “birthday” with a link to the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 TV Tuner USB Stick Hybrid Video Recorder. […]

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