“Well, It IS The Home of the Creation Museum, After All”
“The Kentucky legislature holds hearings on global warming, and forgets to invite any actual scientists.” Un-freakin’-believable.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Japanese “melody roads” play tunes as you drive over them”
When I was a child, one of our family’s vacations required driving through Nashville, Tennessee. That was the first place I encountered grooved pavement; my mother said to be quiet and listen, because the road was singing to us (which earned her about three minutes of golden near-silence from myself and my two sisters). It …
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“Who else is laughing at the music industry?”
“Freelance technology journalist” Don Reisinger has an interesting article here: As music downloading (and dare I say illegal downloading) continues to rise, these music companies bury their heads in the sand and blow policy out the other end. Instead of understanding customers and realizing that what we want is readily available music without DRM, Warner …
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“What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?”
The title says it all. 🙂
“Blame game: My name made me do it”
There certainly may be something to this. My initials spell a very positive go-get-’em word, and I’ve always felt that I can do anything if I put my mind to it. I’ve managed some things that many people certainly thought weren’t possible, though I suspect they were due to my sheer stubbornness dogged persistence more …
“Vista SP1 a Performance Dud”
Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference: Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of …
“Video Game Addiction”
Joshua Lee pointed out an interesting item on the Terminally Incoherent blog a few days ago, on video game “addiction.” I have an obsessive personality, as well as problems with depression, so I have a good idea why people might think they’re “addicted” to a game. I also know why they aren’t, though I couldn’t …
Cheap Computers Running Linux
The One Laptop Per Child project is now offering one of their rugged machines for you and one for a child in a developing nation, for a total price of $399 (only 13 days left on that offer, and only if you live in North America). And Wal-Mart has apparently already sold out of the …
“Guy Fawkes Day Helps Raise Millions for Paul”
What’s this — a Republican Congressman from Texas who is willing to buck the trend? Mr. Paul has stood out from the Republican field for his opposition to the war in Iraq. In the speech he argues that the fight against terrorism is threatening American democracy. “The American Republic is in remnant status,” he says. …
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“GALLUP: Bush Finally Tops Nixon…”
“…in unpopularity.” The only real surprise to me is that it took him this long to do it.