Monthly Archives: January 2006

Google’s media halo is fading

Even if the tech press isn’t, the MSM is willing to call "hypocricy!" on Google’s recent behavior: http://www.cagle.com/news/Google/main.asp

How not to die while jump-starting a car

My friend Nick wasn’t quite sure how not to die while jump-starting his co-worker’s car. It’s pretty easy not to die, really. Here’s the skinny. I notice that he had two main concerns. The first was how not to get electrocuted. The second was how not to explode while attaching clamps to batteries. First: how [...]

Oooh, I’m scared now.

Was visiting a whole bunch of buzzwordful web sites this morning to stay up with current events. Grokster.com was on my rounds to see what had become of it (yeahyeah, not quite current events). Absolutely hilarious result pictured below. What’s sad is that having your IP logged by the RIAA probably is terrifying to non-savvy [...]

Canada border guards walk out on the job…

Yeah–I know my title sounds made up. It’s seriously not. According to the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_peace-arch200601125.html Dozens of unarmed Canadian border guards walked off the job at Peace Arch and the nearby truck crossing when they heard the heavily armed suspects were heading their way. Supervisors stepped in at each crossing to protect the Canadian side. [...]

Rotate the tires, please, HAL

Having reminded myself earlier today that it’s time to rotate the tires on my vehicle, I also flashed back to when I was a youngster and first heard mention of "rotating tires" as a maintenence procedure. I simply could not understand how tires, which rotate a lot during routine execution of their duties, could be [...]

Cheesiest sounding book I’ve ever considered reading…

Cheesy from title to description. Anyone know if it’s any good? http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/20994?refid=45522&source=ERNR010306_M2

The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches

Probably old news, but I got a huge kick out of this: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Intriguing…

http://avantgame.com/key.htm Doubt that I’ll plunk down the $28, but this does seem like it oughtta deliver on its promises: "We guarantee that for as long as you search for your lock, surprising people and places will reveal their secrets to you. We cannot guarantee that you will ever find the lock that your key opens. [...]