Nine Inch Nails Concert!

I just found out that, through work, I got two free suite tickets to go see Nine Inch Nails! Hell yeah! Christi will be excited!

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 7:30PM

The Clinton and Lewinsky condoms

MSN-Mainichi Daily News: Business News:
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‘The Clinton condom will be the top of our line,’ he said. ‘The Lewinsky condom is not quite as good.’
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Clinton has campaigned aggressively for heightened AIDS awareness in China, where the disease is spreading rapidly.”

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I’m sorry but I don’t think i’d be able to use something so…. personal… that was named after Clinton.

Now they just need to come out with the “Hillary strap-on”

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: capitulate

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names.
—-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”">Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: capitulate: “Word of the Day for Wednesday September 21, 2005
capitulate \kuh-PICH-uh-layt\, intransitive verb:
To surrender under agreed conditions
Just before peace talks on Kosovo are due to resume, the United States and its allies are sending contradictory signals to Belgrade, making it less likely that President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia will capitulate on American terms.
–Steven Erlanger, ‘West’s Bosnia Move May Hurt Kosovo Bid,’ New York Times, March 7, 1999
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names.
—-Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’”

The New Paint

Here is a quazi update to everbody’s favorite windows image editor.

Rick Brewster’s blog : Paint.NET v2.5 Alpha 3 now available

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

This is definately strange… sounds like something from X-files.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: “SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.”

Will Ogg Replace MP3’s?

An apparently better compression technology than MP3, Vorbis.com is open source. I want to reencode all my music since I lost my HDD with all my recordings, maybe Ogg is better?

Nintendo has done it again!

It’s been a long time since i’ve spent any worth wile time playing a console. There are a lot of games that i plan on catching up on after i graduate college. One reason was because I haven’t really had time to get engrossed in any of the games, another reason was because after being introduced to the keyboard and mouse combo on the PC the console controller felt unnatural. Today I just read that Nintendo has anounced a innovative new controller for their next console “Revolution” (Appropriately named apparently!). This new controller is truly revolutionary in that every other controller has basically had the same type of lay out for the past 20 years, until now. You can move the contoller around like a sword or a gun with precision accuracy! Read about what it can do here.

I have two comments on this new controller.

1. Since you need to twist and turn the contoller with your wrist are we going to have a bunch of carpal tunnel syndrome lawsuits out for some of Nintendo’s money?
2. How the hell did someone come up with this idea? Perhaps one night after Shigeru Miyamoto had too much hot sake he turned on his Game Cube and tried playing it with his remote control, got pissed off and demanded that a remote control be made for him to play on his game cube.

Terrorists unite to plot Iraqi civil war – World – Times Online

Terrorists unite to plot Iraqi civil war – World – Times Online: “In Tal Afar itself yesterday, where some 10,000 US and Iraqi troops have been engaged in a massive offensive to recapture the ethnically divided town from Sunni insurgents, commanders spoke of the “horrible” abuses they had uncovered. The details were prophetic reminder of what al-Qaeda’s supremacy may bode.
“The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child’s body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents,” said Colonel H R McMaster, a senior American commander in the town. “

Going clean.

Yesterday after I got back from school I found a package that was delivered to me, my new software that I ordered. After at least 2 years of using Windows XP Pro unlicensed I finally decided to go clean. I got in the mail a legit copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 for both 32-bit hardware and 64-bit hardware. I was supprised they gave me copies for both 32 and 64-bit hardware, when the time comes for me to build my AMD 64×2 I’ll have an OS to install that I like. The other software I purcased was a copy of Microsoft Visio 2003. You may be asking yourself why I would buy Visio after I just bought WinXP… Well, why not when they were only $10 a piece! Yup, being a student does have some perks. Hopefully the new Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005, and Office 12 will come out before I graduate so I can grab them at this cheap ass price! Unfortunately as of right now my copy of Office 2003 is unlicensed, I hope to change that.

Federal response to Katrina was slow?

Jack Kelly: No shame: “‘The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne.’
For instance, it took five days for National Guard troops to arrive in strength on the scene in Homestead, Fla. after Hurricane Andrew hit in 2002. But after Katrina, there was a significant National Guard presence in the afflicted region in three.
Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out.”