I was supposed to be in Portland right now. I would've been spending the night, too, and going back in the morning. However, my coworker Matt decided to skip town without giving notice, so instead of going Portland with Amity I'm here at work.
With little fanfare (probably because nobody is surprised) Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defense Secretary, admits in the July issue of Vanity Fair that WMD was merely a convenient excuse for war. This factoid comes courtesy of The Independent.
Nigerian email scammers from all across Nigeria are making their way to the 3rd annual Nigerian Email Conference (motto: "Write better emails. Make more moneys.").
The Modern Modular. I swore off houses with wheels, but these actually look fairly impressive. Not bad. Brought to you by Resolution: 4 Architecture.
I got to work an hour ago and I'm playing with the new cat. I decided to name him 'Battlecat II' (because I already named the neighbors' cat Battlecat) and we've been having an interesting conversation. He says, "mrrowwr...?" to which I retort, "mwrowr." Seriously, Battlecat II is about eight, so he's a little frazzled but still well-mannered and cuddly. It's fun. I think most of his meowing is in protest of his name, since his battling days are far behind him. He's an American Shorthair mix. He lived in this house before the company I work for rented it, and the landlord suggested him when we told him we were thinking of getting a cat.
Somehow I don't find it ironic that now that Iraq has free press, their first action is to blast US policy there. Al-Muajaha.
According to Iowa State University, Catnip oil is more than 10 times more effective than DEET at repelling mosquitoes. I've been trying to find it because it sounds like a good thing to have when camping or doing anything where I could be bitten by mosquitoes (West Nile is still a problem). I went to froogle.google.com and searched for it but it's pretty expensive for the pure stuff (in the neighborhood of $75/oz).
If this website ain't funky enough for yo' ass, shizzolate that shiznit.
Just in case your cat didn't hate you, you can buy embarassing costumes for it.
Panoramas.dk has gigantic, hi-resolution quicktime VR photos of places like the top of everest, angkor wat, and Crater Lake. The files are in the 1-megabyte neighborhood, so if you have a dialup connection consider yourself warned. However, I will note that they are worth the wait.
Androo is one creative guy. He's got quite the knack for flash.
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Mmmmm...doberman flank steaks.
You Grow Girl: This link's for a certain girl I know who's starting a garden. Enjoy!
Just after I drop a chunk of change on a domain from Dreamhost, Six Apart (the makers of this site's Movable Type weblog software) decide to come out with an even better product than Movable Type: TypePad. It's everything that MT offers, along with hosting and a slew of new features like photo albums and statistics. It looks really cool. Grrr.
Has the razor industry been lying to us? This guy thinks so, and has come up with a plan to fight back: women's razors.
I heard that SARS came from Chlamydia, and earlier today I heard it may have come from people in China eating civets. Now a leading UK scientists propose the idea that SARS came from space.
I had the pleasure of completely reformatting the hard drive of a computer which was completely taken over by spyware, viruses, and trojans today. The extent to which it was controlled was completely amazing. Someone installed VNC software on it which allowed a remote hijacker to completely take over the system. I was forced to rip half of the files out of the System32 folder and quarantine them to make it work at all; it was using a script to close my firewall every time I opened it.
For a long time I was skeptical of Windows XP, but now I really like it. I'm installing it on my system next week.
Itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence
I'm souping up my '89 Accord to get ready for this race. I think the front wheel drive will give me an advantage over all those other cars, and plus my gas milage will help me because I won't have to stop for fuel as often.
This is Honda's new ad for the Accord.
I was talking with some friends last night, and they told me about their raw food diet. It's pretty interesting. They told me about the health benefits, summed up in this article, and it makes pretty good sense. It just hurts to consider giving up cooked food. It's just too yummy.
*sigh*
C'est la vie.
Soon I'm going to have that monkey butler. I just know it. I found a place where I can buy my own monkey, so now it's only a matter of time before the invisible hand of economics comes into play. Soon competition between monkey vendors will give rise to specially trained monkeys, and I will have my monkey butler.
I spent way too long getting this site running because I inadvertently limited myself to five megabytes of space on the server when I was setting up my email. As a result, a project that should've taken ten minutes took me over ten hours. Anyway, I've finally gotten it working and I should be sprucing it up in the days and weeks to come. Expect bells and whistles (and even some interesting commentary (or horribly bad commentary)) as I continue to waste precious seconds of my life entertaining you, the reader.
There are haters out there. People who try to say that The Matrix Reloaded was weak, just a sequel, and couldn't live up to the standard set by the original.
When I read this, a tingle went up my spine and I got misty-eyed.
I am the greatest hacker the world has ever known.
Why the heck isn't this working?
Dang it...