I love reddit.com. I’ve been visiting it off and on for a week or so now, and it consistently has interesting content. For example: Today, I found this massive pixel art town, a collection of hidden symbols in logos, and a great list that explains logical fallacies such as “False Dilemma: I’ve found that either you think False Dilemma is the best fallacy, or you’re a terrorist.”
So, I’ve added buttons that let y’all vote for my posts on reddit. If they haven’t already been submitted to reddit, it’ll let you submit it. If it has been added, you can vote for the post without leaving the page. Cool, yes? Yes.
I love this song. It’s impossible to feel sad after listening to this: Bob Lo Island. It’s a happy blues song about a theme park in Michigan.
You can find more of this Harrison Kennedy’s music on the Podsafe Music Network.
There’s an insightful article on the Guardian entitled “The weekend’s 9/11 horror-fest will do Osama bin Laden’s work for him.” I call this insightful largely because I had had the same thought myself. Here is an excerpt:
I would ask Bin Laden whether he had something special up his sleeve for the fifth anniversary. Why waste money, he would reply. The western media were obligingly re-enacting the destruction and the screaming, turning the base metal of violence into the gold of terror. They would replay the tapes and rerun the footage ad nauseam, and thus remind the world of his awesome power. Americans are more afraid of jihadists this year than last. In a Transatlantic Trends survey, the number of them describing international terrorism as an “extremely important threat” went up from 72% to 79%. As for European support for America’s world leadership, that has plummeted from 64% in 2002 to 37% this year.
Bin Laden might boast that he had achieved terrorism’s equivalent of an atomic chain reaction: a self-regenerating cycle of outrage and foreign-policy overkill, aided by anniversary journalism and fuelled by the grim scenarios of security lobbyists. He now had only to drop an occasional CD into the offices of al-Jazeera, and Washington and London quaked with fear. The authorities could be reduced to million-dollar hysterics by a phial of nail varnish, a copy of the Qur’an, or a dark-skinned person displaying a watch and a mobile phone.
I encourage you to read the whole thing.
It is the business of terrorists to incite terror. A terrified populace is an easily controlled populace. As the failed “liquid explosive” bombing attempt in London demonstrates, terrorists don’t even have to kill anyone to incite panic and sweeping, ill-thought-out changes in policy.
I am tired of this. Enough! Enough of the media constantly replaying those same terrible hours over and over again. Enough of the herd of the Western World quivering in terror of the Jihadist wolves. Enough of politicians using 9/11 to justify further and further attacks on liberty and human decency.
So, I for my part choose not to wallow in the horror and terror of those attacks five years ago. I do not plan to watch the movies. I will not listen to CNN’s non-stop coverage. I will not engage in the 9/11 Festival of Horror.
Enough!
OK, seriously guys. Why on earth would you want a laptop to hibernate by default when you close the screen?
Am I the only one who wants my computer to run while the screen is closed? If I’m running a spyware/virus scan, or even just trying to get to the USB port on the back of my machine, I don’t want the computer to take a nap.
Fortunately, it’s easy to correct this annoying behavior. Just go to the Power Options in the Control Panel, go to the Advanced tab, and change the drop down under “When I close the lid of my portable computer” to “Do Nothing.”
I’ve had my laptop for about three years now, ever since the beginning of my sophomore year at BJU. It was swift and state-of-the-art at the time–it even had 802.11b wireless networking built right in!
Now, thanks to years of software installations and general Windows crud, it’s slowed down. A lot. It was still usable, but it wasn’t pleasant by any means.
So, today, I decided to nuke the thing. I spent the morning backing up files, obsessively going through (almost) every folder on my hard drive. About twenty minutes ago, I put in the restore disk and rebooted the computer, wiping out everything and restoring it back to it’s original, un-crudded beauty.
Of course, beauty is a relative term. Toshiba’s default background is hideous.
At this point I’m removing all the pre-installed crap that hardware vendors feel you need on your computer (e.g. AOL version 8.0). When that’s done, I’ll update it to Windows XP SP1, reinstall Microsoft Office, Flock, and enjoy my crud-free computing.
So far, it seems faster. I hope it stays that way!
The Crocodile Hunter has died.
Queensland state government sources quoted by Australian Associated Press (AAP) said Irwin, 44, whose television show “The Crocodile Hunter” won international acclaim and popularized the phrase “Crikey,” was believed to have been killed by a stingray barb that pierced his chest.
Aww….
They call it the “Hipster Personal Trailer.”
I call it abuse of the term “hipster.” I also call it the least fashionable accessory made since the fanny pack.
This is really, really weird. I don’t know how it works, but it does.
Go to this site. Pick one of the three eyes. Six playing cards will show up. Pick one of those cards in your head, then click on the link to go to the next page. The site will have removed the card you were thinking about.
Just try it. It’s really, really weird. How does it do that?
