Archive for September, 2005

Ever seen Gattica?

You may not have to. It may soon be part of the NBA draft if the Chicago Bulls get their way.
Eddy Curry, the 22-year old forward for the Bulls is being required by the Bulls to submit to a DNA test prior being allowed to play in the upcoming season. Curry has been diagnosed with [...]

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He always was more tongue than normally seen on model his size

The foster family from which we adopted Froggie sent us some photos of the mutt when he was just a pup (well, a pup under 15 pounds anyway). I’ve added them to the beginning of the Froggie Flickr Fotoset.

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Call of Duty 2

Thanks to Les at SEB for the link    to Yahoo. Nice, fast servers with no waiting.
It let me know that COD2 isn’t the next game purchase I’ll be making. That’s saying a lot because I played the hell out of COD. I even joined a clan, played other teams (sort of), and wasn’t too bad [...]

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USB Drive Utilities

Not utilities for a USB drive, but to keep on your drive. A couple of good links today, thanks to digg.
The Portable Freeware Collection
Mike Tech Show #41

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Widgets are freakin’ awesome

I love Konfabulator. My cognitive dissonance hasn’t kicked in yet on the system resources it requires because it’s just so damn cool. The Sleep Timer widget just made my day; I’m sure there’s a way to do this in Windows, but I’m too lazy to figure it out. Basically, it’ll shut down, restart, or sleep [...]

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Don’t Give to the Red Cross

Notice this is posted to Politics. I haven’t verified anything in this obvious editorial, but I offer it for it’s emotional value. The author is the president and CEO of a competing (is that the right word) organization to the Red Cross. He obviously has a vested interest in monies coming his way.
However, he raises [...]

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Mike Brown is a fucking idiot

Sorry for the title, it doesn’t happen often.
Mike Brown was in front of Congress today to answer for the disaster he oversaw after Katrina. I understand he doesn’t want to fall on his sword for something he feels isn’t his fault, but the level to which he stoops trying to blame anyone but himself is [...]

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