Random Musings

The sky is falling……. again…

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/multimedia/2009/04/st_timeline Wired has a neat little piece about all of the times that humanity has gotten all gung-ho about the end of the world and that the powers that be were damn certain that this was it.  Surprise surprise they were wrong(we’re still here), and after 1000 years of predicting the end, and 1000 years
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Gun Control is for the birds? Ha! We need some bullet control!

Apr 21st, 2009 | By

I just added my two cents to a massive forum debate on gun control so I figured I would copy and paste my post here as it was already typed up and all The whole argument about ‘if you crimilize guns only criminals will own guns’ is fear mongering at it’s best. I am not
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Where the Wild Things are

Apr 11th, 2009 | By

What a delicious looking film.  An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler Catherine Keener … Connie Max Records … Max Mark Ruffalo Lauren Ambrose … KW
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Naivity and Irony at it’s best

Apr 9th, 2009 | By

Couldn’t help but paste this IRC log from today: [12:16] <T0aD> no im a squirrel [12:20] * Azer_ runs over t0ad [12:22] <T0aD> asshole [12:22] <Unconnected> see if you would have said you were a gerbil he would have been much more gentle with you [12:22] <T0aD> i have no idea what a gerbil is
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Setting up a USB mic to work with Ubuntu, and specifically Teamspeak

Feb 25th, 2009 | By

Alright so you have a USB mic and Ubuntu is being a bitch about it.  Meaning it probably is thinking that your primary input device is in your soudn card somewhere as apposed to a USB port.. How on earth do we tell get Ubuntu to use the USB port instead of the Soundcard?  We’ll
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Perfect urine

Feb 25th, 2009 | By

http://www.perfecturine.com/ This was just too funny to pass up posting..A website strictly dedicated to shipping you clean Urine for those awkward tests that your pot smoking brain somehow forgot about.  Only in the age of the internet do we have international businesses setup to mail good clean urine anywhere in the world



If you Failed math there are positions for you at Verizon

Feb 12th, 2009 | By

Haha, man this one cracked me up today.   Remember kids when you fail your next math exam because your decimal was out by two places just tell your teacher it is a matter of opinion. .002 Dollars does NOT Equal .002 Cents



Gary Vaynerchuck talks about Personal Branding

Jan 30th, 2009 | By

Jeff over at Make It Big In Games posted a video up with Gary Vaynerchuck of Wine Library TV giving a presentation at Web 2.0 Expo.  Much like Jeff said Gary definitely came across as a bit crass but I had to see past his delivery to the message he was speaking.. Which itself was
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Why do people vote Republican?

Jan 26th, 2009 | By

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/98902 So the Question is: Why the heck do people, especially those in business, vote towards a right-winged party when the opposition is painfully the clear choice for better business or other things? By Jonathan Haidt tackles this from a psychological point of view in his September 16th, 2008 Alternet article.  He starts off by
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NYT Article on the man behind Ubuntu

Jan 24th, 2009 | By

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html Found this great article getting inside of the head of them man who is responsibile for the Linux Distro I, and the majority of linux users, use: Ubuntu.   Mark Shuttleworth is indeed what I would strive towards, a ultra rich man that decides to do something that can change the world.  Albeit it isn’t
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