LR2 Blogs

galveston cams
I’ve created a simple webcam page to cache images from 4 cameras on Galveston island. I’ll greate animations later and make them available here.

Images updated every 10 minutes.

Milk Farmers Rap
I am sure I am late to the party with this one, but this is just funny.

A hilarious Rap video about milk. “We got the big bad Bessie with the M-I-L-K!”

Cell phone tossing contests catching attention abroad
Looking for another excuse to visit Finland?

But that could be changing, albeit as slowly as a Scandinavian glacier, as a dedicated band of phone lovers and haters work to make Finland’s annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships a must-see event.

We Are Michigan : Your Alternative News & Information Resource
An web site full of short, well-written interpretations of top news stories. The news may not be ground-breaking, but the prose is enlightening.

In a ruined city – still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging [...]

Power-dressing Aussie leaves trail of destruction – Yahoo! News
Can you spot the bad science in this article?

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.

Mr. Sun!: The Little Piggies Went To Market.

The Little Piggies Went To Market.
Gather ’round, children. It’s time for a nursery rhyme. Follow me closely:
This little piggy went to FEMA

Overheard in New York: The Voice of The City
Funny site with overhead thing in NY. Lots of stupid people quotes.

It’s Underwater, Dumbass
Girl #1: What do you mean, there’s an Indian Ocean?
Girl #2: Of course there’s an Indian Ocean.
Girl #1: Where is it?
–Bryant Park

Tragic: The Gathering
Collect them all!

This is the combined effort of Ubiq and myself to use our mighty ubergeek powers to laugh in the face of that which cannot be explained. No offense is intended, unless offended is a Bureaucrat or Politician creature.

[via Cruel Site of the Day]

RssFwd : Readers
Interesting idea. Now I can forward all my feeds to gmail and read them on my phone via POP. But I probably won’t. Still could be useful to read feeds this way. I’ll drop a comment later if I get a chance to try it out.

Why run yet-another application [...]

Gear Live | How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket

In January of this year, I was pulled over by a traffic officer for “disobeying a steady red”, a.k.a. running a red light. I pleaded “Not Guilty” to the charge, and today – nearly six months later – I went to court [...]