Archive for January, 2006

Bush Back Mountain

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Heard a little bit of Bush’s news conference in Kansas yesterday and thought this clip was funny. I got the clip from Monday’s All Things Considered on NPR.org and edited out the boring bits about domestic spying.
http://lr2.com/media/BushBack.mp3
Bush’s response to the question: “Have you seen Brokeback Mountain?” was: “I [h]adn’t seen it.”
Can someone please give [...]

iAttire

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

iAttire
This is just too wierd.
No worries. No nonsense. These briefs have the free-moving ease you expect.
Hand-made of the softest white cotton knit, a blue waistband, and an easy access crotch.

The Roadhouse Podcast joins the Podshow Network.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

My good friend, Tony Steidler-Dennison, host of The Roadhouse Podcast, has joined up with the Podshow network. This is a great move on his part that will lead to more listeners and income.
To celebrate, he’s offering up all his 2006 tip jar money to The Blues Foundation’s HART Fund (The Handy Artist Relief Fund). [...]

Extreme Programming – Uncyclopedia

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Extreme Programming – Uncyclopedia
The other Extreme Programming.
Extreme Programming (XP) is a revolutionary software development methodology in which programmers write code whilst skiing down mountains, parachuting out of airplanes, being chased by rapacious sharks, or participating in any of a wide variety of other extreme sports.

Treehugger: After Two Months in the Micro-Compact Home

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Treehugger: After Two Months in the Micro-Compact Home
I’m not so sure that I could live in 2.6m^3, but it’d be an interesting experiment.
Germany’s science and party-trivia show, Galileo, this week reported on the experience of the few Munich students lucky enough to have gotten a place in the micro-compact home village experiment. Seven micro-compact homes [...]

Cool Hunting: Stop Talking

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Cool Hunting: Stop Talking
Stop talking cards. A cool idea on Cool hunting.
Who hasn’t at one time wished for a simple way to put the kibbosh on chatty types who never seem to run out of things to say?

Wired News: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Wired News: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat
A bit more info on the fiber cut that affected Sprint last week.
At half-past noon on Jan. 9, cable TV contractors sinking a half-mile of cable near Interstate 10 in rural Arizona pulled up something unexpected in the bucket of their backhoe: an unmarked fiber-optic cable.

Orbicule | Undercover, Software to Recover a Stolen Mac

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Orbicule | Undercover
This is a cool idea. Once the software sees your laptop is stolen (by checking with the Orbicule server) it starts sending screen shots and IP information back to the service. Eventually it will start simulating hardware errors and urge the thief to take it in for service. I didn’t [...]

home of the Pong Clock !

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

B U R O V O R M K R I J G E R S ® –> home of the Pong Clock !
The pong clock is now on sale for 199 EUR (about 240 USD).
Pong clock » While this game of pong randomly plays, the so called players score the [...]

roachfiend.com » BugMeNot

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

roachfiend.com » BugMeNot
I was looking for this the other day. Very nice of it to pop into my feeds.
Bypass compulsory web registration via Firefox’s right-click context menu. Compatibile with Mozilla and current Firefox releases. Visit bugmenot.com for full details of their service.