Friday, January 16, 2009

Good Night Sweet Prince...














Circuit City finally did was everyone knew they were going to do. Who's down to hit it up tomorrow morning for what are sure to be some sweet deals???

Oldie but a Goodie

This story is freakin' hilarious. I actually laughed out loud at this line:

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.


Wow, I know we are supposed to be tolerant as a people and not point out obvious deficiencies (Lord knows I have some), but this is straight up stupid. Also when told that she was wrong she said "...I'm not having it." You get off once when you don't know something, but if someone tries to explain it you and you get indignant about how you are correct you deserve to be called a moron.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

A Few Things

CES is over and with it the promise of a new tomorrow is gone...for now.  In the wake of the largest Consumer Electronics Show in the World let's look at some new news from the Tech world:

Don't Share your shiny, new drm-free iTunes tracks...They might be the pieces of data that do you in.  Not with the RIAA mind you since they have stopped suing file sharers (finally!) but with random heads that just probably should not have your personal info.

Remember the CueCat?  I actually had one of these things, and really only liked it because of the handy dandy LED that shone out of it.  Well it seems Microsoft is kickin it old school (albeit in a much wider spectrum of hardware devices).

Good news for those that peruse the "gray" market of video.  DivX has added .mkv support to its latest codec.  Will there be good playback of .mkv's using WMP (audio usually sux, even using the CCP codec pack)?  Maybe, it would surely be nicer to use than VLC or even Miro which opens slower than acrobat trying to handle a 5mb PDF file...

And lastly, on a personal note I would like to say a big "F U!" to Ron. The other day we had a debate about the usefulness of Bat Wings and whether human sized bat wings of bird wings would be of more use. Well it seems the US Military has taken my side (Bat wings are better) and plan to integrate the basic mechanics of bat flight into UAV's in the future.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Don't Call it a Comeback




Palm is coming out with a new phone?? Wow, I had pretty much counted them out. Considering there are kids alive today with smart phones that have never heard of Palm this is quite surprising. Could this be the real iPhone killer?

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Who doesn't hate Clippy

Wack Arnolds house of patents strikes again...

This is second only to McDonald's patent on Sandwich making which, if you have ever had anything from McDonald's, realize that they should not be granted.

The best part about this (the McDonald's) patent has to be the flowchart.



Harold and Kumar...In real life

On NYE this year 9 Muslim passengers were kicked off an air tran flight because of a comment made by one of the 9 passengers which was overheard and reported by another passenger on the plane.  The comment was to the affect of "Wow, the jets are right next to my window".  The full story can be read here. It's nice to see that as we talk so highly of "History being made before our eyes" with the election of a President with partial African heritage that we can still be as hateful and fucked up as we usually are.

Increased Airport Security: Mad Loot

Increased TSA Personel:
Mad Loot

Increased Airfares to account for increase in other airport "services":
Mad Loot

Kicking a family off of a plane for what is obviously a bullshit reason then not allowing them to return to the flight AFTER being cleared by the FBI:
Priceless