Archive for May, 2006

This is priceless!

I never thought Delay was the sharpest rock in the bunch, but who knew he was plain stupid.

Think Progress ยป Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert

Colbert should get right on this and start a “Support Delay” part of his show every day. This made my week.

Video Games good for surgeons!

(as seen on Kotaku)

Video games can help cut surgical errors: study - Yahoo! News

Makes sense to me. Warm up the hand-eye coordination before doing the real work.

So, to recap, playing games can make you a better surgeon, but doesn’t force you to go out killing people. Gotcha. (ok, so that last part wasn’t in the article, but it should be in all articles talking about games!)

If you’re still sure you know how the WTC buildings collapsed, you should read this

This movie is an hour and half of MANY questions that aren’t answered about how the WTC buildings collapsed. Very interesting movie.

Note: The WMV is the only movie that worked for me.

FBI to decide if your software is good for you.

So now the FBI gets to decide what software you can run on your PC.

I swear.

Note: as you’ll notice by the date on the article, this apparently old news. But I hadn’t heard about it until now.

Don’t I already pay for the Internet?

Ok, so the big boys of the internet are trying to get the internet as a pay per view service. Want to visit Google? Well, if Google didn’t pay enough, your provider might not allow you visit them. Same goes for any site on the internet. I know what you’re thinking, yeah right, like that could ever happen. Apparently it can:

This is a great article on Slate.
Here’s a website that MoveOn.org sent me an email about.

I know we’re slackers and don’t want to get involved (trust me, I’m extra lazy), but how long will it take you to sign a petition? Not long. You can always call your congress man/woman and tell them to quit sucking it up. Or blog about it.

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