I've been reading the news about the trapped family in Oregon ( Read more... )

During WW2, when the British battleship Barham was sunk by an U-boat, the British high command decided to keep the information secret to misinform the Germans, who apparently didn't know the battleship went down. So the news of the sinking was kept a state secret for 3 months. However, right after the sinking, a person named Helen Duncan ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen Death Note, check it out. The anime is awesome!!

I've always been nice to Microsoft, even defending them sometimes. I think it's because I work in Oracle and heavily involved with bleeding edge technology, constantly debugging code and resolving issues, so I understand that every software has plenty of bugs and issues... But my latest fisaco that makes me go "URGGGGG ( Read more... )

Anyone got any experience with Analog to Digital conversions? (i.e. VHS/SVHS/LD to DVD) I'm trying to convert my collection to DVD and I'm not very happy with the quality, especially with the LD->DVD conversion.

Today at work, I was really surprised when my co-worker sitting next to me pulled out a box of Pocky. I was even more surprised when she told me that she got it at Walmart... Pocky has gone mainstream...

Must... have... Rukia... for... everything...

Still... needs... wallpaper...

Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I've been living in Texas too long... The Dixie speech is going up.

It's that time of the year again... I hate taxes...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, scientists first discovered cholesterol and its effect on heart disease. All over the world, doctors started to measure cholesterol levels and heart attack frequencies, and some doctors in Italy found a little town full of people with NO HEART ATTACKS. They were from Limone sul Garda, here's a picture of the nice ( Read more... )