Well, it's looking like my little prediction about Hillary winning the election is wrong. But I'm still on track for the gas predictions ( Read more... )

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This is so freaking cool:

"New atom-smasher could fill gaps in scientific knowledge — or open a black hole"http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-collider13apr13,0,7765588.storyRead more... )

Yesterday I caught a woodpecker pecking holes in the side of our house. Way up high. Where I cannot reach up and smack him.

Any idea how to get rid of a woodpecker? (Preferably one that doesn't require me to stand outside all day waiting for him to show up ...)

(Hmm ... woodpecker-cam?)

Anyone know how to stop WinXP from auto-creating these dumbass templates in the desktop context menu ( Read more... )

Life does not fire warning shots.

Millions of tiny ice pellets are falling out of the sky. Hail the size of grains of sand. You can actually hear it all around.

At last!

The death-knell of the cancer known as Digital Rights Management.

I encourage every one of you to go right now to Amazon.com's Digital Downloads and buy MP3s online for $1 apiece ( Read more... )

Some of My Predictions for 2008:

• $4/gallon gasoline by year's end, and that's optimistic.
• I'll still be able to find (3.5") floppy disks in stores. Very nostalgiac.
• Hillary will become president. Not that I support her — hell, I don't support any of 'em — they're all a bunch of fucking politicians. But I got a hunch it'll be her.
• Some jerkoff in ( Read more... )

So dot-mobi (.mobi) is supposedly the Next Hot New top-level domain. (Been around for months actually ( Read more... )