Thursday, November 29, 2007

Perhaps I am Infamous

I want you to read this title for a second.

"Missing Student's Body Apparently Found"

That came from the Guardian. It's a real article's headline. No, I won't give you the link.

What I really wanted you to see was the prominent use of the word, "apparently."

I use the word apparently a lot. Sometimes in titles.

I believe the only logical conclusion I can draw is that I'm infamous.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Barely More than 400 Posts

Recently I have broke the 400 post barrier.

Not that that means a whole heckuva lot.

Still, it's a milestone, and as such it deserves to be in the milestone label group.

It's something to look back on someday.

I like how other blogs can be very formulaic.

Nope, nothing consistent here. It's all different. You'll never know will come next.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

An Interesting Economics Textbook Quote

From my Economics textbook;

Why is X-inefficiency allowed to occur if it reduces profits? The answer is that managers may have goals, such as corporate growth, an easier work life, avoidance of business risk, or giving jobs to incompetent relatives, that conflict with cost minimization.


Yeah, I had to do a double take too. But it's really there.

I can't tell if the author is being tongue in cheek or not.

High Score of Connor



It's the highest score ever, mind you.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

College Bands of the Future?

Man, the things one finds online.



I got this from Game Tabs.com, who invariably got it from somewhere else.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Facebook Notifier

Say you were into Facebook, but you weren't into checking it every five minutes on your own.

Did you know that on your notifications page, there's an RSS feed?

Yeah, it might not work will all RSS feed readers, but if you persevere and make it work, then you'll have a nice, working feed.

So you won't have to check every 5 minutes.

Also, if you have Google Desktop, you get an additional hint; one of the RSS feed reading gadgets will work with the Facebook feed. Good lucking figuring out which one.

10 Mean (But Electronic) Gifts to Give Someone

Say you hated someone, but also wanted to give them a gift...

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a paradox.

But hey, don't let that deter you from going to Wired's 10 Mean Gadget Gifts For People You Hate.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Portland Second Most Bike Friendly Place

Portland is the second most bicycle friendly place, according to Wired who said it was according to Virgin.

They probably based their results off of someone else, too.

Portland; I semi-kinda live there.

Plan for First Moon Landing Diaster

Apparently there was a plan for if the astronauts were stranded on the moon.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

"Future"

We often hear this vague sounding word mentioned. "The Future," whatever could that be?

Well, it is what shall be.

And to recognize it's commonality, I shall be making a label for it, completely independent of any other label. ...Though it's likely that they'll be mostly "heh... 'news'" anyways.

So, without further ado, I introduce the "future" label.

Anti-Viral Lasers Future Maybe

First of all, I'm talking about viruses in your body. The ones that infect you. You know, like the flu. Not viruses in your computer. A standard industrial laser can destroy those viruses for you. ...At the cost of the computer...

But that brings me to another point. What should happen if you used such a laser on a human? Bah, you sick minded fool! You weren't supposed to imagine it!

But yes, such a result does not seem very pro-health.

So that's why the people mentioned in this article have decided to make a laser that pulses. In addition to pulsing, it kills viruses by exploding them, rather than burning them off of the face of the Earth.

Since I'm only pretending to explain this, you might want to check out the article just to see what's happening. I'm telling you, there's a chance that this could be big.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Urban Challenge Soon to be Underway, Chance for Robots to Prove Themselves

But don't hold your breath. Nine competitors were barred from competing due to exceedingly dangerous cars.

Macs Finally Have Become Big

Now if only that wasn't determined by the fact that someone has made a Tojan virus for Macs.

Article

Sony to Heavily Advertise New 40GB PS3

Because apparently a cheaper and better PS3 won't just sell itself.

Article

Dualshocks to be Scarce

The PS3's new rumble reader controller will be scarce.

Because apparently it's hard to make rumble compatible controllers.

Truly a Professional Gamer

Sure there are game testers, but is there really a person who gets paid just to play games all day? A person whose game playing skills were so awesome people would pay him to play games?

They call him Shinya Arino.

I learned about him from this Wired article, and now you can too.

And the decidedly not-feature-article Wikipedia article can be found here.

Missing Names on Manhunt Credits

Apparently the producer of Manhunt 2 (prior to it's transfer to another studio) is crying foul that the studio hasn't received credit for working on Manhunt 2.

Which is funny, because if I had worked on Manhunt 2, I sure as heck wouldn't want credit for it.

Article

Friday, November 2, 2007

Join my Facebook Ninja Army

I'm giving you the exclusive chance to join my Facebook Ninja army.

http://apps.facebook.com/piratesninjas/?i=661417328

Coolpedia Tome of Reason

"The Japanese always want a strange thing."

So true, Chinese google-translated to English version of Coolpedia, so true.

Quick Economics Lesson

I feel it's time for a quick Economics lesson. Central to economics is the idea of marginal benefit and marginal cost.

Applied to actions, marginal benefit is what you stand to gain and marginal cost is what you have to lose. It's also what you give up by doing that one thing, but do I really look like an economics teacher?

Anydangways, a real life example can be observed. Apparently American diplomats that don't want to go to Iraq will be forced.

Abstract studies you learned about in school; not just for school anymore!

JK Rowling Kinda Sorta Doesn't Break Promise

You know, her promise to not write any more books about Harry Potter or company.

Instead, she went out and wrote "The Tales of Beedle the Bard". Which, while technically not about Harry Potter, is still kinda the same idea.

Though she does gain points for (a) it not being a real book and (b) the proceeds from the limited editions are going to charity.

Also; One of my first "This week in news" happened to cover the reveal of the name of the seventh book. Hey, it was news then.

Yeah, if you were interested enough, you'd check out my rants page. Just watch out for the spiderwebs.

After All, it's a Fat World

Apparently people are getting too fat to even ride the "It's a Small World After All ride.

Another article to back this up; http://www.area51.org/its-a-fat-world-after-all.

Super Swing Golf 2?

Bah, I was fine with Mario Golf. For gameboy. That's gameboy color, kiddos.

Or even that one golf game for the neo geo pocket color, in a pinch.

The Golden Compass...

Maybe it hit you out of the blue, but I've known about it for at least three months. Maybe even more.

One day I was stumbling and I found the official site, complete with trailer.

Alas, not interested then, not interested now.

Say you and your friend were reading a book. Now say you finished the book before you friend, and told them that it had a twist ending.

Now, would this be grounds for a spoiler? Would your friend have a right to get angry?

Could you really not see a twist ending coming? I mean, not from the story, but since so many books seem to have them nowadays?

And when will it get so bad that it's surprising when the book doesn't end on a twist ending?

Google's Badware Testing

So I was searching for something off of Google. And I clicked on a search link. What should appear but...

...A warning that the site I was trying to go to was infected with badware?

While this may or may not be a false positive, I'd rather not bet my computer to find out.

And on that warning was a link to here.

It should still be noted that I could have gone to the site if I wanted, so this isn't some conspiracy to eliminate free speech or anything.

So take this as news with me as a primary source; Google does "badware" testing on sites. And if you're headed there from a Google search, it'll warn you.

"I only got 6 hours of sleep this morning."