The Rigged-Up Net

It can pay to think small A Jolly Roger flag hangs in the third-floor window at ServerBeach’s headquarters in downtown San Antonio. Richard Yoo is the founder of a web hosting company called ServerBeach and also founded Rackspace, another web hosting company. The flag symbolizes the company’s renegade outlook, said Richard Yoo, its 28-year-old founder. […]

From Slashdot. “Xenarc Technologies have introduced a cool new in-dash DIN-form-factor Car PC. It features built in hard drive, audio/video, and GPS, among other things. Estimated price will be about $1200. I can’t even begin to list the possibilities for mobile computing bliss.” http://www.xenarc.com/product/cp1000.html

Texas House Bill 281 – cell phone use in cars – effective 9/1/03 Sec. 545.425. USE OF TELEPHONE; OFFENSE. (a)An operator may not use a telephone while operating a motor vehicle unless: 1) the vehicle is stopped; or 2) the telephone is used without use of either of the operator’s hands. (b) An offense under […]

Carlie sent me a Pez bomb today… check out the photo! (I put a quarter in the picture for scale)

Will there be a baby boom over the next decade? http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=N&label=2003-07-23-boom.jpg

Poetry website goes from bad to verse Vogons, fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will recall, wrote poetry so bad it could kill. Now an experiment to create poems on the web looks likely to automate the awfulness of Vogon verse. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993971

Woman Uses Blood As Weapon Against Police Officer A routine traffic stop along a quiet street turned into a bizarre crime scene in New Braunfels. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-217F796A-94DD-4287-A98D-3235AFCFAC6B.asp?0na=x2206110-

Recent research shows that there are 5 stages of sex: The 1st stage of sex is Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when you first meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face. The 2nd stage of sex is Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been with […]

David Filo, Yahoo’s co-founder and largest individual shareholder, sold company stock for the first time last week, netting around $3 million before taxes and fees. http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1030_3-5052964.html

Eat fish, ward off Alzheimer’s. Research finds omega-3 fatty acids boosts memory abilities. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-07-21-fish-usat_x.htm

From Slashdot: Home built CD changer contraption Building some sort of gadget that changes the CDs in my cd tray is something I have often thought about. Mostly in the context of ripping my CD collection or burning a backup of my 5 gig photo collection. http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

First human tongue transplant successful The surgeons who gave an oral cancer patient a donor tongue believe he will be able to talk and eat normally, but not taste http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993964

Good read… make sure you read all the pages… gets funnier… http://genmay.net/showthread.php?s=ca40545a09e0d9f96fb7aa0860a7096c&threadid=169126

How many adult men and women still live at home? http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=N&label=2003-07-21-nest.jpg

Paul found this first… but I couldn’t understand it since it seems these dorks decided to over-dub on top of the original song… so I goggle’ed for the lyrics. http://tom.madoka.be/stuff/funstuff/mp3/gigflapping/gigflapping.html

Are old drivers road hazards? Cause of accident questions if age is to blame; officials caution against criticizing older drivers’ skills. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-17-elderly-usat_x.htm Another story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-17-older-drivers-usat_x.htm Chart: http://www.usatoday.com/news/2003-07-17-license-chart.htm

Ok, large drive support works fine on Debian 3.0 mips. This is good news…. you can check out the dmesg output below.

I think its amazing that, according to this article, that GM makes more reliable cars than VW. Weird. http://channels.netscape.com/ns/wrap/linker.jsp?turl=http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/08/pf/autos/bc.autos.durability/index.htm

ServerBeach announced Debian this week… lots of press over it. Web Host Directory http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=1500 Host Review http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/030716ServerBeach.html Web Host Industry Review http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/ser071603.cfm Host Chart http://www.hostchart.com Host Buzz http://www.hostbuzz.com/ (links to SB Web site) HSPstreet.com http://www.hspstreet.com/archive/d.taf/w,s/id,13302 Web Host Magazine http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?000124.html Top Hosts http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?000124.html

Cooking in College “I don’t cook very much. I’ll sometimes eat dry Ramen noodles out of the bag,” said Jeremy Martin, who is transferring to the University of Dallas in Irving. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-A4A69524-17FE-4640-A5D4-5E0AA5CC790F.asp?0na=x2228130-

Wow! I’ve been MAJORLY quoted in this one: WEBppliance Pro For Windows 2003 Comes To Hosting Providers http://www.hspstreet.com/archive/d.taf/what,show/sid,11/id,13321/cid

Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993942

Unknowingly Girl Saves Pennies For Crack Pipes A 6-year old saves up her pennies for a present for mom. She ended up with a handful of crack pipes. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-76F36694-2BBD-4FE6-9AD9-D604266FCABE.asp?0na=x22139Q0-

Debian 3.0 installs (fairly) cleanly and (farily) easily on the RAQ2 without a screwdriver. HOWTO is here: http://people.debian.org/~pm/deb-cobalt-howto.txt It runs kernel 2.4.18 – but I don’t konw if it officialy has large drive support, so I’ll have to test it out… if so… this thing may become my new fileserver. Very exciting. 😉

Head size gives autism early warning The brains of autistic children undergo an abnormal and dramatic growth spurt in the first year of their lives, according to a new study. The growth makes their heads markedly larger than those of normal infants. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993948

This about 90seconds long… its amazingly funny… Ping-pong gone Matrix. http://www.riggedup.net/funny/kin10.wmv Thanks Bart!

Evidentally, Paul thinks I’m a Metrosexual. And then Dirk calls me on the way home to listen to NPR because they’re playing something about metrosexuality on the air… well… here’s some info on it… check it out for yourself: http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/03/10/1047144914842.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/933020.asp?0si=- http://www.theeastcarolinian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/07/11/3f0ebce718a92 http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/p/purcell/03/purcell062603.htm http://www.sundayherald.com/34672 Frankly, I may be a quasi-Metrosexual… but I like cars… and […]

This is cool: http://pcfil.com/matrix.html?D0=1000000000 Thanks Bart!

I thought that this was a bit weird, but evidentally it works… Brava: High Tech Breast Enlargement See how a microchip-packing bra can increase a woman’s chest size http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/features/story/0,23008,3378797,00.html Video clip here.

This is prettty cool… check out the “How it works” link http://www.octodog.net/

Women can ovulate more than once a month Women may ovulate more than once a month, suggests a Canadian study that overturns conventional views on the human menstrual cycle. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993927

Need a cheap 5 port 10/100 switch? How about SIX bucks! I have one next to my sofa – works great. http://morestuff4less.com/2003/07/08.html#a2828

Stolen from Eric Christopher Blommel has a vision for a better world – one where every man would carry in his wallet a small cellophane packet containing a product that can come in handy in an emergency. http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/may03/141675.asp

Seven (7) New York City bartenders were asked if they could nail a woman’s personality based on what she drinks…. they concurred on almost all counts.

Printer ink seven times more expensive than Dom Perignon Printer manufacturers are ripping off consumers by overcharging for printer cartridges, according to a study by the Consumer Association’s Which? magazine. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31569.html

Thousands of kids catch the bus everyday. But now a dangerous defect is catching school officials off-guard, and crews at area districts are scrambling to make repairs. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-DA4CC746-45AE-45C3-A8C5-167E8E857445.asp?0na=x22282B0-

Microsoft to award stock, end options Microsoft said Tuesday it plans to start giving employees grants of stock rather than options to buy shares, as part of a shift in the way the software maker compensates its employees. http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1014_3-1023840.html

Rackspace teams with Red Hat to offer Linux services Rackspace Managed Hosting of San Antonio says it has partnered with Red Hat Inc. to provide a fail-safe environment for enterprises to run complex operations on the Linux platform. http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2003/07/07/daily2.html

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Nothing keeps a relationship on its toes so much as lively debate. Fortunate, then, that my girlfriend and I agree on absolutely nothing. At all. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html (thanks Hilary!)