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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.
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
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.
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I think its amazing that, according to this article, that GM makes more reliable cars than VW. Weird.
ServerBeach announced Debian this week… lots of press over it.
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.
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.
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:
Frankly, I may be a quasi-Metrosexual… but I like cars… and the hardware store… and doing “boy” stuff… [shrug]
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.
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.
Need a cheap 5 port 10/100 switch? How about SIX bucks! I have one next to my sofa – works great.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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!)
And people wonder why I make a huge fuss about how my car doesn’t lock the doors automagically…
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-32D7B427-0BEC-4B75-97A3-2B806D7E72B4.asp?0na=x2202ES7-
So Annie sent me this link from NPR… it looks like I’m not the only one interested in FOUND.
Original Gangster
We have a bad guy play bad-guy games. And he steals our GameCube
In the July issue of Electronics Gaming Monthly, we interviewed Henry Hill–you know, the guy the movie Goodfellas was based on? He worked for the mob, participated in the $6mil Lufthansa heist in ’78 (the biggest ever at the time), then turned state’s evidence and helped put away the Lucchese crime family. We thought the wiseguy who lived Grand Theft Auto back in the 60s and 70s should play it, so we called for a sit-down and brought in GTA: Vice City, Hitman 2, The Getaway, and, for the hell of it, Animal Crossing. Along for the meeting: Julian, Hill’s 14-year-old son and videogame consigliere. At the end of the game sections there’s a general Q&A with Henry, which we couldn’t fit in the magazine.
http://www.gamers.com/feature/henryhill/index.jsp
Restaurant gets ‘recycled’ rice warning
The Lille Buddha restaurant in Tromsoe has received a sharp warning from the regional Food Control Authority after a former waiter reported the eatery for reusing unfinished servings of rice and drinks, newspaper Nordlys reports.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=563658
Opposites do not attract in mating game
The idea that women are hunting for rich husbands while men choose wives for their beauty is a long way from the truth, suggests a new study.
Do-Not-Call List Grows to More Than 10 Million
Millions of people are declaring their phone numbers off limits to sales pitches by signing up with the national do-not-call list.
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-AF604CAC-F8CF-4552-B3F0-F8DB54E074B1.asp?0na=x2213120-
Disliked bosses make employees’ blood pressure rise to levels that can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke
Brain scans provide the first proof that the same injury can produce different levels of pain in people, due to different brain activity
A virtual glass ceiling in ‘EverQuest’?
You can be whoever you want to be online, but you’ll still make less money if you’re a woman.
Holy CRAP! The Thong-Guy that I was talking about here:
http://www.riggedup.net/archives/000104.html#000104
and here:
http://www.riggedup.net/archives/000100.html
is now DEAD! YIKES!
Read here:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-E0742FEA-3A9C-48D2-BB47-FA34F5326A14.asp?0na=x22016G0-
I saw this on Unscrewed last night… funny, funny stuff. I highly recommend you watch it.