Monthly Archives: August 2006

Zewrestler posted this movie today on his lj. I found the speaker’s voice extremely annoying but he does make some excellent points. Don’t see the embedded video? click here Yes, we are a fascist state. The question is, how do … Continue reading →

In which of the following countries can you detain an innocent man for 5 years in solitary confinement without actually charging him with any crime? a) Soviet Russia b) Communist China d) United States of America e) all of the … Continue reading →

Do you remember Liquid Snake – the main villain from the original Metal Gear Solid game? That dude must have hell of a time at the airports these days. He is double the trouble! We did liquids on a plane, … Continue reading →

Have you ever seen an Ent or a Dryad in the forest? Here are some pictures of weird, human looking trees: click to enlarge; © haha.nu, morpheus, pacamanca, rivermonkey Nature works in mysterious ways… On the other hand, I take … Continue reading →

We are relly having fun with this liquid ban here on teh internets. Thank god I don’t need to fly anywhere anytime soon. Here is another priceless comic: click to enlarge; © gucomics Just watch – next time some idiots … Continue reading →

We talked about the privacy and security issues concerning the AOL data leak. All seriousness aside, it was only a matter of time before someone compiles the “best of” list of most ridiculous queries in existence. And who else would … Continue reading →

Ok, here is my contribution to the Snakes on a Plane craze. I took the original TSA liquid ban announcement, and replaced every occurrence of the word liquid or terrorist with the word snake. I also modified some other lines … Continue reading →

This is an actual conversation I had today at work. Guy brings me his laptop which won’t boot. I turn it on and I see the infamous NTLDR Missing message. Him: I installed the new GE template, and after I … Continue reading →

Every single blog lately has posted a link to Googles – the Google Maps plane simulator. I figured that I will be original and I post another map related site just for the hell of it. Go and check out … Continue reading →

If your search queries were among those recently made public by AOL, let them know that they suck! Get your banner from EFF and then post it all over the place. Spread the word! click for EFF action page Here … Continue reading →

On Friday I stopped by my aunt’s house to do some free tech support on her new PC that wouldn’t start up. Yes, I’m a sucker and I do all the tech support my family. Of course when I came … Continue reading →

Oh noes! We’ve clogged them tubes! Quick! Call Senator Stevens! via boinboing [tags]net neutrality, tubes, internet is a series of tubes, stevens, senator stevens[/tags]

I think Little Gamers comic pretty much sums it up: click to enlarge Seriously, how many laptops makes it across the pond intact? How many people lost their ipods because of this? [tags]uk airport security, terror alert, liquid ban, carry … Continue reading →

I think I found this tip at Lifehacker at some point and decided to implement it. The idea is simple – you set up a script that will ask you what you are currently doing every hour or so, and … Continue reading →

Apparently, most of standard pin locks can be open with the so called bump key. Watch this video: link How does a bump key work exactly? Here is a pictorial representation for you. I think it does a really good … Continue reading →

Can someone explain to me how a ban on liquids is helping anything here? Seriously! Why are we doing this? And why is UK totally freaking out? Didn’t they catch the supposed terrorists, and foiled their plot? For me, this … Continue reading →

Can someone explain to me what in the holly fuck is going on here: click on the image for the article Holly crap! It’s FarGate!!! I wonder if Ben and Claudia are going to revert to their John and Aeryn … Continue reading →

Bush administration has found a solution for that annoying problem of prisoner torture in Abu Ghraib. This brilliant move will completely remove all the the controversy, and will shut the journalists up for good. Does it mean they will finally … Continue reading →

Hey kids! What do you get wen you combine a summer horror movie and Ted Steven’s net neutrality speech? Is it ham?* No, silly! Guess again! Enormous amounts of information… On a truck! Nope! Apparently you get an even scarier … Continue reading →

What did I say? Didn’t I say that the AOL search data can be mined to identify users? I was right! I didn’t want to be, but my fears were 100% justified. New York Times has successfully identified a 62 … Continue reading →

I wish it was easier to track down information about Gigi and her projects. Unfortunately her official website is useless, and since Farscape ended a long time ago people stopped posting the “where are they now” news on message boards. … Continue reading →

Greg Plast nicely shows who really benefits from the ongoing Iraqi war. The rise in the price of oil after the first three years of the war boosted the value of the reserves of ExxonMobil Oil alone by just over … Continue reading →

Holly crap, this is funny: link via haha.nu [tags]vader, star wars, video, youtube[/tags]

The other day I was sitting at my windows box at home, and McAfee AV popped up a message prompting me to do a recommended upgrade of their software. Why not, right? After all, ever since I bought this computer … Continue reading →

If you understand this joke, you can officially consider yourself a geek. img © xkcd If you find it amusing, you get bonus 10 geek points. If you ever said that to someone you get 100 geek points and automatic … Continue reading →