Monthly Archives: August 2006

As you may or may not know, AOL was created by Internet Gods as a punishment for lame lusers who are to lazy or stupid to get a real ISP. It is an evil, twisted corporate entity, hell bent on … Continue reading →

Here is a list of amusing and entertaining links I have found on teh intenets this weekend. There is no order, rhyme, reason or unifying theme. Just silly links that amused me. Dice Wars – extremely addictive risk like flash … Continue reading →

RIAA just decided to sue LimeWire, heavily leaning on the super-idiotic Grokster ruling. If you don’t remember what the Grokster thing was all about, let me remind you. Remember that one time we were all pissed off, because a bunch … Continue reading →

Throughout the planing stages of Iraqi war, Bush administration was completely oblivious to the fact that there are two distinct sects of Islam that do not get along that well. Allegedly, when someone tried to explain to him the difference … Continue reading →

Apparently, the Capitol Hill Freedom Fries are being renamed back to French Fries again! Does this mean that sanity has returned to Washington? Or is this just a brief moment of lucidity before they relapse into their usual nuttiness? Personally, … Continue reading →

I was working on a large PHP class today, and I noticed that over 60% of my typo errors were occurring in very similar pieces of code. For the most part, the most error prone lines looked a little bit … Continue reading →

Recently I posted two impressive pieces of ASCII art. I thought they were really cool, but I doubted they were created by hand. I just found it hard to believe that anyone would spend hours on end, tweaking the color … Continue reading →

Ever wanted to create in-cell bar chars to help you visualize some large data set? A picture is worth a thousand words, so I will just show you what I am talking about and how to do it: image © … Continue reading →

Scifi channel is hosting a pilot of a brand new, trippy animated show titled “The Amazing Screw-on-Head“. Apparently they are trying to see whether or not it is worth it to pick it up for a season or two. The … Continue reading →

It is a good thing that MSU is using Blackboard as it’s Learning Management System. If they had went with something else, we would possibly have to think about switching really soon. US patent office has decided that we really … Continue reading →

Check out this awesome animated movie. Little Fuchikoma like aliens go on an Earth safari and meet a monkey. click to watch I love it. Great animation, cute characters, and very dynamic action. It’s a joy to watch. [tags]burning safari, … Continue reading →

Apparently, the biggest hole on earth is a diamond mine located in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km. To give you an idea of the scale, here is a picture: click … Continue reading →

In his recent blog entry, Ara Pehlivanian asks a very interesting question: how come Clinton was impeached for lying about sex, but Bush and his cabinet gets away with a whole web of lies that got us into Iraq? I … Continue reading →

Here is a roundup of the WTF news moments from the last few days. I divided them into categories for more coherence: We Live in a Police State: Bush proposed a new bill according to which American citizens suspected of … Continue reading →

In lieu of the privilege escalation hax I started to wonder what exactly do you need to do to lock down an XP Home machine. In XP pro you can use the group policies to limit what user can do … Continue reading →

I suspect this will be amusing only for the more clueful programmers: click to enlarge Source unknown – I have no clue who is the original author. Disclaimer: I do prefer to use vi (vim actually) over Emacs for simple … Continue reading →