Monthly Archives: October 2006

It seems that Associated Press also made a “typo” and labeled Mark “The Gay Alcocholic Pedofile Scientologist” Foley as a Democrat: Coincidence? Or is this an actual effort at obfuscating reality? You decide. [tags]foley, ap, associated press, foley democrat, democrats, … Continue reading →

Is it just me or did ABC increase the number of commercial slots during the LOST season 3 premiere today? It almost seemed that each time they had a fade to black we were treated to a new ad segment. … Continue reading →

Here is a quick and easy way to find out how much RAM do you have. It should work on most Linux machines: cat /proc/meminfo The file /proc/meminfo contains all the information you may ever want to know about your … Continue reading →

From the Republican Sheep Herding Handbook: Chapter 17: Dealing With Sexual Scandals A. If one of your opponents is involved in sexual scandal: organize a witch hunt crucify impeach condemn the moral downfall of democratic party B. If one of … Continue reading →

Q: Why doesn’t windows come with a built in uptime utility? A: Because windows uptime is to short to be measured in a meaningful way. All jokes aside, why do I have to go through the trouble of typing: systeminfo … Continue reading →

I just noticed that PHP4 does not support any scope modifiers such as static and visibility modifiers like private and public on class members and methods. PHP5 supports all 3, and it took me a several minutes to figure out … Continue reading →

I installed Ruby the other day, and configured Rails. Now I’m fucking around with it trying to figure it all out. The language itself reminds me of Python but it has it’s own flow to it, that is quite unlike … Continue reading →

Here is the best commentary of the Torture Bill I have seen so far: if (person = terrorist) punish_severely(); else exit(-1); I found this in the Wired blog, and I simply stripped the unnecessary braces from the if statement. If … Continue reading →

We used to play this game all the time in boring classes in high school. I had several notebooks filled with dots games. Heh… Here is a javascript version. Let me explain the object of the game: Click on any … Continue reading →

I just found the stupidest Facebook group ever. It’s the I Support a 3rd Term for George W. Bush group. Seeing how facebook is primarily a college social network, I suspected that the collective IQ of it’s users must be … Continue reading →

I wish I found this one when I was teaching Fluency in Technology at MSU. It could have been a really fun way to show them binary conversions: Binary Fun Flash Game by jw.art The time limit is a little … Continue reading →

Totally awesome: YouTube Vid:Olbermann’s special commentary on Clinton vs Fox All I can say to this is word! Well done Mr. Olbermann. [tags]politics, bush, clinton, war, 9/11, olbermann[/tags]