Methinks that Scott Adams is veering perilously close to real life in today's Dilbert cartoon...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
A shot across the bow
To a certain few reading this blog..."For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."-- Ephesians 6:12I don't have to win. I only have to fig...
Meet "The Dude Who Took Down Viacom" at SPARKcon in Raleigh!
That commercial is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, isn't it? :-PSPARKcon is a grassroots-organized four-day festival in Raleigh celebrating individual creativity around the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina. This will be the fourth annual event and this year SPARKcon will be held September 17-20. And I've been invited to speak that Friday night about...
Trailer for THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
A film starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey based on the real-life experiments that the United States military conducted in psychic warfare. I didn't know anything about this one but judging by the trailer, The Men Who Stare At Goats looks rather promising...It's due to open in theaters this November 6...
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Bev Perdue giving lottery money back to North Carolina schools
Bev Perdue - who for as long as she is Governor of North Carolina will be referred to on this blog as "WORST GOVERNOR EVER!" - is returning $38 million to the school construction proceeds from the North Carolina Education Lottery, which she raided back in February(However there's still $50 million from the lottery's reserve funds that Perdue isn't paying back yet).Does Bev Perdue have any clue at all about the mess she has caused for this state's...
Damon Lindelof Twitter-ed me about LOST!
We're about four and a half months away from the return of Lost. What many have called the best scripted television drama ever is heading into its sixth and final season, with plenty of mysteries still abounding. Like, f'rinstance, the statue of the Egyptian goddess Taweret that we saw in last season's finale.Well, this might or might not mean anything but hey, it's my own...
Been playing BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM
It came out this past Tuesday and I bought it then from the nearby Gamestop. I'll post a full review when I finish the game.But until then, believe the hype: Batman: Arkham Asylum is very, very, VERY good. I'll even say that without completing it yet, it's already my personal choice for best video game of 2009.Don't even think about whether you want this game. Because you do. You really do. The inmates are running the asylum... and you're trapped...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Obama to control the Internet? Not likely...
The Intertubes are burning out today with reaction to news of a bill introduced into the United States Senate by Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia that would give the President the power "to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency."In other words: Obama would take over the Internet. That's the chatter about it anyway.Is...
YouTube video: Police officer says "It ain't (America) no more"
From August 25th, 2009 at a public meeting between Rep. Jim Moran and his constituents at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. As is happening a lot lately, the meeting was to discuss President Obama's health care "reform".And outside the school, this exchange was taking place between a private citizen and polie officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. During which Officer Cheeks is told that this is America and replies "It ain't no more"...The only...
It's a pentacene molecule
Pentacene, chemical formula C22H14 and the above image is such a big deal because it's the first time ever that photographs of actual molecules have been obtained.Mash here for the story on how IBM's scientists conquered a decades-long technical challen...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Elon dorms plagued by bats!
I just had to post about this 'cuz I'm an Elon alum and have friends from there who read this blog: Virginia, West and Sloan dormitories at Elon University have been invaded by bats.Fourteen students already moved in but had to evacuate for two days while the bats (mostly in Virginia) were removed. Elon's fine maintenance crew (you know, the ones who have to paint the grass...
Yes Johnny Robertson, by all means let's talk about "honesty"
Say what one might about Bob Lawson, to the very best of my knowledge there was only one person in that "debate" on WGSR this past Tuesday night who has lied boldly and publicly when he accused not one but two churches, with no evidence whatsoever, of what can only be called child pornography.And Bob Lawson wasn't that person.More than a few people have told me that Johnny...
A Transformers costume that REALLY transforms!
What happens when some double-jointed guy with a knack for engineering decides to draw inspiration from the Transformers franchise and make a Bumblebee costume? EPIC AWESOMENESS!I bet if Hasbro gave him a license to do it, this dude would make a fortune mass-producing this get...
1,000 banks to fail across America?
That's what John Kanas of BankUnited is now saying. Kanas believes that a thousand banks - mostly small, privately-run institutions - will go belly-up during the next two years.Ordinarily I'm automatically inclined to disregard this kind of statement as extreme alarmism (like how I never take any "climate experts" from the United Nations seriously). But given the number of banks and more than a few of those being larger ones that have gone down...
THE HOBBIT will be THREE movies... and in 3-D!?
Is it 1998 again? 'Cuz I'm getting the same feeling now that I did when word first broke all those many moons ago that Peter Jackson would be making a film trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.Well, ever since the third and final installment The Return of the King came out more than a half-decade ago, there've been whispers on the wind about Jackson adapting The Hobbit as well, as a prequel film. And for those of us who've been paying...
Man tricks Apple into giving him 9,000 new iPods
As you can guess however, he didn't get away with it. Nicholas Woodhams of Kalamazoo, Michigan has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering and has been sentenced to a year in prison and made to pay $650,000 restitution for his scheme that tricked Apple into sending him nearly ten thousand brand new iPods...Prosecutors say he took advantage of a warranty program by guessing the serial numbers of iPods still under warranty and claiming they...
