Videos For The Day
Have a few videos sitting in my inbox that need to be shared. Check them all after the jump…
To The Man Who Called Me About My Domains For Sale
I got a voicemail a couple days ago from a man who was interested in buying domain or two that I own. Unfortunately, his voicemail broke up in some key spots, so all I basically got out of it was that his name was Benjamin from some Portland-based company. His phone number didn’t show up on my call log on my phone as I was out of coverage range when he called, so I can’t get the number from that. I couldn’t understand the company name he was representing nor could I understand the entire phone number he left (beyond the 503 area code), as the message was breaking up (I listened to it about 12 times. I basically got the first six digits (503564), but that was about it.
If you’re Benjamin, and you’re reading this, e-mail me at utterlyboring {at} gmail {dot} com or call me again (I have limited coverage in this office, so e-mail’s probably better). I could certainly use the extra money right now (we really need to replace our sewer line, and that’s not even remotely something we can afford right now).
Is That A Terrorist?
Or just an average person? Yes, it’s an older marketing campaign that’s been ripped apart, but the point remains: How did we get here?
Along the same lines, a great write up on how we should just close the Washingoton Monument and a Q&A with the folks from Wired’s Danger Room.
I personally am also wondering why the media is flipping out on the WikiLeaks cable disclosures when, really, Julian Assage is doing the job those same reporters should be doing. A great read on that subject. Really, is it Assage’s fault for publicizing the documents, or US security for letting them out? The Aussies blame the US.
A great quote I just found from the day after 9/11: “If terrorists are able to make us curb freedom of assembly, freedom of speech…they’ve won more than we can imagine.”
69 Years Later, These Images Are Still Haunting
Pearl Harbor was attacked 69 years ago today. My grandfather and grandmother were both there that day (he in the Navy), and managed to survive the attack, but I do know if you were to show these images to either one of them (my grandfather passed away when I was a teenager), it would undoubtedly bring back memories they’d rather not have.
Springfield Man Legally Changes Name To “Captain Awesome”
As a fan of Chuck, I’ve always thought Captain Awesome was one of the better characters on that show. A Springfield man is obviously a big fan, too, and had his named legally changed to Captain Awesome, though the guy hardly looks as awesome as his namesake.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Billy Joel!
His greatest hits — played at once:
You can use YouTube Downloader (alternate link) to convert this work of art into an MP3, should you desire.
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s Tetris, and Mario Bros. — it’s Tuper Tario Tros.
Beaver Fans Are Crazy People
I’m sure I’ve posted this rant before, but seriously, Beaver Fans, are you really that nutty?
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a football game this weekend between one school who’s trying to play for the national championship and one one just trying to become bowl eligible. College Gameday will be there and my Facebook friends feed is full of folks rooting one way or another. Obviously as an alum, I’d like to see the Ducks win, but I’ll be honest in that this game looming on the schedule always worried me when the Ducks started winning all their games.
But my rant is not about this weekend, as we all know who I’m rooting for, it’s about every other weekend of the year when the Ducks and Beavers aren’t playing each other. I root for all the schools in this state — whether it’s OSU, UO, PSU, UP, WOU, EOU, SOU, George Fox, Willamette, Concordia, etc…whatever — unless they’re playing the Ducks, and then I root for the Ducks. Beaver fans, however, want to see the Ducks fail miserably whenever possible and will root for anybody who’s playing the Ducks. I’ve watched a few Duck football games with Beaver fans, and they were rooting for the opposition the entire time. When I watch a Beaver game, I root for the Beavers. Beaver fans apparently are incapable of rooting for anybody other than the Beavers, and certainly don’t want to see any team in Oregon succeed other than the Beavers. As a true Oregonian (yes, those are fighting words), I’d be excited if the Ducks and Beavers were both undefeated and this was for all the marbles.
OK, rant mode off. Go Ducks!
Reading Material
- Use iRedMail to quickly setup an open-source mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin and RoundCube.
- Special Relativity Simply Explained.
- 10 Registry Tweaks for Windows 7.
- With a bit of copy/pasting, you can get Google Translate to beatbox for you (more here and here).
- How did 7,000 Twitter users balance the budget? Like so.
- 9 Alternatives for Windows Home Server’s drive extender.
- The Maximum PC (boot) Magazine “Lust Lists” from 1996 and 1997 show how far we’ve come in the last 14 years or so.
- Google and Microsoft cheat on slow-start. An interesting read for network junkies and programmers looking to speed up Web application response.
- Great list of free PC games, updated fairly regularly.
- US judge says lesbians can be “cured” by male soldiers.
- The Top 10 Daily Consequence of Having Evolved.
- Tax Cuts: The party that says no does it again.
- Reuters is already showcasing their best photos of the year, apparently ignorant to the fact that there is still another month in 2010.
- Interesting Discussion: I’m a veteran that believes that Julian Assange has done more to assure your freedom that most veterans including myself.
- Great tool for editing Outlook’s nickname files from the always awesome NirSoft (I think I’m going to be putting NirCmd to use here soon).
- A BitTorrent-based DNS is being created to counter US Domain Seizures. The Dot-P2P project is here.
- That’s just stupid: Paying roughly $15,000 for 10 minutes of World of Warcraft time on a 80,000 square-foot screen just for the experience.
- “Hello, is Dicksmash McIroncock available?”
- An interesting read about who a prominent sex blogger really was (link SFW, but following links on the article might get you in trouble).