The discovery of rollerblade clogs finally killed off string theory

While most people currently believe in the heliocentric model of the universe, it is nice to see that not only scientists, but an entire scientific field can take rub on some youth serum and turn back the clock a few centuries.  For those who are interested in the geocentric model, you may want to check out the Galileo Was Wrong conference, in Indiana.

Me?  I know that the universe actually revolves around Mike’s balls, which are made out of a particularly rare depleted radioactive material.  Just a tablespoon of it weighs… alot.  This is what the universe actually looks like, to scale:

(Mike: I expect this will be placed in your rotating wallpaper list)

My love/hate relationship with Muammar el-Qaddafi

This guy is fucking crazy – lets talk about it:

1. Love – nobody can even fucking agree how to spell his name.  You will see it either spelled Qaddafi or Gadafi, with el or al in front.  If you want to be a good dictator, you gotta keep people guessing
2. Hate – guy is clearly an asshole.  We know pretty much for sure he helped support the <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103″>Lockerbie bombing</a>, which killed 243 people.
3. Love – what type of terrorist dictator has the flavor of this guy?  Dude is always rocking proper shades and a Jheri curl.  Usually with some crazy ass bathrobe to boot:


Does Quadaffi have to smack a bitch?



Yesterday, he was rocking the M-frames.



Seriously - I couldn't get away with this shit on Halloween.

4. Love – Dude was in the running for “closest thing on earth to the living dead”.  Everyone in the free world keeps waiting for him to die but it just doesn’t happen.  Other competitors were Kieth Richards, Ronald McDonald, and Michael Jackson.  Then MJ went ahead and took the prize – I hope you understand MJ is still alive and well hanging out in the Wall-Mart parking lot.  But I digress:
   

   Don't shake too hard - arm may detach.

5. Hate – he just titled himself a Colonel.  If you are a dictator, much more fitting to declare onself the “supreme leader,” at the very least.

I’d rather hang out with the spider.

Disclaimer – No I do not like the Misfits.  What the hell were you thinking?

Misfits logo Vs. Spiny-backed orb-weaver:

From Wired’s Arachnid Hall of Fame (check out the cutest spider.  I could just pinch its cheeks).

Batman, the dark knight vs. Batman, Turkey

Batman, the dark knight:

From Wikipedia:

In the original version of the story and the vast majority of subsequent retellings, Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire playboy, industrialist, and philanthropist. Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, Bruce trains himself both physically and intellectually and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime. Batman operates in the fictional American Gotham City…

Batman, Turkey:

From AllAboutTurkey:

One of the southeastern Anatolian cities, Batman is a little province which takes its name from the river flowing on its west. The Batman river, spanned by the old Malabadi Bridge, draws the province’s border with Diyarbakir, and then joins Tigris (Dicle) River passing through the land. The southeastern extensions of the Taurus Mountains on the other hand, stand on the eastern side of the region, together with the 1288 m high Raman Mountain. Here is one of the main crude oil production centers of Turkey, and the refinery at Batman was the first founded one in the country.

The history of the province reaches back to antiquity, and the land saw numerous dynasties throughout its long history. Experiencing Arab invasion around 700 AD, Batman was later dominated by Seljuks first and then by the Mongolians. It was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1514 after being under the influence of the Akkoyunlu and the Safevid throughout the 15th century.

And most interestingly, Batman, Turkey sues DC over Batman the movie (from el Reg):

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

He also hopes to pin a number of unsolved murders along with the town’s female suicide rate on the psychological impact the film’s success had on Batman residence, the publication said.

Makes sense.

The calculus of perverts… and cereal

Just found out where snap, crackle, and pop come from.

They are all derivatives of increasing order, they go like this in order:

• x: position
• dx/dt: velocity
• d^2x/dt^2: acceleration
• d^3x/dt^3: jerk
• d^4x/dt^4: snap
• d^5x/dt^5: crackle
• d^6x/dt^6: pop

Now, when you pull mass into the equation:

• velocity * mass = momentum
• acceleration * mass = force
• jerk * mass = yank (so maybe we should say yank off?)
• snap * mass = tug
• crackle * mass = Snatch
• pop * mass = shake

Association Win

I know this is beating an undead zombie horse… to death, but this is good:

Anything Sara Palin Says = FAIL.

Thanks youtube.

Movie Review: Vicky Christina Barcelona

This was the worst chick movie ever.

The only bright side is that Penelope Cruz and Scarlet Johansen (may be spelling either/both of those wrong) do make out.

But its not like 30 minutes of “I’m the plumber I came to fix your pipes” make out.

Worst part?  The video I had skipped through half of the lez-ing.

You would think was going to be good:

But its really not.

Movie Review: The Wackness

Ben Kingsley andMary Kate Olsen make out.

Yeah thats not weird

Aside from that, some unconvincing ebonics is thrown around, and a scene where a high school guy wanks it.  Great.

Thats all you need to know.

An alternative to P2P

I don’t know what the world is coming to these days.  Its like companies actually feel like they should be making money off of their intellectual property, and that its wrong to steal it?  Craziness.

Anyway, I’m no lawyer, and don’t really have any idea what I’m talking about, but from what I know, most of the ways you can get in trouble from stealing IP over the internet is because its very illegal to give that information to other people (check out the DMCA).  For that reason, the downloading part of P2P is bad, but based on law the very bad part is sending pieces of that data back to other people, which all P2P programs do by definition.

So how can you get the shit you want, without disseminating that information back to other people?  Simple, just drop the P2P, and move onto some system that uses a tradditional client/server setup (there’s nothing wrong with tradition).

Back in the day that would mean trawling around IRC forums and hitting ratio based FTP sites, but thank god those days are over.

Rapidshare is basically a website where people can just dump files, and then share the links to those files with other people.  The trick is how to find those files.  Rapidshare doesn’t provide a way to search for files on their servers, so you have to use 3rd party Rapidshare search engines.  I like rapidlibrary, or their MegaUpload search engine 4MegaUpload.

The biggest problem with Rapidshare though is the file size restrictions – you’ll usually have to download multiple pieces of the file in .RAR format and then piece them back together.  Just get free WinRar, and it’ll take care of everything automatically.

You can buy what from the government? A jet engine.

Last time I told you about a jail up for grabs.

This time, we have something a little more exiting.  Yes, up for sale is a General Electric J-85-17A, which produces 2,850 lbs of thrust.  Thats a little more than I have in my Saturn.  Just a little.

The auction details are available here, but just in case that goes away, here are some photos:

Now you too, can make the Darwin Awards.

More Facebook hacks

Yes, again.

This is already the third time this has happened – more Facebook accounts are getting hijacked and sending out spam.  Seems to be a different attack this time as now the messages are not being sent as wall posts, and this is no longer just spam (like the fake weed attack was).  The new attack sends links to websites so that they can install ActiveX trojans, which will install malware/viruses on your machine.

If you click on the link it takes you to some janky-fake youtube page (yUOtube), and then the page will attempt to install malware.

So, if you get a message with the title:

You should be ashamed by this behavior.

and then says COOL in the body with some URL (in this case it was http://google.lv/reader/shared/01426751450271110670?defc431ch9=70603ec774384bfc28cf93ecc1c7b516)

Don’t follow it.

LeMons Overalanyzed Updated for Toledo / Detroitish 2008

Yes, once again I have update the 24 Hours of Lemons analysis I have been doing.

To see the most recent results check the LeMons Overanalyzed page.

After the 2008 Toledo race the statistics look as follows (the images on this page won’t be updated in the future):

Performance by Country

Performance by Make

Performance by Model

How to add an LPR printer in Windows Server 2008

Wow, this makes no sense at all.  There are two (perhaps more) methods to add a printer in WS2008, but only one of them allow you to add an LPR port (as far as I could tell).  At any rate, to save everyone the same 3 hour headache I had with getting an LPR printer functionng in WS2008, check this out.

First of all, in order to enable LPR in WS2008, follow these instructions:

1. How *not* to do it:

Do not go through the printer section in the control panel.

LeMons Overanalyzed updated with stats from the Northeast 2008 race

The images in this post will not change.  To see the most current plots, go to the LeMons Overanalyzed page.

As you might expect, the 3 Milanos that destroyed the Northeast race really skewed stats in their favor.  I’ll leave other interpretations to you.

LeMons performance by country

LeMons performance by make

LeMons perfomance by model