“If you are standing in front of a large snake right now don’t panic…” So says the greeting message for the Florida Keys’ python hotline, 888-IVE-GOT1. Over the years enough pet Burmese pythons in south Florida have been released into the wild that one NPS scientist has estimtated now there could be as many as 30,000 of them in the Everglades. read more | digg story
Super Talent’s 2TB PCIe RAIDDrive
These PCIe SSD drives can’t arrive fast enough for our needs… ok, wants considering the thousands they cost. The latest announcement comes by way of Super Talent Technology with its new 2TB RAIDDrive. The card slips into a PCIe x8 slot and ships in Enterprise (battery backed), Workstation, and Gamer (I hope this isn’t an april fools post) read more | digg story
Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
Teenagers armed with only a inexpensive camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth. read more | digg story
Stewart vs. Cramer (Full Episode)
Ever wonder what it looks like when a grown man gets bitch slapped? read more | digg story
South Park: Watch the NEW Episode
The Ring (South Park kicks off season 13)Original Air Date: 03.11.09Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers’ concert where they each get purity rings. read more | digg story
An "expecting father" book you may actually enjoy reading
Be Prepared – A Practical Guide for New Dads – An informational (and rather entertaining ) look at what you can look forward to. read more | digg story
Computer Land
So I’ve spent the weekend… well, I guess that could be extended to the past month, doing computer stuff. I placed the hardware order on December 31st (so I could include it in the business costs for 2008) and received them on the 7th or so. From there on it’s been computers, computers, computers. I upgrade my own to free up a power supply and memory for my new Media PC for the living room. I took all the old stuff I had and got a brand new media pc case for it all. It’s about the size (amazingly close…
Interestings
So I’m working from home today, collected a few tidbits durring my hours upon hours of meetings:There is still no concrete info on the Wii pole dance gameEA PR is spinning, Tech is confirming they suckEver wonder if your local sewage treatment is up to snuff? Holyoke’s isn’t.Kind of a dramatic image of an old Iraqi woman not quite the caliber of the Afghanistan girl from Time, but still powerful. *update* gotta hand it to MSN, they find some cool stuff, particularly Jott – a free service where you can dictate text messages.
>Playing with VISTA dictation
>Some random stuff for today. I was trying to use the VISTA dictation but it’s very difficult. It types when you want to select something on the screen and it selects something on the screen when you want to type. It always seems to assume the opposite of what I actually want to do. A creepy message to Scientology ~ where do I sign up?Newsweek article about it.
>Inbreeding and Free
>An interesting article – blue eyes are related to Melanoma. EA announced “Battlefield Heros”, due out this summer. It’s from the Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 team and it’s FREE. However before you go screaming in delight like a little girl… it’s cartoon (cell shaded?) and there will most likely be a ton of kids playing. They’ll probably use it as a springboard for all their other games and/or something 12 year olds like.
>Why aren’t you developing in paralell?!!
>All these mulititudes of core… no code to back them… what a shame.Step up and code in paralell! Oh, and here’s a fun little Red Sox vs Yankees tit-bit.
>Some of the Best Fark Headlines of 2007
>Here are some of the best Fark headlines from 2007
I’m Board
So I took down my bulletin board. I guess I’m going to have to lock it up. Too many spammers, even with a image test and confirmation email. My next version will have super lock down. I am hoping it can be a sort of mixer place where people can post items they might not necessarily put on their website. Of course it would probably be that much less effort for someone to post it on their website. I can still wish to be the cool kid… I haven’t yet posted today’s links, they’re on the work machine, but here’s…
Small PC Kick
Check out these small PCs:Wired: Tiny PCsMotherboards and computers the size of a stick of gum. I wonder if it was a black market showerhead?Life imitates Seinfeld
Randoms From a Not-so-Random
Oh, and if anyone was wondering Justin Durand is up to his old tricks. It looks like he checks his MySpace often as well. I can’t believe how much the songs remind me of hanging out after Drama Club =) It’s all great stuff, lots of great music and art – so give it a listen. The tracks work, but the rest of the site seems to be broke.
Zodiac Movie
Check out the Crime Scenes – Apparently a new movie about a series of murders in 1989. I like the idea of a modern movie taking place in a realistic time period. One that I can actually watch and recognize the time period while getting all nostalgic. I’m posting it because it’s a superbly done flash site, and a good example of what can be done with modern web authoring.
[Link] Glass2k.exe
>Here is a link to a cool thing. [02:40am] Is Richard Prior dead? [Update 8/8/2013] I went looking for this little utility. It still works in Windows 8! That’s some solid coding right there, and it’s only written in VB6.