Archives for: September 2007
Things that have happened
Sep 25th
A lady and her daughter came by the apartment and picked up Lily. So, we are down to one rabbit now. No more territorial wars or threat of torture.
Molly went to her parent's house to help them out for a couple days. She'll be back tomorrow. Meanwhil… more »
Civic Literacy Quiz
Sep 20th
Test your knowledge of America’s history, government, international relations, and market economy by answering sixty multiple-choice questions. more »
Freedom of Speech
Sep 20th
The text of a really good lecture by Dr. Tom O'Connor of Austin Peay State University about free speech.
Be informed. more »
Fox anchor: 'officers should be commended' for tasering student
Sep 19th
Attorney and Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett said "The law doesn't allow you to resist police officers when they ask you to do something...Now you may have a beef with them being there in the first place and trying to escort you out--you can argue that lat… more »
Arrogant Student Tasered
Sep 19th
If you haven't heard about the University of Florida student that was tasered on Monday, you need to watch this video. Here's another video of the event which is lower quality, but it includes more of the situation leading up to the arrest.
Basically… more »
Hit her, baby, one more time
Sep 18th
Who can believe there is anything more to say about Britney Spears at this point? But, alas, there is. Spears has come to represent something—something important enough that it keeps rearing its head. … She embodies the disdain in which this culture hold… more »
Wiki Wiki Walnuts
Sep 16th
I downloaded MAGIX Music Maker Basic and was messing around with it.
Here's a little one minute song I came up with after playing around for about an hour: Download Wiki Wiki Walnuts
MAGIX is the best free music studio software I have found so fa… more »
You Know That I Could Never Leave You
Sep 13th
Tuesday, my supervisor gave me two tickets to that night's Damien Rice concert because he wasn't going to be able to go. They were for the third row and they were free. How awesome is that? Especially since I had been considering buying some cheap ticket… more »
Foo Fighters Don't Suck
Sep 13th
In fact their album "The Colour and The Shape" was voted the #7 best alternative album of all time by Cleveland.
When my friend Adam turned 16, I spent a lot of time picking out what cd I wanted to get him for his birthday. I ended up buying "There I… more »
Sep 11th
I found a poor man once
He was the age of fifty-three
He spoke about the government
And the thought of being free
What good does us reason, if we fail to see?
What good does us freedom, if we fail to be free?
-Cartel more »
Threat Level: Privacy, Security, and Crime Online
Sep 10th
If you want to get a feel for where this country stands and where it is headed in the areas of privacy and security, be sure to take some time to read through the posts at Threat Level.
Sometimes there's good news:
California's senate passed a bil… more »
How Do You Go to the Bathroom Wearing a Suit of Armor?
Sep 10th
I beat Super Mario 3 this weekend. Beating Bowser (King Koopa, whatever) was a lot easier once I figured out that he can't hurt you when you are small or ducking.
After we went apartment hunting up in Westlake, we stopped by The Exchange in Lakewood… more »
How to fire an event from javascript
Sep 7th
For example, I wanted to simulate the user clicking a link so that the onclick for that link would be executed. The problem is that element.click only works in Internet Explorer and even there it isn't encouraged.
Firefox supports element.dispatchEve… more »
Bling Bling via Blingo
Sep 7th
I've won $80 in amazon gift certificates this year by using blingo.com as my search engine. It's powered by Google, so you get the same search results with the difference being that each time you search you have a chance to win some prizes. You can read… more »
cross it, crack it, twitch - update it
Sep 6th
I've been trying to beat Super Mario Bros. 3 on my newly acquired NES. Most of the game is pretty reasonable, but I have never been able to beat World 8. I don't know if that's going to change this time around or not.
I've been pretty tired this week… more »
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