YOU HAVE BEEN H4X0RED

Earl Moore has 10 reasons why people don't link. My favorite is #2.

2. If you are a true jedi and believe in the force then you’ll discover
my links through gestures and only when they are ready to be found.

http://meanderingpassage.com/2006/09/29/reasons-for-not-linking-in-blogs/

Your Attitude is Better than 60% of the Population

You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you.

They got it all wrong. I'm a bitter old man ;-)

CNN: A gunman took the Platte Canyon High School class hostage Wednesday before fatally shooting Emily, 16, in the head and then himself as a SWAT team stormed in after a three-hour standoff.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/28/keyes.profile/

Randy: Watching CNN today, I'm at home sick (chills, aches all over, dizzy), there's been 3 school lock-downs in the last 24 hours, from all areas of the U.S. My biggest fear is that one of my own children don't get to enjoy a full life. Two words; Canada, Montessori.

earwig
Originally uploaded by RVDad.

This earwig, which is as long as a corn field is wide, was found in Germany using Google Maps.

I was in trouble until I hit #15. I sleep on a couch everyday and my back is just fine. I'm still a kid :-)

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

http://www.missico.com/personal/nonsense/collections/grown_up_signs.htm

PR: Microsoft [cut] announced that the Zune digital media player and online service will be available to consumers in the U.S. on Nov. 14, 2006, just in time for the holidays. The Zune device will retail for $249.99 U.S.

Update: Tom Raftery says "Zune to illegally add DRM to podcasts?"

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Seitz 6X17 Digital
Originally uploaded by vidguy.

This camera takes 21250 by 7500 pixel pictures.

http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Watch your favorite Simpsons episode online anytime. Futurama, South Park, Family Guy and American Dad too!

http://dailyepisodes.com/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me super candidate]

Thanks Wade!

It's been reported in my comments that a new eBay PayPal Coupon code for September-October 2006 is kabylie06libre07. Please try it and report back. Thanks!

Draw the snowsled course and run your little man thru the course. See how far and high you can make him jump and land on his feed.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

And the winner, for best link tagged for:randymorin in August 2006 is... brakes! Let me start with, I changed the rules. This month, I picked 5 links which I thought were the 5 best...

• Don't Download This Song - Coolz0r
• Thanks for the Camera - Coolz0r
• Blog feeds may carry security risk - Scott Kingery 
• Users in Control of Everything Except Profits - Aimee Evans
• HitTail - Scott Kingery

I sent these 5 links to the greatest blogger of all-time, Chip Camdem, and told him to pick the winner. Thanks to Chip for putting his ass on the line. He picked HitTail and Thanks for the Camera as the runner-up. So, the winner is Scott. Congrats!

If you don't already know, every month I send one book of the taggers choice for the best link del.icio.us'ly tagged for:randymorin. Previous winners include Jason Schramm, Coolz0r and Sterling, astreet and Coolz0r.

An interesting read of bad science. I find it amazing to what extent people will lie to prove something they know is incorrect. This quality doesn't exist solely in scientist, but in all areas of life, in the blogosphere, at work.

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/19/10scientific-frauds-that-rocked-the-world/

Wanna bet this guy won't use a cellphone in class anymore? Or at least that cellphone?

Thanks Coolz0r for the del.icio.us link [Play Tag with Me].

Amazing Yo-Yo routine by Hiroyuki Suzuki.

Thanks Coolz0r for the del.icio.us link [Play Tag with Me].

Trailer for the movie This Film is Not Yet Rate.

http://www3.ifctv.com/thisfilm/about.php

Thanks Coolz0r for the del.icio.us link [Play Tag with Me].

Engadget: a Yahoo employee's laptop went up in flames today at their Mission College campus down in Silicon Valley, causing hundreds of Yahoo employees to be evacuated from an 8-story building.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/dell-battery-explodes-at-yahoo-hq-hundreds-evacuat/

Cracked has a list of the 5 most ineffective anti-drug PSAs of all-time. I disagree with the following one, which they ranked #2 and IMHO was exceptionally awesome. Rachel Leigh is awesome!

Thanks Coolz0r for the del.icio.us link [Play Tag with Me].

50 of the funniest Homer Simpson Quotes.

http://www.2spare.com/item_61333.aspx

Thanks Coolz0r for the del.icio.us link [Play Tag with Me].

Milwaukee's Best understands the viral nature of YouTube.

An amazing Coca-Cola commercial.

I just placed 3rd in another qualifier tournament. That's two week in-a-row that I'll play in the weekly final. For those that don't know, I play Score Poker. I find the cards are evenly distributed and the blinds go up fast.

http://www.scorepoker.com/

I've tried PokerStars, but the cards are not evenly distributed. For instance, I've been keeping track of how often you hit flush draws. You should hit them less than 1 in 5, but my stats are showing 1 in 3. Hitting a pocket pair on the flop is 1 in 8, but my stats on PokerStars show 1 in 3. Clearly the cards are not random. I've read in some forums that PokerStars does this to encourage betting. Bigger hands equates to bigger bets. But, I don't know why somebody would play PokerStars knowing the cards are not random. And some play with real money.

I've also tried PartyPoker, but the blinds go up so slow that it can take forever to play a one table tournament.

Do you blame Muslim extremists who believe the U.S. government is evil? The U.S. government has stonewalled the 9/11 investigation. Those tactics would lead any Muslim extremists to believe that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 conspiracy. It doesn't matter who really did it.

This is compelling! You don't have to believe, but not watching this is denial.

I'm always amazed when people tell me that 9/11 was not a conspiracy. Do they know the definition of conspiracy?

An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

http://www.answers.com/conspiracy

I'm pretty certain that some group of people agreed to run planes into the twin towers. Whether it was Osama bin Laden or George Bush doesn't matter. It was a conspiracy. I highly doubt the planes just accidentally hit buildings.

• That would be about as likely as not recovering any of the four black boxes in the two planes that did collide into the buildings.
• Or as likely as the only three sky scrapers to ever fall down because of fire damage, falling on the same day.
• Or as likely as the president's brother being on the board of the company that was in charge of security at almost every company involved in the 9/11 incident.
• Or as likely as the plane hitting the Pentagon on the opposite side as Rumsfeld's office.
• Or as likely as Condoleezza Rice telling the mayor of SanFran in advance not to fly on 9/11, but not knowing that something was brewing.
• Or as likely as bomb sniffing dogs being removed from the twin towers on 9/6.

PR: Hummingbird [cut] announced today that its shareholders have overwhelmingly approved Open Text’s [cut] proposed acquisition of Hummingbird.

http://www.hummingbird.com/press/2006/approve0906.html

Randy: This means I now work for Open Text. Rumour is, I'll be working for Oracle or HP very soon.

Any software or service that includes DRM will always be criticized by Cory Doctorow and Cory will exaggerate the issues. This is one of the laws of the Universe, especially in some fictional futuristic Magic Kingdom. His latest attempt is to go after Amazon Unbox. Now, I don't know anything about Amazon Unbox, but finding problems with Cory's critique of the Amazon Unbox EULA isn't hard. It makes you wonder, if those re-blogging Cory's blog post and yelling Amazon is evil, even bothered reading the blog entry.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html

The EULA says "Amazon respects your privacy, and the Software will not access computer files or other information on your computer that are not used by or otherwise related to the Service." Cory says "Click I agree and you've just signed away permission for Amazon [cut] to search your entire hard drive continuously and report back on all the software you've installed." This doesn't follow and neither does most of the rest of Cory's critique. Sorry Cory.

A compilation of Virginia Slims cigarette commercials. For those under 30, yes, there once was cigarette commercials on TV.

Check out the security system on my new cellphone!

Last September, I ran a competition called the Ultimate Blogging Showdown, where the top 64 blogs according to the Feedster 500 were pitted against each other in 1-on-1 showdowns. The blog with the most links each day, as determined by PubSub,  moved onto the next round until only one blog remained. Boing Boing won.

I just started thinking about an Ultimate Bloging Showdown II. There's no Feedster 500 and PubSub stats are long broken, so I'm gonna have to devise some new rules. I'm thinking about polls this year. I'll open up the nominations and the top 64 nominated blogs will qualify (tie breakers will be run-off in a one day elimination), then I'll have polls each day to determine the winners. Any other thoughts? I'll start the competition next week, so if you want to add you 2 cents, then its time now. See the comment box? Do it! Or shut up!

These guys make Steve Irwin look like a goldfish trainer.

You Are 8% Gross

You're not gross, but you tend to think everyone else is. And you're right... they are! Some people may think you're a neat freak, but at least you'll never die of flesh eating bacteria.

Funny. The questions often had me answering no, because I was even grosser than they knew. So, in fact, I'm so totally gross that I blew away the questionnaire into thinking the opposite. Check out my nose hairs in any pic. Why didn't they ask how many times I fart per day (19)? Burp (20)? Or for that matter, ask my wife to answer the questions.

Link-Love is my favorite Elton John song.

Can you feel the link-love tonight
It is where we are
It’s enough for this wide-eyed blogger
That we got this far
And can you feel the link-love tonight
How it’s blogged to death
It’s enough to make techies and surfers
Believe the very best

http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=544#comment-6487

news.com.au: A Woman who stabbed her de facto husband to death before skinning him and making a meal for his children out of his body parts has lost an appeal against the severity of her life sentence.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20390074-1702,00.html

Randy: Hunny, what's for supper?

We, the signatories herein, comprising of concerned citizens of the world strongly object to the decision and seek the IMMEDIATE REVERSAL of the Result of the IAU Resolution votes to demote Pluto from a planet to a ‘dwarf planet’.

http://pleasesavepluto.org/

More pointless fun.

This is how I envisioned Steve Irwin would die. This lady gets dragged into the depths by a whale.

Diving With Whales - video powered by Metacafe

Thanks Coolz0r!

Lego Church 3
Originally uploaded by cybersmedley.

Check out this Church of Lego.

http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/

Thanks Joseph A Nagy Jr for the link [play tag with me candidate]

An amazing lightsaber battle to the death.

The shoe of the future.

If you'd like a pair, they ask that you sign a petition (24k signatures already).

The best of the Crocodile Hunter on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show. The guy defined the term Crazy Aussie.

http://flixya.com/jay-leno-tribute-to-crocodile-hunter

This house is built to withstand almost any natural or man-made disaster you can name. Except maybe esthetic disaster.

http://ultimatesecurehome.com/

Dateline Hollywood has uncovered the shocking truth behind the Vanity Fair cover that shows Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and their alleged daughter, Suri. It turns out the photo of Suri was actually lifted from a Sears Studio portrait catalog, renewing speculation that Suri does not exist.

http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2006/09/05/suri-cruise-photo-revealed-to-be-a-fake/

Here's a list of the top 20 Japanese commercials. My favorite is above.

http://hight3ch.com/post/top-20-japanese-commercials/

Michelin airless tire 1
Originally uploaded by morningmaple.

Tomorrow, no more flat tires. Personally, I've only had one flat tire ever and of course, it happened on the way to an interview.

This is so funny, that I'm blogging a link. Must read! I won't mention more, as not to spoil the laugh.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/antti.brax/FUN/SEX.html

CNN: Paris Hilton was arrested early Thursday for investigation of driving under the influence.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/07/parishilton.ap/

Randy: You mean she has a driver's license?

Scott Adams: Take the Iranian President Ahmadinejad for example. He believes 9/11 might have been orchestrated by the U.S. government. That makes him either certifiable crazy or possibly French.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/09/who_is_crazy.html

You Are 48% Angry

Generally, you are not an angry person. But you're easily frustrated and enraged. You have one heck of a temper. And because of your anger, you tend to feel resentful and even spiteful. You already know how to quell your anger. You just need to do it more often.

I'm more bitter than angry. But answering always bitter sent my angry ranking thru the roof.

Suri Cruise
Originally uploaded by Pradagirl.

Vanity Fair is publishing a full spread of the Cruise family; Tom, Katie and that poor little baby. She's gonna need some major therapy if and when she ever escapes her father.

Scott Adams: Suppose we agree to make George Bush and Dick Cheney wear school girl outfits and dance a jig for the mullahs while singing the “I’m Sorry” song. Afterwards, their testicles would be surgically removed and displayed in an Iranian museum. In return, the Iranians would allow U.N. inspectors to check on their nukes, they’d stop supporting Hezbollah and they’d leave Iraq to the Iraqis.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/09/appease_on_eart.html

cross-posted

This is simply too cool! One of the buildings drops two floors, but doesn't actually topple. The other 15 fall within 10 seconds.

A few weeks back, a friend got married and during the reception, he sang a song, written by himself, to and for his wife. Everybody was quite impressed. Here's the song.

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The biggest non-surprise of the year is that a wild (sea) animal killed Steve Irwin, a.k.a. the Crocodile Hunter. This type of irony falls best into the blogging hands of Scott Adams.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/09/what_no_way.html

Personally, I think Pepsi the product sucks, but they have great commercials.

Coke, on the other hand, taste great, is a really sucky company who use to make great commercials, but now makes terrible commercials.

Watch these guys scare the crap out of the pizza delivery guy.

Like this poor guy, I hate headsets too!