You know, Trading Places was on yesterday and it is nice to know that I kind of had it right on how the Dukes were screwed over by Winthorpe and Valentine.
That said, in the club, I swear the two busts are of Bill Murray and possibly John Belushi. That said, I can’t verify this anywhere.
Here’s a writeup on a book I’m going to try to hunt down at the library soon.
Apparently someone has been investigating the loci of stupidity amongst some of our creationists/global warming deniers/morons in our midst.
We’ve probably seen most of this on The Daily Show or something, but what the hell? I plan on reading it in print form.
Apparently I just found out how much Firefox is worth to me.
Ten thousand Australian dollars.
Microsoft has put out some bizarre kind of search contest where you can “find” AU$10,000 on the internet. Go here if interested.
It won’t let you use Firefox (and presumably not Opera or Chrome, etc.) to perform the search.
Granted, I don’t have the spare time to play the game. Nor do I use IE for much more than some work sites I need to use it for.
However, I really don’t see where Microsoft thinks it’s viable strategy is to insult a rival’s better product while trying to bribe tech savvy customers to come back to it’s flawed product.
Not to mention that Microsoft search has always sucked (though the new stuff apparently is *pretty*).
I’m a sucker for the Ghost Adventures show. If you haven’t seen it, it’s three guys who basically hunt for ghosts using gear like this.
Yeah, it could all be a big hoax, but it sure is fun to watch.
It won’t help you today, but for nothing more than historical reference, a guide to the digital changeover.
If nothing else, it is a passing of an age for a lot of us. I was about ten or eleven when we got some form of cable and was pretty adapt in the manipulation of rabbit ears and whatever else you needed to get a signal. Living in Galva and being cable-less was always a trick, especially since our nearest signals were over 40 miles away – in opposite directions. You could get two NBCs and ABCs – or none at all.
Just a couple weeks ago we lost the cable for the better part of a day and whipped out the rabbit ears. Now, we won’t have the option unless we go buy one of the new boxes I guess.
And so this passes, along with rotary phones, playing in the streets until dark without fear of pedophile rapists, and high beams you click on with your feet.
I guess I’m getting old or something.
Caple has a pretty good interview with Randy Johnson, covering his long career and his (hopefully soon) 300th win.
I’ve always liked Johnson as a player and was glad to see him get a World Series ring in what I argue is one of the best World Series ever played, particularly for the time in which it was played.
That said, it’s really hard to forget the bird incident:
This just amuses me.
A glimpse inside one of the shows I can actually stand to watch these days. Nice to se they’ve been given a nice contract. Check in on Sheldon and Leonard here.
MORE Science!
The History Channel took a break from airing Talibangelical and Nazi videos to put together actual knowledge people need. Keep coming back to watch How the Earth Was Made.