Oh well. It’s now free for Windows-based PC games, whereas before only people with the premium gold membership could utilize functions like playing online games with each other. Now, however, according to a Gamespot article (almost cited it as Gamestop), and confirmed by an InformationWeek article that the PC-version of Xbox-Live is now [...]
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Going officially online at the end of 2008, a new Medical wikipedia (edited by qualified persons, though, presumably) is set to provided a massive clearinghouse of information regarding oddles of medical topics. The site can be previewed starting today at Medpedia.com according to a FoxBusiness.com article.
Incidentally, Google (who is rumored to be in talks [...]
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Posted in advice, diy, forwards, freebies, heads up, life hacks, news, pwn, solutions, speed runs, travel, utter tragedy, video, youtube on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There are few things that simply explain the one thing Christians can all agree upon, and at the same time try to address how difficult the rest of the world makes it by refusing it even just consider the actual message instead of getting wrapped up in the side issues. YouTube to the rescue [...]
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According to a CBS News article online, there’s now a town called Nowthen. It was previously Burnsville Township, MN, but its post office had mistakenly been labeled as Nowthen, after a misreading of a list of possible names by a community leader in the 1890s. Here is the Google Map location of the town. [...]
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Posted in heads up, news, wtf on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I was just driving home from work and heard a radio interview with George Carlin on NPR, and I was thinking it was live.
Apparently not! When I hear interviews on NPR now, I’ll have to doubt whether they are actually live or just re-caps or something. I did the identical thing [...]
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A Michigan girl, 16, was struck by lightning after reaching to close a leaky window letting in rainwater, suffered some rehab-necessary muscle damage but is otherwise OK. The medics she and her mother sought suggested she play the lottery — so her mother bought a ticket and she nabbed a nice $20 win. [...]
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It always flabbergasts me the things some people will do out of protest. Half the time, they are acts that would — instead of making a statement of, hey, this is a valid protest, actually communicate that, hey, my argument has zero credibility because I’m such a dooftard.
The incident this time is the tale [...]
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Posted in heads up, news, youtube on June 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This should make for an interesting change to my Oblivion videos — now I can add text to the video post after I’ve already uploaded it, instead of adding it during the video editing process. However, I still may make versions with text already in the video, such as for cases when I haven’t [...]
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Posted in heads up, news on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The clock tower used in the Back To The Future movies has been damaged destroyed in a fire at Universal Studios, according to a CNN article.
A pressurized tank of some kind exploded and injured a handful of firefighters trying to put it out. A number of other sets were also destroyed, including sets [...]
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Posted in news, travel, words on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I just heard on the radio on the way home from the store that Diesel prices in the UK are now over $10 per gallon — over half of which is taxes! Trucking companies are naturally going nuts, calling for the government to provide some kind of relief since the majority of the cost [...]
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I’d never heard of the idea, but I admit it sounds pretty darn spiffy. There’s a company in Brownsville, Texas, that takes old sea-going ships and takes them apart for the metal scrap. This picture shows a battleship being gradually torn apart, courtesy International Shipbreaking Ltd in Brownsville. Apparently there’s another shipbreaking [...]
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Looking back over my backlog of newspapers I should have been reading, there’s an interesting blurb about a Civil War battle diorama that was dismantled after only a short while, which took years for a bunch of school students to set up. Since the article didn’t contain a picture, I figured I’d try the web [...]
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I actually only remember the end-credits of The Electric Company because Sesame Street came on after it. But from what I hear, it was a staple of 1980s kids programming for America’s Public Broadcast System (a viewer-funded system with no commercials, for those outside the US). The actual show only ran up until 1977 [...]
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I was loading up a 238-count slough of Toothpaste For Dinner LJ picture queues, and I noticed a bunch of the Russian journals were posting the same picture over and over (the one below). I wondered, “What, is this some holiday or something?” According to their embassy, it is. It’s “Victory Day” celebrated [...]
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Albert Hofmann, a research chemist I wouldn’t have probably known about had his obit not appeared on Digg recently, died at the age of 102. He is credited with the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide (popularly known by its initials) and reportedly experienced the bizarre effects based on having spilled a bit of it [...]
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Some punk munchkin (a punchkin?) stole the keys to his grandmother’s SUV and drove it around town on a joyride with a fellow 7-year-old “who smokes with cigarettes” hitting cars and plowing over mailboxes. The team at WPBF in West Palm Beach, Florida who are hosting the video online interviewed the little buzzard and [...]
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I may be one of the few word philosphers or perhaps a lay-scientist of word theory, considering the overt nerdiness that this entry reveals.
As an official reference on the subject, I’m making an entry about my creation of the word neologism, to squiptipadoogleboinkaflop. In this form, it is a verb describing the action [...]
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