Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: August 2006

  • QotD: Can’t Get You Out of My Head

    What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment?  What album is it from?Submitted by Lox Ly.  These are the lyrics: And I say this to you tonight, let us not forget. There is Hope! The Crystal Method's Keep Hope Alive Vegas The Crystal Method Read and post comments | Send to…

  • QotD: Best. Villain. Ever.

    Who's your favorite movie villain? Until Lucas screwed up my continuity, I'd have said Darth Vader hands down was my favorite villain. Since, my world has been in a cloud of uncertainty. Certainly, adding idiot kid and annoying teen to the lightsaber slashing machine made me lose my respect. Verg from Blue Submarine No. 6?…

  • Obvious Club

    What are you, president of the Obvious Club? Father, aka Uncle Benedict, during Operation: Z.E.R.O.

  • USDOEd’s Turn

    Yikes! These are not the kinds of people who need to have their information disclosed. Students are just building their credit. For them to go through someone trashing them so early could be really detrimental. 🙁 Federal student loan program exposes data on 21,000 users: The U.S. Department of Education has disabled its Direct Loan…

  • Vox Hunt: ♥

    Take a picture of something heart-shaped. Shirt Heart Read and post comments | Send to a friend

  • QotD: I’m reading (or about to read)…

    What books are on your nightstand? The ones I am reading now: The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Hidden Words Baha’u’llah Lord Foul’s Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) Stephen R. Donaldson Ambient Findability Peter Morville Seven Viking Romances (Penguin…

  • Guns For Hire – Part 1

    Guns For Hire – Part 1 Originally uploaded by cszar. I found this photo at Flickr really hilarious! Photographer’s description: “After the Muppet Show was canceled the main characters had to find other jobs. Dr. Bunsen, Kermit and Ms. Piggy opened their own security firm.” In case you can’t find the link to my Flickr…

  • Look for a Patent Wiki in 2007

    Patent review goes Wiki – August 21, 2006: That’s the basic concept behind a pilot program sponsored by IBM and other companies [including HP and Microsoft], which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appears poised to green-light. The project would apply an advisory version of the wiki approach to the patent-approval process. The issue is…

  • Evidence of Dark Matter

    NASA – NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter: Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives direct evidence for the existence of dark matter. … These observations provide the strongest evidence yet…