Wow. WOFL

And to add to yesterdays crap, House approves $70 billion for wars

Ok, good job here. Congress approves auto fuel economy increase
But then.... House and Senate Slash Science Budget Increases
Seriously guys. Really? Gah.

This diagram is full of win.

If you've finished Portal, you will love this. Otherwise, it will probably be funny but make no sense.

The best condoms evar: http://www.abstinencethecondom.com/

WANT.

Bwah ha ha! Hello Kitty bicycle tire

So this is the latest little project I have done: Temperature Monitoring in my house

Built it all from the component level using this guide.

Sweet song. Re Your Brains

In case you've ever been curious and want a quick overview: String Theory in Two Minutes

Because I blog it, does it mean I am a lexiphanes?

From Rowling herself: Dumbledore is gay
Sweet!

Totally sweet internet meme. Im in ur ___, ___ing ur ___z.

Totally sweet. Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

This is a really interesting video: A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
It's talking about a link between quantum effects and consciousness.
Here's the guy's website: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/
Pretty interesting stuff if you are interested in the roots of consciousness or the complexity of human cognition.

So I was just sitting there watching the Colbert Report and enjoying my La Maitresse du Moine Dark Strong Ale from the Midnight Sun Brewing Company, when this came on: The Craziest F#?king Thing Stephen Colbert Has Ever Heard
I was laughing so hard I had trouble breathing. I could have been the Ale... But seriously, it was funny.

MAKE is always pretty cool, but this caught me. Foxhole Radio
In this digital age, all our devices are complicated PCBs and ICs. It's nice to see a VERY simple circuit that performs a useful task. It sparks something visceral when something simple like this can create a bridge between the evanescent world of invisible radio waves and our senses in the tangible world.

Cute Overload: Make a dog sweater from a sock

This is totally me and John shopping. http://xkcd.com/309/

For those of you who I have not told directly, here is a happy announcement. I recently asked my girlfriend of nearly three years, Sarah "Rah" Rolland, to marry me and she said yes. We have not set a date, but probably next summer in Anchorage, AK. WWWOOOOWOOWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

NYC Maker makes 1775 submarine - gets cited by US Coast Guard
and
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

It's rare that a webcomic makes me laugh every time I look at it. This one does. (This is an edit of a previous post that pointed to a totally UN-hilarious comic. Sorreh.)

Bwah ha ha! The Onion is hilarious. The Internet Crash of 2007!

toys

toys
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Here are some of our toys! Yay!

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I went camping this last weekend. WEeeeeEEE!!!111oneoneone

My new license plate
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My new license plate. I finally got 'em! That's a zero BTW.

A very interesting article, intelligently written. Why Terrorism Doesn't Work.

This is a hilarious and useful re-purposing of the chick tract form factor. Now used for good instead of spreading narrow-minded thinking!

Ron Paul

I've watched hours of video and Ron Paul is the first presidential candidate that I think I could get behind and actually campaign for. Normally I am rather ambivalent about politics, but he strikes so many chords with me it's hard to ignore. He speaks intelligently, he has PhD, he is consistent and he is convincing. Even in the few cases I disagree with him, he presents his case well and I have to think hard to form an argument against his position. That engenders a large amount of respect for him on my part.

Here is the first of a series of videos of him speaking:
Interview 1 of 6

He is a big advocate of small government and free markets. I agree with him on that.
Also, to speak on his stance on personal freedom, here's an interview with NORML.

He has my vote so far.

Some important information about the "Forever" stamp.

Ron Paul seems an interesting fellow.

This is awesome. A great and simple idea. http://recaptcha.net/

MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key

I am in teh paper! 'Cause I'm famouses or somefings. It's small. Near the bottom. Last article paragraph. You could miss it. Look closer.

DNA replication for $10

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is everywhere today.

One of these days....

god@universe:~$ kill -9 -1

PRAM is coming.

"Normal people learn in order to survive. Geeks survive in order to have time to learn."

I believe I am a scientist.

Internet Safety Tips!

Celebrate Pi Day! Also Albert Einstein's b-day. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

I expected no less.

Dean Kamen is still inventing. This robotic arm looks promising. Soon I will have my prehensile tail. :)

And so it begins. A.I. busted for practicing law without a license

Ah, the memories of college. Gamer TV

Bwah ha ha!

Pirate Toaster!

ZOMG it's like teh most ultimatest l33t gamar chair evar!!!!!1111oneoneone

We're all safe now!

"If you arrange the 7 Deadly Sins around a heptagon label them A-G, and connect each Sin to the others, you get 21 secondary sins. For instance Sloth + Pride = Slackers."
Brilliance. Link. Via Boing Boing.

Get a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn
and
like the biggest heatsink evar.

I have a bit of a stuffy cold thingy. Bleh. Locally brewed stout beer will help.

As of Monday, Rah is here in Anchorage with me! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Puppy is here too, although he doesn't seem to be enjoying to backyard too much yet.
I hope he will as he gets used to it. I'm sure he will when the snow melts.
Rah approves of my choice in housing, if not the -15f weather recently.
Generally work is going well. The last couple days have been a little rough because of many diverse issues, but nothing too bad. Generally pretty stress-free.

BTW, totally nerdly, I set up a web page to control my stereo at home.
http://thatmonkey.is-a-geek.com/mpdplayer/
So I can use my mobile phone to control it. :)
WEEE!

VG Cats just makes me smile.