Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Who Needs Tivo?

This great site has tons of on demand TV shows, including a lot of British shows that haven’t come here yet (like Torchwood, the Dr. Who spin off).

The History of Hemp

Even if you don’t smoke weed (I don’t), this is a very interesting and important film which explores the use of hemp through the ages and why it became illegal. I used to be against legalization but I’ve changed my mind over the years.  This plant has far too many uses to be illegal. But it’s illegal because it’s so useful. Many corporations saw it as competition for products they had patented. It’s time we stopped letting huge corporations dictate things to the rest of us, through their political influence. 

More Loose Change

We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted in a massive chain reaction that not just damaged, but completely obliterated that massive technological wonder.

Like many Americans, I was fed this story when I was growing up. But as I watched the video, I began to realize that all was not as it seemed. And the more I questioned the official story, the deeper into the rabbit hole I went.

Presented here are some of the results of my soul-searching regarding this painful event. Like many citizens, I have many questions that I would like answered: was the mighty Imperial government really too incompetent to prevent a handful of untrained nerf-herders from destroying one of their most prized assets? Or are they hiding something from us? Who was really behind the attack? Why did they want the Death Star destroyed? No matter what the answers, we have a problem.

Below is a summary of my book, Uncomfortable Questions: An Analysis of the Death Star Attack, which presents compelling evidence that we all may be the victims of a fraud of immense proportions.

The TRUTH revealed!! They forgot to mention that no Jews were killed on the Death Star. Obviously, there was a Zionist conspiracy involved. 

Russian Mob Graves

These Russian Mafia dudes have some stylin’ headstones.

[Via Boing Boing]

Long Overdue

The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets - victims of sectarian death squads.

The number of bodies found so far this month in Baghdad - most of them shot and showing signs of torture - has dropped by nearly 50 percent to 494 as of Monday night, compared with 954 in January and 1,222 in December, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.

Iraqi Officials Say Crackdown Working

They should have done this kind of stuff years ago. It’s not impossible to control this anarchy despite what some people think It takes will and a concerted effort. Now, it seems, they are doing that. But they only started doing it when teh Dems threatened to pull the plug on Iraq. I guess the Dems were useful after all. 

Why Vista Sucks

I have to admit I got Vista for my laptop, so one of my computers has a current OS on it. I needed that for work reasons. And what it did when it installed is take ALL the previously installed software on that computer and moved it to an OLD directory, so I had to reinstall everything. It also had problems seeing my wireless card, so until I fixed that I was using a USB wireless card. It took me a whole day of messing around to get it close to where I needed it even though the install was relatively smooth.

I have read myriad articles from various people on how their install went a lot worse than mine. But check this out. Holy crap.

It looks nice, but I don’t find it to be all that much of a revolution so far.