Archive for August, 2007

Simulation

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Apparently according to Nick Bostrom of Oxford University there is a 20% chance we are living in a computer simulation*, rather than in the real world. This has renewed my hopes that someday I will find the powerup that gives unlimited health and a chaingun. Follow Up: Here is Bostrom’s website on the topic. * [...]

New Squirrel Secret Weapon

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Squirrels have a secret weapon, their hot tails. There, now anyone googling Hot Squirrel Tails can find this site.

We Have Lost Another Hero

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, rest in peace. I am always humbled by the stories of bravery in the face of tyranny like these. As our rights constrict around us in the United States it does us all well to consider what others have done.

Another DRM Sucess Story!

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Google Video is demonstrating once more why DRM is such a wonderful idea. Did you ‘buy’ a video from Google recently? If so I hope you weren’t too attached to ‘your’ video. Sucker.

Exciting Omaha

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Omaha is exciting! Ok, to be fair we didn’t see anything like this at all, the parts we saw were very nice. We did find a top ten attractions in Omaha list that only had six items in it though…

Hanging Out In Omaha

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Spider Monkey Originally uploaded by Tancread We are still on our roadtrip to the three most exciting tourist spots in America, Milwaukee, Omaha and Toledo, and we are not always connected to the internet. Here is a photo of a Spider Monkey to make up for the light posting. A couple of other Zoo photos [...]