Sweet harmonics on the guitar
Dick Cheney shoots the Easter Bunny!
If only I got this excited today… I remember Christmases where I was exactly like this little boy
Wow. These kids are some amazing ability to create their own special effects
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
I spent the greater part of the morning working on upgrading my Wordpress 2.02 TinyMCE from the default old version to the new TinyMCE 2.0.5 which is scheduled to be released with Wordpress 2.1. I’ve created a zip file that you can unzip over your wordpress installation that will upgrade your TinyMCE to 2.0.5.
I have only done preliminary testing and so far it seems OK but I’d highly suggest making a backup of your entire Wordpress folder just to be sure if you need to roll back.
I have tested this with the Gallery2 WPG2 plugin. There were some extra hacks I had to make in the tiny MCE code to make it backward compatible.
Download the patch here.
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Intel to release new chip architecture every 2 years
China to launch first lunar probe next April
China plans to take the first step in its ambitious lunar exploration program next April, launching a satellite that will orbit the moon, a space official said on Thursday. The craft will be followed a few years later by a remote-controlled lunar rover that will perform experiments and send data back to earth, and, in another few years, a module that will drill out a chunk of the moon and return with it.
Men, are you taking the pill?
A contraceptive pill for men could be a step closer according to a study in male fertility.
Where do big ideas come from?
Why can we be creative one moment, and dull as a fencepost the next? Scientists have sought the answers to questions like those for centuries, because human creativity is as mysterious as it is important. “If you are going to solve a problem with insight (creativity), there’s a characteristic pattern of brain activity even before the problem is presented,” says Kounios, a professor of psychology at Drexel. “When it’s going to be solved by a more methodical, analytical approach, there’s a separate characteristic of brain activity that is different.
WOW. Feds Drop Bomb on EFF Lawsuit
The federal government intends to invoke the rarely used “State Secrets Privilege”. The State Secrets Privilege is a vestige from English common law that lets the executive branch step into a civil lawsuit and have it dismissed if the case might reveal information that puts national security at risk. In other words — The executive branch of the US government is accused of illegally spying on its own citizens. To investigate this, somebody sues the private organisation that is alleged to be helping them. This is supposed to work because the judicial branch and executive branch of the government are separated, so the judicial branch shouldn’t be covering for the executive branch. Yet somehow the executive branch can interfere with the judicial branch and simply dismiss cases it doesn’t like? I thought the US government was set up in separate branches to prevent things like this?
Need to outsource? This company has got you covered. Cheap labor right here!
New key to war on obesity: the endocannabinoid system. Of course!!
Hospitals trying to slim kids down
Winners of the Firefox Flicks Campaign! Get ‘em while their hot!
Grand Prize
“Daredevil” by Pete Macomber
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19326Second Place
“Wheee!” by Jeff Gill
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19542Third Place
“Fox Fever” by Andrew N. Green
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=21146Honorable Mention
“This is Hot” by Danny Robashkin
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=20674Honorable Mention
“Give Me the Soap” by Chris Wedding
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19836
Thanks to BetaNews:
“Mozilla has decided to strip out a major new feature of Firefox 2.0 in order to ensure that the browser meets a Q3 2006 release target, a post in the browser’s developer forum indicated earlier this week. “Places,” a complete rewrite of the browser’s bookmarking system, will no longer be included in the release.
While Places had made it into the first public alpha release of Firefox 2.0, codenamed “Bon Echo,” it had been previously pulled before then. In announcing the decision, Mozilla’s director of engineering Mike Schroepfer said the company wanted to ensure a quality release.”Rather than rush it to market - we’d prefer to spend the time it takes to get it right,” he wrote. Schroepfer said that it was a difficult decision, but it would ensure that when released, Places would work as Mozilla intended it to.”
Another week flown by! TGIF WOHOHO! Next weekend one of my best friends Jon Friedstat graduates from medical school. I gotta say, CONGRATULATIONS dude! I know it’s been one hell of a ride! I still can’t believe I have been out of college for 4 years now. DAMN time flies (hence another week having flown by).
OK — Onto the news!!
Use your thought pattern as your password
Their idea of utilizing brain-wave signatures as “pass-thoughts” is based on the premise that brain waves are unique to each individual. Even when thinking of the same thing, the brain’s measurable electrical impulses vary slightly from person to person.
Are you lazy? Then we have just the gadget for you!
Some of these look VERY strange and I don’t think I even want to ask. For example: I wouldn’t be caught dead with these products:
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What do you do when you make $8.4 BILLION in quarterly profits?
You raise gas prices of course!! I saw on CNN yesterday that this is the 5th largest quartery profit recorded in the entire history. DAMN!
Scientists use an insects eye to design ultra thin cameras
This would allow the eye to be used in tiny, omni-directional surveillance devices, ultra thin cameras or for high-speed motion sensors. America’s military research group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), is interested in the eye and funded some of the research. Professor Lee also thinks it may have medical applications such as imaging the gut.
I am very skeptical of this: VoiceCode. You code by talking to the PC. Yea right!
Intel admits, we are teh big suck compared to AMD but promises battle is not over yet.
Apple to release a media center? We know it’s been rumored for ages.
I thought this was humours: The CEA CEO take a stand with this ad:
Latest report on which cities have DIRTIEST and CLEANEST air. Where do you fall?
Wohoho. Chicago is listed as the 11th most polluted air. Thank god I can breathe easy now.. oh wait.
Not sure if anyone has been following the Net Neutrality issue, but when the heck did it become a bipartisan issue?
Oh you wanted to access this content from YOUR ISP? Oh well your ISP didn’t pay extra to access that content so we’re just going to slow your access down or show you different content. WHAT CRAP! Keep the net neutral!!!! Democrats got shot down by Republicans on the issue. What bull crap! “Markey said the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency Act of 2006 (COPE) as currently written would “fundamentally and detrimentally alter the Internet.” MORE HERE and HERE
Oh you wanted 720p or 1080p. That is SOO 2005. Check out what you get in 2006!
Resolution of the new system is 7,680×4,320 lines, delivering 32 million pixels, 16 times the current 1920×1080 standard that has two million pixels. While Nagamitsu Endo, NHK Enterprises America producer, co-productions, says the system isn’t expected to be ready for consumer deployment until 2025 it already has caught the eye of the industry’s leading HD proponents.
In some good news, NY has started construction on Freedom Tower
New study reveals more information on how we age. Are we close to living forever?
Apparently this hacker from London hacked his way into the government and found the existence of credible testimony that technology has been recovered from UFOs.. Interesting…
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