Opinions straight up, turtles all the way down
The Times-Tribune - AP News: "PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Thirty Cambodians suffered food poisoning after eating homemade noodles contaminated with chewing tobacco that had dropped into the batter from the cook's mouth, police said Monday."
Futurama, that is
The quirky animated show from 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening was canceled by Fox about two years ago, but will return with at least 13 new episodes on Comedy Central by 2008.
This is only the second time in television history that a show sent to TV's trash heap has been resurrected. Curiously, the first was 'Family Guy,' also an animated Fox show.
PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. It's a pretty good article for us old-timers who can remember all of the items on the list.
Mommy Turtle wrote:
Daddy [Turtle] has been using a program that enables him to access his computer from any other computer. It is weird to pass the computer room and see the cursor moving all over the screen, windows popping up, spreadsheets being accessed and altered. It made me think of the term 'computer widow'and I was standing there watching the ghost.
This is so cool! It's a weird negative print of a castle, and when you move the mouse over it, it shows the same scene as a black and white picture. Stare at a dot in the middle of the negative print for 15-20 seconds (they recommend 30), then move the mouse over it. It will show the black and white picture, but it will look like it's in full color! The illusion vanishes when you move your eyes. Just try it and see for yourself. It's really cool!
The quote by Tom Delay that I posted earlier might actually be a summary of a longer speech, not a quote.
UPDATE: This might be the summary of a speech, not an actual quote.
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
By Lester Dent, The Creator of Doc Savage:
This is a formula, a master plot, for any 6000 word pulp story. It has worked on adventure, detective, western and war-air. It tells exactly where to put everything. It shows definitely just what must happen in each successive thousand words.
No yarn of mine written to the formula has yet failed to sell.
The business of building stories seems not much different from the business of building anything else.
Here's how it starts:One of these DIFFERENT things would be nice, two better, three swell. It may help if they are fully in mind before tackling the rest.
- A DIFFERENT MURDER METHOD FOR VILLAIN TO USE
- A DIFFERENT THING FOR VILLAIN TO BE SEEKING
- A DIFFERENT LOCALE
- A MENACE WHICH IS TO HANG LIKE A CLOUD OVER HERO
Couple's Supposedly Destroyed Hard Drive Purchased In Chicago:
A year ago, Henry and Roma Gerbus took their computer to Best Buy in Springfield Township to have its hard drive replaced.
Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
'They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless,' said Gerbus.
A few months ago, Gerbus got a phone call from a man in Chicago.
"He said, 'My name is Ed. I just bought your hard drive for $25 at a flea market in Chicago,'"
Something to think about: "If every household in the United States replaced just one package of virgin fiber napkins (250 count) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 1 million trees." Click the link for information about toilet paper, paper towels, etc., and which brands are made from recycled paper.
One Bag: Travel Resources:
The biggest mistakes that tourists make? Packing too heavily, relying on outdated guidebooks, not wearing a money belt, leaving home with too many hotel reservations, and taking other people's opinions too seriously.OneBag.com can help enormously with the first mistake. Travelling is many times more fun with only a light backpack to lug around.
Rick Steves, in International Travel News, March 1998
Howstuffworks "If you took all of the gold in the world and put it in one place, how much would there be?":
... if you could somehow gather every scrap of gold that man has ever mined into one place, you could only build about one-third of the Washington Monument.
...all of the platinum in the world would fit in a cube that is 6.3 meters (about 20 feet) on a side.
