25 Comments
Check out parts two and three at FreeKeene.com.
This apparently keeps getting pulled down from YouTube because Mormons don’t want outsiders to see their bizarre beliefs, including how the ‘negro race’ were cursed to be born with black skin. So, watch it while you can.
Listen to show by clicking ►
Direct link to show.
Show notes here.
Donate to show here OR here.
- AT&T Verizon may both cover the Apple tablet.
- 2900 articles on Google China dust-up.
- Amazon may be adding apps to the Kindle. We know there is a browser inside already.
- Nokia turn-by-turn will kill Garmin.
- MSFT has odd patch.
- The problem with weak passwords.
- Apple and Nokia dominate worldwide mobile market.
- Motorola going to Baidu.
- Firefox 3.6 is out.
- Mars rover frozen and stuck.
Show sponsored by e-Harmony. Get a date.
Go to www.eharmony.com
and use the code EHTECH for a great discount.
Go to www.eharmony.com
and use the code EHTECH for a great discount.
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
The jokes on this just write themselves. And so will the lawsuits…
International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month.
If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain’s London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets.
“The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed,” Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
The bed-warmer is equipped with a thermometer to measure the bed’s required temperature of 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit).
Holiday Inn said the warmer would be fully dressed and leave the bed before the guest occupied it. They could not confirm if the warmer would shower first, but said hair would be covered.
She would be flying into Detroit on Northwest Airlines, the same city and carrier involved in the attempted bombing on Christmas, just 10 days before. She was tense. What happened to her lasted only 20 seconds, but she says they were the longest 20 seconds of her life. After pulling her laptop out of her carry-on bag, sliding the items through the scanning machines, and walking through a detector, she went to collect her things. A TSA worker was staring at her. He motioned her toward him. Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on – the sort of baggie that a pair of earrings might come in. Inside the bag was fine, white powder.
She remembers his words: “Where did you get it?”
Two thoughts came to her in a jumble: A terrorist was using her to sneak bomb-detonating materials on the plane. Or a drug dealer had made her an unwitting mule, planting coke or some other trouble in her bag while she wasn’t looking. She’d left her carry-on by her feet as she handed her license and boarding pass to a security agent at the beginning of the line.
Answer truthfully, the TSA worker informed her, and everything will be OK. Solomon, 5-foot-3 and traveling alone, looked up at the man in the black shirt and fought back tears. Put yourself in her place and count out 20 seconds. Her heart pounded. She started to sweat. She panicked at having to explain something she couldn’t. Now picture her expression as the TSA employee started to smile.
Just kidding, he said. He waved the baggie. It was his.
RTFA. This could be considered cause for a justifiable ass kicking.
GALESBURG — An Illinois National Guard soldier in Afghanistan has been charged by the U.S. Army with possessing child pornography over pictures of a young relative his mother says she sent him.
Terri Miller of Galesburg says she sent her son, Specialist Billy Miller, pictures of the little girl to help him get over his homesickness.
The pictures show the child in a swimsuit playing a wading pool and sitting on a truck. In one, the girl is wearing a swim suit and part of her buttocks are exposed.The Army says Miller will stay in Afghanistan until his court martial. His unit came home last August. Miller faces jail time, if convicted.
Terri Miller says the pictures are innocent.
WQAD TV reports that the child is a relative Billy treated as his own child when the girl was diagnosed with cancer as her father was going through boot camp. The family notes that the same pictures are on family computers and on Facebook pages, and no one else has been investigated.
“You have no clue how it eats me up”, said a crying Terri Miller. “I blame myself every day, every day, if I wouldn’t have sent the pictures he would be home.”
Cripes. More of this story here.
CNet News
Amazon announced Thursday the release of a software development kit for its Kindle e-book reader, which will allow developers to build and eventually sell their own applications for the device.
There are only a few hints as to what we’ll actually be seeing: Electronic Arts is building some games, smaller game publisher Sonic Boom is creating word games and puzzles, and restaurant review company Zagat is releasing city guides. None of these developer-created apps will be available until later in the year, and the software developer kit is currently in limited beta.
CNet News
Microsoft is warning customers of a hole in the kernel of 32-bit versions of Windows that could allow someone to install programs, change data, or create new accounts with full user rights.
The vulnerability, caused by the Windows kernel not properly handling certain exceptions, affects 32-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and Server 2003 and 2008, according to the security advisory released on Wednesday night. It does not affect 64-bit versions of Windows.
“We are not currently aware of any active attacks against this vulnerability, and Microsoft believes the risk to customers, at this time, is limited,” Jerry Bryant, senior security program manager at Microsoft, said in a statement.
I’m glad I’ve got 64-bit Vista. Wait…
A U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Philadelphia International Airport Thursday after a praying Jewish man’s religious item was mistaken for a bomb, police said.
There were initial reports that a man may have been wired with “a device” and FBI and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials and a police bomb squad all attended.
However, when authorities boarded Flight 3079 from LaGuardia Airport to Louisville, they established there was no bomb on board.
Government sources also said the passenger had been “praying loudly” and that the flight was diverted out of an “abundance of caution.”
Officials said a passenger had become alarmed by seeing a man with phylacteries — boxes containing verses from the Bible — which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers…
The passengers were due to fly to Louisville on a different plane. It was unclear whether the man wearing the phylacteries would be among them.
So, if you’re afraid of flying and must take a trip by air – don’t pray once you’re on board. At least not in Hebrew or Yiddish.
But wait… Aren’t we too big to fail?
Several countries around the world are facing [national bankruptcy], the US among them, and one or several such defaults would make the corporate bankruptcies of 2008 look like fallen grass blades before falling redwoods.
In the case of the US, national debt held by corporations, foreign governments, individual investors, and institutions such as pension funds grew just last year from 41% of GDP to 53%. That led the Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States to issue a warning last week that the US must rein in its deficit.
[…]
I think everybody agrees that the US needs to cut its deficit, but it takes only a glance at the federal budget to see that doing so is politically out of the question. Consider that the five biggest gobblers of the US budget are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Defense, and interest on the debt.
[…]
Quietly, my circle of investors and geopolitical thinkers are wondering if a national bankruptcy is just what America needs to finally get corporate bloodsuckers off the taxpayer aorta. Given the political impossibility of reducing costs, will Democrats actually try raising taxes to retain US solvency? Imagine how that would go over as the bankers who caused the latest mess announce their record bonuses courtesy of taxpayer funds. The explosions to come may be the only way through the lobbyist choke-hold on Washington. Pick your poison: bankruptcy or bellicosity.
Above is Jack Nicholson’s famous scene from Five Easy Pieces. Below is from an inane argument with an IHOP manager who wouldn’t allow a Jewish vegetarian to substitute an extra egg for a pork sausage.
Manager: “Chickens are eggs.”
Friend and I: “What?”
Manager: “If you eat eggs, you’re eating chicken.”
Me: “Um. No.”
Friend: “Do you know how eggs are made?”
Manager: “Well, they come from chickens.”
Friend: “Yes, but they’re not actually chicken.”
Manager: “But they come from chickens, so you’re still using an animal.”
Me: “We know. We said we’re vegetarians, not vegans. We eat eggs and dairy.”
Manager: “You’re still using an animal though.”
How many of you have run into something similar where the ‘rules’ forbid substitutions, even if you’re willing to pay extra in a ‘customer is not always right’ establishment?
Now with subliminal bacon!!! (Note: the video is actually an ad for a restaurant chain called ‘The Pump Energy Food’)
 It looks like this in the middle of winter.
|
No snow at Olympics site. — Bad timing, I’d say. I blame the whole thing on the bad karma from NBC.
Winter Games officials have given up on Mother Nature and are planning to truck in snow for the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at Cypress Mountain on Vancouver’s North Shore.
The Vancouver Olympic organizing committee (known as VANOC) says the forecast suggests there won’t be any new snow falling before the Games kick off Feb. 12, and they won’t be able to make enough in time for the skiing and snowboarding competitions.
 (Click image to enlarge.) |
This is from the Heritage Foundation, so expect some bias. The index as a whole seems to be sound, though.
Support the Blog — Buy This Book!
For Kindle and with free ePub version. Only $9.49 Great reading.
Here is what Gary Shapiro CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said: Dvorak's writing sings with insight and clarity. Whether or not you agree with John's views, he will get you thinking and is never boring. These essays are worth the read!
Put this ad on your blog!
Syndicate
Subscribe to Main Blog feed here:
Subscribe to Comments too (below):
Junk Email Filter
