Check out the Global Incident Map, showing all the most recent terrorist events worldwide. It's fascinating.

How cool! A surfer dude has come up with the Theory of Everything. If it pans out, it will mean that all known particles and cosmic laws are the products of facets of one super particle, called "E8".

Check out this Chuck Norris political endorsement. I love it, it is hilarious.

The Washington Post gives some good advice for those who are computer shopping:

Can you name any one program that you must use? If you can't, that's your cue to get a Mac.

I highly recommend the blog Beaming Beeman, the blog of Greg Beeman who is a director/producer for the show "Heroes". The blog entries are always filled with interesting detail about the way in which the episode was filmed, and fascinating insight about what it takes to put a show like this together. And he always has very cool pictures. I do not know the role of the mysterious beverage "Slusho", but it appears to play some kind of dark role...

Heather patiently uploaded a few months of new pictures up at the picture gallery, including pictures of her in her Cowgirl halloween costume, so check them out. Evie is super cute!

Check out the newly discovered photos of President Lincoln at Gettysburg in USA Today.

Amazing photos of Anak Krakatau, the "Son of Krakatoa" erupting.

OK, so I've basically totally abandoned the blog.  Sorry. 

But the season ender for the Sopranos just compels me to say something. 

(spoilers for the season ender following...)
Continue reading "Oh Sweet Jesus"

Read this, then read the referenced material, and decide for yourself.

The Saudis bailed out his peanut farm in 1976. The infamous BCCI and Saudi billionaire Gaith Pharaon actually helped with the startup funding of the Carter Center. Carter himself is quoted fulsomely thanking Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the long time ruler of the UAE, for donating half a million dollars. From what is known Carter has received tens of millions of dollars from Arab and Islamic sources. And that, argues Dershowitz, is behind the former President's tireless campaigning against Israel. He says so in the most brutal and accusatory terms: "Carter ... has been bought and paid for by anti-Israel Arab and Islamic money."

Yummy yummy good TV. In addition to Smallville, Studio 60, and My Name is Earl, we have probably my two favorite shows were on tonight:

Heroes: Very good episode. Heather was saying, typically plot-building episodes kinda suck, but this one was really good. Ali Larter's acting was great, not the cheap shot one liner at the end but the interview with her attorney. The scene with Hiro and Nathan was hilarious.

24: Amazing how quickly those torture wounds Fayed inflicted on Jack seem to heal, eh? And there's one heck of a twist. All in all, Jack is the MacGyver of torture.

Two and a Half Men: Mmmmm, pie.

It is too bad that it is very difficult to see Comet McNaught, since it is absolutely amazing. The comet made a close approach to the sun and is now emerging from the other side. Space Weather has great information on it.

• Poor moron needs to check the images he posts on Craig's List
  
• For a very special day, you have to have Cat Butt Gum
  
• A google widget: people doing random stuff
  
• Top 10 Astronomy Images of the Year (via Slashdot)
  
• It seems that video games fill a psychological need.
  
• A few interesting tools: DivShare to share any file with anyone (how do they make money on that, exactly?), AnonTXT to send anonymous SMS messages, and Instructables to share how-to instructions yourself.
  
• Open a beer with legos for the very very bored.
  
• Love Heroes? Check out the Heroes Wiki.
  
• Knit complicated mathematics.
  
• Check out the uber creepy guy
  
• United Air ripped off an elderly couple for $3000, and offered $600 in vouchers in return. That sounds about right for United, which in my experience is staffed by semi-retarded orangutans.
  
• The Royal Mail delivered a letter with just a map, no address.
  
• Wacky celebrity patents.
  
• The perfect gift for those with a macabre sense of humor: the L.A. county coroner welcome mat.
  

There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of MacWorld.

• The ModBook is an awesome tablet-style computer, covered by EnGadget here and here.
  
• AOL seems to have a digital media player but they could have at least gotten one that had the keys on right.
  
• The 10 best UI modification applications for the Mac.