An Inconvenient Truth: Follow-up

I was browsing the net doing some follow-up research on the movie, “An Incovenient Truth,” and I happened upon a very informative site on climate science,  Real Climate, Climate science from climate scientists.   Dr. Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at…

An Inconvenient Truth: The Movie

I rarely go out to the movies, but I am in San Francisco this week and my hotel is right next to a movie theatre that shows art house & independent films.  And since we flew in on Sunday, I…

Wisps: April Fools

From worldofwarcraft.com April Fool’s! – Nebu on 4/03/06 In a cunning attempt to take April Foolery to a new maximum, the Blizzard Joke Squadâ„¢ decided to shake things up this year by posting our jokes slightly ahead of schedule! Well,…

Open Source Alternatives

Why buy expensive software when there are open source alternatives?  Hey, it is a rhetorical question. Check out the list: Neowin’s Freeware Alternative List

All Roads lead to Coffeyville

From the story, “All Google’s Roads Lead to Kansas” by Rogers Cadenhead @ Wired News. If you want to find Kristine Crispel’s horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas, the directions are easy: Step 1: Go to Google Maps. Step 2: Zoom…

Influenza

Thanks to Oracle for this little gem of sickness I am currently experiencing.  As much as I would like to hold him personally responsible, it looks like it is pretty widespread in Texas.  Oh, and Missouri, get you act together and start…

Swimmingly

Can you swim faster through water or syrup?  While it sounds a bit silly, it is actually fundamental to physics.  It was a question that Issac Newton & Christiaan Huygens debated in the 17th century.  When Newton wrote his Principia Mathmatica he included both…

Dude, He’s the Mayor!

Michael Sessions is too young to drink champagne legally, but the 18-year-old high school senior has reason to celebrate: He unofficially won a race for mayor Tuesday by defeating the baby boomer incumbent. Sessions, who turned 18 on Sept. 22,…

Air guitars

We all know that Nogginfogger Skeleton’s rock out to the air guitar, but many of us may not know the definition or origin of such a fine instrument.  The following information is brought to you by Uncyclopedia. Air guitars are…

Need a New Browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.  It has a new user interface, tabbed browsing, RSS feed support and more.  I know, I sound like a schill for Microsoft, but clearly I am only a plant.