An interesting way of watching to focus of history change.

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

The unusual move - the figures show China sold no crude oil at all to its neighbor in September - reduced cumulative sales for the year by about 7 percent over the same period in 2005. China's oil exports to Pyongyang had been averaging about 50,000 metric tons a month this year.

In September, China exported 125,185 tons of crude for a reported value of $62 million. All of that was exported to the United States, with North Korea receiving nothing.

China cut off exports of oil to North Korea - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune

Files Forever is a new service from DreamHost Web Hosting!

* It's an online store for content providers to offer their own DRM-free files.
* DreamHost charges only a tiny one-time storage fee plus 5% 50c transaction payment fees. (Which we even attempt to minimize by combining orders.)
* Any file you get from Files Forever you own forever, and may re-download as much as you want and even loan to your friends!
* You can keep uploaded files private and use it as a permanent online archive, or a great way to send large files to your friends!

Currently, Files Forever is in beta testing and only open to DreamHost customers.

Interesting. Present rules: files must be at least one megabyte. Pricing is $6/Gb, one-time.

Naturally, forever means "lifetime of DreamHost under present ownership", which may or may not mean a particularly long time. But it is a fixed rate cost versus an alternative like Amazon's S3.

DreamHost: Files Forever

Emily Davis, 17, of Bowling Green was charged in county juvenile court with one count of littering for putting her bra on the antenna of a car traveling north on I-75 in Middleton Township on Sept. 26 with three other teenage girls inside.

The bra, which reportedly had been frayed because it was chewed by Miss Davis' dog earlier in the day, flew off the antenna. The Ohio Highway Patrol said a trailing car with two Toledo men inside swerved into the grassy median to avoid the object, flipping over several times.

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Sometimes, when we shine a light on a particular piece of malware, we find some interesting things that would otherwise go unnoticed. One such piece of malware is the trojan sometimes called "Troj/SpamThru", among other names.

Pretty interesting writeup of a modern trojan. A little disturbing in the sophistication of the software. I was especially impressed by the software downloading and patching a pirated copy of commercial anti-viral software, to remove competition on the host.

SecureWorks - The Information Security Experts

Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The fried Coke is topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the fried Coke came about just from thinking aloud.

Judges for the contest chose Shirley London's Fried Praline Perfection as the tastiest fried delicacy.

The two won out among 26 entries such as fried macaroni and cheese and a deep-fried cosmopolitan.

Either the judges are huge... or cardiologists.

Gonzales achieved notoriety in 2005 with the fried peanut butter, banana, and jelly sandwich -- selling an estimated 25,000 of the treats, according to the fair's Web site.

Next year's entry: Fried high fructose corn syrup... no, that was this year.

WFTV.com - Food News - Newest Fair Food: Deep-Fried Coca-Cola

Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.

Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants - CNN.com

Why isn't MemeStreams stickier? What will it take to get every registered user to visit the site daily and generate 20 page views? There ought to be a plan!

* Communication Function: MySpace replaces email; Memestream messaging does not.
* Demographics: Memestreams users, on average, seem to have lives and professions.
* Content: I read the RSS feed... through livejournal... with the exception of the links I follow through, most of my reading is likely untrackable. If I couldn't, I would read Memestreams less.
* Content navigation: Banging on the folksonomy drum again -- I read the front page. I read my recommendation page. But outside the cover articles, I have little inclination to "dive deeper". Except when entries link to other entries, or when I remember an article that I wish to recall, I don't go through the bulk of the site. If there were tags or other automatically generated clustering content links, I probably would.

RE: Panic on 43rd Street | Vanity Fair

In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian horror and steampunk adventure, President Abraham Lincoln's top spy is a bodyless head known only as Screw-On Head.

Excellent pilot.

SCIFI.COM | The Amazing Screw-On Head

I spent some time fantasizing about writing an article, possibly for The Escapist called "The Non-Booth Babes of E3". Interview people like Kathy Schoback and Elonka Dunin and Terri Perkins who have real and important roles in the industry, photograph them at their companies' booths, make the point that it is possible to be female and more than a smile and a pair of tits and have a role in the game industry. How many women are deterred from working in the industry because of its objectification of women, both in its products and at its trade shows?

Games * Design * Art * Culture