] Your brand new U-Lock is not safe. Please read this RIGHT
] NOW.

This forum (and the .mov http://thirdrate.com/misc/krypto.mov) shows you that you can pick one of the new Bike U-locks w/ a bic pen.

Yet another video: http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/lock.wmv

Your brand new U-Lock is not safe. Please read this RIGHT NOW.

] (ver: 0.5.5 Size: 14k) - Makes mailto: links load your
] webmail's compose page and adds a Compose link to the
] context menu. Currently supports
] GMail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Netscape/OperaMail/Mail.com/Horde/Squ
] irrel and 1 user customizable entry. (Firefox/Mozilla
] Suite/Netscape 7.x)

Sweetness. This mozilla/firefox extention alloys you to click on mailto: and to send the mail via gmail

jedbrown.net | Mozilla

Okay I've been a fan of this show since the very first episode. Love it love it love it. The writing is top notch and the premiss is that Grim Reapers are real. They exist on this earth to reap the souls of those who have died... But they still have to have day jobs.

It's been nominated for two emmys unfortunately neither are for writing or lead actress (ellen muth is cool: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616091/)

Showtime - Dead Like Me - About the Show, Characters, Episode Guide, and Downloads

This site has 13 great extended radio programs about the history and culture of the blues. Great resource if you're just getting into the blues.

YEAR OF THE BLUES 2003

] Spokesman Marco Alfter said: "The new wrapping is
] certainly fruitier than the old. But we have not had any
] other complaints. In fact until now the feedback has all
] been positive."

Fruitier indeed.

Ananova - Fruity sweet wrappers spark complaint

] And yet the Bush ideology is tinged with religious
] belief, I said. Not everything comes with a price tag
] attached.
]
] Gore's mouth tightened. A Southern Baptist, he, too,
] had declared himself born again, but he clearly had
] disdain for Bush's public kind of faith. It's a particular
] kind of religiosity, he said. It's the American version of
] the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi
] Arabia, in Kashmir, in religions around the world: Hindu,
] Jewish, Christian, Muslim. They all have certain features in
] common. In a world of disconcerting change, when large
] and complex forces threaten familiar and comfortable
] guideposts, the natural impulse is to grab hold of the
] tree trunk that seems to have the deepest roots and hold
] on for dear life and never question the possibility that
] it's not going to be the source of your salvation.
] And the deepest roots are in philosophical and religious
] traditions that go way back. You don't hear very
] much from them about the Sermon on the Mount, you
] don't hear very much about the teachings of Jesus on
] giving to the poor, or the beatitudes. It's the
] vengeance, the brimstone.

I haven't bothered to read this whole article. Its making the rounds because of this quote. This is something I've been thinking about for the past 2 days, and here it is.

The Fundies and the Islamists want the same basic things from a policy standpoint. The reason that the fundies seem less extreme is that in the U.S. they are marginalized. Most of their platform is illegal (which is why they want Constitutional Amendments) and so the things they can realistically get are more limited. If they were in power they'd want more. They also produce their share of terrorists.

The irony here is that Bush defending me from Islamic fundamentalism is of little value if he also props up the Christian fundamentalists. I'll end up having to live with the same laws either way. The Christians would likely stop short of requiring women to wear veils in spite of the fact that unveiled women are in direct violation of biblical edict. However, the institutionalization of religion, coupled with violent responses to "immoral" behavior, particularly sexuality, are in the cards no matter what group of religious nuts ends up running this country in the future.

Gore compares Islamists and Fundies

This is a sotheby's auction... sorta sad when the family of an artists pawns stuff off... but I suppose it's no different than an "estate auction".

On the flip side there's some really cool shit in here.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHNNY CASH AND JUNE CARTER CASH

Okay so I have to admit this cheesy-poppy SoCal punk band has gotten me going... I think it's cause the singer is really hot.

Features:
- catchy guitar rifts
- fuck all sing alongs
- speed drums
- pro-mp3 (you can get about 13 of their songs online for free)
- did I mention the singer's hot? (really check it out: http://www.tsunamibomb.com/gallery/bar_m5l.jpg)
On scale of 1...10, I give tsunami bomb a 8.3.

Tsunami Bomb

This is how you turn a set of fedora core isos into a bootable DVD.

--timball

Fedora Core DVD

Okay conspiracy whackos here's a flash movie about 9-11 and the plane that hit the pentagon. Most compelling to me is the fact that there was no wreckage of a plane in any of the pictures.

pentagon121.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)