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Make Money Using Others Sites

Add comment August 20th, 2008

I just stumbled on this site that lets you make money simply by using their website. YouSayToo.com

Sign up, write your blog posts and reap the benefits of their adds. The more popular your content the more money you make. Might be a nice side blogging opportnity for some. at least it is worth a look-see, right?

New Microsoft Products Suck

Add comment August 19th, 2008

I was just reviewing my website stats and it looks like 70% of the people are still using Windows XP instead of Windows Vista. Could it be Vista sucks? Vista is pretty much the updated crap of Windows ME. Remeber ME? Yeah well, don’t feel bad not too many people do except those poor folk who made that horrible upgrade. Just like ME people are downgrading back to the older Windows version. XP, while not perfect is better than Vista hands down.

 My stats also show that people are not rushing out to download IE7 either. With MSIE8 coming out soon there is no reason to move to version 7 now. I for one will move on to Firefox and drop Internet Explorer altogether.

Bigfoot Found - Real or Hoax

Add comment August 17th, 2008

Well, I have been out of the loop a bit on my cryptozoology circles. I did not even hear that a Bigfoot body was found until my sister told me about it yesterday. I tend to stay away from watching news and reading papers. Most of what I hear is from online news sources and I don’t really check them on the weekends. Apparently two bigfoot hunters found a body in Georgia (USA state not the war torn country). After seeing the photo of the body I have to say this is a hoax and not a very good one. I guess with the demise of newspapers like the Weekly World News there isn’t an outlet for this type of faked news anymore other than online.

The two guys that found the body run the website SearchingForBigfoot.com. Most likely they only wanted to drum up traffic to the site to hopefully convert it into sales of their merchandise. I do believe that some day someone will find a body or a skeleton of one of these creatures, but this is not it.

If it were real why not release more detailed photos? The press release says it is over 7’ tall, weighs over 500 lbs, male, feet are flat and human like, others where seen the same day and a press conference on DNA evidence was held. Okay, so why not treat this like a real autopsy and photograph every inch of the body and show us the photos of the face, hands, feet, etc? The Bigfoot DNA evidence has not been posted to their site but news sources say it is inconclusive (mix of human and possum DNA was found). Until I am proven wrong I am going to have to say this is a fake. What do you think?

Star Wars Clone Wars Outdoors

Add comment August 17th, 2008

Went to see the animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars at a drive in theater last night. The film was okay, better than I expected. The concession stand was selling generic LED light swords (light sabers). They were kid of cool. No wonder they sold quite a few. Watching the kids playing with them was fun. They quickly figured out that you could stick two together and have a double blade lightsaber like Darth Maul’s. The swords switched colors at the push of a button. at one point just as it was getting dark about 8 or 9 kids were up front under the screen having an all out lightsaber battle. It looked pretty cool. I was wishing I had my camera with me.

We were ill prepared for the temperature drop after the sun went down. Boy did it get cold. The drive in was having a double feature the second show was Batman: The Dark Knight, which we had to watch from inside the card because of the cold.

Teleporter Not Working

Add comment August 17th, 2008

If the film The Fly wasn’t proof enough here is another good example why a teleporter will never work. (Besides that whole scanning-you-in-one-place-rebuilding-you-in-another-then-vaporizing-the-original-you thing.)

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LOL Cats

Add comment August 16th, 2008

Whether you love the or hate them there is no avoiding the LOL Cats and there fuzzy friends over at ICanHasCheezburger.com. while the photos often speak for themselves so do the cats (and in a very strange LOL language to boot). Here are some recent fun ones….

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You can head over there now and see some more kittehs

Monty Python Star Trek

Add comment August 16th, 2008

Knights of the round table like you have never seen them before. (Okay, so like me you probably have seen this already, but it is worth another look.) Just like Camelot this video is a silly place and apparently so is space

Little Star Wars Fan at TRU

Add comment August 16th, 2008

I stopped by Toys R Us on Friday to see if there was anything new or some toy I just couldn’t live without. As I walked in they ahve their big display for Star Wars right up front.  As I walked up I heard this young boy ask his mom how much Star Wars did one store need. He continued to look around and walked over to the LEGO AT-TE and said, “Hey here’s the AT&T walker”. I had to hold in a giggle. As he walked away he told his mom, “these are not the legos I am looking for” in  a very Obi-wan Kenobi sort of way. Even though I know he did not mean it in a Star Wars quote kind of way it was still rather funny. I did not get anything on this TRU trip but at least I was entertained.

Steampunk Walking Stick

Add comment August 15th, 2008

I ran across this pretty cool steampunk walking stick on Hammacher Schlemmer today. It is pretty cool looking even when closed. When this brass and wood staff is opened it is a working telescope. Sweet.

Here’s the description from their site: Recalling the canes favored among Victorian gentleman to compliment proper attire, the walking stick has a 1″ thick staff made from solid, one-piece African rosewood (a durable wood often used in the construction of archery bows) that is stained and varnished.

This would compliment any steampunk fans wardrobe. I think it is kind of cool when you can stumble on a steampunk goodie at a regular store. Jules Verne would be proud.

Chinese Olympic Conspiracies

Add comment August 14th, 2008

So my first real look at the Olympics happened to be the young girls of the Chinese gymnastic team winning the gold. My thoughts while watching them were how young they looked. I like the rest of the world had to Google how old you were supposed to be to compete and then how old the girls were. (A NY Times article said they were most likely 14 and not the “official” 16 stated on their passports according to websites which have since been shut down). That was only the first of the controversies I came across tied to the Beijing Games.

I am feeling a little bit like Mulder of the X-Files, what with all the conspiracies I am uncovering about the Olympics.

I read last night about how the little girl who sang during the opening ceremonies had pulled a Milli Vanilli and lip-synched the song while another little girl did the actual singing. All because the girl with the voice did not look good enough. (Perhaps they should have continued their search until they had a girl with both looks and talent.) Little Yang Peiyi did the vocals while the cuter girl, Lin Miaoke, appeared to the public.

Now I just read about how a dancer that was injured during the rehearsals for the opening ceremonies. She did not get help for over 50 minutes due to the tight security. She had to lay there in agony waiting for help to arrive. At first they announced she had broken her leg, but it turns out that was a lie (kind of like what they did to us when Princess Diana died – one minute she broke her arm, next minute she had died).

Oh and let us not forget the faked fireworks during the opening ceremonies as well. We television viewers got computer graphics while the folks in Beijing got to see the real thing.

 So what’s next?