Writings on web design and higher education from Missoula, MT

• Renter Left 70,000 Beer Cans in Townhome.
  A renter in Ogden, Utah left a surprise for his landlord: 70,000 beer cans!

• Apple TV Ads
  Great as always. I am a PC for life guy myself, but I always wish apple would do what I want it to.
  (tags: apple humor video)

• Windows vs. Mac Propaganda Posters
  These people really spent some time on this.
  (tags: design humor apple microsoft)
• Unconventional SWAT Signals
  A funny little bit abotu SWAT signals. Reminds me of the altered GI Joe PSA’s you can get.
  (tags: humor SWAT signals)
• GreaseMonkey User Scripts
  Mostly for my future reference. I have been meaning to try GreaseMonkey for some time.
  (tags: greasemonkey firefox google hacks)

• Scientists make water run uphill
  Of course, they kinda cheat by adding in outside power, but there appear to be practical applications to this.
• Baseball and the Physicists
  It takes 1/2,000th of a second for a major leaguers bat to deliver nearly 10,000 pounds of force. The ball compresses almost an inch, storing energy. Some of that energy accelerates the ball. The rest heats the ball to about 1 degree warmer. So yes, a bat
• Colbert does the White House correspondents’ dinner
  Colbert was surrounded by the liberal media who are destroying this country, except for Fox News. Fox believes in presenting both sides-the president’s side and the vice president’s side.
  (tags: humor politics video)

• Da Vinci Code judgment decoded
  This goes with my last post. Kind of a shame it happened so quickly.
• BAD PHYSICS: Misconceptions spread by K-6 Grade School Textbooks
  An interesting read, even though I have never heard of some of the misconceptions.

• Judge puts code in Da Vinci ruling
  The British judge who presided over the Da Vinci Code trial has put a code of his own into his judgment and said he would “probably” confirm it to the person who breaks it.

• Advice for Computer Science College Students
  Truly interesting article for any undergrad CS major.
• Two women, 250lbs & 120 lbs
  Interesting photo. I can’t figure out what kind of imagry this is… probably NMR (otherwise known as MRI)

• Naked carpenter: I wanted to stay clean
  Not the first time this has happened.
• Super-Glue: Best practice for countering key stroke loggers
  A bank was robbed of $440 million and says super-glue is best defense to future attacks.

• Pinball Number Count Movie
  Flashback from the 70’s.

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Think - LAN over the Internet.

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I’ll add two of my own:

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I use it for file sharing, iTunes listening, and gaming. It even lets rendevous work on Trillian. Hamachi just rocks, Go get it.

• America’s Secret Plan to Invade Canada
  Somehow this doesn’t surprise me.

• Stupid user tricks: Eleven IT horror stories
  A long-suffering consultant and InfoWorld contributor recounts his tales of user catastrophe and lessons learned — and shares astounding stories from readers, too
  (tags: humor)
• A New Presidential Ride - Popular Science
  The aging Marine One helicopter fleet is finally due to retire. Meet its successor
• Geek Squad pirating software
  Winternals Obtains Federal Court Restraining Order in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Best Buy’s Geek Squad

• Nature paper shows that cell division is reversible
  Wow, this is really interesting. I am going to have to go to the libary and read this paper.
  (tags: science biology news)
• Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes Of All Time
  Spaghett trees, that would be interesting.i
  (tags: humor funny pranks)

• Who’s On First? Takeoff
  (tags: humor)

• Puzzle of leaping liquid solved (Video Included)
  Make sure to watch the video first.
  (tags: science video)