I don't have much interest in seeing Basic Instinct 2, but I'm blown away by how good Sharon Stone looks. I wonder if she's had work done.

Watch this

Crazy, cool, crazy, whoa.

Thank you Screenhead

Debra Maggart

Debra Maggart says that gay couples may want to adopt children to sexually molest them. She says they shouldn't be allowed to adopt for this reason.

Seriously? Seriously, she said this. It's one thing to say Homosexuals can't get married, but to say that they can't be loving parents of an adopted child is just fucked up beyond belief. There are more foster parents out there that abuse their foster children than there are gay couples looking to molest a child. It's insane that republicans are against children being adopted. Not only are the adoption requirements so off the charts in the U.S.A that many heterosexual couples find it easier to go overseas to get a child, but now they want to eliminate homosexual couples for whom adoption is the most practical way for them to start a family. Now they'll need to go overseas and adopt, and if they are smart maybe they'll stay overseas to raise their family since it's obvious that this country isn't getting any smarter.

Someone needs to wake this bitch up to the realities of the world.

Visit her website and let her know she's a disgrace.

I know everyone and their mother has gotten an email with this guy's sidewalk art in them, but this one is just too damn cool not to post here.

Consumer version delayed until early 2007

Microsoft is extremely lucky that there isn't another serious competitor in the OS market, because I think 6 years between consumer OS updates is too long. They just got around to updating Internet Explorer to a beta version of 7, which finally includes some features that third party browsers have been sporting for years.

Since most people equate computers to Windows I don't think there will ever be a serious competitor to Microsoft in the OS field, and unfortunately that means that they can take their time to improve their product. Without competition they have no incentive to work faster.

What has happened to the dominance of the United States in the sporting world? Our team didn't even make it to the semi-finals of the sport that we created, leaving Japan and Cuba left to duke it out in the World Baseball Championship. Our Olympic basketball team comprised of the best the NBA had to offer took home the bronze in the last Olympic games. In the most popular sport in the world the United States is barely a blip on the radar. When I was growing up the U.S.A was the best at just about everything, and now it seems like we're getting passed by in so many ways. In the grand scheme of things sports isn't such a big deal, but it's education, economy, and lifestyles. Even South Africa is allowing gay marriage. We're sending jobs overseas in record numbers, and we're importing more and more products that could be manufactured here. I don't think the rest of the world really looks to us as an example anymore, and that's incredibly sad.

I guess we're still the best snowboarders in the world. Go us!

Caution, not safe for work if you are prone to fits of laughter.

Purple haired freak photo chop

So, I've been using Macs for a little over a month now, and I have to say that unless Windows really steps up their game, I'm not going back to the PC as my primary computer. The Mac is just better. My experience in learning OS X, and transitioning from Windows has been extremely pleasant. I'm not a Microsoft hater, far from it, it's a Windows world, and as a result I have Microsoft Office installed on both Macs. Office is better than iWork (Apple's offering). I've even encountered a few websites that don't like the Mac OS, and that's frustrating, but it's a price I'm willing to pay for the ease of use I'm getting from the Macs. I've still got an older Windows laptop that I'm keeping around for things that absolutely need Windows.

My MacBook and my Mac Mini are networked, and it was the easiest set up I've ever done. I selected "Share" on both computers and within 20 seconds all of my wife's iTunes stuff appeared on my laptop iTunes. A lot of the stuff you can do with a Mac you can do with third party apps on PC's, but it's nice to have it built in. The iLife utilities really are all they've been made out to be. Web design, music creation, movies, DVD's, and photos are all handled with an intuitive interface that generates some damn impressive results.

My main complaint about the Mac would have to be the "DotMac" service. DotMac is a suite of online utilities that you can use to synch up information, store files online, and host web content. You also get a @mac.com email address with it. The service costs $99 a year, and it's really weak. When Google is giving away almost 3 gigs of storage for nothing, I should be getting at least that much for my $99. With DotMac I have a gig of storage to split between my email, my web content, and my online file storage. For free I could host photos on Flickr, post on Blogger, and store files on Gmail using Gmail Space. It just seems like a waste of money, and if it weren't for the seamless integration into the OS and the iLife utilities I wouldn't keep it.

Windows Vista is going to pretty much be OS X on a PC, and I feel like I'm already there. I can't wait to see what Mac comes up with for their next major OS release.

Bush hasn't learned much from this whole Iraq affair. He still thinks pre-emptive strikes are the way to go, and he listed a bunch of countries that may be on a hit list, including Iran, North Korea, and Russia. I'm in total shock that this cowboy act Bush has is still going on. He's wasted more money, more human life, and more resources than any president in the past 30 years, and he's now saying that he has no problem with upping the ante with any other country that feels squirrely.

Bush and pre-emptive strikes

Star Force Copy Protection
Stardock...Makers of Galactic Civilization II

An employee of Starforce posted a link to an illegal Warez download of Stardock's game "Galactic Civilization II". The employee posted the link because in his mind, Stardock was just begging to have their stuff pirated. If they didn't want their stuff pirated they would have put some form of copy protection on the disk (probably Starforce).

Sounds a little like the mafia with the whole "protection money" racket. Either you allow us to copy protect your software, or we'll make sure that we get it out to as many people as we can, since you obviously don't care about it being pirated.

Tycho over at Penny Arcade has a much more intelligent and well versed post about said subject that I will now direct you to. I pretty much agree with the entire post.

The author of the short story that was adapted into the motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" has written a letter, basically saying that "Crash" shouldn't have won best picture at the Academy Awards.

Scathing letter

Here's an excerpt:

Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash _ excuse me _ Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline," Proulx writes.

God forbid the people who make their movies want the Academy members to actually watch the films before they make a judgement on who to vote for. I'm sure the Academy received copies of all the films nominated for best picture, and if they didn't, then the producers of those movies weren't doing their jobs.

Google is going to court because it doesn't want to release search queries to the government. The government wants to take a sampling of Google's queries and run them back through the search engine to see the results. So, essentially, Google gives them 1000 random queries, someone in the government runs the queries back through Google, and checks the results? Does this seem like a tremendous waste of time to anyone else? If you want to know what shows up in searches, can't the government come up with it's own queries? And just because someone searches for something, that doesn't mean that it's necessarily going to implicate the searcher as a criminal. I've searched for all kinds of crazy shit on Google, just to see what comes up. I've read about how to make a dirty bomb, I've read about terror cells, and other assorted stuff. What would the government do with that information? I can't see a single benefit to having these search queries from any search engine, not just Google. It's a way to make it seem like the government is doing something when they really aren't.

If you really want to know what people are searching for, check this link out. It's a search voyeur, and it's going to blow your mind when you see what people are searching for on the net.

Now, lest you think Google is a bunch of great guys by not giving their queries to the government (MSN, Yahoo, and others have granted the request, but did not provide any personal information about who performed the searches), I think this defiance is more of a attention thing, making them out to be freedom fighters or something. I love Google, and their tools are great, but they did cave in when the Chinese government asked them to filter their results to make them more communist friendly. Sounds a lot like what good old Rupert Murdoch did when the Communist regime didn't like some of the materials being broadcast over Murdoch's satellite television service. Rupert blocked access to any content the Chinese government found objectionable. China is the largest untapped market in the world, who cares if the people are no more than pawns.

That being said, Google has also just release an interactive map of Mars. Check it out HERE.

Interactive Earth and Mars down, 7 more planets to go. I for one give Google about 6 years to get the rest of them.

24 Killed off Tony last night. I was utterly shocked. So far David Palmer, Michelle Dessler, Edgar Styles, and now Tony have all been killed this season. WTF writers? Seriously, you're starting to piss me off.

I really like the show, it's been one of my favorites since it first aired, but it's getting really draining to watch it. The action stuff is great, even when the plots are thin, but the killing of all these characters we've come to enjoy as viewers is just fucking crazy. Tony and Michelle reunited last season, why couldn't they walk off into the sunset? Why'd they need to be brought back only to be killed? Shock value, plain and simple. It's a way to tell the audience that nobody is safe...but now there are no characters left to care about besides Jack, maybe Chloe.
Rumor has it that the next season will take place in London, I hope so because I don't think I can take another season in L.A.

Since I posted about the FX show Black.White the other day, I thought this article from Snopes was pretty timely. One twin is black and the other is white. Cool.

Ayla, I'll miss your freakishly tall frame, your tomboyish charm, and your lovely voice. Each time I'm forced to endure another week of Kelly Pickle and her country bumpkin ways, I'll shed a tiny little tear for you.

The Smoking Gun has a disturbing report about a guy who came onto his neighbor's property and tried to 'fuck' his sheep.

I love that the report calls the sheep the victim.

I always find it interesting how people try to cover up what really happened with these crazy ass stories that just sound so incredibly forced and fake.

There's Fermat, Einstein, Nash, and now...me.

I scored a 95% on my math midterm bizznitches!@!

You better recognize my mad math skills.

I just got back from EB Games across the street from work. I inquired, like I always do about the status the X-Box 360. The guy tells me that for $50 he can put me down for a pre-order for a shipment arriving in the middle of April. I must have looked at the guy like he was out of his damn mind, because he immediately said that I'd have better luck getting one on Ebay right now.

I did a quick inventory check online, and the damn things are still hard to come by. I found several $800 + bundle packs, and some core systems...but the Premium, in other words real system, is still M.I.A.

I never ever though I'd hear the words Pre-order when speaking of a system that came out nearly 5 months ago. I'm sure if I put my mind to it, or didn't mind ordering from someone off of Ebay I could get one relatively easily, but I should be able to walk into a game store and buy a system by now. The fact that I can't doesn't give me a lot of faith in Microsoft. Okay, the system was a big hit, and a lot of people wanted them, maybe you were caught off guard, but you're the richest company in the world! Can't you just make another factory? How about buying an island and making it into X-Box 360-topia with non-stop production until demand is met? It feels like they aren't taking this shortage seriously, and they are riding the wave of "If it's hard to find it must be incredible." That's fine for a few months, but 5-6 months later? You're just being dicks about it.

I wanted one for The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, but I think I'll just play Morrowind again. I never got around to the Tribunal or Bloodmoon expansions, and who knows how many hours of gameplay those two expansions will yield. That should do me just fine with my limited playing time.

Dana Reeves

I had a ton of respect for that woman. She stayed with her husband despite his horrible accident, she became a crusader for two causes, and she always had a smile on her face. You might say that a wife is supposed to stay with her husband no matter what, and you'd be right, however that's not always the case in the real world. It can't be easy having to change your entire life around like that. I can't imagine what she had to go through over the past 12 years, only to have it end like this. So now their kids are orphans. Where is the fairness in that? It's stuff like this that makes me question those who say that God has some kind of masterplan for all of us. No he doesn't. If there is a God he's strictly hands off. Maybe we're the reality television of the universe, I don't know. I just know that the line that God has a plan for us is wearing really, really thin.

Rest in Peace Dana.

O'Reilly has moved on from Al Franken, and is now at war with Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Apparently he threatened to have, "Fox Security" go to a callers'house after the caller talked about Olbermann. Olbermann, of course, replied to this story on his show. You can see the video and hear the "Fox Security" threat as it appeared on O'Reilly's website, albeit briefly.

O'Reilly Vs. Olbermann

It's really strange how lefties always seem to use humor as their offense, and righties seem to use strong arm verbal tactics. It's really a strange pattern of behavior that is emerging in political talk circles.

FX has a new show starting on Wednesday, March 8th, called Black.White. It's about two families that swap races. It looks really interesting, and the make up is surprisingly convincing. You can watch the first five minutes of the show on Yahoo.

Black.White Sneak Preview

It should be like Morgan Spurlock's 30 Day's, which I don't think is coming back, but which I enjoyed a lot.

Funniest SNL bit in ages.

Natalie Portman Gangsta Rap

I love it.

I finally got my Macbook, ordered back in January, and I'm very happy with it. Nice wide screen, huge trackpad, and backlit keyboard. It cost a ton and I'm not yet sure if it was worth it over a cheaper, Windows laptop. I'm still getting used to the Mac OS, but most of the operations are similar to how they work in Windows. The one button mouse pretty much bites, however I can't do anything to change it, so I'll learn to live with it. I got Microsoft Office for Mac, so that's all well and good, no learning curve with that stuff.

For some reason I can't get World of Warcraft to install on the machine, I get an error on disk 4. I was really excited to play WoW, and now it looks like I'm out of luck.

It's a school machine, and having any games on it would really be just an excuse not to do schoolwork.

I've been thinking about heaven recently. I'd love to really, truly believe that something happens to us after we die, but my brain can't wrap itself around the concept of a 'heaven'. What would heaven be? If hardcore religious people go there, what would they do? They would no longer have to worship and live righteously, so what would heaven be for them? Would they do all the things they didn't do on earth? Would they be upset if secular folk ended up in heaven with them? Would they freak out once they discovered that Darwin was correct about evolution? Would they freak out even more once they met a gay soul?

If my current wife were to pass away, and I remarried...which wife would I spend eternity with in heaven?

Would there be rules? Would it be crowded? Would devotees of all religions end up there?

What would motivate us in heaven? We go through life motivated by one thing or another, without motivation why we would do anything? If heaven is the goal, what is next?

It's all so confusing, and seems so unlikely.