check it out:
http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp
it's worth a moment of your time. And just maybe next month YOU can be the Pimp of the Month...
Came across a site the other day called The Feed Room - which offers video clips from several news sources.
They offer several different RSS feeds.
There are definitely a lot of clips listed that I had never seen before. Admittedly, I do not watch local news so it's odd that I would watch local news stories from around the country. I'm sure the next step will be customized (perhaps RSS-style) clips per person with some local news thrown in.
I promise, I won't shed a tear...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=1790631
One more check mark in the column of why I decided to leave my last school before getting a PhD. There is an article posted currently on slashdot about a program called NETI at Georgia Tech (direct link to wired article).
These sort of tests are not new, the godfather of network testing Vin Cerf for example wrote papers on similar experiments years ago - the exciting idea is to get a large population of users to contribute to the testing.
What angers me is that I had this idea (I'm sure others also have) and the protoype back in 2001. In fact, it's tangentially what I went to graduate school to study. However, my department was horribly unenthused with the idea, even though they are considered a top networking group. Oh well, a lesson for the future.
This story of tradition at Princeton, courtesty of Amy's Robot Link Factory.
The fact that there are 60 minutes in an hour and in 2 and a half cases of beer can't be a coincidence....
This time the Geek Test.
My score was: 25.64103% - Total Geek
Thought it would be higher, but while there was a couple of sections I almost swept, I was shut out on a couple. Oh well.
In an attempt to be quasi-breaking news, let me express my deep sympathy for the loss of and respect for Pat Tillman, who lost his life in combat today. I remember well the news of his decision to stop playing in the NFL in order to attempt his life long dream of joining the Army Rangers - a kind of reverse Amazing Grace and Chuck. The thing I remember most about his decision is that while people in the press were somewhat flabbergasted by his choice, there was no dissenting voice. While there was more discussion at the time over whether he would be able to play again after his 3 year stint then the possibility of him losing his life, I am sure the latter weighed most heavily on his mind, yet he voluntarily chose to serve his country anyway.
This strikes close to home for me since I recently made some comments to a loved one about the (very unlikely) possibility of a draft and how if selected I would be honored to serve my country. With 5 men in my immediate family having served or currently serving in the military, I feel especially indebted to the sacrifice this man and his family have made. While there is currently much debate and disagreement over the conflicts of the moment, let us never forget the men and women who have chosen to fight for both their country and ALL the people who compose it.
Since we love posting online tests, here is one about morality courtesy of kuroshin. I don't know what it means and I didn't think too deeply when answering it, but my results were:
Moralising Quotient is: 0.37.
Interference Factor is: 0.40.
Universalising Factor is: 0.00.
Learned from p2pnet.net the other day that McDonald's plans to bring Wi-Fi access to some Raleigh area restaurants. If any one knows which ones, feel free to post here. I'm a little discouraged by their pricing plan, $2.95 for two hours, since I originally heard every value-meal purchase would be worth some Wi-Fi time. Yeah, it's cheaper than others, but then again there are a few coffee houses in the area that offer this for free. When Panera Bread finally offers this locally, you'll know where I'll be.
4.5 (5.0 for both Volumes) on Movie Lens Scale.
Just got back from the sequel to the Murder of William. Terrific. Just terrific. The 'cheesy', retro gore of the first is not as prominent, but the dialogue and action are still amazing. Main reason that I don't rate it a 5 is that it "requires" the first for completeness, though it is enjoyable on its own. The time just flew by in the theater.
The trailer for Hero also showed some promise for Crouching Tiger fans.
Let me get this straight - RDU Airport is at least 50 years old depending on how you want to define their opening, and it has only dawned on Durham City and County now that they may be entitled to some of the sales and property taxes for something they partly own and generate income for? Good job, City of Medicine!
This afternoon KissaBoo applied to join Google's Ad Sense program. Knowing our current hit rate, the goal was not as much to raise funds but out of curiosity of what ad's Google would associate with KissaBoo. Well, a few minute's ago (much faster than the suggested 2 days) Google declined the application citing the generic reason of "Inappropriate Language".
While Google is free to do whatever it wants, I for one find this reason insane.
Under further details: "We don't allow
websites with excessive profanity or potentially offensive content to
participate in Google AdSense."
In 150 articles plus comments, I can only find two instances of profanity, so the problem must be "potentially offensive content".
So what content does Google find "potentially offensive"? From their policy page:
Site may not include:
1.5 on the MovieLens scale
Time for me to give a fast review for a movie I saw a few weeks ago to prevent the public from seeing it under false pretenses. The plot of this movie screams classic Teen Sex Comedy, yet it manages to be neither funny nor sexy. Admittedly I've only seen the first hour of the movie, but its general tone doesn't promise a major switch after that point. Fox did so many free screenings of this movie that it raises a flag. Heck, my parents went to a free screening of it after being sent tickets.
I just never cared for the protagonist of this film. I've seen the actor, Emile Hirsch, before playing a scientist's son in the throw away Sci-Fi film Gargantua, where he might have shown more honest emotion over a baby monster than for Elisha Cuthbert. The humor in this film, as dictated, is provided by his uncomfortableness when confronted with the sexuality of Elisha Cuthbert's character. Somehow his sweaty teenage angst when she disrobes to her underwear for a swim or his attempt to bed her after discovering her past just made me feel uncomfortable for him rather than laugh at the scenarios. While there are moments of humor (pretty much all shown/hinted at in the trailer), this movie has the feel of a drama about him "saving" her from her past, which is ridiculous. If the acting was more over the top it would have some camp value, but it even misses on that account.
Elisha Cuthbert is, of course, attractive through out, but once again the trailer or the clips on ifilm.com show her best work.
If you plan to see this film, just remember that you won't be rolling in the aisles, but occasionally ogling Elisha for an hour and a half.
Another Weird Ohio story (one of these days this website should make better use of categories), but in this case an Ohioan gets the upper hand - of course, over another Ohioan. A girl called her stolen cellphone and managed to hoodwink the thief into disclosing her address, which she gave to the cops who in turn busted up a car theft ring.
that's a figure of SPEECHment....
Well, America has been a democracy for over 200 years and it has never CONVICTED a president through impeachment(Nixon resigned), while Lithuania has removed their president due to impeachment after a little less than 13 years of independence - becoming the first European country ever to do
so. Perhaps some countries just can't handle democracy....
UPDATED 4-9-04
A story about the people really running Lithuania
A school in the area where I grew up is dropping their nickname (Indians) after 53 years. While I don't agree with the decision, the article did mention that two local elementary schools have also changed their mascots for the same reason. This got me to thinking that it is odd that elementary schools have mascots (I guess it raises morale) and reminiscing about my past mascots. I have been a:
Fox
Eagle
Falcon
* Engineer
Sabre
* Terrier
* 49er
Blue Devil
* Husky
Tarheel
* are summer / part time schools I'm including to pad my stats
I wonder what this says about a person and what some other people's mascots have been (though there will be a lot of similarities among readers of this site).