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Some sci-fi must sees. Why? Just because some guy on the internet says they’re better than star wars. PFFT.

Interesting article in the uk publication Daily Mail about the physical boundaries given to children. I remember when I was eight I was not allowed to go past the Beans house. Somehow I managed to find woods to play in though.

A mom in Virginia gets time for hosting a sweet sixteen for her son and providing the booze. The funniest part of the article:

Eckert recently helped launch an awareness campaign in the county called Parents Who Host Lose the Most.

Thank-you babysitting socialist pigs!

War Profiteers: Business as usual.

Awesome entry from wired about a G.I.’s guide to Iraq in 1943 and the G.I.’s guide to Iraq presently. Definitely worth checking out.

A blog of -hilarious- bad spock drawings. via kottke

We should just set a distance from the sun and say, “If you’re past this point, you aren’t a planet.” I know pluto is crying right now. via kottke

From the MAD SCIENTIST files, a man is trying to send information back in time using quantum mechanics. Oh, how the logic of the space-time continuum makes me dizzy.

Ars Technica’s annual BYOC (Build your own computer) guide. GOD BOX GO!

Funny graphic for those of you who know my emo side. Gotta love those girls that shout “I love you!”

This was on reddit, but I have no idea where the pictures are from, save they’re most likely rednecks.

New electric car with some nice-looking specs. Unfortunately I’m assuming this is out of most people’s price range and the tech won’t trickle down for sometime.

welcome to another edition. this will be a mixed bag, but i’ll sort by source.

From some publication on the Left Coast in LA, word is out that Mr. Wizard died yesterday. I hate admitting this, but for some reason when I watched this on NICK as a kid, I always thought Mr. Wizard was Patrick Stewart. TRAVESTY OF TRAVESTIES.

Next up, from the pages of make!

Surreal Wallpaper! Queue jokes about eating shrooms without all the hassle. But I’m intrigued. Maybe I’ll find a great little room of my own just for putting up this paper.

In early alpha, Wii Media Center X. I’m pretty excited to toy around with this one so I can stop using my XBOX for media. But that’s Bias, since the XBOX hates on my network at home.

A spanish blog noticed a small picture “hidden” on the Windows Vista Business CD. Conspiracy? I think so. God I despise M$, not that this really has anything to do with them. I just thought I’d let you know.

And now from the top lists of Reddit

Straight dope’s response to: Can you open the hatch of a commercial airliner in midflight? BUT WHAT ABOUT IN THE MOVIES?

I would include a more in depth explanation of my beliefs, but I don’t think that this blog is the correct venue for this. Suffice to say that I completely disagree with the idea of “God Said Pi=3” and another article on the same topic, sited by the other. Why don’t you site the Missler/Numerology explanation of the original Hebrew manuscripts that was given in the comments section? And finally in answer to Mr. Dutch’s Question: Your humility. In your presentation of pi, you pridefully assume that you know more than God. This hubris causes you to assume that your interpretation of the Word of God is absolute and final. And with that I will always disagree.

And back to our regular programming. I hope google really isn’t evil. Now that they are moving into universities their market will expand a great deal, as will their access to more information. While I applaud the business of their movements, I am still concerned.

Ninja? In Italy? Who is Russian? Oh the cultural hilarity that ensues.

And now, my new RSS subscription filed under fun: The Fake Steve Jobs Blog!

We’re back for a morning edition after an awful downtime while I moved servers. So here we go! This is the digg/reddit I’m lazy and bored edition.

A kid does bacteria testing in his school and finds that the toilets are cleaner. With all the chemicals they use on toilets does that mean they’re actually safer?

A guy gets a tattoo of the zune logo. That sucks. Beers all around!

I’m not really sure what the context of this is, but if you would like to check out exactly how awesome the geography of the Earth is, check out a bunch of lakes on islands in lakes etc. etc. etc.

And finally some politiks. An ultra-conservative blog posting that seems to bite Rolling Stones in the ass. Let me just say, whether you think they have a point or not, I don’t care. Rolling Stone is an idiots guide to politics and I can’t stand it. Mixing politics with entertainment lands you Arnold as Governor.