Doonesbury Gives From The (Purple) Heart

European and Pacific Stars & Stripes - 'Doonesbury' comes to aid of Fisher House

My dad likes to pick up comic collections at garage sales (along with a great many other things) and I remember reading many a Doonesbury anthology which had seen more years then they probably had readers, but I loved them. It was a view of history I didn't get in my junior high text books.

All the proceeds from his new collection "The Long Road Home", chronicling the story of long time character B.D.'s recovery after he loses a leg in the Iraq war, will go to the Fisher House, a provider of housing for families of wounded troops while they heal up. No matter your views on the war, this is a noble cause.

The book is only $9.95 and I plan on picking up a copy soon. If you're an online shopping buff you can pick it up at Amazon.

Boy Hit By Lightning Through Video Game

TheBostonChannel.com - News - N.H. Boy Hit By Lightning Through Video Game Controls via (some video game site I forgot, doh!)


many bolts by rrazor via flickr

Man, this sucks.

I'm one of the kids who grew up with parents who, when big "thunder boomers" were about, always told us "Stay off the phone" and "Get out of the bath" and "Don't stick that fork in the socket!" Add another to the list...

To be perfectly honest the link isn't really worth looking at as it is way to brief, but basically what happened is this poor kid got zapped when through a controller when lightning hit his house.

And here I always thought video games were one of the best things about cold stormy days inside.

In the words of The Dude: "That's a bummer man..."

(And don't worry, the kid's ok!)

Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided

Slashdot | Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided

If you ever work from home and use, well, ANY kind of remote connection to a company network you need to read this article.

I'd also suggest reading through the comments below the main part, because as usual the slashdotters dig up some good info and make several excellent points, counter points, and good ol' fashion "F*** u"'s.

Coding for $15 an hour?

Coding for $15 an hour? | News.blog | CNET News.com

Interesting article on a programming job paying $15/hour, which is apparently below the 10th percentile nationwide.

Which would put me somewhere in the same area for my job.

Yee-hah.

Real Big Fish

Yahoo! News Photo - Mekong River Fish

One day when I was around 13 years old my dad and I were fishing off a dock with my step-grandfather. At the time they lived on a nice spot of land with a back yard that gently sloped down to a small dock and what was essentially their own boat launch.

My family spent a lot of time fishing off that dock, and on this particular day we were asking my grand-dad about the variety of fish he'd caught there.

"Have you ever accidentally caught a turtle?" my dad asked, and before he could get the last syllable out his rod bent towards the water. Thirty seconds later he had his catch reeled in, and guess what it was?

A turtle.

It was the first and only time I've seen this happen. Thankfully we got the little guy off the hook without hurting him and gently dropped him back in the lake.

Apart from fishing this tale has nothing to do with the link above, but it's one of my more favorite childhood stories.

Oh yeah... if you happen to have some odd fear of catfish (or just plain don't like 'em) you probably shouldn't click that link. Don't say I didn't warn you.

My Flickr Badge

This is my Flickr badge. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Sorry, had a quick Full Metal Jacket moment there...

Click the picture for the full size version, which also has a link to make your own.

Korean Netizens Attack Dog-Poo-Girl

Don Park's Daily Habit - Korean Netizens Attack Dog-Poo-Girl

Now THIS is what I like to see, a truly social use for the Internet.

Long story short (not that long really, check out the link above) a Korean woman's dog took a dump on a public subway, and when nearby "elders" encouraged her to clean up the mess she got mad, refused, and took off.

A nearby passenger took pictures and posted them, without hiding the girls face or any other details, online.

Now the author of the blog linked above feels the Korean netizens (Internet Citizen, natch) acted poorly, essentially engaging in mob behavior after the girls family and past were tracked down and documented online. He ends his post with this line:

Transparent society? It looks more like a society of gadget-wielding finger-pointers to me.

I see his point, but come on, cleaning up after your own dog on a freakin' PUBLIC train is just common courtesy. As far as I'm concerned she gave up her right to privacy in this issue as soon as she acted that way in a (once again) PUBLIC place.

Accountability seems to be a lost cause in the world today...

Boy Scout + Home Made Reactor = GENIUS

ASEPCO: "David Hahn, Boy Atomic Scientist"

Any story that has this paragraph has to be interesting:

'But June 26, 1995, was not a typical day. Ask Dottie Pease. As she turned down Pinto Drive, Pease saw eleven men swarming across her carefully manicured lawn. Their attention seemed to be focused on the back yard of the house next door, specifically on a large wooden potting shed that abutted the chain-link fence dividing her property from her neighbor's. Three of the men had donned ventilated moon suits and were proceeding to dismantle the potting shed with electric saws, stuffing the pieces of wood into large steel drums emblazoned with radioactive warning signs. Pease had never noticed anything out of the ordinary at the house next door."

Man, I want that to happen in my neighborhood. Actually, I'm kinda surprised it hasn't happened yet given all the other general wackiness.

CHP selects Porsche as 2006 pursuit vehicles

Dubspeed Racing Forums - California Highway Patrol selects Porsche as 2006 pursuit vehicles

*sigh*

It's a nice car, but dammit I don't want to hear another goverment type in Cali whine about the budget when THIS is going on...

Google Earth

Google Earth - Home

Well, they finally did it.

Google has taken over the planet, and now we're all one giant happy database family. Your mandatory URL assignments will be tatooed on your forehead soon (expect a letter). Compulsory re-education locations are being constructed as we speak (expect another letter) and your children will now begin relearning all 800 bazillion web pages thus forming a perfect Goo-uber-kind to rule the world after the rest of us has served our purpose and exist only as cached pages.

Just kidding. I love Google. (insert obligatory 'anyone want a gmail invite?' statement here)

Google Earth combines searching with maps, satellite imagery, and a whole lot more. I haven't installed it yet but I'll post some updates later. No Mac version yet unfortunately, but they're working on it.

Kid Koala - Basin Street Blues

ninjatune.net.videos - Kid Koala - Basin Street Blue
via Screenhead

Kid Koala, one of my favorite scratch artists, brings us this beautifully animated video for his remix of "Basin Street Blues". Enjoy!

OK Go!

music (for robots) - OK Go

I officially have to buy a Ok Go album now...

And please be sure to check out music (for robot)'s main page, updated daily with fresh funky beats even your momma would love.

(quicktime goofy dancing movies with great tunes at the link above)

UPDATE 10/10/05: Somehow this video made its way into the all-seeing eye of public spectacle. "A millions ways..." was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever last night, which gave my wife and I quite a chuckle.

Lewis Black - Cashing In

onegoodmove: Cashing In - Lewis Black

As usual, one of my favorite social commentators Lewis Black summarizes my thoughts on several issues almost exactly.

Harlan Erskine Photography

harlan erskine * photography via metafilter

If you couldn't tell by all the flickr pics I post here (and that fun bit of eye candy on the right side that comes from my flickr account) I'm a huge photography buff. It is, in fact, my long term career goal

My sister wound up with the vast majority of the artistic talent in our genes, but after I took my first photography class the bug bit and it bit HARD. For the first time in my life I'd found something I felt I could really express myself with. If you'd like you can check out scans of my very first black and white darkroom prints.

The Internet is a fantastic medium for spreading not only pictures but the ideas and thoughts behind them. Flickr's tagging system has created a simple, easy to use social network and this is only one example. Metafilter, one of my favorite daily destinations, brings us the photography of Harlan Erskine (I'm particularly fond of the no frills flash interface). Enjoy.

Meth's Grip in Midwest

Meth's Grip in Midwest Strangles Authorities - Yahoo! News


"Meth Lab Go Bye-Bye" by de tokeville via Flickr

I knew Meth was one of the biggest drug problems to hit the U.S. since the initial cocaine-fueled binges of the 80's, but this article paints a picture far worse than anything I'd imagined.

You gotta love it when a detective inadvertently sums up the whole problem with "The War On Drugs":

"We can't catch 'em all," Det. Derrick Blankenship said. "All we can do is inconvenience them as much as possible."

The Entitlement Generation

The Young Labeled 'Entitlement Generation' - Yahoo! News

CHICAGO - Evan Wayne thought he was prepared for anything during a recent interview for a job in radio sales. Then the interviewer hit the 24-year-old Chicagoan with this: "So, we call you guys the 'Entitlement Generation,'" the baby boomer executive said, expressing an oft-heard view of today's young work force. "You think you're entitled to everything."

The article goes on to say that this isn't a new phenomenon. Everyone from the hippies to the Gen X-ers have been labeled this (or something similar) by their elders.

But that isn't the point, really. What I got out of this article is the traditional idea of career-level success is being radically redefined, if not completely destroyed.

Now, deserved or not, this latest generation is being pegged, too — as one with shockingly high expectations for salary, job flexibility and duties but little willingness to take on grunt work or remain loyal to a company.

Personally, I have no problem with grunt work or loyalty as long as I have a REASON to display both. I'm not content with just a paycheck. I can get a paycheck at McDonalds. If you want this computer geek to work for your company and be happy there you better make a few efforts to make it worth my time.

While Levine also notes that today's twentysomethings are long on idealism and altruism, "many of the individuals we see are heavily committed to something we call 'fun.'"

I am "heavily committed" to keep the world from killing the independent spirit that so many people seem to lose as they give themselves up completely to the working world and accept a mundane existence rather than searching for something that will make them happier.

He partly faults coddling parents and colleges for doing little to prepare students for the realities of adulthood and setting the course for what many disillusioned twentysomethings are increasingly calling their "quarter-life crisis."

My parents didn't do the best job of preparing me for the real world, but ultimately I believe it doesn't matter. The world that me and those my age are coming to terms with is much, much different than the world our parents dealt with in their 20's.

I think the real issue is, even for those of us who were well prepared by our parents, we're finding out all those staple work guides of our youth are no longer true.

"It's true they're not eager to bury themselves in a cubicle and take orders from bosses for the next 40 years, and why should they?" asks Jeffrey Arnett, a University of Maryland psychologist who's written a book on "emerging adulthood," the period between age 18 and 25. "They have a healthy skepticism of the commitment their employers have to them and the commitment they owe to their employers."

Thank you! My thoughts EXACTLY.

How to Meditate

How to Meditate

Self explanatory :)

Supreme Court rules against file swapping

Supreme Court rules against file swapping | CNET News.com

As I was reading the above article about the crap ruling against file sharing programs this comparison occurred to me:

Images, especially logos or mascot characters, are closely guarded by their owners. If I ripped a picture off of Disney's web site and turned it into a wallpaper using Photoshop, would Disney decide to sue Adobe?

I doubt it.

Roof Falls on MI Unemployment, Literally

Michigan outsources Keno pencils - 06/26/05

Michigan's unemployment situation reached the absurdly comical stage many months ago, but this weekend left us with a possible omen of things to come.

As my wife and I drove down Cedar Street on Saturday morning we noticed a huge amount of emergency vehicles. They'd shut the road down and were rerouting traffic. We spent most of the next couple hours thinking, as we ran our errands, what possibly could've happened.

As it turns out the roof collapsed, for an as yet unknown reason, at the Capital Area Michigan Works building. Thankfully the office was closed and nobody was inside, but this building also happens to be (as far as I'm aware) the only collection point for Lansing unemployment recipients.

Have fun on that bus ride to St Johns or Charlotte folks. :P

Knight Rider Intro Parody

Funny Videos And Funny Clips - Knight Rider Intro Parody

BEST ... KNIGHT RIDER ... PARODY ... EVER

(continuing a theme)

via the almighty Kentron

One Crazy RC Toy

AllDumb: Videos - One Crazy RC Toy

MOST ... AMAZING ... RC DEVICE ... EVER

Ex-LAPD Detective Speaks in B.I.G. Case

Ex-LAPD Detective Speaks in B.I.G. Case - Yahoo! News

Like any generation of Americans mine has its share of music stars cut down in their prime. Previous generations had Jimi Hendrix, Mama Cass, John Lennon, etc and we have Kurt Cobain, Tupac, and (relevant to this post) The Notorious B.I.G.

It's no big secret that the LAPD has officially shrugged in response to the matter of who killed the BIG, but this article on the wrongful death lawsuit filed by BIG's family exposes some facts that seem like they should have come out years ago.

A retired LAPD detective who spent two years investigating the homicide testified today that he felt they had enough evidence to arrest "Suge" Knight.

Consider this: In most states a person who gets busted driving under the influence on multiple occasions gets their license revoked along with some jail time. The system identifies where the offender's problem is coming from and attempts to remove it from their life so they can either A) recover, or B) at least stop hurting people. Suge's been sent to prison multiple times, and in each case it had something to do with his life in the music business. Granted there are no laws to back this up, but wouldn't it make sense to somehow ban this 6 foot 2 inch 320 pound behemoth from the music industry?

Blogger Images

Blogger Help : How do I post pictures?

Uber-blog site Blogger.com (which is what you're reading this on) just launched Blogger Images this afternoon, allowing each blogger user to have 300MB of images stored on the server. Free.

Now if they would only put it in the BlogThis application (which is what I'm writing this in).

Windows Tip - Customize Places Bar

Feature from PC Magazine: Customize Places Bar

Using this tip you can customize the bar at the left side of "Save" or "Save As" dialogues in Windows (2000/ME/XP only I believe).

For instance, my bar now displays My Computer, My Documents, C:\Download, and C:\Files.

Say what you will about Microsoft, but their PowerToys package (free download) has always been a very handy set of tools.

Windows Tip - Shutdown Icon(s)

Tip from PC Magazine: Shortcut to Shutdown

Using the instructions at the link above you can create desktop shortcuts to initiate a shutdown, reboot, or log-off.

You can also make an icon for cancelling a shutdown (very handy!)

The Anti-Pope

Zladko Vladcik - The Anti-Pope

The man behind Electronik Supersonik returns with "I am the Anti-Pope".

Favorite line: "Like the hammer hits the canteloupe, I am the Anti-Pope".

Da duck Woofer

deviantART: Da duck Woofer by ~johanvts

While browsing the deviantart.com wallpaper archive I came across this one and couldn't help but think of my sister.

Cat Nap

click for full size

Quick post: My cat Wilson taking a nap on one of the bedroom pillows.

If you're going to leave a comment, please say something more than just "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

Balls Out - Dock Ellis, a no-hitter, and LSD

Dallas Observer - Balls Out - Dock Ellis

No robot news today. Actually, nothing that made me go "I really need to post that" at all, sadly.

But this has to be one of the best baseball stories I've ever read.

Especially in light of recent events in baseball.

Cory Doctorow coming to East Lansing!

"Me at Hemingway's, Florence Italy" by Cory Doctorow via Flickr

Cory Doctorow - Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Main Site

Book Signing Info

Cory Doctorow, who in my humble opinion is one of the best SciFi authors to publish in the last twenty years, is coming to Lansing!

Earlier this week I found out that his newest book (Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town) had been released, and in his usual style Cory released it online as a free download while the paper copies were hitting shelves. Unlike the RIAA and many other companies who fear the Internet's ability to spread content, Cory believes that ultimately the word of mouth downloads will lead to more people purchasing hard copies, and he's right. More importantly, releasing entire novels online opens his work up to the entire world, not just those of us lucky enough to afford daily trips to the book store.

Anyhow, Mr. Doctorow will be in East Lansing on July 5th at the Archives Bookstore and July 7th at Barnes & Noble. Check the links above for more info.

See you there :)

P.S.: How many SciFi authors keep Flickr accounts?

Haunted Michigan

Haunted Places in Michigan via Google News


"trigger" by mindfulness via Flickr (tagged with ghost)

This isn't really news, but I keep a customized "Lansing Michigan" section on my Google News page, and this article was at the top as of just now.

The page is a MASSIVE listing of known haunted locations in Michigan, organized alphabetically by city, which also includes a brief summary of the ghosts/incidents and any related history.

Detroit has a lot of listings (not surprising) and MSU also has several, but surprisingly Lansing proper has only one:

Lansing - Capitol Building Rotunda - Haunted by ghost of man who was killed while painting it.

Unexpected images

Unexpected images | LJWorld.com via Make Blog

Some eye candy to start your day with...

Farrell Eaves calls this his magic camera. Once upon a time it was a run of the mill Nikon Coolpix 990, but after a trip to the bottom of a New Mexico pond Farrell found it not only still took pictures, it took really COOL pictures.

My personal favorite.

Quran vs The Bible for the Oath Belt

CBS News | N.C. Judges Face Quran Question

"Freedom of Religeon" takes some funny forms in this country...

""An oath on the Quran is not a lawful oath under our law," Guilford Senior Resident Superior Court Judge W. Douglas Albright said earlier in the week."

This all started when the Greensboro Islamic Center attempted to donate copies of the holy Muslim book and the Guilford Country judges sent them back.

Personally I don't care if we're swearing on a copy of the Yellow Pages. Sure, a holy book should help impress upon the witness how important what they're doing is, but it's the very process of that oath which binds you legally to what you're saying. North Carolina even has a provision on the books already for people who don't want to use the Bible! So how is this any different?

Cameron Clapp - Inspiration

Cameron Clapp's Web Site via Boing Boing

Want some free inspiration?

Check this guy out...

Oh yeah, and here's his flickr account.

Happy Tree Friends the Video Game?

Happy Tree Friends the Video Game? : Kotaku

One of my favorite gaming sites Kotaku has a tip on the publishers of Happy Tree Friends being interested in making a full fledged video game out of the much loved series.

For those of you not familiar with Happy Tree Friends (I was introduced to them by J Bryant, fellow pillar of J) imagine a world of pastel-ish greeting card animals. Now give them chainsaws, bows and arrows, guns, a variety of traps, add a dash of Battle Royale and you get the gist.

Dripping With Irony: U.S. General Says Some Iraq Insurgents Care About Money

U.S. General: Many Insurgents in Iraq Paid - Yahoo! News

This has got to be one of the most ironic war coverage pieces I've read since the whole mess began.

"Many insurgents conducting attacks in Iraq are primarily motivated by money instead of ideology, and can receive $150 for setting a bomb and more for other types of assaults, a top U.S. general asserted Tuesday."

When more then half of the U.S. population thinks money and economic concerns were the primary motivator for the war this doesn't make us look any better.

Robot Revolt!

Robot revolt at San Francisco hospital! - Engadget

Continuing my coverage of important robotic matters...


"Robots are Scary" from bluehour on Flickr

About a week ago Skynet began the first of its clandestine missions to subvert the human race and dominate us all... by messing up a medication delivery routine.

A delivery robot named Waldo (some things about robots haven't changed since the 80's I see) went "berserk" in a San Franciso hospital:

"Waldo shot past the pharmacy and barged uninvited into the examination room in the radiation oncology department, where -- according to an anonymous caller -- a doctor was examining a cancer patient," the paper's columnists wrote. "According to the caller, Waldo wouldn't leave, and the startled doctor and patient felt obliged to flee the room."

That's it. No more info. I for one would like to know exactly how a robot refuses to leave a room and more importantly why two grown human beings would feel compelled to "flee".

Scratchy Synthisizer Voice If you don't leave now you're getting a face full of Xanax.

Music labels get ugly, take DRM fight to each other

Sony BMG DRM part of battle for control between Apple, labels - Engadget

Now here's something I didn't expect to happen but I am not the least bit surprised by considering this started with labels suing their customers...

Engadget links to a Variety article where they discuss Sony BMG's decision to use some new DRM and why it's so easy to crack. Namely, it isn't pirates they are after.

The new DRM puts pressure on Apple to open the iPod to other online music services. Good? Bad? With 80% of the portable digital music market Apple's got the upper hand, but I hope that in the end the only pressure Apple would bow to would come from their own customers.

Spin labels OK Computer Best Rock Album in 20 Years

BBC NEWS - Radiohead's album scoops accolade


pic from CommandZed via Flickr

Spin magazine (I think I had a free subscription many years back) recently called Radiohead's OK Computer the best Rock album in the last twenty years.

Anyone who knows me well knows I'm a huge Radiohead fan. For a group that hasn't had a new album in a few years, who gets very little radio or TV play, it's amazing to me that these types of things continue to be said about them. Not that radio and TV play should generate these types of awards (they shouldn't), but rather that they have enough talent/genius to earn these opinions without that attention.

(Paranoid Android still gives me shivers when I listen to it on headphones)

One Week Unplugged

A recent fav from the "Pics with Stories" pool at Flickr

Greetings all. I'm back! Not sure where to begin so I'll just let the keyboard monkey in my head take over.

For going on two years now I've been doing the 9-to-5 banker's hours, and last week, for the first time in these last two years, I took a big chunk of time off. Including the weekends I had eleven days off and (in case you were wondering) I managed not to check my work e-mail once the whole time (Gmail still snagged me though).

Originally this past week was supposed to be spent in North Carolina for my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary, but we found out less than a couple weeks prior that my wife would be having her shoulder surgery two days before we were planning on leaving town. We decided to hold off on finalizing any plans until after the surgery and play it by ear based on how she was feeling, thinking we'd maybe just leave a few days late. The doctors basically laughed when we asked about travel. "Good luck" was the best they had to offer.

After waiting five days we realized there really wasn't any way to go. Any car ride longer than fifteen minutes put enough stress on Jen's shoulder to cause serious problems. At one point she told me she wouldn't mind if I went alone. And as much as I love my wife for making that offer there's no way I was going to leave her in that much pain for a week (not to mention the idea of a twenty hour solo drive wasn't too appealing).

My family was more than understanding and called several times to check and see how Jen's recovery was going. She has to stay in a sling until July 14th, but she started working again yesterday and it actually went much better than we were expecting.

On the lighter side, the last four weeks have taught us one very important thing: In the event one of us can't work we can adjust to only one paycheck and still make it. All our bills were still paid on time, we kept fun purchases down to a couple sub-$10 DVD's (previously viewed sales at rental stores rock) and everything worked out ok. I still have to mail out some well-overdue birthday presents with my next paycheck but everyone has been very understanding about the whole financial picture.

Unrelated: Here's what a week of not posting will do to your web traffic (click for full-size and observations)

Welcome To The United States!

Canadian Slay Suspect Awaits Extradition - Daily News Tribune via Fark

"Why hello there Mr. Voorhees, welcome to the U.S. border! Have a good trip? Gee, your chainsaw, sword, hatchet, knife, and brass knuckles seem to have some blood on them. Why don't we hold onto those for you while we let you walk into our country."

Sadly this is true. You know, like most Americans I have a certain amount of fear of terrorists. But now it's not the Taliban I fear getting through our borders, it's the fresh-from-a-kill maniacs I'm worried about!

UPDATE: Picture

Return Of The Ninja Droids

Return Of The Ninja Droids via Screenhead

8-bit musical genius... ninjas sunbathing... it just doesn't get much better than this.

Small cars the U.S. can’t have

Small cars the U.S. can’t have - Autoblog

It's no secret that the peculiar mix of people and culture in the U.S. leads just about every international company to take special "considerations" into account whenever a new product is about to be released.

Cars are one excellent example. Entire labels exist here in the states (Lexus I'm looking at you, you know who you are) that can't be found elsewhere in the world. For the last twenty years manufacturers have avoided making hatchbacks because of a stupid, unsubstantiated sentiment in the average American car buyer that hatchbacks are "cheap".

Autoblog has an article up talking about three pretty cool cars (I'd buy an Opel Corsa any day) which probably won't ever grace a U.S. street. Which is really unfortunate considering our taste for cars has driven the world oil economy closer to collapse than it's ever been.

Have a Low-Tech (or No-Tech) Day

Have a Low-Tech (or No-Tech) Day via Lifehacker

I've noticed a interesting pattern in my time writing this blog. Sometimes when I post one of my (few) comments on my actual life a story comes down the RSS feeds that relates to it almost exactly.

Case in point: In my last post I talked about how I've taken to keeping my laptop put away for most of my weekends. Less than an hour after that post I came across this Lifehacker article in which the author remarks:

As much as it can help, technology can be overwhelming. There are times when I feel like it's a real struggle to get away from screens and keyboards, but I find that when I can do so, I'm come back to those same devices recharged and ready to go.

That's my whole point. The longer I stay away from my computer the better I feel when I finally go back to it.

Picture this: Jim Morrison in chaps

Soul Shine Magazine : Jim Morrison the Cowboy?

This weekend I was hanging out with the pimpest of the pimp daddys Kentron, and as we all tried to avoid the punishing heat of the day (very unusual for this time of year in Lansing) he suddenly brought up that he'd heard a rumor that Jim Morrison was still alive!

"Surely..." I thought "this can't be right. An army of RSS feeds brings news to my browser all day long and, were it true, this would certainly be something hard to miss."

Lately I've been taking weekend breaks from my computer to spend time focusing on ... you know... more important things in life so I didn't have a chance to look into this until today. Beauty that it is, Google News brought up a ton of related articles that are so far staying low-key in the Internet world.

Maybe that's because nobody believes it? But then again, if I were Jim Morrison, I might not want people to believe it either.

You decide. Right now. 'Cause this will be on the test.

What will you look like in 40 years?

T-Mobile via Eric Zorn's Notebook

I'll have to update this one later because I'm on my way out of the office, but this web app allows you to age yourself using new fangled Intraweb magic.

Or maybe it's geriatric gnomes. Yeah, gnomes.

Get this person out of my grave!

Lansing State Journal: Woman stunned to find stranger in her grave

This is one of those stories that makes you go...

"Ummm, whaaa?"

Tech worker confidence drops in May

Study: Tech worker confidence drops in May | CNET News.com

The job outlook for IT (information technology to those of you who are lucky enough to work outside an office with computers) workers just gets better and better....

NOTE: Sarcasm doesn't translate well via text.

Special Ops Watches

Special Ops Watches via Gizmodo

Because everyone needs a watch with a LED flashlight visible from a mile away!