Those Screensaver things I am not a big fan of downloading a lot of crap onto my machine (I used to be... learned my lesson). After reading and hearing all about these cool screensaver things that help find cures for diseases, I decided to install one onto my 'work' machine which is really just the mp3 machine and doesn't do much else. DSLReports is a great resource for finding out info about all this, and they like the one that is sponsored by Intel. So, I downloaded it, and now my machine is running my audiogalaxy server thing, and computing some sort of cancer cure.
The other thing I currently love is modifying the HOSTs file in windows to block banner ads. There is a great site that explains all this, but the bottom line is that it's a really easy way to block banner ads without having to install some sort of ad blocking software. I had tried Ad Shield, which I initially liked, but turned out to be flaky - kept blocking images that were not ads. This site also has HOST files that you can download that are already set up to start blocking all the major advertisement servers. It works pretty well, and blocks all the ads on most of the sites I go to (even some of my own - D'oh). But like I said, the beauty is that there is nothing to install - this file is already on your machine, and all you have to do is add the servers to block. Viva simplicity.
I assume you all realize that this won't block pop-ups from popping. But, if you are clever you can kill the content in the pop-ups this way. I wish IE had the same feature that Mozilla has where you can disable any 'not asked for' windows from popping up. What a perfect solution to that whole thing.
Letters from Pat Pat is a mysterious character. Instead of sending emails anymore, he is just going to write them on happyrobot. This should be fun.
Fast Food Freaks Poor coppers. I was just reading a bunch of articles about idiots messing with cop's food at fast food places. The latest one in the Smoking Gun, is about this guy at Taco Bell that puts pot in a cops taco. The cop states that he always checks his food before eating it, which I think is a good idea, but a sad comment on society. Cops and fast food places are a tricky relationship. On one hand, cops don't make a lot of cash and work late hours, so fast food is perfect. On the other hand, fast food places I have learned seem to hire lots of parolees and people on probation - which helps contribute to the whole 'no love for cops' thing. We should all have cops over for dinner.
I don't know why, but in my search for similar stories, they all seemed to happen at Taco Bell.
look! I just copied the following stuff off the net... enjoy.
police blotter of the day
University police cited and released Daniel I. Rosen, 19, of the 1100 block of East Eighth Street, on a criminal nuisance charge. The students told police they were behind the Student Union about 6 p.m. when Rosen reportedly got out of his maroon truck and started to open his pants. The female student told police she turned her head when she realized what he was going to do. The woman's boyfriend reported hearing a "splattering noise," apparently from the urine striking the pavement. The students told police Rosen drove off in his truck, which had several stickers on the back window. The male student told police he reported the incident because "he urinated right in front of my girlfriend," reports stated. Moments later, officers stopped a maroon pickup near East Fourth and North Park Avenue. According to reports, the back window had a sticker with the cartoon character "Calvin" urinating onto a Ford sticker. The truck's cab smelled of urine, reports stated. When police asked Rosen if he knew why they stopped him, he replied, "Ya', I urinated in public, it was stupid." wildcat.arizona.edu/
ok, police blotter # 2 of the day
A K R O N, Ohio - You have to admire Misty McCail's dogged determination, but police say she was barking up the wrong tree when she repeatedly called 911 to get help for her pregnant pooch. McCail was charged Friday with making a false alarm for phoning the emergency number on the evening of June 8 to demand paramedics come help her pet, Foxy, give birth. "Ma'am, the fire department only comes out on people emergencies," the dispatcher told her. After a brief argument, McCail hung up the phone. Minutes later, however, her 11-year-old son dialed the emergency number again, saying that his mother was giving birth. But in the 911 recording of the call, the dispatcher confronted him. Dispatcher: "Your mom's having a baby? Or your dog's having a baby? Which is it?" Boy: "I mean, my dog, my dog. [laughing] I call her "mom" all the time." The dispatcher patiently repeated that paramedics would not come out for puppies and asked to speak to the mother. Instead they hung up the phone, and yet again, called back. This time a woman asked for paramedics to come because her son was having a seizure. "Is this about those puppies?" the dispatcher asked. "No, no," the woman insisted. "My son's having a seizure. My
