Nov 18
The best stuff of the year
So I went back to see what I shared in google reader. Â This is some of the good stuff.
Gaming
UI
Awesome trailer
Infinite line RPG for DS
Dr000d
Life
Listen better
6 lessons of manliness from Bond
Be a morse code master
God
Approaching God when you feel like crapÂ
False teachers
Thinking your crap will shock God
oops
God billboards
teh funni
Battlestar Galactica discussion - the officeÂ
awesomely funni video
iz ur fault
Ninja Cat
Zombie Cat
The emporer
I’m sorry, the princess is in another castle!
get some nuts
You can’t kill paladins
cool
Holograms
SpaceX
5 cool commercial music
DIY satellite tracker
8 virtues of the samurai
Gordon Freeman works at the LHC
Awesome man store in NY
Kind of boring, but extremely important
back to the basics (WANT)
This happens every day
I feel small
Quit coddling your kids
SEO cheat sheet
N-prize
Surviving Zombie attacks part 1 and two
Gears of war2 irl
Just awesome products
Enjoy.
No commentsNov 6
Web Browsers
I am uninstalling a lot of things on my PC, so I thought I would create a small post to list the different browsers I’ve found in the last few years. There are also other Mac browsers, but I do not have a Mac. Sorry.
Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) - The W3C’s shot at a browser. You figure since they create the CSS standards that other browsers try and meet, that this one would be more well known. It’s not.
Lobo (http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp) - If you like your browser all Java, this is the one for you.
SeaMonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/) - Billed as an “all-in-one application suite” with a lot of roots in Mozilla.
Maxthon (http://maxthon.com/) - Seems very similar to Mozilla products, but they had me at their cool website.
Avant (http://www.avantbrowser.com/) - Billed as “The fastest web browser on earth”
Flock (http://flock.com/) - Social media/web browser.Â
SpaceTime (http://www.spacetime.com/) - Radical 3D web browser
Opera (http://www.opera.com/) - Mac/Windows browser
Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/) - Apple’s browser
FireFox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) - Mozilla’s baby.Â
Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx) - Microsoft browser
Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome) - Googles shot at a browser
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Again, this is not a complete list. Just some interesting browsers I’ve come across. Enjoy.
2 commentsNov 5
44th President of the United States of America
1) Â I’m glad lots of people voted. Â It’s disheartening to hear the reasons why people voted for Obama, it’s been a very weird trip to presidency. Â What do you know about Obama? Â He promised a lot of things he can’t possibly deliver, and people used those things as their foundation to vote for Obama. Â Bring change to the world? Â We live in the most prominent country in the world. Â We enjoy a higher standard of living than any country on the planet. Â We are a free people with an established democracy. Â What do you want changed?
Do you know his views on foreign policy?
Do you know his views on terrorism?
Do you know who Jeremiah Wright is? Â
DO YOU KNOW WHO BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA IS?
2) Â He’s my president. Â He has my support. Â I will not be hypocritical and not support my president and bash him just because I don’t really believe in him. Â He was elected into office by our country, with our laws. Â If he can uphold our constitutional rights, make the long run economy better, and help us become more energy independent- that’s a great start. He’s not done anything wrong and deserves our respect and support. Â He is our president. Â May God bless him and his administration with wisdom.
1 commentNov 4
Jeez.
This is starting to make me angry.
This is scary. Â I hope this stuff is pointless republican rhetoric. Â It’s got to be. Â Right?
No commentsNov 4
Oh Crap.
Hey America! Â You’re about to vote a non-U.S. born citizen into office! Â I’m not as informed as I would like to be, but I have done research on both candidates, I’ve read debate transcripts and looked up voting records. Â Is that enough? Â Probably not.
When I read this letter by James Dobson, my immediate reaction was to roll my eyes and cringe. Â Basically here are a few things Dobson is saying that will happen:
* The Supreme Court would pass law that legalizes same sex marriage across the US
* Elementary schools will mandate homosexuality as a choice to children
* Christian radio stations will be removed from the airwaves
* Churches will be forced to hire homosexuals and host homosexual weddings–or lose 501c3
* Christian nurses and doctors banned from practice–after Obama forces them to do abortions.
* Pornography is mandated to be openly displayed in gas stations, newsstands, and grocery stores
* Home Schooling has been outlawed
* 4 US cities have been bombed, Obama does nothing in response
* Obama increases funding to known terrorist allies.
* Obama deepens ties to Communist nations and Communist revolutions break out in Latin America
* Tel Aviv is destroyed when the new USSR launches a nuclear attack against Israel.
Ouch. Â Seems crazy and really far out there. Â Then I came across something saying Obama wasn’t really a U.S. Citizen. Â More Republican crying- I thought. Â I found out that the people who asked to see Obama’s birth certificate also asked McCain. Â McCain immediately gave it to them - apparently he was born in Panama, so it was kinda a sticky situation there too.
Then I saw this video. Â Obamas real dad was a Muslim Kenyan. Â His Step-dad was a Muslim Indonesian. Â His half-brother is a Muslim. Â His mom was agnostic. Â I’ve heard Obama in a debate mention he is a Christian. Â Am I saying I don’t believe him, and he’s this closet Muslim guy? Â No. Â I’m just saying this stuff just makes me cautious. Â If Obama is really a US citizen, why wouldn’t he want to show people and prove it immediately?
Ugh. Â That led to this website.
All I’m saying is that I now look at that Dobson letter differently now.
2 commentsOct 3
Our Presidential candidates
On August 16th, 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were both interviewed by pastor Rick Warren.
You can download the entire transcript here
I’ve separated the question and responses from both, I summarized Obama more, and I meant to do the same with McCain - but I’m lazy and dumb.  Below are interesting points from both candidates:
-the most significant position you’ve changed in the last 10 years is Welfare reform
-doesn’t think we should be in Iraq, or that it will help stop terrorism against AmericaÂ
-wouldnt answer when a baby gets human rightsÂ
-believes marriage is a union between a man and a woman in a covenant with God (makes you wonder why the Gay/Lesbian community supports him…) - but doesn’t believe it enough to support a constitutional amendment with that definition.
-evil exists but we aren’t able to erase it - that’s God’s job.Â
-faith based organizations should not get federal funding if they are able to hire people with similar beliefsÂ
-believes we have forged alliances with countries - citing NATO - where we have pledged to act militarily for the common defense, (weird because NATO as an organization has many member countries in Afghanistanand Iraq- which Obama says we should not be engaged in war with…)
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Question 25Â - Why do you want to be president?
Obama - The basic idea of empathy, and the American dream is slipping away.  Washington is broken and he thinks he has the ability to build bridges across partisan lines, racial, regional lines to get people to work on some common-sense solutions to critical issues.
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-the most significant position you’ve changed in the last 10 years is offshore drilling for domestic oil
-a baby gets human rights at conception
-believes marriage is a union between a man and a woman
-falls on the side of stem-celled research
-Evil exists and we should defeat it
-faith based organizations should get federal funding and be able to hire people with similar beliefs if they want to
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Question 24Â - Why do you want to be president?
McCain - I want to inspire a generation of Americans to serve a cause greater than their self-interest.  I have a record of reaching across the aisle and working with the other party.  It’s time for us to put America first.
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Hopefully this gives you a better idea on where they stand on issues. Â I did this to help myself understand more about them, admittedly I didn’t know a whole lot before this. Â I would also add that before/during/after any debates, or political commercial you see with wild claims for either party - go check out the truth at http://www.factcheck.org - both sides are doing whatever they can to get you to vote for them.
Oct 1
I need your voluntary help
I’m working on a new project. Â It sounds so official and big when I write it like that. Â I’ve got a new domain, for a a snarky and somewhat useful site idea. Â I need all you budding photoshoppers to swoop down to my aid and build a theme for me.
Think the following things in building this theme:
Aliens
Zombies
Natural Disasters
Nuclear War
Infectious Diseases
That about does it. Â Oh, yeah - the site is called “World Enders”. Â
I can’t pay you much, so if you are expecting a big payday, please don’t. Â I might be able to pay you a very small amount, and would be completely willing to have your name in the credits or template, etc. Â I need a wordpress template with a general theme- then a choice of about 5-10 headers to rotate. Â Ideally, a theme chooser type of setup would be great - based on each of the items above.
I also need a few simple forum templates either simplemachines, or PHPBB.
Anyway. Â If you know of anyone who would be willing to try their “mad photoshopz skillz” out, and might be interested in working on an interesting new project involving zombies, and other things that may or may not end our world, please send me an email at: Â assistant@worldenders.com that would be great.
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Thanks,
Jesse
3 commentsSep 11
The difference between the Patriots and Colts
Rodney Harrison was suspended 4 games last year for steroid use.
He denied that Human growth hormone was steroids.
His team was excited to get him back. Â His coach validated his behavior by cheating (and getting caught and fined) the previous season.
Their fans rationalized that everyone is on steroids anyway. Â Just like every coach cheats and films defensive signals.
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Ed Johnson had a rough past. Â Tony Dungy/Bill Polian gave him a chance.
Ed blew it this week, getting busted for weed.
After a horrible performance by our run defense last Sunday- the colts WITHOUT HESITATION, cut our starting defensive tackle from the team.
Message sent.Â
That’s all you need to know.
2 commentsAug 29
Time to punt?
I heard a guy on the radio, a sportscaster, rant about the current political scene. He put our current situation into it’s sports context. He is a republican, when he says “we” he means the republicans. He said something to the effect:
Maybe it’s just time to punt to the other team now? We’re trying to change our offensive coordinator, we don’t really know what offense we should be running - the players all have mixed messages and things are going the way we’d like. We’re backed up on our own 10 yard line, and it’s 4th and 16. Maybe we should just punt?
We did this in the early 90s, we punted on 3rd down, and the democrats got the ball and ran for awhile. Our defense held up, we got the ball back and have had a good drive. Seems like we can’t get a first down now and maybe we just let our defense keep us in the game?
Anyway - I thought it was hilarious. Until I heard about the VP (Sarah Palin - Gov. of Alaska). Not that VPs ever really make an impact, but I’m sure it will help get more votes. The first women VP, it’s delicious. If I can go to the analogy again, it’s like we just traded for LaDanian Tomlinson. Now there is a true hope that our team might win. The other team is waaaay cooler, and might win, but dang, we just got a sweet running back and now 4th and 16 looks doable…
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