The World's Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories

I particularly like the running commentary after the post.

Fun with XP

Open notepad, type "Bush hid the facts", sans quotes,save close and re-open.

oh my god! oh my god! oh my god! oh my god!

it's not much but it's a start! just don't rock it too much.



oh and there's a shit load more videos on youtube.

she's getting better but didn't make the kill on this little one.

Batman by Dostoyevsky!!!

I'm not even fucking kidding! It's a Batman adaptation of Crime and Punishment for your reading pleasure...

But my rent is a bargain I say!

Love

You know what I love? I love the fact that I can sit on the 17th floor of a downtown office building, look out any which way and see nothing but sky. Sky, green trees and mind-blowing sunsets. Absolutely fucking spectacular! Astonishing. Makes me forget about everything, good and bad. I love this fucking city, it gets me right here (pounds fist on heart).

Ellesmere Island

So as some of you know I'm now working for Parks Canada, and one of the perks of a government job is traveling. Some times its for meetings, other times its for research, or to take photos of certain parks where we're doing displays, ads, what ever. I've already started looking through our parks list trying to figure out excuses to visit the ones I'm interested in, then I came across Ellesmere Island! Yes at the most northern point of our country there is a national reserve, apparently it gets anywhere from 2 to 8 visitors a year (researchers and photographers by the looks of it). I also came across some not so fun facts about the park. At the time of it's creation for any area to be considered part of a country it needed to have a settlement of that country's people, not having any Canadian settlements in the area the clever politicians of the time decided naming the area as a "natural reserve park" in order to expand the country's borders. Later in the 60s this was questioned by an international body and the politicians of the time decided to kidnap an entire Inuit tribe from northern Quebec and "relocate" them to Ellesmere Island, given the Inuit's resourcefulness and exceptional fishing skills they would surely thrive. This was not the case.

Any how the bleak stuff aside I found some sweet photos of the area, it looks fucking amazing. Cold, but still fucking amazing! I just cant possibly figure out any scenario which would justify me taking a trip up to Ellesmere, but man its a part of the world not many get to see... cuz its so fucking cold.

B-52 Bomber flies across U.S. after accidently being armed with Nukes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6980204.stm

Apparently, "At no time was there a threat to public safety". You know, unless it crashed or something.

It's comforting to know the U.S. Military keeps such good track of it's weapons. I wonder what the guy on the other end was thinking when they pulled the missles off the plane.

Lord of War

Apparently, the wars raging around the world, particularily in Iraq and Afghanistan, are putting such a strain on the supplies of ammunition that there is anticipation that the supplies for hunters might go short. Ha, can you imagine if we ran out of bullets?? We'd have to go back to boards with nails in them. Or better yet, lasers!!

Server update #1

I think it's been about 7 months since my server went down, which in the life of a computer is an incredibly long time. I built the system a little over two years ago, so it's definitely showing its age, but should for the most part still live up to its intended use. Ah, sorry for that, I missed its comforting hum, I'm getting a little emotional.

Anyhow, The 'crash' was a harddrive failure on what happened to be the disk that the OS was residing on. It was also the disk where all the home accounts were, the databases, the websites, and... Sigh, pretty much everything. Except! Except, the music and movie, ummm... backups. They were on two other disks that are still accessible.

This however doesn't mean the server is back up and running, it means that I'm not going to bludgeon myself with the computer for not backing up some...

Haha... ok, just went through a slightly fun telephone survey about beer. Yes I like beer, no I don't feel discriminated against by bud, No I don't think Coors light is unintelligent. All in all, it just made me want beer. The choices were Big Rock, Coors Light, Bud, Old Style Pilsner, Molson Canadian that they were interested in. I like Big Rock's range of beers, and quite enjoy Grasshopper and their honey brown. The rest I'd drink if they were the only option. After the whole survey was done, the very nice young lady asks for the first three characters of my postal code to verify that the survey was done in the correct province. I give them to her, and she says that they're not coming up as the correct province. I say they're for Ontario. She asks for my Manitoba one. I don't have a Manitoban postal code, I say. As she's quickly wrapping up her probably pointless survey with me, I relalize that they called my 204 number, which along with my 416 number go to the same phone. Haha, take that Ipsos Reid, Voip's got your number!

Now back to the computer, the plan, is to get two 500GB drives, to create a raid 1 array (Mirrored, both disks contain the exact same info, for redundancy), an external harddrive to back up everthing really important (like photos of my kick ass friends...) and then reinstall the OS and set everything back up. That will take a while, unfortunately, as I don't have a whole bunch of cash for the disks. I could get one 500GB disk now and run the risk of losing everything on that disk, but would have the external HDD for a backup for now.

I do want to get this damn computer back up, for the webserver and the mythtv setup, since I currently have two computers that aren't running anything.

More to come, hopefully I'll get computer parts for my birthday, and all will be good soon.

Cheers,.

Porn on the Internet? The numbers to prove it

It's not much of a mystery that porn is the biggest industry on the internet, but my recent Linux Journal gave some cold, hard (eh, eh ... wink wink... ) numbers:

This from the Linux Journal Index for September 2007:

Percentage of websites that are pornographic: 12
Porno. % of all search engine requests: 25
Porn percentage of all downloads: 35
Number of users viewing porn per second: 28,358
Dollars (US) spent on porn every second: 89
Number of new porn sites going up every day: 266
Estimated billions of porn web pages: 372
Position of sex among the most searched words: 1
US revenue from Internet porn in 2006: 2.84 Billion Dollars
Male percentage of Internet orn users: 72
Percentage of porn traffic during the 9-5 eight-hour workday: 70
Percentage or porn sites produced by the US: 89

There are other's but not as interestingly related to porn.
These numbers were sourced from 'Good Magazine'.

I wonder if the developers of the Internet, mainly the US government and universities, ever thought that they would create something that could deliver so much porn (372 billion webpages) to so many people (28K people/second).

So there you have it, porn does exist on the internet if you look hard enough for it...

Cheers.