Evil Spud Boy

Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor Not an Auctioneer.

ABC News reports that William Shatner sold his kidney stone to GoldenPalace.com for $25,000. The money is being donated to Habitat for Humanity. It went to a great charity and all, but ewww. Evil Spud Boy’s sources say that Shatner was later heard asking, “How much for a couple of Klingons?”

January 18, 2006
Just For the Taste of it… Diet Toke

It seems that scientists have unlocked the secrets of how marijuana causes the munchies. This research could lead to the development of new drugs for the treatment of obesity. According to the article:

January 17, 2006
Cool Keyboard

Check out the Optimus Keyboard. It’s very cool. Each key is made up of an array of OLEDs so that they can change function for various programs. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist. The site says it is supposed to be released in 2006 but that could be optimistic.

January 16, 2006
License and Registration, Please…Poopysnotface.

In a recent post, Bruce Schneier writes about the problem of authenticating credentials when it’s not common knowledge how to distinguish fake credentials from real ones. He references a story about a man being pulled over by an officer who turns out to be a fake. And as Bruce states, “There’s no obvious way to…

January 13, 2006
Upgrade to WordPress 2.0

I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.0. Everything looks fine to me, but if you notice any strange behavior, let me know.

January 12, 2006
I’m an Excellent Blogger

Dad let’s me blog slow on the internet. But not on Monday, definitely not on Monday. I guess you can’t put much faith in online quizzes… After reading this post on Steve Pavlina’s blog, I decided I would take the Autism Quotient test myself. While I’m answering the questions, I’m thinking, “Hmmm I bet I…

January 11, 2006
The Mixing Engineers Handbook

I began learning guitar a little over two years ago at the tender young age of forty. At this stage in my life, the amount of time I have available for me to spend practicing guitar is in short supply. I also don’t have many opportunities to play with other musicians. For these reasons and…

January 9, 2006
I Can Hear The Lawyers Sharpening Their Pencils

I just read this article about a new product that will allow you to automatically record individual songs off of the radio as mp3’s. Apparently it uses a special algorithm to identify individual songs and record them as seperate mp3’s.

January 6, 2006
What’s a Viacube?

It says here it will transform how I live, work, eat, sleep, etc… [Update: the teaser page I originally linked to is now the product page] It doesn’t say what it is. I hope it’s not another Segway. It looks like they are exhibiting at the CES. Maybe we will know soon what it is.…

January 5, 2006
New Robotics Kit From Lego

Look! Lego is coming out with a new robot kit. I had their first one (My wife got it for me) but I never did much with it. This one looks about ten times cooler though. [ad#co-1]

January 5, 2006