This great fashion newsclipping via The Consumerist:
[tags]Wal-Mart – pinnacle of fashion center?[/tags]
Free MMORPG
(via Blue’s News)
I haven’t signed up yet, because I wanted to post about this before my attention got pulled away, but this new free MMO from The Five Pillars could be interesting.
The Five Pillars is a strategic multiplayer online game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic fantasy world.
. . .
As you create your character, you must choose a magical alignment for it. Five different alignments exist in this world and every one of those has its strengths and weaknesses. You can be a nature mage commanding huge beasts to protect your forests from getting cut down. Perhaps you want to wield the awesome power of the ever raging desert storms into building a powerful empire. You may be interested in the mysteries of the north in the form of elemental magic. Swamps are filled with deadly insects and the practice of dark arts. Or maybe you will be a mountain mage expertising in devastating spells that will crush your enemies?
I’m going to try this one out. If I get a little play time on it, perhaps I’ll post more about it.
[tags]Free MMO, The Five Pillars new MMORPG[/tags]
Great – now we all have to check out real estate in Franklin, TN
(via Engadget)
We all want fatter digital pipes for a lower cost, right? I mean, all the normal people. I know there are people who think it is acceptable to live mostly off-line, but I like to think of them as moderately to significantly insane. So ignoring those wackos, can we all agree that Franklin, TN is starting to look more interesting than we would have every guessed?
A few weeks ago, Brent Ware took his teenage son on a trip around the world to meet with international clients.
Ware, CEO of Tenvera Inc., said his son was shocked at the technological advantages other parts of the world – especially the Far East – have over the United States. Ware wants to cut that advantage down for Americans with a fiber-optic home networking system that could change the way people all over the world live, entertain and work in their homes.
Tenvera is a Franklin-based company beginning production this month of System 5 technology. Also known as Fiber in the Home (FITH), it takes fiber-optic networking to its final destination: the home.
And Tenvera is working with builders in its hometown to get more fiber in more houses. And I want some of that. Guess I need to find work in the Nashville area, get the wife to find work there, sell the house, move, and enjoy big fat bandwidth numbers.
[tags]Fiber to the home in Franklin TN, Tenvera testing fiber to the home[/tags]
Narcissism higher in celebrities
News to no one: higher incidence of narcissism in celebrities than general population.
When you wish upon a star
Pictures that lie
A revealing look at photos that lie over at C|Net’s News.com. With the article is a collection of 24 altered pictures, some shown with the original un-doctored image, and an explanation of what and why alterations were made. Some of the changes are minor, while others are fairly substantial modifications of photos.
The article starts with this original and modified photo of Katie Couric, and shows other photos sometimes changed for intentional dramatic effect, sometimes for humorous story-telling, and sometimes just to allow more image to be viewed in a limited sized picture.
[tags]Pictures that lie, Modifying the photos we see[/tags]
Murder – it’s not just for breakfast any more
(via Blues News)
I have no idea what my headline means.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested after authorities say she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo appeared on her boyfriend’s MySpace.com Web page.
Heather Michelle Kane was booked Tuesday for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder, Mesa Detective Jerry Gissel said.
She was arrested after she met an undercover Mesa police detective at a grocery store, gave the officer $400 and offered to pay an additional $100 once the woman had been killed, according to court records.
Whoa! $500 total? Man, I had no idea murder was so cheap. In one of my favorite jokes, it’s $10,000 per person, but the hitman is able to save his customer $10,000 (yes, that joke).
[tags]Murder most affordable, MySpace murder plot[/tags]
Today in History – US Constitution is signed
With all the efforts by our current and recent government leaders to reduce our rights and take away privacy, this might not be nearly as important as it used to be, but we can still celebrate when our leaders signed the Constitution. Back then, the Constitution and the follow-on Bill of Rights served as a sign that our leaders were trying to improve the country, protect the people, and assure the citizens that the government was to serve the people, not intrude upon their lives and remove liberties.
The Constitution of the United States of America is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U.S. states.
. . .
On May 25, 1787, delegates representing every state except Rhode Island convened at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional Convention. The building, which is now known as Independence Hall, had earlier seen the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the signing of the Articles of Confederation. The assembly immediately discarded the idea of amending the Articles of Confederation and set about drawing up a new scheme of government. Revolutionary War hero George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, was elected convention president.
. . .
On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution–the Bill of Rights–and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of these amendments were ratified in 1791. In November 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Rhode Island, which opposed federal control of currency and was critical of compromise on the issue of slavery, resisted ratifying the Constitution until the U.S. government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island voted by two votes to ratify the document, and the last of the original 13 colonies joined the United States. Today, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world.
King George was a threat to all these ideas then, just as King George is a threat to these ideas now. Not that my conservative friends agree, but I just don’t like all the recent laws that have reduced our rights and privacy in the name of fighting terrorism.
[tags]Today in History, The US Constitution is signed, The threat of King George[/tags]
Pop the bubbles
Come on – you know you can’t resist just popping a few bubbles. Click to pop, or enable manic mode to pop with a simple mouse-over.
[tags]Pop the bubbles, Virtual bubble wrap to pop[/tags]
Dual Analogs honors Steve Irwin, retro style
This is a great comic. The Pitfall crocodiles mourn Steve Irwin. I’m not posting the image this time, because you need to hit the site to acknowledge the artist’s effort.
[tags]Steve Irwin and the Pitfall crocs, A retro homage to Steve Irwin[/tags]
On the PS3 delay
I’m pretty sure I said earlier in the year that the PlayStation 3 wouldn’t come out on time. Of course, I’m too lazy to even go search my own site to find out when I said that. With the latest news that the Europe launch will be delayed (damn near half a year, if I recall correctly) and that instead of the 4 million at launch Sony predicted, they will be short about 1 million and only ship 1.5 to 2 million (still not sure how that’s 1 million short, but them thar be Sony’s words), this comic seems to properly capture the nature of the launch.
[tags]Latest on the PS3 delay, Humor on the PlayStation delay[/tags]
Those damned magicians
MSNBC.com has this tragic tale to tell us. A Nigerian man was slaughtering a goat. Sometime during or shortly after the slaughter, the goat turned into his brother. Naturally, such an even can only occur when magic is involed.
A Nigerian murder suspect accused of killing his brother with an ax told police investigators he actually attacked a goat, which was only later magically transformed into his sibling’s corpse, officials said Thursday.
The man, whose name wasn’t released, offered police his explanation after his arrest Tuesday in the death of his brother the previous day at Isseluku village in southern Nigeria.
“He said that the goats were on his farm and he tried to chase them away. When one wouldn’t move, he attacked it with an ax. He said it then turned into his brother,” Police Commissioner Udom Ekpoudom told the Associated Press.
I totally understand. I have often seen the dragons that roam my street magically turn in to cars when the sun comes up.
[tags]Man kills goat which turns into brother, Magic makes mad mockery – murderer mauled mountainous mammal[/tags]