Some miscellaneous stuff.  I can blog it right from MS Word, so I did.

Discover Music - Pandora – music recommendation service.  I want to check it out later.
Cyprus nude teacher prank turns into whodunnit – maybe, just maybe, if you are a teacher, you shouldn’t take nude pix of yourself with the cell phone you take to school.  Just get a regular digital cam to take your risque shots.  Better yet, DON”T TAKE NUDE PIX!!!
idiot of the week – This guy in Iran makes me re-think my position on assassinating foreign leaders.
posted by Ed at 7:16 AM

More Quizziness

You fit in with: Taoism Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life. 20% spiritual. 20% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

posted by Ed at 9:32 PM

the Idiot Savant (33% dark, 61% spontaneous, 42% vulgar)

your humor style: VULGAR | SPONTANEOUS | LIGHT You like things silly, immediate, and, above all, outrageous. Ixne on the subtle word play, more testicles on fire, please. People like you are the most likely to RECEIVE internet forwards--and also the most likely to save them in a special folder entitled 'HOLY SHIT'. Because it's so easily appreciated, and often wacky and physical, your sense of humor never ceases to amuse your friends. Most realize that there's a sly intelligence and a knowing wink to your tastes. Your sense of humor could be called 'anti-pretentious'--but paradoxically enough, that indicates you're smarter than most. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Johnny Knoxville - Jimmy Kimmel The 3-Variable Funny Test! - it rules - If you're interested, try my latest: The Terrorism Test

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 19% on darkness You scored higher than 94% on spontaneity You scored higher than 71% on vulgarity

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

posted by Ed at 12:13 PM

Here are some high school sports / high school football links -
Philadelphia Inquirer
Patriot News HS football
Dotun Akintoye and Zach Raffle Senior Project

PSU page with PA 2005 all state team
pennlive football blog
USA Today Super 25
NJ.com hs football forum
posted by Ed at 9:07 PM

How will you die?

Pretty morbid question, huh? Well, it all started when there was a line at the library. Of course, I need to take out more than the 35 books/tapes/cd's/dvd's that I already have out, right? So, since there's a line, I sit down at a computer. I'm surfing around, checking out my stumbleupon page when I decide to check out where bizarre-girl has been stumbling. So I get The Death Psychic - a site that will predict how you will die. My death will be, "While using a chainsaw to help your friend cut down a tree, you slip and sever your leg. You die from rapid blood loss." Put yours in a comment.
posted by Ed at 7:46 PM

It all started while I was listening to Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps" CD and the song Powderfinger came on. I'd always gotten a Civil War vibe from the song - the first person protagonist's father had gone off to fight for the Confederacy, and the 22 year old was left to take care of the farm in his father's absence. Maybe it's after the war and the son survived, but the father did not. This site analyzes the lyrics with more depth, but less specificity. This also led me to the neil young-lynyrd skynyrd connection, since Powderfinger was reportedly offered to Skynyrd to record. The skynyrd-young connection was also immortalized by the band Throwback, which is local to me.
posted by Ed at 12:37 PM

This just in - some late night blogging -

PartyECU - if you're interested in partying at East Carolina University. Don't ask how I found this.

Some webshots at Penn State - emphasis on shots.
posted by Ed at 12:22 AM

I hit the "BlogThis" button & this is what I got: and now there is this distance.
posted by Ed at 2:06 PM

Tracks in the Blue Nowhere

Matthew Rabin
from this Slate article
slate is very self-referential, aren't they?

Ayn Rand ripples
Monroe Trout
The link to Monroe Trout
from the who is john galt search
posted by Ed at 1:24 PM

Since I can't stumble.

Lego story via Fark
Hooters Manual
posted by Ed at 10:39 AM

DC Blogs

DC Urban Family - written by some gay guy - occassionally pretends he is one of his female house mates
Chase-ing Random Thoughts - Some bimbo who likes country music.
Miss Penny Lane - lots of pix.
posted by Ed at 5:59 PM

Interesting Book

Confronting Reality at ccls.org
Confronting Reality at amazon.com
posted by Ed at 11:27 AM

CNET vs. google

How things change at Google by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- In an interview with PCWorld.com on January 30, 2002, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked if he wanted to be the next Yahoo. His response: "What we do is search. Yahoo is a portal with a myriad of specialized services. What Google does is sufficiently limited. It's not really targeted at what Yahoo or AOL is trying to [...]

the book scanning thing is on hold - Here's a good summary from Corante

another article - forbes.com comments - blogpulse on the subject

I don't know what to think. I'm addicted to google, no matter how evil they may become. I even used google news to generate my links for this entry. And, of course, this is on blogger, which google graciously provides to me for free.

posted by Ed at 3:39 PM

More Chrysler

I came across a 1970 Chrysler 300 convertible on an ebay auction (no link to the car because it will be gone before anyone reads this.) It looked pretty cool, so I looked for some more links:

1970 300 Convertible

Another one

a 1970 fury - looks the same
Fury stories from allpar
posted by Ed at 6:22 AM

What is LifeHacking?

I found the article, LifeHacking Your Grocery List via stumbleupon. But what is LifeHacking? Lifehacking and enhancing productivity has some links, but not a definition. Lifehacker is a blog. As testified by caff in her LIFEHACKING - take control of your life! post on the freedon crows nest forums. Caff has a blog, too, Caffeinated Thinking. Maybe I can figure out LifeHacking later.

Oh, yeah, some search engine news, too.
posted by Ed at 10:38 PM

posted by Ed at 11:33 AM

I STILL need to do this.

Simple advice for securing your home wireless LAN by ZDNet's George Ou -- When I wrote this previous blog "Hack most wireless LANs in minutes!" which mostly focused on insecure corporate wireless LANs, it seemed to generate more questions than answers which is typical every time I go in to this topic. Many of the comments and questions were based on home security so I answered them as [...]

MS WPA update

WPA tutorial
More George Ou on home networkign
posted by Ed at 8:58 PM

Article about spyware. Has a bunch of links to other resources.
posted by Ed at 8:06 PM

Interesting article on teen driving. Lipton green tea commercial featuring Little Bitty Pretty One. Tech Recipes entry for finding mp3s on google that I used to find Little Bitty Pretty One.
posted by Ed at 10:39 PM

Why? I don't know.

1960 Chrysler Imperial
Blue Imperial on a German site
Imperial chronology on answers.com
some Chrysler pix
Allpar.com - cool Mopar info.

posted by Ed at 10:26 PM

Thursday night

Almost done Killer Instinct. Still have a way to go in The Devil in the White City, but it's a pretty good story. Not as engrossing as Jane Hamsher's book, but pretty good all the same. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for Lab 257. It's subtitled, "the disturbing story of the government's secret Plum Island germ laboratory," but the part I found the most disturbing was that the author, Michael Christopher Carroll, couldn't put together a coherent enough story to make me care. There is certainly some crazy stuff going on at Plum Island, but even though the book has been published, I think that the government has kept the lid on things.

I loaded up some film into my Kodak Retina Automatic III tonight. It's had me stymied for a month trying to figure out what batteries it uses. It doesn't use any batteries! I really need to update Redwolf's Den. I want to add a camera section for all of the cheap old 35 mm rangefinders I've been buying on e-bay. I also need to get my 2 year old content off of the front page, and put some "new" old pictures up. And all of the book musings could be there, too.

Xanga sucks

posted by Ed at 10:13 PM

At the Lib

Well, I have 15 minutes left on the computer, and I feel compelled to write something, so I may have to add some links later (or not). I got Jane Hamsher's book from the Montco Lib yesterday, so maybe I will read it. Read Paul on the Playoffs while it's still there. It has made him more famous than his basketball skills, which, while prodigious, are only barely NBA level. I'll post this on Xanga, too, just so I posted something. Like I said, very few links. Gotta get home and do yardwork & stuff.

posted by Ed at 3:37 PM

Two hour blackout during the storm last night. Will any of this be interesting later? Probably not. Here it is anyway.
Chris Locke rant - do you think he ever read Harry Turtledove's Colonization series? CBO home
The old CBO link that led to this.

Check out my cheap pc page.

posted by Ed at 6:10 AM

Like MP3's?

I've been finding mp3 blog aggregator by typing mp3 blog into google, but this evening I went a little farther and found some more links, including this great mefi mp3 blog thread and this monkeyfilter mp3 link collection. Screw the RIAA, listen to indy.

posted by Ed at 10:20 PM

I really wish I had time to write something. By the time I can sit down to write here, I won't be able to get anything to transfer from my brain to my fingers. merijn.org publisher of HijackThis.
posted by Ed at 8:43 AM

Montco Library links don't work. The google satellite images on Xanga suck. So here's something for your viewing pleasure.
posted by Ed at 11:09 PM

More weirdness & better links riffing on last Saturday's post. Gods of Death at Amazon. In Hitler's Shadow at Chester County Library. Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City at ccls. Jane Hamsher's Killer Instinct using ISBN search in the Montco system.
posted by Ed at 6:25 PM

how did i get...?

This pre-9/11 review of Pat Buchanan's A Republic, Not an Empire seems a little silly now. Maybe the whole book does. Hit the back button, and I'm looking at another 1999 complaint about Buchanan's book. Back once more, and it's another Slate review of a conservative history book, Thomas Woods' The politically incorrect guide to American history . Back once more, into the fray (pun intended) and Slate is telling me that Honest Abe wasn't really gay. Twice. (Or maybe he was really gay in that last one.) All from a google desktop search for some e-book info on my hard drive. gds can be absolutely miraculous early in the morning.

posted by Ed at 6:14 AM

In a Blogging State of Mind

Based on the way I'm feeling right now, I could blog all day about all the interesting stuff I'm finding and thinking. And I haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. I will probably have to break this up into multiple entries & it still won't make any sense. Ain't stream of consciousness great?

Well, the coffee is heating up, so let's get going. The other night, while I was watching the Celtics-Pacers wacky game 6, I posted on my Xanga how I used to write so much more. I doubt I can make up for a year & a half of neglect in one Saturday morning, but I can try. Of course, I've also promised to take Dogboy to Borders and I want to go to the library to pick up The Devil in the White City, the story of H.H. Holmes, one of America's most prolific serial killers. Speaking of killers, I also came across Jane Hamsher's blog. She is the producer of Natural Born Killers. (See, she's even got her own listing on the Montgomery County Library & Information and Network Consortium. I bet when Jane was a little girl, she always dreamed of having her own entry in a consortium database. ("And, it's a shanty." Peter Griffin)(BTW, I tivo'd the new episode of Family Guy on my home-made tivo (it's not really a tivo, but an AMD 2800 PC with an ATI TV tuner/out video card in an Antec Overture case - you know, I could link all this stuff, but it's too much like work. I'll put a pic of the computer/tv setup on redwolf7782's Xanga Site. Also, Jane's book is in Norristown. Normally, I would stop on my way home, but I may just have to have it shipped to Horsham.

Ain't brownies and coffee just about the best breakfast ever?

posted by Ed at 9:03 AM

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

posted by Ed at 11:52 PM

20th century images

posted by Ed at 9:21 PM

Google search about Electrochemically Assisted Microbial Production of Hydrogen from Acetate.
posted by Ed at 9:15 PM

College Links

Canadian Learning Co.
College Opportunities On-Line
Education Resource Organizations Directory
US News
Shaw Guides
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Education Finance Statistics Center (EFSC) Home Page
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page
Scientist and Engineer Statistical Data System
WebCASPAR - easy access to a large body of statistical data resources for science and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions

posted by Ed at 7:30 PM

Three Years!

My first post was 3 years ago last Saturday. How time flies when you're having fun.

posted by Ed at 12:09 PM

Lord of the Rings, the Third Age - Gamecube

On a request, I am trying to track down Gamecube specific info for LOTR-3rd Age. I'm not sure how successful I will be, but I will keep track of things here.

Here is the IGN Game Guide, they are ususally pretty good. I think this is general for all platforms, not Gamecube specific.

Gamewinners has some info, too. More like strategy suggestions than a guide, but it might be some help.

posted by Ed at 9:02 AM