Glorifying Hitler is a sure way to get positive public relations, no? I think it’s rather brave of the mobs to put all their cards face up on the table like that. Too bad the media didn’t really take notice of it. Maybe if we got Cheney to shoot someone holding that sign it would make the front page of the news.

The Lynch Mob (No longer available) takes a stab at FUD. They’re predicting some rather pricy components will go into the PS3, but they’re completely forgetting their own previous estimates along with many recent news items that show some of their claims to be completely false. First of all, Take a calculator, go to where they list the costs, and add them up. It adds up to $800 not $900. Do you really want to trust your money to someone who makes that mistake?

Pop Mechanics’ post-action report on katrina (No longer available) debunking random myths. I’m tossing this here so I can refer to it later when someone starts spouting off on it. Like Jerry Doyle. I can’t believe how he seems to have fallen for the whole thing hook line and sinker.

Picked one up 2 weeks ago. They were definitely right about it having an adjustment period. I was sore and didn’t sleep well for about a week there. Today though was an interesting experience. Normally I can’t completely wake up in the morning without resetting my alarm for a future time and plopping back into bed. This time I snapped awake right when the alarm went off (6 hours after going to sleep) went in and turned it off, then stayed up.

This article from UCLA (No longer available) has an amusing bit of logic to it. But he was unrepentant, and blamed the west’s view of Islam as the primary cause of the violence.“This protest is not about the cartoons, offensive as they are,” he said. “There has been intense psychological pressure on Muslims. We have heard western politicians relate our faith to terrorism, over and over again, and it is too much.

I did finally get that AMD Sempron64 2800+ processor put into my secondary desktop. It’s a swift little computer too. The only problems I’ve had so far with AMD64 Linux is the deinterlacers on TVTime and the fact that you need the closed source nvidia driver for the video card. I finally have it working, but it’s basically in 640x240 mode on the tv until I can get them going again.

I’m trying to come up with good ways of phrasing some energy related ideas. I’ve been listening to some talk radio, reading some news articles on the web, and I’ve come to the conclusion that nobody has a bloody clue when it comes to our energy problems. For one, it seems like they don’t recognize that we actually have two separate problems. One is Stationary energy generation/collection, the other is Portable energy storage.

The whole cartoon muhammed thing keeps getting sillier. I found this article from ABC (Link Dead) to be interesting, but the point I took issue to was on the last page. French theologian Sohaib Bencheikh spoke out against the pictures in a column in France Soir accompanying them Wednesday.“One must find the borders between freedom of expression and freedom to protect the sacred,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, the West has lost its sense of the sacred.

Review of controllers (Link Dead) which completely misses many of the improvements in Playstation controllers and assigns them to the wrong place. I guess it’s understandable because it’s a nintendo magazine, but it’s almost like the guy has never touched a PS1, dualshock, or dualshock 2 controller in his life. ;) No change for the PS1 pad from the SNES? My nitpick on that would be the extra 2 triggers. Pushing in of the analog sticks and rumble feature added in the Dualshock 2?

They obviously can’t laugh at themselves. I suppose that’s the same for all religions, but to actually storm a government building with guns because of a newspaper printing an unflattering cartoon is a little loony. I suppose christians confronting the same thing with Jesus might do the same thing, direct to the newspaper, without the guns…