Month: October 2004

Modern Drunkard Magazine’s latest entry is a definitive list of rules to follow when out drinking. I think any serious drinker should consider memorizing all of them so that he can promptly forget them after a beer or six… 😉

phsyicsweb presents what is quite possibly the geekiest Top 10-type list I’ve ever come across: The 20 Greatest Equations. It figures that Maxwell’s Equations won; he’s such a sell-out. Bernoulli was robbed!

To continue the theme of geeky lists, check out some famous curves, including the fabled Lemniscate of Bernoulli.

Although I’m trying to poke fun at these sites, it’s hard to ignore the somewhat ironic fact that I recognize way too much of what I see in them… ;-p

To publicize and celebrate the upcoming release of Firefox 1.0, the Mozilla Foundation has mounted a campaign to collect contributions to place a full-page ad in the New York Times. If you participate, your name will appear in the ad, and you’ll be helping spread the word in a big way. I’ve contributed (of course); be sure to look for “Andrew ‘driko’ Chorney” amongst the thousands of names… 😉

The Periodic Table Of Funk starts out right with none other than James Brown:

Lesson Number One: thou shalt bow to the one true Godfather of Soul, James Brown. The man, the music, the brand new funky President. Damn straight blood was the hardest workin’ man in show bit-ness.

“I got something that makes me wanna shout. I got something tells me what its all about. I got soul and I’m super bad.”

DVDAnswers.com has posted the second part of its excellent scene by scene comparison of the original, Special Edition, and DVD releases of the first Star Wars trilogy, now featuring Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back. In case you missed it, I posted a link to the first part a couple of days ago.

Check out the transcript of the recent John Stewart interview on CNN’s Crossfire, in which, among many other hilariously incisive and barbed observations about the show and its hosts, he says of annoying bow-tied conservative Tucker Carlson, “You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.” You can find a video clip on this page, which is sure to circulate quickly. I love John Stewart; this just made my day… 🙂

For some history on Stewart’s feelings about Crossfire, take a look at the transcript from a July 2003 Bill Moyer interview on PBS.

Update: ifilm has a video clip from John Stewart’s first Daily Show appearance since the above Crossfire interview, in which he is disarmingly unapologetic about his comments. You da man, John.

CNN reports that “An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal [121.5 MHz] picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.” I think one of the first Slashdot comments is a good call: “It turns out it got stuck on the Lifetime network, so it really was in a state of distress.” 🙂

I know I said that I’d stop posting about the Star Wars DVDs, but this page was too good to ignore. DVDAnswers.com has posted an excellent scene by scene comparison (with screen shots) of the original, Special Edition, and DVD releases of the first Star Wars trilogy, starting with Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Very cool and informative…

PopCap Games’ newest game, AstroPop, is pretty fun, although I couldn’t get it to launch in Firefox… 🙁

The ever-expanding Yetisports series has its latest incarnation, Yetisports 7: Snowboard Freeride. Enjoy…