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Remove Filter  | Man, this is so cool - they were sifting through a large pile of Thorium. You know how it is with kids, shooting Thorium through a mass spec with their slingshots and WTF! they grabbed one that had a weight of 292 with an atomic # of 122. It has …  |
| | I just recently decided I had to actually take my laptop with me when I leave the house but i get paranoid about even leaving to go to the bathroom. Well, now there is [URL="http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/index.html"]LoJack[/URL] for your laptop/pc (will work in case you pc gets stolen). This s/w is heavily … |
| | The last report I have is that the airspace over the Bolivar peninsula and the west end has been interdicted. Has help arrived in Galveston? Here is a [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0dxJfxsa8"]Houston news report[/URL]. Should we start looking for black helicopters? What about the rumors of Bio-labs in the area? There was not … |
| | The [URL="http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm"]Posse Comitatus[/URL] act is under threat (if it is not already completely negated) by this administration. [URL="http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/Trebilcock.htm"]Consider[/URL] that the military has been used as police (US Marines shot and killed a 14 year old with a .22 in Arizona(?) while on 'border' patrol in a drug interdiction - and … |
| | This 'debate' tonight might be a competition of who can dig themselves to the bottom the fastest. It will happen in slow motion. The master of the non-answer vs the master of foot-in-mouth.  |
| | I will quote the article and [URL="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/tech-tips-for-the-basic-computer-user/?em"]link [/URL]to it:[QUOTE]Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User Last week, I wrote an entry on my blog that began like this: “One of these days, I’m going to write a book called, ‘The Basics.’ It’s going to be a compendium of the essential … |
| | I played MP and MP2 and loved the noir humor. Now it is a movie to be released in September. here is the [URL="http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3394362/9486308"]trailer[/URL]. It has Mona and Bullet-Time and deep mythical voice-over (or do I mean mystical voice-over, nah). Sigh - at least the trailer looks good.  |
| | I was digging through the [URL="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/"]Freakonomics[/URL] blog and ran into this game [URL="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/"]Budget Hero[/URL]. It was fun - try as you might, you can only win by taxing the rich. I got no problem with that! How well can you run the country? |
| | Is there an algorithm for normalizing data? I think I understand the process but how do I know when I have drilled down to the bottom? |
| | I have been trying to convince some friends that early computer geeks made music by banging the printer - well, someone finally collected some of the [URL="http://staging.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/"]'real'[/URL] computer music. This is at least as geeky as that ascii movie someone posted earlier that had a Rammstien soundtrack. |
| | So with McSame and McDame due to be down in LA, they are ready for their show down with Gustav. Naturally, there are some serious mapping groups following along. Here is a time slice of [URL="http://flhurricane.com/googlemap.php?2008s6#"]Gustav[/URL] heading NW. Gustav is bearing right down [URL="http://stormadvisory.org/map/atlantic"]onto LA [/URL] |
| | [B][I][U][COLOR="Red"]Warning![/COLOR][/U][/I][/B] this is a pointer to dethmetal and not for the weak of heart. [URL="http://tinyurl.com/6a4syt"]Happy Birthday to me[/URL] (heh,heh - "I can't drink because I am the F&^$E&^%ing spokesman for a rehab center") - er, after the first bit, you can quit any time. But oh, man it's really addictive … |
| | Cook your hamburger all the way through. No runny eggs. Wash your vegetables. Peel your fruit. Soon if you get sick eating something, it will be your fault not the corporation's that introduced the poisons into the food supply. Does anyone remember when our food supply was safe? There was … |
| | This [URL="http://www.seemerot.com/"]site[/URL] is just EEEEeeeewwwwww! <<[COLOR="Red"]blush[/COLOR]>> I have actually been checking in occasionally over the last 3 or 4 years and did not see much change. |
| | Some fish poachers started a cascade of unintended consequences which ended with some Kamchatka bears -- they approximate Grizzlies and well, [URL="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/23/russia.bears.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch"]read the story[/URL] |
| | Are you hungering for some chocolate cake but don't want to do all that work or eat all that cake? [URL="http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes"]Here[/URL] is a recipe for a 5 minute cake that is just the right amount - would use a small bowl in place of the mug but still....  |
| | I just received this message:[QUOTE]This forum requires that you wait 5 seconds between searches. Please try again in 42 seconds.[/QUOTE]; if I am supposed to wait 5 seconds, why force me to wait 42 seconds (unless it is punishment for being to quick to click). |
| | I was just turned on to a website that tracks a lot of MP3 blogs - thousands of them. If you are looking for something new or want to follow something you know or just dl a couple of mp3 files - check out [URL="http://hypem.com/"]TheHypeMachine[/URL]. It has some standard pages … |
| | I am! I happened to slip into my Control Panel and saw that I had a bunch of hits to my reputation that I did not know about -- is there a bell or flag or something that tells me when my rep has been updated? When I first thought …  |
| | I was whinging about my worst day ever when I realized that one of my best days ever was in the same 24 hour period! I thought I would share it with you and hope you can share yours. We had just climbed most of the way up Mount Rainier … |
| | So, what do the denizens of DaniWeb think about gay marriage in California? The forces for both sides are gearing up for an initiative fight in November that might be more expensive than the presidential battle in the state. The LDS (Mormon), Catholics, and Baptists are contacting all their bishops … |
| | I tripped over these videos earlier today - I used to be a sign-language interpreter (well, I graduated and had a couple gigs before I broke my hand then drifted away). I love this stuff - i used to go to ASL theatrical productions, hang out in 'deafie' bars. Well, … |
| | I can't seem to get the 'increase indent' button to work I suppose I could use the [QUOTE]wrap quote around text[/QUOTE] button that is not what I want to do, [INDENT]trying the indent here[/INDENT] - nope still does not work. b-t-b, is there a [strikeout] [/strikeout] kind of marking? |
| | I have been chortling to myself all night - I just found [URL="http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=176"]this comic[/URL] - my dearest went to bed hours ago but still I continue to click to the next comic. This one struck home. |
| | [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]Well, I finally got all the pieces so that I can build my own pc kit. Here are the pieces I have: G-Force 6800GT (gpu) AMD 64 3200+ Athlon 939 Zalman Ultra cou cooler fan ASUS A8v Deluxe MOBO Maxtor diamondmax 200gig S.ATA Kingston AK2/1gb ddr400 (installed in the blue … |
| | "Today, wheat provides about 20 percent of the food calories for the world’s people. The world wheat harvest now stands at about 600 million metric tons.... WITH food prices soaring throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, and shortages threatening hunger and political chaos, the time could not be worse for … |
| | This is a map of all the streets and only the streets in the lower 48 states. You can almost see the beginnings of the world city. Farmland, mountains, deserts are known by their absence - [URL="http://benfry.com/allstreets/"]come take a look[/URL].  |
| | What the heck is going on?! Suddenly everyone is changing their avatars - I hardly recognize anyone any more. Okay, not everyone but still scrolling down through long threads now takes longer because I can no longer discount people out of familiarity (just kidding).  |
| | I don't normally do this but I have been clicking on these sites for about 5 years or more - I hope that others will also. Every click a bowl of rice, a piece of rain forest, a mammogram, a book, etc..... [URL="http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1"]HungerSite[/URL]. Then if you see something you like … |
| | Processed food companies spend more than $33 billion per year on advertising, nearly 70% of which goes to market snack-foods and alcohol while the GDP of Afghanistan was $35 billion. In 2000, the USDA spent $300 million promoting the consumption of fruits and vegetables while Wrigley's spent $117 million marketing … |
| | I was blown away by the sounds this woman can make - about 13 minutes into her presentation, she makes a marimba sound like an organ. [URL="http://www.evelyn.co.uk/guidance/index.htm"]presentation[/URL]. On her front page, there is a youtube overview of some of her percussion (this is short - not like the 30 minute … |
| | Want a little fun? Try this driving game that puts you in a little car and lets you drive on Google Maps (I drove Paris and Chicago) - [URL="http://www.phatfusion.net/googledrive/"]Google Drive[/URL] |
| | I ran across this interesting bit of medical news: [INDENT]One human chimera came to light when a 52-year-old woman demanded an explanation from doctors after tests showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her. Although the woman, "Jane", conceived them naturally with her husband, tests … |
| | Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least … |
| | Hi all! On my XP machine most of my USB drives do not show up on the My Computer list of drives. I know it can be seen because it shows up on the 'safely remove drive' list and I can get to it via msdos (ewwww). I fixed this … |
| | I no longer have computer access at work (changed positions for a while) and I will be working 70+ hour weeks until christmas (wish me luck). I will miss you all  |
| | jbennet, I had to blow up your avatar to figure out what was behind the muzzle flash (at first I thought it was a Tommy gun) - I can't identify it but it looks like an AK or an AR. Christina>you - your name implies christina is better than you? … |
| | Someone has titled their thread the worst - well, this summer when I was in Paris I saw the best weather person ever. Her name is Femi Oke and she was soooo kool! The news readers on CNN always tried their best to make her laugh (not hard) and she …  |
| | I just dl-ed mbm 5 and I am puzzled/worried by some of the readings I get. The reason I got it was cuz my Asus probe made a dramatic shift in cpu temp. It was running at 28 C -cpu and 22 C -Mobo then suddenly it jumped to 44 … |
| | [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]I am building my 2nd kit (built 1st one in 99 - still going strong but it won't run either Deus X2 or 1/2Life2 so...). My first question: is it worth $100 to buy the cpu/MoBo/memory pre-built and tested (with free 2nd day shipping)? Would it be better to go … |
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