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New Design, Now With Tentacles

• Monday, July 24th, 2006 • No Comments

Yeah, new design, finally another custom-made one instead of a template, which I was unhappy with.

As of right now it’s woefully incomplete and broken, but I wanted to get it up and running so I could see if it works. No more advertisements here, I wasn’t making any money off of them anyway.


Welcome to My New Mantra

• Thursday, July 20th, 2006 • No Comments

Kind of.

“We in the Church of 80 Percent Sincerity do not believe in miracles,” he said. “But we do believe that you have to stay alert, because good things happen. When God opens the door, you’ve got to put your foot in it. Look, 80 percent sincerity is about as good as it’s going to [...]


Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?

• Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 • 1 Comment

This collection of photographs containing the shadow of the photographer, courtesy of Swapatorium, are eerily haunting. I almost end up imagining that it is the same person taking every single photo.

I’ve been playing the Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay game on my computer, and the fact that you see your own body and shadow really [...]


Happy Morning

• Monday, June 19th, 2006 • No Comments

I know I posted this in my del.icio.us already, but the Tolerate Mornings website (courtesy of Folgers, who are geniuses for allowing this to come to be) has a high quality version of the commercial that rules all commercials. Go to Tolerate Mornings and click on the television in the bottom left, and I assure [...]


Hmm

• Thursday, June 15th, 2006 • No Comments

This Sploid article is all about why I love our government.


Blade Runner Gun

• Thursday, May 25th, 2006 • 1 Comment

I don’t often want completely useless expensive junk that just clutters up everything, but if I were to want something, well, this non-firing replica of Deckard’s gun from Blade Runner would do.

Ironic.. that there is a… replica… of the gun that Deckard used to… kill Replicants!

OMG LOL.

I’m pretty sure I just totally used “irony” incorrectly.

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The Danger of the Hispanic Influence

• Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 • No Comments

This article at Sploid on American prison statistics has an interesting little bit of data.

In 1990 Hispanics represented 27 percent of the prison population. Last year they were down to just 22 percent. At this rate whites will outnumber Hispanics by the year 2020.

According to the article, imprisonment for white individuals has gone up by [...]


Chatsum’s New Hotness

• Monday, May 22nd, 2006 • No Comments

Chatsum has just launched to another ~1,500 people, after seeming to be completely dead for several very sad months. Along with opening the beta up further, they have finally launched user profiles. For a good example, look at my user profile and tell me that it isn’t awesome. Because it is awesome, and if you [...]