Intellectual Poison

Now playing: Alice Cooper - School's Out
via FoxyTunes

That is all.

Labels: music, vacation

I've had FireFox 3 installed for the last week or so (whichever day the new version was officially released and the record breaking attempt was started).

One of the truly best things about the browser is that it is completely extensible, customizable and malleable. Just this morning I was very happy to find out that my favorite (nay, only) theme has been updated to work with FireFox 3. Its called OldFactory Black and is only available on Alex's website for now, it should be added to the Mozilla add-ons page within a few days but I've posted the link the reviews on the FF2 version of the theme.

Among the other extensions that I've installed and love.
Twitterbar - easy updating your Twitter via the address bar.
FlashBlock - take control of Flash animations. This should be included in the default download of FireFox.
FoxyTunes - take control of music and sounds. Control your iTunes, control website music and more, all in the bottom bezel of your browser screen. Also allows easy addition of music into emails, blog posts and other places. Very cool!
PicLens - if you do anything with images, photos or graphics online, get and use PicLens. It makes viewing images cool and fast and awesome. Really. Integration with Flickr makes it absolutely fantastic. The newest version also supports videos too but I've not played around with that aspect so much.
FaviconizeTab - if you are like me and end up with more than a dozen tabs open at once then you'll get some utility out of FaviconizeTab. It reduces the tab to just the favicon giving you more space on your tab bar for more tabs.
Gspace - this lets you make use of all that free mail space you get with Gmail as online storage for video, photos, whatever you want.
Delicious Bookmarks - the official add-on for the online bookmark sharing site. Nicely integrated!

Other useful stuff. Type about:config into your address bar and you'll be asked if you are sure you want to proceed. Click yes and you'll be presented with an amazing assortment of options to adjust, speed up, expand and otherwise tweak your FireFox so that it is exactly what you want for your needs and bandwidth. Seriously, you can change just about every aspect of the application. I wouldn't recommend diving and changing settings willy-nilly, best to get yourself a guide before going crazy.

All of this is just scratching the surface of what FireFox can do and why it so absolutely smokes every other browser available. Got a favorite extension I don't know about? Leave a note in the comments and let me know.

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Now playing: Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
via FoxyTunes

Labels: extension, firefox, theme, utility

Today is the last day of my contract with the school for the year. Which means tomorrow is the first day of my summer vacation. Only it won't be much of a vacation because I will be either working on projects or watching the kids so my wife can work on projects.

I spent about ten minutes listing out some projects I'd like to tackle during this break and it quickly spanned the length of the page. Not all of them are things I can tackle, like the electrical and plumbing work, but the majority of them are going to be all on me. Which is totally fine.

But the list will have to wait until Thursday at the earliest as we are going up to the city tomorrow to do a zoo and Exploratorium day with the boys. It will be a good break to get away from the house, go do something fun as a family and I've heard nothing but fantastic things about the Exploratorium (with the exception of the fact that it gets crowded but everything does these days). We're also going to be staying at a cool hotel for the night which will be fun too. And I think there are some cable cars in the schedule as well.

It really has taken a huge load of my shoulders to know that I've got a contract for the fall. It doesn't necessarily mean I'll be working full-time but it means I have options open to me and I can pursue other avenues without the taint of desperation hanging over me (which makes any sell about ten times harder).

Not that I especially want to change jobs but I owe it to my family to keep an eye out for a better paying position back in my regular line of work. I am looking forward to possibly being able to sleep in a bit more as this whole getting up well before 7 got old after about two days (and yes, I know I could be setting myself up for an even earlier wake up time with a new job).

Labels: break, projects, summer, work

About a year ago, I was experimenting with different domains to create my photography site. I registered three, I think. And I always make for damned sure not to select anything that auto-renews the domain when it expires because I don't know if I'm going to use it.

I just got an email notifying me that one of the domains I registered has auto-renewed itself for $10. I did not authorize this, I did not want this domain anymore and the company needs to be making this right or I'll be disputing it with my credit card company.

I don't get why these companies think they can do whatever they want, change settings, bill credit cards and the like and they think nobody will notice or care. I noticed and I care.

I'll be giving them one chance to make it right and then I'm going to unload my digital fury on them. Assholes.

Labels: bad business

Fireworks Banned in Watsonville because of the extreme fire danger presented by them and the fact that we've already got 1000 wild fires presently burning in California.

We really don't need more fireworks making it worse.

Of course, there will still be a ton of illegal fireworks shot off over my town. But the volume should be way down, the police reaction should be way up and, hopefully, nobody's house will get burned down.

Plus my dog might not spend the entire night having conniptions because of the booms.

Today's Alliteration Alphabet will be the letter B.

Babes bicycling by beach boys bounce bodily building big boners.

Labels: alliteration

** Warning, scatological post ahead, veer off if poop or poop-chat scares or otherwise squigs you out. Or haikus for that matter. **
As is the norm, Ryan's blogThunderjournal has at least one post on the front page that deals with some aspect of poop. I happened to look at his banner of ads above the title and noticed a few that were poop-based so I clicked one and found this delightful breakdown of the seven stages of stools. Previously to this find, I'd pretty much called a turd a turd. But now I've been empowered (and so have you). Now I can reliably categorize my fecal activities according to the scale. Not that I expect anyone wants to know that I made a Type 4 verging on a Type 5 this morning. But it is nice to know that I can be more precise in describing my crap to others.

Some of the descriptions almost read like haikus. In fact, with just a little work, they could be!

Type 1
Separate hard lumps
Like nuts or rabbit droppings
Hard passage with grunts

Type 2
Sausage-shaped and rough
Lumpy but all in one piece
Elicits the Ahhhhh

Type 3
Like a sausage but
Cracked all over its surface
Call it Playdough poop

Type 4
Looks like a sausage
Or like a smooth and soft snake
Sphincter slithering

Type 5
Soft blobs of feces
With distinct edges and shapes
Passes easily

Type 6
Fluffy pieces with
Ragged edges of fecosity
A sad mushy stool

Type 7
Watery with no
Solid pieces to speak of
All liquid spatter

There now, has your day been enriched?

Labels: haiku, poop, stool

I've long held that fashion shows are just a way to ogle pretty people in hideous clothes. And, of course, fawn all over the designer who created those cutting edge experiments in completely useless clothing. Take our handsome boy on the left there in his chest thong. There is no way, no how that ridiculous looking piece of shit outfit is ever going to be adopted as daily wear.

I'm sure there's some message being conveyed by the black stripe descending into the fabric around his crotch but who cares? It looks uncomfortable and, more importantly, stupid.

Make the thong part into a bandoleer filled with shot glasses or slightly angled throwing knives and we'll talk. Not for long but longer than we would if you were trying to sell me on this stupid outfit. The corn rows aren't doing him any favors either.

I wonder if it comes with black socks and sandals too?

Labels: fashion, stupidity

Grammy Winner Joss Stone: Piracy Is Brilliant; I Love It

"Yeah, I love it. I think it's brilliant and I'll tell you why. Music should be shared. It's ok, if one person buys it, it's totally cool, burn it up, share it with your friends, I don't care. I don't care how you hear it as long as you hear it. As long as you come to my show, and have a great time listening to the live show it's totally cool. I don't mind. I’m happy that they hear it."

Quite a refreshing mindset but it really shouldn't be. Every musician should embrace potential fans by encouraging the sharing of music. It hurts no one, it helps the artists and it makes the fans not feel like criminals.

Prince, Metallica and Madonna could (and should) learn a lesson from Joss.

Prince Sues Musicians For Making A Tribute Album For His Birthday

Prince used to be one of those musicians who appeared to understand the changing landscape of music. He embraced digital distribution, he allowed downloads of his songs, he gave away an album.

And then something changed, maybe he started hanging out with the douchebags from Metallica or Madonna. Maybe someone whispered in his ear about how much money he was losing because of piracy. Maybe he's always been a grumpy little prick.

Either way, he's going the extra mile to scorch and burn his fans. This latest ridiculousness is to sue a bunch of Norwegian musicians making a tribute album for him. Which is to say, Prince is a seriously grumped out little prick.

Stupid move, Prince. Embrace the revolution, don't try to swim upstream because you'll just drown.

Without much fanfare yesterday afternoon I completed step one in a long project to consolidate and clean up and categorize and make the most of my iTunes libraries. I'd somehow gotten myself into an arrangement with multiple libraries with lots of crossover music but no one place where all of it resided together.

When I got my laptop back from Apple with a much larger hard drive I was given the opportunity to drag and drop four or five libraries into iTunes and then go through the slow process of removing duplicates. When I started I had more than 6000 duplicated songs, most were simple dupes but a good proportion were live versions of studio songs and not really things I wanted to get rid of.

I did a little bit here and there every few nights and, over the course of about a month, whittled down the duplicate list.

The next step has already begun, making sure all of an artist is listed in the same genre, adding ratings and re-categorizing songs in their own unique genre (I've got stuff like House Punk, Retro Dancehall, one just labeled cmz, Soft Rock and more).

The next consolidation project after the music one is to collect all of my photos (somewhere around 20,000 of them by now).

Labels: consolidation, itunes, music

Taking a page out of the Like Yoda You Must Talk playbook.... today's head scratcher spam:Confused yet?

Labels: spam

I am sure this has already been done and I even have a song that is basically this concept (Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious) but I like the idea and am going to run with it anyway. Every couple of days I will create a new alliteration (the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase).

Today is for the letter A:
All aggravated athletes added an active achievement after allaying adipose assets.

Fun, huh?

Labels: alliteration, meme

Women with long nails speak out against iPhone design because their chosen form of personal expression makes it hard for them to fully utilize the phone. Word on whether women with long nails have spoken out about other aspects of daily life that are made harder for them because they choose to keep long fingernails was not available.

One woman actually went so far as to call Apple misogynistic because they didn't design their phones to be usable by women with long nails. Which is, of course, totally insane.

Labels: design, iphone

You know what pisses me off? People who are jerks for no reason. Like the asshole who shot a father and two of his sons to death this week in San Francisco. Why? The guy was actually being polite and letting you merge into traffic so you shoot him and two of his kids to death? I hope you get caught and thrown in prison for good.

But it doesn't have to be anywhere near as extreme as triple homicide.

It can just be someone opting to not help you out. It can be a co-worker using a bureaucratic loophole to not be helpful. Like the guy at one of my schools who refused to let me into the office so I could get started working because I didn't have a pass which had to be issued by the workers in the office who weren't there or I wouldn't need to be let in.

Instead of just letting me in and moving on with his life, he got to exercise whatever shred of power he had and deny me entrance. Because he's a lazy jerkoff who does the absolute minimum amount of work possible to get his paycheck. This I know because I've discussed him in the past with some of the teachers. But, because of the academic bureaucracy, he is safe from getting fired without massive and annoying hoops to jump through. The school is diminished just that little bit more because it cannot slough off loser workers who couldn't care less about the school or how well they do their job. And his attitude discourages people who are on the fence about staying because I can't think of anyone who would like to work with a jerk.

I've worked for jerks before, I've worked with jerks before and I've managed jerks before. The reason most of them are jerks is because they think the world is out to get them. And it is, because they're jerks. They expect the world to break the cycle so they can stop being jerks but the world doesn't work that way and they are too hidebound by their attitude to approach their universe from any other perspective save the disgruntled one. They are caught in their own vicious cycle of jerkdom. Nobody likes being around a jerk, not even themselves.

If you're a jerk and you're reading this, stop. Stop being a jerk. Heck, make a concerted effort to stop being a jerk for a week or two weeks and see how much nicer the world is. You create your own reality and the reality you create is you being a jerk then quit complaining about it and change your reality to better suit your desires. Unless you like being a jerk and then maybe you should just go juggle cannonballs at the bottom of a lake.

Labels: jerks, perspective

Bloggers Get Obama Accuser Hauled Off in Handcuffs from the National Press Club where he was slandering Obama with unsubstantiated lies in an attempt to smear him.

The only trouble is that Larry Sinclair was wanted on some outstanding warrants. Oops.

Sinclair was the subject of a petition campaign to prevent his addressing the National Press Club with his complete fabrications dressed as fact about sex and drug use with Barack Obama. Allegations he could not substantiate and further failed a lie detector test about.

But that didn't stop the NPC from giving him a podium and an audience.

Which basically says that the National Press Club is uninterested in actual news, they just want the sizzle. The sizzle, in this instance, is their credibility burning up. As it should be. Giving exposure to such an obvious charlatan defies logic or any semblance of integrity.

Sinclair is a lone swift boater trying to knock Obama down. In a few months, his attempt will seem almost quaint when the GOP hate machine has spun up to full speed anger spewage (ding, ding, ding, we have a new word of the day alert!).

Labels: credibility, liar, smear

Don Imus, the shock jock who got thrown off the radio for his racist comments about some women basketball players six months ago, has made another round of shocking comments based on race. No surprise really. Its his bread and butter to ride the wave of indignation and outrage to more moneyland.

The thing of it is that Imus isn't very interesting to listen to on the radio and he looks like a cowboy's worn out saddlebag.

He stirs up these controversies because it helps build interest in his show and more listeners equals more money for Donny boy. Its blatant, its lame and its greed-based, not racist-based.

He's doing his schtick, his thing, his angle to insult and anger listeners so that they call up their pals and tell them to listen in and get outraged too. Howard Stern does this, or did before he went off onto satellite radio (which I doubt I'll ever subscribe to). Controversy = money. Too much controversy = no money since you can get thrown off the air.

I don't really care what Imus says, not when there are real hate mongers like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly and the other GOP drool patrol prodders out there doing nothing but lowering the level of discourse into gutter sniping. If you listen to these idiots then don't be surprised when you're treated like an idiot for doing so. Hate isn't entertainment, at least it shouldn't be.

Labels: racism, radio, shock jock

Tyrade - when Tyra Banks goes off on, yet another, one of her verbal assaults or monologues about how she loves her curvy body or whatever's on her brain. If you've watched her on TV for more then ten seconds then you've very likely already seen one of her tyrades.

Not to be confused with Tyra-ade - her branded electrolyte replacement/liquid finger in the throat to keep you thin diet drink. The bottle with her crazy eyes on it!

Labels: nwotd

I'm sure you've seen the uber-lameness that is The Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, on display in New York's Time Square. The guy is basically an idiot who stands around in a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and an adult diaper playing a guitar (badly) and singing (badly) for tourist photos and cash.

He's a panhandler with a hook. A lame and falsely advertised one at that. Naked isn't an adult diaper. Naked is your cock fluttering in the breeze. And cowboys do not play guitars on street corners for handouts. They ride horses, chase down stray cattle and actually do things. They don't stand around looking like an idiot in their underwear playing the same incredibly tired one line song.

Would you like me to recreate The Naked Cowboy's entire music repertoire? Here ya go.
"Well, I'm the Naked Cowboy, coming to your town." Done. That's it. He strums his guitar and sings some variation of that one, tired and incredibly lame line.

The Naked Cowboy makes his money by posing for photos with idiot tourists who think he's actually some kind of celebrity in his diaper. The Naked Cowboy is also looking to cash in by suing Mars Candy for their unlicensed use of his trademarked image and brand (no shit). Just goes to show you that, if you keep doing one thing stupidly enough for long enough, someone will spoof it and you can try to cash in on it.

I'd like to suggest a new "game" to play with The Naked Cowboy. Its called "Kick Him in the Balls for YouTube" and the title is pretty much the whole game. Let's see videos of The Naked Cowboy getting kicked in the balls, I guess still photos would work to but he requests a donation for those.

Labels: false celebrity

The latest season of The Ultimate Fighter culminated in a fight between the finalist and the semi-finalist he'd already beaten coming back for another fight due to drunken rampage by the other finalist. If that didn't make sense then good, its not really supposed to.

The finalist who got booted, Jesse Taylor, will be back. He's a character, he's a really good fighter and now his return can be hyped up. If he does reasonably well then we'll likely see a rematch of the supposed to be finale of Amir against Jesse.

I have to say that I thought Amir took the fight-off and repeat of the semi-final in stride. I would have been pissed off about it really. He just beat CB and now CB gets another chance at winning the show even though he had been eliminated? Kind of bogus. But that's what has to happen when the unknown happens.

The finale was not the fight of the night. I'd have to give that one to Spencer Fisher against Jeremy Stevens. I have become a big fan of Spencer Fisher and his lightning punches. The guy is a great fighter and provides a good fight regardless of who's fighting against. I would have liked to have seen Matt Brown vs Matt Arroyo. And I did enjoy seeing Diego Sanchez kick some ass over Luigi Fiorvanti.

Next weekend is the Pay-Per-View light heavyweight championship fight between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, the champ, and Forrest Griffin. I'd like to see the fight but I'm not seeing myself drop forty five or fifty bucks for it. Let's see who else is on the card. Okay, some Melvin Guillard, some Cole Miller (Jay's UFC twin), some Josh Koscheck, and some Tyson Griffin. Not a bad card at all and I'm sure some of these fights are going to be solid.

I'll be curious as to what the next season of TUF brings, I like how the show keeps evolving to improve itself and provide more balanced fights and less focus on the annoying house drama. Actually, my idea was to keep the current regular show format but add another half hour behind-the-scenes at the house show for the viewers who want more background (and their girlfriends/wives who get squeemed out by the fights themselves).

Amir is a different kind of Ultimate Fighter and I'm going to enjoy watching his future fights. I think he will be able to go as far as he chooses to go.

Labels: finale, the ultimate fighter, TUF, UFC, ultimate fighting

One of the first of the new generation of comedians, a guy with a great creative mind, a funny wit and, from all appearances, was a kickass guy to know.

Thanks for all the laughs, George.

Labels: death

Yeah, this is real. Just took the reading off the hot tub cover. And it isn't even noon yet.

I had to hang out at work for a couple of extra hours yesterday since somebody set a grassfire that go out of control really quickly and burned down at least 9 structures including some houses. The big smoke cloud photo was taken from my school some 8 or 9 miles away. The helicopter was one of two that was buzzing the highway on the way home and the CDF investigation team was set up on the median strip of the highway and watching the hillside slowly burn itself out.

And everything smells like a campfire this morning.

In a bit of potentially good news, there is some serious debate about whether or not to sell fireworks locally. This is one of the few places you can buy fireworks but, given the dryness of the area and the multiple fires we've already had, the authorities are giving some thought to not allowing any sales. And I'd be fine with that. I'm sure Nande would be too since she spends all night panting and freaked out by the illegal fireworks being set off.

Labels: fire, helicopter, photos

This has turned into a rather grim week. One of the people I've been playing Skyrates with for the last year or so passed away the other day. Another player's father passed away as well.

And I just got word that one of the people in my department died from a cardiac arrest while hiking in Big Sur in the last day or two.

Very sobering news indeed. And very sad for their families.

Labels: death

** Warning, religious smackdown ahead, veer off if you're going to get peeved. **

We atheists (or cynical agnostics on a good day) have long thought that believing in God is an indicator of IQ. That those who fervently believe are, generally and across populations, not as intelligent as those who do not believe. Part of the reasoning for this is because more intelligent people tend to be better educated and more likely to question faith.

Anecdotal evidence is everywhere. George Bush loves to thump the Bible (and has claimed that it is his guiding manual above the Constitution and Bill of Rights which he's SWORN to uphold) and he's an absolute fucking idiot.

Not to say that all people who have strong religious beliefs are sub-par intelligences. That would be rather stupid to presume. But, as London Metropolitan University's Dr. David Hardman says "...there is evidence from other domains that higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt intuitions."

In short, the stupid don't question, they believe. The intelligent question and, sometimes, discard religious thought as unnecessary foofery that explains nothing that can't be explained by science. It is still debatable about the tangental effects of strong beliefs, does a religious person have a more rigid moral code, a richer spiritual understanding of the universe

The problem in all of this is that it is hard to argue with a religious nut because, in addition to their foam-flecked faith, they're usually dumb. Not all but usually the loudest and most devout.

Labels: intelligence, IQ, religion

Not much explanation needed beyond the image. For the fine and funny folks over at the Kool-Aid Report who have a deep devotion to bacon.

Oh, and if you must buy some, here's a link to the store. Do come back and let us know how it is.

Labels: bacon, funny

Today's new word has probably been coined already since its so obvious but I'm publishing it as my own for now. Growing out of a recent story and legal proceedings arising from underage teenagers taking sexually explicit photos of themselves and texting them to their current boyfriends or girlfriends. The possession of these images is illegal as the "models" are under the age of 18. Things get more difficult when the kids break up and the dumpee puts those images on their MySpace page or somewhere online.

But all of that is beyond the original new word of the day.

Sexting - the transmission of sexually oriented text messages including pictures.

Labels: nwotd

I'm sure the Animated Message Bumper Sticker written up at GizMag is going to do nothing but soothe already aggravated drivers with the instant ability to flip the bird at an offending driver.

In reality, this is going to result in more people being shot to death in traffic. Because sometimes it is just the ability to ignore a pissed off road rager that keeps things from escalating. It'll be that much harder to ignore a glowing red middle finger in your face after some jackhole just cut you off. I hope and expect these are made illegal in LA quickly, they seem to be just a bad accident away from full-scale road rage riots as it is.

Labels: exascerbate, roadrage

Techdirt: Associated Press: Fair Use Limits You To Four Words; Five Words Costs $12.50

The Associated Press is operating with its head firmly planted between its butt cheeks and sniffing its own gaseous emissions.

They are trying to rewrite copyright law in order to generate revenue streams by charging bloggers and web-users for quoting AP stories. I'm sure this will go over almost as well as Larry Craig's toilet stall toe tap defense.

If you've gotten a bill from the AP then post a comment. I think the AP took an extra handful of stupid pills this month.

The AP's actions amount to nothing more than vigilante copyrightism. Much like the RIAA sending out threatening letters to thousands and thousands of people who may or may not have downloaded music. Both have no legal justification for it and they're merely hoping to scare people into compliance since most people cannot afford to fight a huge company on their own dime and its far cheaper to just send them their demanded payment. But paying them condones them and they are absolutely in the wrong.

Labels: fair use, rule of law

Last night was the special extended episode of The Ultimate Fighter before the big finale show that would see the coaches fight for the Light-Heavyweight title as well as the two show winners fighting for the show crown.

After the opening credits, the show jumped straight into one of the most anticipated matchups of the season, Amir against CB "He of the permanent smirk". I've got nothing against CB, he's been a good fighter, is big, strong, fast and dominated his fights. But Amir was the underdog and I just have a tendency to go for the underdog.

It was a great fight. Really. Two and a half rounds of back and forth fighting. Amir's stand-up was better than CB's and CB's ground game was just a little better than Amir's. But Amir impressed me throughout the fight, his flying knees, his combinations, his aggression and absolute iron jaw. Also, he was totally unfazed by a nasty gash under his eye and blood going everywhere.

CB, on the other hand, who'd looked so powerful in his previous fights, didn't look overwhelming, didn't strike fear into Amir's heart and, as the fight wore on, showed that his conditioning wasn't quite what it could have been. In other words, he gassed out and his pace of fighting slowed considerably. He was still throwing big punches but they were telegraphed and Amir was able to slip many of them without trouble.

In the end, Amir was able to catch CB in an arm bar and force him to tap out or risk getting his arm broken or ligaments torn. It was a great fight.

Plus, big props to the UFC for the way they showed the fight. The first two rounds of the fight were shown without a break, five minutes of fighting, a fade to black and then back to five minutes more of fighting for the second round. It was a great way to show the fight and I almost felt guilty using my 30 second advance on my Tivo to get right back to the action. Almost.

After CB's defeat, the show switched gears to what happened after the fighters were released from the house for a couple of days. Jesse Taylor, the other finalist and renowned nutter, partied too hard and his ego got too inflated. He kicked out a limo window and then freaked out a bunch of women in a bar. All of which might have been forgiven but when security showed up, he got aggressive and started shouting that he was a UFC fighter. Which, as anyone who's got a passing knowledge of UFC President Dana White, is a serious, serious breach of decorum. He ended up getting booted out off the show and out of the UFC.

Kind of a shame but he should have known better and should have kept his shit tight instead of getting drunk and stupid.

After Jesse's ejection, there was no one to fight Amir in the final so they brought back CB and Tim, who'd been beaten by Jesse to get to the final. They would fight to see who would advance to the final. What I thought was going to be a fairly one-sided match, with CB dominating Tim, turned out to be one of the best fights of the season. It went the full fifteen minutes and stayed mostly standing up where Tim demonstrated some surprisingly effective and quality striking. In the end, CB was able to eke out the victory and rematch with Amir for the final.

One hell of a great night of MMA! I'm looking forward to the finale not just for the CB and Amir rematch but because it'll also see Forrest and Rampage squaring off for the title. Rampage is a great show and a fantastic fighter, Forrest is almost always underestimated and always, always comes in to a fight in superb condition and has a great big heart. It should be a kickass fight too!

Labels: mma, the ultimate fighter, TUF, UFC

Keep an eye out for a well put together spam that appears to be from Google AdWords requesting you go and update your info so they can cut you a check.

It looks like Google sent it but if you check the link in the email, its got a .cn domain on the end. Dot CN is China, of course, and I recently read an article about a McAfee survey (i.e. take it with a big grain of salt) that claims 11% of all domains ending in cn are spam, hoax or otherwise dangerous to the general internet user. That's #2 behind sites ending in .hk which are dangerous nearly 20% of the time.

Anyway, keep your eyes out. And follow the basic rules of email, don't click links in email if you can just as easily go to the site in question directly.

Labels: attack, china, spam

The latest and greatest browser has been updated and released into the wilds. Today is Firefox 3 Download Day 2008 and the developers are trying to set a 24 hour downloading record.

Right now its been downloaded more than 3 million times worldwide. Do your part and download it today, you know you're going to do it eventually, why not do it today and take part in setting a new Guinness World Record?

My only concern is that my awesome steampunk theme, OldFactory Black, will not work in FF3, yet. I think I can live without it for a little while.

Head on over and get