I’m a little hesitant to share this link to you. I saw it over on BluesNews as one of his “Images of the Day” links, but it had no description except “Tuds 2005″. They seem to be pictures from some chick’s 15th birthday party — innocent enough. The first couple of pictures you think to yourself, “Ha Ha! She has a goofy look on her face!” It’s when you keep scrolling down the pictures that those fucking eyes start to seemingly tear apart your soul, peering through you like fricken laserbeams intent on carving your heart out. THERE’SSOMANYOFTHEMMAKEITSTOP!

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

UPDATE: OK, the site seems to be gone (even the cache is gone), so someone threw together a little montage of all the pictures. Robot or real: you decide. (Perhaps a better one here)

UPDATE 2: Check Boing-Boing for more on this.

Dear lord this is one sick product. I already have enough of Guinness-the-dog’s hair flying around the house right now to stuff a mattress, nevermind having an actual pillow of the pup around when he’s gone.

When Guinness-the-dog’s gone, his hair’s going with him.

Mmmm…. Jesus smell.

I’ve been digging some of the shows on the Sci-Fi channel lately, so when I saw them advertise this new show called ‘The 4400′ debuting last week on the USA Network, I thought, “Sweet! I can get in on a show right away and not have to rent DVDs or watch reruns to catch up.”

I’m down with the whole “suspention of disbelief” thing. It’s when they try to pass off real today’s-logic science in the shows that makes me lose interest almost immediately.

In ‘The 4400′, the pilot starts off with U.S. radar picking up on some huge orb heading toward the earth really fast. Every country on the planet panics and decides to send several warheads at the object, somehow all at the same time and within what seems like maybe an hour of deciding to do so. All of the warheads hit the ball at precisely the same time, seemingly doing nothing to it as it hurtled past the moon toward Earth.

Problems I had with this first scene of the series:

• I think the first country to decide to send nukes was China. Since when does China care about something that’s going to hit the U.S. from space?
• All the missiles travel at the same speed and somehow hit their target at the same exact moment.
• Then the U.S. launches their missles, we see a scene from one neighborhood as the people look to the sky and see about ten missles head toward the object, yet on the defense radar they seem to show maybe that many total coming from the entire U.S.. How the hell do these people see them all? Not only that, but we can hear the missles travel their entire distance to the object.
• The missles all hit at the same exact time and from the ground we hear them hit as the wispy clouds overhead part from, I guess, the shockwave. We see the explosion and hear it at the same time. Light speed != speed of sound.
• After the missles hit and we find out that nothing happened to the object, we’re treated of a shot of the huge orb from space as it continues to hurtle toward the planet, just as it passes the moon. The moon! So these missles not only traveled 238,000+ miles within a few minutes, but the sound and shockwave hit the Earth within seconds of the missles impacting.

I know it’s all science fiction — the show’s about alien abductees coming back to Earth with strange mutant powers. But that crap was just too much for me.

“A New York scientist’s seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in US intellectual property law.”

I used to go through the trouble of building custom systems for employees at my job, but for the past year or so I’ve been buying Dells. Originally I didn’t go with Dell because one was usually forced into buying an OS and Office suite with theit desktop systems, which drove the price up considerably. Since most people I work with use some variation of Linux, getting MS Windows pre-installed was just silly. Then I discovered Dell’s desktop server line, which you can order barebones — no software installed.

These server systems were certainly cheaper, but for that you get a lackluster on-board video port and usually no AGP slot. For most people the on-board video was fine, but lately we’ve been getting people really nice 21″ LCD screens, which require a bit more horsepower behind them. With no AGP slot, I’d resort to PCI cards, which was fine for what we were doing. The latest systems, though, have a PCIe slot, which what you’ll start seeing taking over for AGP. Normally this is fantastic news for the Dell server systems, but not necessarily as in the case of the PowerEdge SC420, at least.

See the “PCIe x8″ slot in the image above? Most PCIe cards, as I’ve just learned, have only one groove in the connector. That means the connector should look something like this. Notice there’s one divider in each example? Now look at Dell’s picture above. That’s right — there are two dividers. And some systems, as I’ve seen first-hand at work, have three dividers! The worse thing of all is, beyond the second divider, there aren’t any actual metal pins. That means the dividers are really only in place to make your life miserable. In fact, the stamp on the motherboard itself says the slot is a “PCIe x16″, yet there’s no way you’re getting one of them in that slot.

I wound up finding this thread on the subject. The solution, in short, is to take a dremel and carefully cut the dividers off. I can now confirm that this worked for me, but it still sucks that I had to do so, most certainly voiding the warranty on the system in the process.

Count yourself forewarned on purchasing these cheaper Dell server systems as a desktop system if you think a snazzy PCIe x16 will work in it without a hastle.

…as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. Then were suddenly silenced.

This is a true story. Last night I watched all but about four minutes (of game time) of the Patriots/Miami game. The Pats were up over a touchdown, so I figured it was safe to go to bed while the Pats put Miami to bed.

In the middle of the night, I woke up suddenly for some reason. As I tried to drift back off to sleep, I remember thinking, “Aw man I can’t believe the Pats lost to Miami….Huh?! Wait a minute. They were winning when I went to bed. Whew.”

Then I wake up to one big cold fucking slap in the face. What the hell?!

Say this ain’t so!

Now that I have an iPod, I find that I don’t listen to the radio much anymore, so I miss out on a lot of new tunes. So it came as more than a little shock today when I tuned in to WBCN to a Mötley Crüe song I had never heard before. Come to find out, it’s a new song. Not only that, but they have a whole new album planned for next year. Between fatass Vince Neal and screwup Tommy Lee, making that album must’ve been a circus freak show. Want more insanity? OK, they’ve got a frickin’ tour planned for next year.

What. The. You know the rest…

I can picture the new Foster’s commercial for this now: