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Internet Streaming of Inauguration

If you want to watch the inauguration LIVE and you don't have a TV at work:

go to CSPAN.ORG

You can watch an internet feed in real media or windows media and enjoy the greatest day of the year.

Get rid of comment spam part 2

We installed MT-blacklist before in attempts to reduce comment spam, but this is more a passive approach to the growing list of comment spammers on the web.

Google in conjunction with other major blog players on the web have come up with a new standard to make comment spam unprofitable.

Basically, people leave comment spam to a URL for something like pharmaceuticals on hundreds of little blogs. This is easily done because most comments are inserted the same way into blogs and it provides spammers an easy way to publish links to their sites on hundreds of websites at a time. To make this effort useless, Google has suggested all bloggers start using a new tag on all URL'S submitted to comments that will make it so that the link will not boost a URL's search score.

If you're using a public blogging service like blogger or blogspot, you should be already covered. If you're running a service like movabletype you'll have to find a way to modify your install. Fortunately for movabletype users this is easy enough.

Your comments will change in the code of the document but should work the same as before. As an Example:

That comment would be transformed to

Links created outside of the comment section will be left alone.

Hopefully this will be a proactive solution to get rid of comment spam soon.

It's never too early for a little BLING BLING

I'm like a fountain today.

Found this site on the web: Get them flossing early.

For $22 you to can start to teach your kid the importance of gold. Just make sure that you cap their baby teeth with platinum. I don't know... but the mom is kinda hotttt.

On a somewhat related note. The blog Luxist has a post about a news story aboud how gold is going out of fashion. The article states that rappers and others who drape themselves in gold are hurting the gold market in the long run.

Robot makers say World Cup will be theirs by 2050

When the scientists said that the world cup would be theirs did they actually mean to say "Robot makers say World will be theirs by 2050.

These vision robots already operate independently of humans. They go out and they play soccer. And apparently they play soccer really well. They experience no fatigue, full time 360 degree viewing abilities. They have tough robot shells, deadly robotic precision, and a cold cpu for a heart. Can you imagine the horrible things they will make us do once they rule the world?

Now does a team of these robots running around communicating silently with one another plotting to fire projectiles sound more like a sport or some sort of war game. Apparently my worries are not that crazy. Unprovoked, the creators of the robots get defensive and say that are not developing robot armies. I think its highly suspect.

As a defense, "All these advanced technologies have an element of risk and we can warn of the dangerous aspects of robots in human society," Mr Ishiguro shrugs, "but cars, for example, successfully collaborate with humans and have been safely integrated into society." But cars don't have opposable thumbs!

Who is going to let the robots play in the World cup anyways? And which country would they play for. Obviously, the robots plan on taking over a country, naming it robotopia or 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110000 01101001 01100001 in their language, and beginning an advanced society that can ruin us at soccer.

All I'm saying is that we better watch out because 2050 will be here before you know it.

How you doin Edwin

Found this picture online of the rubble surrounding the unbelievable amount of rain that California has received.

How are you holding up Edwin?

The article that the picture is from

Riduculous Lawsuits and the Ridiculous Lawyers who take them

Thanks to Ken for the Heads up on this:

The Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch holds an annual contest for the most ridiculous labels on products. These labels have come as a result of riduculous litigation by money hungry clients and lawyers who try and bilk money from others.

These lawsuits come from trial lawyers like John Edwards who have raised insurance levels to ridiculous levels endangering people's lives by limiting people's access to physicians.

Not only are these lawsuits expensive and dangerous, but they also result in stupid labels like these:

A flushable toilet brush that warns users, “Do not use for personal hygiene”

The $250 second place award went to Matt Johnson of Naperville, Illinois for a label on a popular scooter for children that warns: “This product moves when used.”

Third place and $100 went to Ann Marie Taylor of Camden, South Carolina who found the following warning on a digital thermometer that can be used to take a person’s temperature several different ways: “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.”

Fourth place was a label on an electric hand blender promoted for use in “blending, whipping, chopping and dicing,” that warns: “Never remove food or other items from the blades while the product is operating.” Sent in by Ken Stein of Berkeley, California.

In fifth place was a label on a nine- by three-inch bag of air used as packing material. It carries this warning: “Do not use this product as a toy, pillow, or flotation device.”Sent in by Christen Millard of Westerville, Ohio.

The site also has another section in where they have a list of other ridiculous lawsuits called "loony lawsuits".

No Excuse Left

At long last you have no excuse left if your guitar playing sounds like shite. Enter the StroboPick. Apparently, using light, is the preferred tuning method of professionals. At 35 bucks a pop, it seems a reasonable price to pay for such a small accurate tuner.

From their site

"Many musicians know about the high accuracy of stroboscopic tuners. StroboPick is no exception: it is possible to tune your guitar to as close as 1/10 of 1 cent (1/1000 of a semitone) simply by tuning until the colored reflections on the string stop moving. If you don't care about such precision - just tune until the reflections sort of slow down!"

While it is kind of cool, it is also limited. The user interface is done through one button, you can only tune to 6 preset tones, and i imagine, this tuner may be harder to use in bright light conditions like when you're outside or if you have a spotlight shining on you.

Nevertheless the geek in me is very smitten by this little device so I may purchase one of these and do a review on it later.

Hippies Overtly Take Over.

the hippies are at it again. this time they designed a mobile phone that you plant in the ground. the case degrades and it will grow a flower. seriously...

On this day...

Some people say that the world has been increasingly getting worse and more corrupt, especially these days. The truth is, it's always been that way.

SCRAM

7000 Miles Per Hour.

NASA is testing its scramjet today. The X-43A hopes to hit Mach 10 today. That's ten times the speed of sound. That's more than 100 times faster than I can run. That's pretty stinkin fast. You could go from New York to LA in 30 minutes. You could go around a Track 12 times in about a second. If people fired bullets at you, you would accelerate past them. Now all it needs is some ground effects, decals, a tin can muffler, and a bigger fin.

Let's move to Cascadia

Looks like it might be a civil war all over again. Some wankers over in the North West want to secede from the union (and incedently Canada). To form a new country consisting of Oregon, Washington and BC. Seems like this has been going on for awhile. They have got a website and flag. The thing is I don't know if this is a joke or not. It seems like alot of effort for it to be a joke. But if it is serious then those people have way too much time on their hands.

Here's a map of the "country"

Something I want at my wedding

So I went to a wedding of some friends like a month or so ago. Anyways the whole thing was in their backyard, ceremony and reception. And one of the things (besides the open bar) was this keg just sitting there so we could all drink during the ceremony and before it started.

Oh and this was the night before, just look at the size of the drink. 64 oz of pure Margartia.

Beer Pong

The other weekend, we all went over to Byrant's house to play a little beer pong. Here are some interesting images from the night.

The Girls

The Guys

Julie's safety hat	Meet ghetto Bryant
Making sure the belly is still there.	I think its best not to ask.
This was after he was humping Bryant's leg.	Breakfast the next day.

AOL is giving away money

AOL is notorious for sending out Cleverly packaged CDs and Disks offering thousands of hours Free to promote their service. Along with promoting their service this also promotes pollution and even worse dial up internet access.

Now in a move that is clearly an effort to get rid of as much money as possible, AOL is now offering $100 gift certificates to Amazon.com to people for signing up for a 1 month trial.

Granted, you do have to enter in a credit card, you can quit your trial at any time and walk away without owing anything.

I have signed up for this service and will update you on how it goes. The only caveat here is that they send your gift certificate to your new AOL email address.

Click here to sign up

Thanks to Bryant Ng for finding this.

Brain Replacement Chips

They have now developed chips that can replace parts of the brain. What's worrying is that the scientist says that "there's no reason why this approach couldn't be used to replace any region of the brain." How about the whole brain itself? Would you be willing to trade in your brain for immortality?

GO USA

Well I usually don't follow any sort of gymnastics, but I thought I should mention that Paul Hamm gets to keep his gold medal.

A beautiful marriage

Starting next week, Virginia's Smart Tag will finally be compatible on the EZ-Pass system which seems to have taken over the entire eastern seaboard. Now we will be able to drive from West Virginia to Maine without stopping, rolling down our windows, and opening our wallets.

While this is good progress, Why can't they expand this to Gas Stations and Fast Food Lines? McDonalds could know your order as you pull into the line, you could just confirm the order they show on your screen and continue to pick up your order.

You could pull into a mobil and pay for your gas without worrying about generating extra static electricity by pulling out your wallet, thereby saving lives.

There you go Faster Fast Food and Saving Lives? Isn't this worth it? Anyone listening?

t-shirts

Anyone interested in a T-shirt?? If so, leave a comment. The more who want one the cheaper they are.

if a large number of people want a different front I'll probably change it.

click read more for the shirt image.

leave a comment or email me @ bryant(at)HuxUnlimited[dot]com with your order

FRONT

BACK

mangled HIStory

It seems like some people never learned that Napoleon wasn't just a short, dead dude. And that Caesar was more than a salad dressing dude. These are also from the net, so I'm sure you all might have seen them, but still.

More writings from people who probbaly didn't get a 1600.

Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

The pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments.

Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus." Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Rome came to have too many luxuries and baths. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair. They took two baths in two days , and that's the cause of the fall of Rome. Rome was invaded by ballbearings, and is full of fallen arches today.

Without the Greeks we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns -- Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Illiad, by Homer. Homer also wrote the Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenburg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and this was known as Pilgrims Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by the Indians, who came down the hill rolling their war hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.

Bach was the most famous composer in the world. and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

Guy Rules

So I also found these on the web.

Sent them around the office, so I thought I would share them all with you all.

RULES:
1. Under no circumstances may two men share an umbrella.

2. Any man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his fellow partygoers.

3. When you are queried by a buddy's wife, girlfriend, mother, father, priest, shrink, dentist, accountant, or dog walker, you need not and should not provide any useful information whatsoever as to his whereabouts. You are permitted to deny his very existence.

4. Unless he murdered someone in your immediate family, you must bail a friend out of jail within 12 hours.

5. You may exaggerate any anecdote told in a bar by 50% without recrimination; beyond that, anyone within earshot is allowed to call bulls*t!
(Exception: When trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration rate rises to 400%)

6. If you've known a guy for more than 24 hours, his sister is off-limits forever.

7. The minimum amount of time you have to wait for another guy who's running late is five minutes. For a girl, you are required to wait 10 minutes for every point of hotness she scores on the classic 1-10 babe scale.

8. Complaining about the brand of free beer in a buddy's refrigerator is forbidden. You may gripe if the temperature is unsuitable.

9. No man is ever required to buy a birthday present for another man. In fact, even remembering a friend's birthday is strictly optional and slightly gay.

10. Agreeing to distract the ugly friend of a hot babe that your buddy is trying to hook up with is your legal duty. Should you get carried away with your good deed and end up having sex with the beast, your pal is forbidden to speak of it, even at your bachelor party.

11. Before dating a buddy's ex, you are required to ask his permission and he in return is required to grant it.

12. Women who claim they "love to watch sports" must be treated as spies until they demonstrate knowledge of the game and the ability to pick a buffalo wing clean.

13. The universal compensation for buddies who help you move is beer.

14. A man must never own a cat or like his girlfriend's cat.

15. When stumbling upon other guys watching a sports event, you may always ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who's playing.

16. When your girlfriend/wife expresses a desire to fix her whiney friend up with your pal, you may give her the go-ahead only if you'll be able to warn your buddy and give him time to prepare excuses about joining the priesthood.

17. It is permissible to consume a fruity chick drink only when you're sunning on a tropical beach... and it's delivered by a topless supermodel... and it's free.

18. Unless you're in prison, never fight naked.

19. A man in the company of a hot, suggestively dressed woman must remain sober enough to fight.

20. If a buddy is outnumbered, out-manned, or too drunk to fight, you must jump into the fight.
(Exception: If within the last 24 hours his actions have caused you to think, "What this guy needs is a good ass-whoopin," then you may sit back and enjoy.)

21. Phrases that may not be uttered to another man while weightlifting:
"Yeah, baby, push it!"
"C'mon, give me one more! Harder!"
"Another set and we can hit the showers."
"Nice ass, are you a Sagittarius?"
"What kind of cologne are you wearing?"
"Here hold my Orange Mocha Frappuccino"

22. If you compliment a guy on his six-pack, you better be referring to his beer.

23. Never join your girlfriend/wife in dissing a buddy, except when she's withholding sex pending your response.

24. Never talk to a man in the bathroom unless you're on equal footing: both urinating or both waiting in line. In all other situations, a nod is all the conversation you need.

25. If a buddy is already singing along to a song in the car, you may not, unless you are gay.

Anybody have any other?

BETA LAUNCH: Studentrade.com

I am pleased to announce that studentrade.com is now up for BETA testing. Please check it out if you have a valid email account at Beloit College, University of Wisconsin, RISD, or Brown.

Studentrade is a FREE portal that allows you to Buy and Sell items amongst your peers. Because Bidding on items is limited to students at your school you are able to ensure that you're buying or selling from someone you may have had class with and live on campus with. This makes exchanging items and money safer and easier.

Please forward any comments to support@studentrade.com .

If you would like to bring studentrade to your campus and would like to help out send email to publicity@studentrade.com

Goodyear? No. The Worst

Looks like the Department of Defense is considering using a Blimp for additional Security in Washington DC. It is fully equipped with security cameras and infrared sensors.

This slow beast will be efficient to keep up in the air for long periods of time, but i see it as a big slow and easy target.

The picture of the blimp I saw was plain. I say rent out space on the side and have the blimp be self sustaining monetarily.

In a totally Unrelated note. Martha Stewart was previously sentenced to jail. While most people thought she was going to get off easy, it looks like this is not the case. Martha will be taking country roads out to West Virginia. I'm sorry, but is it fair to banish someone to West Virginia for anything short of Murder?

Kobe should change his last name

Kobe should change his last name. I don't like how I see Bryant rapes this, Bryant rapes that in the headlines every few weeks.

Now an interview with the detective the day after has been leaked. So this is going to be all over the internet again.

Now there are 57 pages of

for(page=1; page<58; page++){
cout<<"Detective: What did you do to the girl?" << endl;
cout<<"Bryant: I" + generateRandomObsceneSexAct() + "on her" + generateRandomBodyPart() << endl;
cout<<"Detective: You did what now?" << endl;
cout<<"Bryant: It's my thing." << endl;
}

You can either write that code yourself, or you can see the 57 pages of it which should be basically the same thing here.

Its a Nice Day for a White Wedding

Oops she did it again.... marriage that is. britney spears married a man who just a couple of months ago had a kid with another women.... if there werent millions of dollars being thrown around this might be a jerry springer episode... you think im joking but im not, read this. poor britney i remember when she was cute......

and btw what on earth is on her chin in that salon.com aritcle?????? does anyone else see that???

and if your really bored here is a time line of the train wreck that is now unleashed...

Free Will(y)

There's an interesting article on free will and the role of the brain. Do we have free will? Or our decisions just the result of a complex, but deterministic system? Then again, what the heck is "free will" anyways? Without free will a sense of responsibility and morality is difficult to deal out, especially in the justice system as well as religion... or is it? And so we must turn to that mighty vestibule of knowledge - The 8-Ball. I got "Outlook not so good."

Free Flat Screens and ipods For real

So i'm sure you guys have seen the free ipods and the free flat screen deals on the web and were wondering if they were real. Apparently they are!!! Here's another article. People have been getting their own flat screens and ipods. So I signed up and I'm going to start a rotating list of people here so that we can help each other get referrals here.

If you want to get on the referral list, click on the first name on the list, and then send me an email to freebie@bryantchoung.com with your name and referral ID in the body. Put FREE IPOD or FREE FLATSCREEN in the subject so that we get it.

Then we'll put you in queue to come up on the list. Once a person on the list has enough referrals, we'll let another person come up.

All you have to do is sign up for a free offer. These offers can all by cancelled if you don't like them.

Free Flat Screen
1. bryant 6 referrals
2. David 0 referrals
3. Bryant Ng 0 referrals
4. Edwin 0 referrals
5. Noah 0 referrals - Send me your link
6. Tucker
7. Available
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Free Ipod
1. bryant 3 referrals.
2. Edwin 0 referrals
3. Noah 0 referrals - send me your referral link
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I, am afraid of Robot

Seriously guys. We need to stop this. I've posted endlessly about all the dangerous road we march down by continuing to make robots faster, smarter and stronger.

But I may be too late. Brazilian scientists who are known worldwide for their bleeding edge innovation in drugs, have now announced that they have made the world's first electronically controlled crab. That is correct. Add on to your list of things to be afraid of and add a premium to your health insurance, Bionic Crabs are on their way.

In a blatant attempt to scare the world as an upcoming superpower, Brazilian scientists have shown how they can control the mouth of the crab. If they had a fleet of these crabs that could eat on command, imagine what would happen. I can't even begin to imagine the horror.

The cure to the world's problems

Someone at Apple must have done some pretty nice things for some people at Duke. Because now Duke is servicing Apple by purchasing more than 1650 ipods. In a move that will cost the University way more than $500,000, Duke's Center of Instructional Technology is touting the ipod program as a great way to encourage creative uses of technology.

I'm sorry, but it is under my impression that whenever a University forces their own to adopt purchase a new technology it should be practical and useful rather than just "creative." According to Duke, content is being developed so that lectures can be heard on the ipods, class schedules and notes can be made available for the ipod. What the administrators seem to be forgetting is, that in order to do all of this, their wonderboy, the ipod, needs to be hooked up to a computer to sync all of this information. As long as you're at a computer, why not read your notes a display that has more than 300 pixels and supports more than 2 colors. Plus do you need to be able to carry around audio recordings of lectures everywhere? Don't get me wrong, I own an ipod and I'm not saying that the ipod is a bad mp3 player, I'm just saying its a bad idea to force it down the throats of all incoming freshman as an "academic tool".

In the mean time, the Average Dukee graduates with $20,000 of debt, their tuition and "mandatory fees" rise every year, We still have no cure for aids, there are people starving in Africa, and literacy in America is down. At least Apple's stock is going up.

Hippies

oh there seem to be a lot of them these days and after they bummed money off me they seem to have spent it on 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. It was the number one movie and broke some sort of hippie record... Now granted i want to see the movie to see how it spun the facts but i refuse to support it, a "catch 22."

thus if any of our readers have seen the film please comment on how horrible or fantastic you thought it was.......

A post all about the Benjamins

It has long been suspected that North Korea has been printing counterfeit money at the government level. Unlike the Million Dollar Bill these Superdollars are near perfect 100 dollar bills that fool even the best experts.

The North Korean government is suspected of acquiring a highly sophisticated printing press called the intaglio. In combination with the right paper and inks, they have the ability to produce 100 dollar bills that can fool most anyone. The more I think about it, this is the perfect investment. As long as you're successfuly at some point, you can guarantee a return on your investment by printing as much money as you like. Because these bills are so good we can't be sure exactly how many are circulating in the U.S.

This isn't the only dirty money in the U.S. In tests up to 4 out of 5 of all bills in circulation in the United States have traces of Cocaine on it. Think about that the next time you enjoy the smell of fresh cash money.

Back to counterfitting...
I recently found out that the Self Checkout machines now in grocery stores and Wal-Marts accept 100 dollar bills. I'm thinking it would be a lot easier to come up with a bill that passes whatever algorithm the machine uses than it would be to fool humans who handle and touch the money all day. And since you can buy just about anything you need at a Super Wal-Mart you'd be pretty much set for life.

Who's comin with me?

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson has passed away today. Our condolences to his family in New Jersey.

Al Qaeda took Paul Johnson's life as an act of terrorism against the United States and Saudi Arabia. They have killed an innocent American contractor in the name of their "Religion." Even though they claim they are doing the right thing, they release the video with their heads covered and in secrecy as to their identities. ( link to pictures. WARNING VERY GRAPHIC)

There are over 30,000 American's and many other Europeans working in Saudi Arabia and we are vital to a successful Saudi economy. These cowards are picking off American's off the street and killing them in secrecy. It's a low cost low risk operation with possible high rewards.

We need to launch a major offensive against these terrorists and put an end to these atrocities. First we need to behead the convicted prisoners that the terrorists were trying to get released. Next we need to continue to grow a global effort against terrorism that expands across Nations, Religions, and Races.

How long does it take before we realize that everyone is at risk and that everyone is paying the price? Think of the terrorism tax we've all had to pay at the airport, at the gas pump, at any major sporting event, The olympics in Greece?

The New York Times ran over 50 headlines on the front page about the disgraceful actions of a handful of soldiers. Meanwhile, Our soldiers are rebuilding Iraq. A dictator has fallen, schools are being rebuilt, the average salary for Iraqis is up over 300% since the fall of Saddam. Our soldiers continue to fight the good fight. How much coverage has this received?

We need to stop attacking the Army, Bush, and America and start attacking our real enemies.

Another Family Feel Good Spielberg Rip-off

On June 18th, millions of Americans will flock to the theaters to see The Terminal.

The premise of the movie is that Viktor Navorski, finds himself stuck in a US airport as a refugee with no where to go. Enter Tom Hanks, aka Forrest Gump/Castaway. I'm sure we'll see 30-45 minutes of Tom Hanks being mesmerized by US technology in airports, visual puns, and oh those silly American habits.

Then after a calculated number of minutes Catherine Zeta Jones enters, falls in love with this quirky man. Oh I'm sure her friends will call her crazy, but Jonesy will be intrigued by this stranger and they probably get married at the airport chapel attended by all the airport employees with cute little makeshift decorations. I'm sure they'll celebrate with little airplane size liquor bottles. But then Viktor Navorksi will get the chance to return to home, but he will choose his new love over his old country in a twist, and come foolishly running back to one of the hottest women alive and for US citizenship.

After seeing this fun family film, most American's will still not know who Merhan Karimi Nasseri is. They will not know that Nasseri has been living in Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport for the past 15 years. They will not know this even though Spielberg and Dreamworks have paid him a considerable amount of money for his story.

You can see read the true story of the Nasseri the True Viktor Navorski.

Sure the true story doesn't involve Catherine Zeta Jones, or poker games involving a giant marlin, but I hate how Spielberg just guts the entire story and basically rewrites it. Isn't there enough emotion and story in a story about a man who has been exiled by Iran for speaking against the government, and then being tossed from capital to capital and then forced to live in an Airport terminal? What about the story of the incompetent lawyer who hasn't been able to get the demands of his clients for the past 15 years. Or how Nasseri has become slightly confused or crazy in staying in the airport for 15 years.

I'm just dissappointed in Hollywood's inability to make a new movie. Even when they have a new idea or a new idea that they bought, they still alter it beyond recognition to fit into their little movie equations. Spielberg should know by now that a happy ending isn't always a good ending. Remember AI?

Stop Hitting Yourself

Most people hate spam. We buy elaborate filters and try to come up with innovative systems to defeat this nasty nuisance. However, A new study by Sandvine is suggesting that most people are harming themselves. The study claims that up to 80% of spam nowadays comes from Windows machines in people's home that are infected with viruses, worms, and trojans.

So if you want to help fight spam get a firewall/router, patch up your version of windows, get antivirus, switch to a non-windows platform, Get Adaware and Spybot, Stop looking at so much porn, And follow the same steps on your parents computer.

I double-DARE you!

In my high school chemistry days, we dealt with a lot of dangerous chemicals - sulfuric acid and exploding gummy bears to name a few. Jokingly, we would dare each other to drink this or that liquid. Some guys would even drink a little liquid nitrogen and spew it out in a cloud of smoke. This student apparently went for the real stuff and as a result was "found bleeding from nose and mouth." Eegh...

Next Time ask for a non-exploding battery

I've heard stories about people's laptops exploding and cell phones exploding, (2). When I first heard about these stories I just attributed them to terrorist activities or poor manufacturing. What I didn't know is that ALL traditional lithium-Ion batteries will explode given enough pressure.

Looks Like I'll be handling my cell phone, laptop etc.. with a little extra care and respect from now on. I'd also like to tell gadget manufacturers to stop putting exploding batteries in my stuff and to start putting non-exploding batteries in them. Apparently they now exist.

Their promotional video clearly shows their advantage.

Take one for the country

This group of women decided to act on their patriotism by making sure that "US troops shipping out overseas [leave] with the most sensually pleasing departure possible." I really don't know what to say....

Prison Abuse and its Consequences

In retaliation for the recent scandal at an Iraqi prison, persons claiming to be associated with al-Quida have beheaded an American captive and posted the video on an Arabic website.

Interestingly enough, the story is nowhere to be found on CNN.com (as of now). It seems inevitable that the coverage of this atrocity will be given far less attention than the alleged humiliating interrogation tactics used by American soldiers in Iraq. God bless our "objective" media.

UPDATE: CNN.com is now displaying the story as Breaking News. (4:00pm)

Blood Sucking RIAA

It really chaps my ass that the RIAA is going out and suing people in the name of "poor" artists whom they claim are deprived of their royalties. Especially when big name music corporations are negligent in even paying out these royalties:

"It found that many performers and writers had not received royalties because the music companies had been negligent about maintaining contact with them."

And even after they swindle grandmas and twelve year olds out of thousands of dollars and conveniently forget to pass on royalties to artists, the RIAA still isn't satisfied. They are currently lobbying for a bill that would provide federal funding for civil action against college students and other file sharers. In their latest act of genius, many executives want to raise the prices of legal music downloads.

Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum

It looks like the Mormons have joined the Anti Free Speech Band-Wagon by buying a(nother) block of Salt Lake city and restricting speech there. Since many people here seemed to be in favor of Christian censorship, I was curious how you felt about the Mormons telling you what you can and cannot say? Matthew? Jesse?

Driving Toasters

Seriously I hate these new cars. They're called Scions. They look like the bastard child of a toaster and the Michelin man. They look like a toaster, but have less power. They look like they were designed on a computer that could only draw orthogonal lines by a designer whose main goal was to block as much wind as possible.

I don't know if it's just me that's annoyed by ugly cars, but there needs to be an end to this. The only reason why someone would buy and drive one of these is that they were suckered into buying it. Therefore, I am attaching a pamphlet you can print out and place on the windshield of these cars. Next stop. Ugly rice rockets.

Reparation Debate

For those of you not at Brown, the University has decided to create a committee to investigate Brown's ties to slavery and if conclusive, possibly offer scholarship programs to decendants of slaves. I am quoted in this article as saying that this is a worthwhile endeavor for the university as an informative measure, but the journalist obviously missed my emphasis on informative.

To clarify, I think that any program the University offers as reparation would be losgistically impossible. Research and report the facts? Sure, but let's keep this as an historical study rather than a political movement.

Everybody loves lawsuits!

ok woman sues for eating a pound of licorice a day for a really long time... she claims it was responsible for her poor health.... yeah this one is just too easy so i wont even try...

Best things in life are free

The motto says it all, The best things in life are free, after 6-8 weeks. I often like to reminisce about the good old days of the internet boom.

- Free overnight shipping on anything from outpost.com.
- 10 dollars off your first purchase at buy.com
- $100 dollars in your account for sigining up with etrade.com
- A particular favorite of mine was Everything for free after rebate at cyberrebate.com.

I've never understood this rebate strategy that seems to occur mostly on technology and food Products. Very rarely do you buy a car with a 100 dollar mail in rebate. Or I've never bought any clothes at the mall and had to go home and mail in receipts for a rebate. And I've never understood where companies make money where they seem to sell things for little to no profit after rebate. This seems to happen a lot with CD-R's. Maybe they're banking on the laziness of Americans and the inability to fill out a form and mail it in.

Maybe we shouldn't try and figure out how companies are profiting from the "giving away" strategy and we should start taking advantage. Companies are giving away a lot of stuff for free after rebate these days, and freeafterrebate.info has a large collection of this stuff.

Illegitimate claims that actually hurt the system

I saw this story of how a mother is suing Coors Brewing Co. over the drinking and driving death of her son. And it annoyed me. It annoyed me a lot that this woman would use the death of her son to try and get a settlement from Coors. Although it is unfortunate that her son died while drinking underage and driving without a license it is hardly reasonable to file such a lawsuit with Coors.

The most outrageous claim in the suit is that, "Coors targets the youth of America with false images of conquest, achievement and success that are reckless, willful and a deliberate disregard for the impact of illegal alcohol consumption by underage youths."

If that is the case, I would argue that the manufacturer of the car is more responsible under the same reasons because they manufactured a car that could travel well over 90 miles per hour and create a sense of security for the riders.

It seems clear that the driver and the people involved who let the unlicensed and intoxicated driver to drive home are the one's who are responsible for these actions.

This lawsuit mirrors the shirking of personal responsiblity that lawsuits are taking. Large corporations very attractive to lawyers who are looking for fat settlements have been targets in the tobacco industry, fast food industry, and video game industry to name a few.

You are a suspected criminal

Three students have been charged with burning down 3 churches in Kentucky. The defense lawyers are not putting the blame on the arsonists or the families of the arsonists, instead the blame is being put on the internet.

Michael D. Osborne, one of the lawyers, said, "There was no reason for this. One or both parents of each child is a Christian. The only common threat between them is that they spent lots of time on the Internet and had computer linkups between their computers. ... these juveniles will get on the Internet and it's almost like brainwashing them." His proposed solution to preventing crime in the future: "They have to do something with the Internet."

I guess all the writers on this site are guilty of brainwashing our readership to do our dirty deeds. And as readers of Internet sites all of you are potential felons. I'm sorry, but YOU WILL FORGET ABOUT THIS ARTICLE.

Eww....

Looks like Bryant finally has something to go with his nipple piercings. Does anyone else think that a shot in the eye is really, really undesirable?

Ouch Again.

Apparently men can have high pain tolerances too... I don't know how I keep running into these...

Winamp Security Alert

I'm assuming that a lot of the readers of the site use winamp. There is a flaw in winamp which creates a security hole. This hole basically allows a web page to run any code they want on your system. So it might be a good idea to head on over to winamp.com and download the latest version.

OSAMA BIN LADEN FOUND!!!!!

YES!! we finally nabbed him! I'll keep posting updates as I find out more, but looks like Bush is over in Pakistan. In his words, "today is a proud day for America"

Link to CNN article

Celebrity Shenanigans

Today's celebrity lawsuit update:

Richard Simmons charged with assault after "sarcastic" remark was made about his extremely heterosexual* workout videos.

Kobe Bryant faced his accuser in person for the first time since the alleged rape nearly a year ago.

Busta Rhymes was sentenced to six months probation after threatening to kill a woman for touching his chin.

Bobby Brown was thrown in jail for 90 days after neglecting to pay $63,000 child support for his two children.

The judge in the Michael Jackson molestation case has put a tight lid on grand jury, hoping to preserve the integrity of the upcoming trial.

The Future of TV Advertising

With the advent of Tivo and other Personal Video Recroders, it seems that the era of television advertising is coming to a close. Tivo, however, is trying to gain some additional cash flow by offering interactive advertisements. While regular folks like you and me might ignore this just as much as we ignore regular commercials, I'm sure the same type of people that buy stuff from spam will keep this feature alive. Is this the future of advertising? Read up on the gossip at Slashdot.

This Isn't a Malfunction

A woman in San Rafael, California is taking a local country club to court after they objected to her "suckling uncovered" at the pool:

"The ensuing debate is -- to women's rights advocates -- a clarifying look at the contradictory nature of a culture that shudders in horror at the sight of a breast with a suckling baby while celebrating the for-adults-only version of the breast in every possible forum."

RIAA Site Down

Among other sites such as Microsoft and SCO, virus writers have targeted the RIAA website, putting it out of commission for the past five days. Is the record industry getting what they deserve for their recent string of lawsuits? In my opinion, more legitimate opposition seems to be the right way to go. Discuss.

Master Chief

"There is a point in which cultural theory goes too far and the study of books exceeds actual practice."* A much as I enjoy games, I don't think I can agree with offering a Master's degree in gaming. USC, Ur Spoiled Children are really getting away with too much. How could you prescribe an intellectual education in something like that? What would your thesis be, finding all the secret items in a game? I suppose a more useful thesis would be discovering what really makes a game popular. Then again, people didn't think movies could ever be artistically significant when they first came around...

* - deep quote by a deep philosopher

This is legal??

According to this BBC article, a student sold her virginity on the web in order to pay for school loans. Isn't this prostitution?? Isn't this illegal? According to her story, after the act she just went and "cried and cried." I'm somewhat sympathtetic... but I also think she's an idiot. Truthfully, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a big hoax.

Al Qaida #2

As I'm sure you've all heard by now, Usama bin Laden's top lieutenant has been cornered in Pakistan. While this is surely seems to be a monumental victory in the war on terror, haven't we already caught this guy?

Chalk One Up for P2P

The Australian recording industry is reporting that music sales in 2003 reached an all time high, in thanks partly to online file sharing. CD singles, however, faced a decline in sales. I never really understood the point of paying two dollars less for two songs, anyway.

Felon Disenfranchisement

A speaker is coming to Brown in the near future to talk about the downsides of Felon Disenfranchisement. To be honest, I've never considered this policy to be a problem. To be even more honest, I've never really even thought about this policy at all. I decided to look up some information on the Internet, but rather then digging through the millions and millions of Google results, I decided to just ask the bryantchoung.com community. Post your thoughts in the comments section.

Martha Stewart: Part I

Martha Stewart has been found guilty of four counts of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. More details to come...

Smells Like Roses

I had the unfortunate experience of having to use a bathroom that smelled like a giant fart. While I was sitting there breathing through my mouth, I wondered, why do farts smell? Google told me: So blind people can enjoy them. But then why do we not mind the way our own smell? I tried finding an answer online, but apparently google doesn't know. Anyone have a good answer for this?