The Tomato and Mushroom Diet

Monday 29 October 2007 at 04:01 am

Yep, tomatoes and mushrooms will be a much bigger chunk of our diet, if the current global bee genocide continues....

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Fools, Money, and Ethics (Part I)

Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 01:55 am

Uri Geller is back in the limelight again, in spite of having been completely discredited more than once. Even though he himself doesn't actually believe in the supernatural, apparently he has no problem convincing other people to believe if that presents an opportunity to separate some of the fools from their money. He's been doing this for decades... and just when you think his jig should be up, a big media conglomerate (NBC) steps in and breathes new life back into his scam, just so the people who own the conglomerate can make money off of the scam, too.

Here's one way to distinguish an ethical human from one that isn't: when given a choice between parting fools from their money or instead educating them to no longer be fools, which choice does he make?

Dangerous Windows Tricks

Wednesday 10 October 2007 at 03:48 am It's always frustrated me that Windows never asks where structures like the user Desktop, My Documents, Favorites, and such should be located, and heavy-handedly puts them where it wants them to be! Sure, there are utilities that will let you alter those locations in the Registry, but it's a bit of a pain in the ass and not at all elegant (arguably because the Registry itself ain't very elegant). I've always wanted to locate those structures in a different place, most recently in my separate fault-tolerant RAID 5 volume. There's another way, with a restriction or two.

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