July 2005

Wednesday 27 July

20 cows + 40 goats = chelsea lovin' (22:51) - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago -- and is still waiting for an answer. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa... | 2 Comments

Sparkler Photos (15:08) - These photos are awesome. They were done using a bulb exposure (manually keeping the shutter open). I have to imagine that someone must have stood behind the subjects and did the sparkler drawings while the shutter was open. The photographer,... | 7 Comments
Nerdcore (14:09) - From Wired News by way of Slashdot. The article chronicles some of the "big names" in geek hiphop. My favorite has got to be Purdue PHD Candidate MC Plus+. "The stigma that was once attached to computer geeks and role-playing... | 0 Comments

FUH2 (15:11) - Feeling bitter about gas guzzlers? Check out FUH2. You can even submit your own photo. And of course, the hate mail is classic. Here is my favorite:... | 7 Comments

Most Overpriced Places to Live (19:13) - Forbes created a list of the 10 most overpriced places to live in the US. That is not to say the most expensive places to live, but places across the country where the price of living continues to grow by... | 15 Comments
Crazy Eyez Killah (17:11) - Philadelphia DJ, Low B put down some beats for Crazy Eyes Killah's "I'm coming to get you": it's a mashup of one of my favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm Episodes. Download the mp3... | 0 Comments

IMDb Flame War (21:44) - I used to think that when two trolls met they created a black hole, but apparently they create an incomprehensible mesh of insults. Recently I came across an interesting discussion on IMDb. It starts with a fairly simple, if ambiguous,... | 1 Comments

nightmarish fruit stickers (14:59) - Though the main point of this NY Times story was about laser tagging fruits and veggies, I found the sordid tale of an elderly woman's struggle with fruit stickers to be its most interesting aspect. I wonder if she tried... | 0 Comments
Deathstar Subwoofer (12:19) - Photos of the construction. ... | 2 Comments
888 858-9823 (11:34) - I've never been bothered by telemarketers all too much. Generally I just hang up on them and that is the end of it. However, over the past month I have received somewhere between 40-50 calls from Chase Manhattan. Tracy has... | 15 Comments

How do you pass time on a weeknight? (21:05) - I came across this thread on Metafilter and I thought I might bring the discussion to our disjointed folks. So the question is, how do you pass time on a weeknight? Having the summer off from school I have found... | 8 Comments

Bjarne Stroustrup named IEEE Fellow (23:10) - "For contributions to the creaton of the C++ programming language and its applications" Stroustrup's webpage which seems to be fairly recently updated, at least with news of his promotion to IEEE Fellow. Somewhat unrelated to this, the last statistics I... | 0 Comments

promises (23:25) - Discovery Times aired Promises this evening, a 2001 documentary that followed 7 Jewish and Palestinian children over several years. The children, residents of Jerusalem and the West Bank, discuss their opinions on the affairs of their people and place in... | 4 Comments
Say it ain't so (13:55) - More (less funny) breaking news.... | 5 Comments

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah (23:57) - Breaking news. Really.... | 1 Comments
Event Horizon wasn't just a great movie... (13:46) - ...but maybe also something to come? I read an article in the Frankfurt paper yesterday about the Itor Nuclear Fusion Reactor. The article stated that the earliest predicted use of Nuclearfusion for power is 2050. Besides enjoying the funny and... | 5 Comments

Live 8 (18:18) - I keep trying to post a reply to JT's comment about Live 8, but disjointed keeps giving me an error. So I thought I'd paste my comment here. Live 8 was a lot of fun, it was like a citywide... | 14 Comments

Past post brought to the present for fun and adventure (21:22) - Polamex recently clued me into this post he made over a year ago: Overhaulin'. I can't believe I missed this. I've gotta say, right now this is my favorite Disjointed post of all time. The Maury link doesn't work anymore... | 0 Comments