Wired: Time Travel 101: How to build an AMD Dimensional Warp Generator Wow, is this disturbing or what? It’s all part of the conspiracy.

The only thing I hate more than Tuesday is Monday. Ugh.

For you engineer folk someone at MIT made a orientation to dating guide. Now *that’s* interesting. I’d take notes but I don’t seem to need it anymore. ;) (via lalaranel)

I received this email. I forgot to go!

“Hello,

I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display. I’m a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

In terms of payment:
Payment can be made in Galactic Credits, Platinum gold, or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED EXACTLY:
Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Friday August 22nd at (exactly 4:00pm) Eastern Standard Time. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me. Nobody will be at those coordinates prior to 3:45pm EST, (so do not transport before then).

Item is to be delivered at beginning of Lagrange Street in Winchester, Massachusetts which is directly across the street from Stratford Road located at: Latitude N 42.44852 & Longitude W 071.14651 and the Elevation is 90 feet.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT OR BLOCK THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SEND IT SO THAT THEY CANNOT REDIRECT OR BLOCK IT??? If in doubt do not transport actual unit until your method of transfer can be confirmed as a success. You just might need to send a intergalactic courier to deliver item safely to me.
It is best if you send a intergalactic courier to deliver, this way you can be certain the unit arrives ok, However If you are certain that you have the means to teleport unit in a safe manner please send a (separate) email to me at: only after unit has been safely delivered with payment instructions.

Thanks
Brian Appel”

I foresee many hours wasted playing Truck Dismount. (via ang)

Ok, if you haven’t already, it’s time to get over to the What is the Matrix? and download the Revolutions Trailer. Oh my, it’s too short. It’s the international trailer, so I’m not sure if there’s some restriction of how long it can be. I’m sure when the US trailer is released it’ll be a little longer. Seems to work out that way doesn’t it? Regardless, it looks Really good. Get it now!

Lately, with all the virus outbreaks going on (Blaster, and SoBig), it’s been Really hectic in the world. Oddly enough (to me at least), Mac users are unaffected and well, not worried. Mac Central has a short article linking to other articles on how Macs are immune to recent virus attacks. 70,000 viruses for windows, and only 50 viruses for mac (last count). Almost unreal is it? I’m sure people are wondering if Mac people are special. Well, in my opinion as primarily a Mac user then Windows user second, I don’t think it’s worth writing a virus for Macs. I mean Really. I guess the first question a virus creator has to ask him/herself is simple: How many people do I want to affect? Obviously there are tons of Mac users out there. Please don’t think that there are a “bajillion” windows users compared to “thousands” of mac users. There are many Mac users out there, most people just don’t know about them because no one pays attention. But anyways… :) I’m just kinda glad that I use my Mac to check mail instead of my Windows machine. I just don’t have to worry about most of the worms that get distributed via some vbs script or insanely weird security hole. Check out the article though, rather entertaining.

Taken a good picture lately? If you have, don’t sit on it. Don’t let it collect dust, why not send it to BBC News? They’re collecting photos from all over the world, I think it’s a great idea. Keep sending em! They post the “best” every friday. (via girlfactor)

For those of you in my area (St. Louis), or can make it to my area, I’m planning a Photo taking trip to Shawnee National Forest in Illinois. It’s also the location of the “garden of the gods” as well as many wonders. I’ve never been there before, but I understand it’s a rather beautiful place. The trip I believe will take a couple hours to get there. I plan on being there from noon to mid-afternoon until the evening (for a few night shots). Tripod = good idea. :)

If you’re interested in coming to take some photos or just plain tag along, feel free to contact me or leave me a comment and we’ll keep in touch. I’m thinking about going in September, since this seems to coincide with a couple of people’s schedules who wish to go already.

Flame Warriors pretty much chronicles the types of people in forums. I found it rather hilarious! Find out which Flame warrior you are! (via PHP Everywhere)

It’s pretty damn dangerous being a journalist nowadays, but damn. Mazen Dana is 15th journalist killed in Iraq, and the second by U.S. Troops. I just don’t what to think.

Do you think you have what it takes to be a spy? You can find out at the Spy Academy at the Spooks website. This sounds like a Really interesting show! I wanna see it, but I don’t have BBC. Ugh. (via Loahn via The pixelsurgeon)

Well, I finally got around to updating my photolog. I think I’m pretty happy with it now. :) I think the next step from the commenting system is possibly a rating system for the pics. 

Found a whole bunch of adult site referrers in my logs. What’s up with that? I wonder if it’s an attempt to get traffic to their site, or using an exploit or something. Anyone else notice that?

Well, you may or may not have noticed, but I changed the default skin back to the “old-school” Psychodaisy X : Simple. look. I think maybe I needed a break from the old skin. ;) Anyways, inspired by Ashley, I’m going to go ahead and make some new skins, so I’m sure this one as the default won’t last too long. ;)

On a different note, let’s hope all is good in all those cities that have lost power. I cannot imagine what it would be like without a computer for so long! ;) No but Seriously, I hope all is well! Just wondering how jules, amy, laura and various others are doing…