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Spyware Warrior

Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites Just thought I’d share this site. Very useful after one of your kids poisons your computer with the free spyware nuker that his alleged friend recommended.

Talent, a Lifer, or a Mandarin?

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I’m a Mandarin! You’re an intellectual, and you’ve worked hard to get where you are now. You’re a strong believer in education, and you think many of the world’s problems could be solved if people were more informed and more rational. You have no tolerance for sloppy or lazy thinking. It frustrates you when people who are ignorant or dishonest rise to positions of power. You believe that people can make a difference in the world, and you’re determined to try. Talent: 54% Lifer: 28% Mandarin: 56% Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz.

QASHQAI Car Games

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QASHQAI Car Games – Experience the world’s fastest growing sport . QASHQAI Car Games is a fun site I found while surfing google videos. The premise is that the kids who used to do bicycle stunts graduated to using abandoned cars instead. Now that the sport is popular, Nissan has created a special car for it. I almost didn’t want to spoil it by saying up front that it’s actually a spoof site promoting the tiny Nissan Qashqai . I don’t use computer sound unless I have to, but I think they’re advertising it as a miniature urban assault vehicle.

TFTD: Let Your Hair Down

“Let your hair down if you must, but don’t expect everyone to brush it for you.” — banth

Are you still with Short Meat?

A sampling of a new sort of advertisement – one that goes right for men’s insecurity. What I wonder is this: does anyone respond to insults by buying the product? The Viagra works well and you’ll be at your best. Are you still with short meat? :) ha-ha man, why your schlong is so small? :-)) Take your Award – Mr. Smallest meat 2006 :-)) Why so small Johnson man? Curious thing about your Johnson. Hello man – be a BIG MAN! StoriesIs true womans breasts LOL man, why your one-eyed monster is so small? :) Bigger Size Bigger Pleasure Yo Dude, your member is really small ha-ha man, why your Johnson is so small? ;-)) I don’t care why your woody is so small, but 80% of women do. why your ramrod is so small? ;) I don’t care why your sausage is so small, but 86% of women do. Size of Jonh Holmes or Rocco Sifredi in few days The Most Potent Male Muscle Boosting System! 5 Inches is not enough I don’t care why your prick is so small, but 80% of women d...

Ice-9

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Amazon.com: Cat’s Cradle: Books: Kurt Vonnegut I wound up writing this review because recently, in a flight of fancy, someone conjectured that perhaps in other parts of the universe silicon forms four bonds, making ring structures – similar to the carbon-based benzene ring that is the basis of all organic materials – possible. My question was whether silicon-based amino-acid analogues would “teach” the silicon in this part of the universe to form the same kind of rings. Carbon-based DNA teaches raw amino acids how to make more DNA, so that begs the question of whether such structures would propagate. Ice-9 does just that. Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle isn’t quite as absurd as it seems. Ice-9 is a form of ice with a different structure than regular ice. It is frozen solid at room temperature. Further, when it comes into contact with liquid water, it causes the water to freeze into more Ice-9. Given that 4/5ths of the earth’s surface is...

'07: A Meme Game

I’ve been meaning to do this for a few days, but life has been kind of hectic. Memes are ideas that spread from mind to mind like a virus. Not sound bytes, not quite, but the ideas conveyed by sound bytes. A quantum thought, perhaps. Would you like to play a meme game to celebrate 2007? Open the last book you read, go to the 7th chapter, and type in the 7th sentence. I’ll go first. Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression–The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder by Ronald R. Fieve “But the hypomania and depression intensified, as they usually do without mood-stabilizing treatment, and Christopher developed a tolerance for the alcohol.” Wasn’t that fun? Next do it for the books you’re reading now! Messies Manual, The: A Complete Guide to Bringing Order & Beauty to Your Home by Sandra Felton “One of the problems with ...

Lithium Salts

Where there is sickness and fear, there is always someone offering false hope . One of the shadier scams pulled on bipolars is the claim that certain lithium compounds are more beneficial than others . This rant concerns lithium orotate. Lithium Orotate is a salt. That means that when you put it in water, it ionizes, or splits into its component parts. In this case, it splits into lithium ions and the orotate is metabolized into orotic acid in the liver. Your body uses elemental lithium at the cellular level. Your cells don’t care whether you ingested lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, or lithium orotate to get the lithium. So what you really want to know is what the orotate part gets you. The answer seems to be a fatty liver. Your body makes all the orotic acid you need after you drink alcohol. Another way to get it is to ingest ammonia salts. Not recommended. If I’m reading this right, drinking piss will raise the level of orotic acid because excess uria also st...

Snakes on the Brain

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The newly-released “Snakes on a Plane” DVD finally arrived yesterday. In case you didn’t see the movie in theaters, it is just exactly what you would expect: snakes, snakes, Samuel L. Jackson, and more snakes. There’s a hint of plot, some hot simulated sex, and a bit of dialog, but mostly it’s about the snakes. The extra features alone were worth the price of the DVD. There’s a short feature on the snake stars of the movie called “Meet the Reptiles.” Jules Sylvester, the snake-handler for the movie, worked on the “Born Free” TV show in the ’60s. The snakes are named in the script – the 17-foot Burmese Python called “Kong” in the movie script is named “Kitty” in real life. You are what you eat, I suppose. If you’re a hard-core “Snakes” fan, there’s even a puzzle book, “ Snakes on a Sudoku .” If you’re a sudoku fan, you have to try these. Ins...

Trailer Trash Yoga

Susan Powter: Valley of the Lesbian Doll I stepped on the scale this morning and it groaned. Gads, this time of year is difficult. I have zero motivation, a huge appetite. I feel constrained by this body, as if it is getting in the way of my doing the things I love to do. It’s not as if I’m lying around the house making garbage angels. It’s just that my internal motivation, my commitment to myself, fails me when the meds or the time of year sap my will. I was allowing myself a small bout of self-loathing this morning as I read email, and what should arrive? An email from none other than Susan Powter. You remember her, the exhuberant, crew-cut exercise guru? She’s back, better than ever, with a new hairdo, a new website, and the same old infectious exuberance. I definitely have trouble staying motivated. I am confident that SP can motivate me – her book “Stop the Insanity!” made a big difference a couple of years ago – but I seem t...

The Christ in Christmas

less people less idiots ©: The Christ in Christmas While transcribing audio notes this morning I googled song lyrics from some songs I heard on WPRB , the Princeton University radio station, shortly before the holidays. Odd lyrics, too, at least as I noted them. Tied you in your kitchen chair and broke your legs and from your lips allelujah Those aren’t really the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, of course. The DJ on WPRB played Jeff Buckley’s cover version of the song. It’s too bad I didn’t transcribe the audio notes to my future self before the holidays. I would definitely given my husband Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” CD. The best link for the song turned out to be a sermon by the Rev. Billy Bob Gisher on less people less idiots © . I completely agree with his tongue-in-cheek sermon. Gisher: Good Christians you have work to do, you should be reaching out to witness or at least help these people, show them some love…but what are ...