Close Calls
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Bizzare 💬 1
Just when you thought the suburbs were safe, a b26 bomber has to crash land in your front yard.
Vista's UAC Not What You Think.
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Technology 💬 0
Microsoft Vista’s User Account Control is one of the OS’s most hated features. Whenever a program runs on Vista that required elevated permissions, or Admistrative user access, UAC pops up a window asking the user, “Do you really want to do this?” This could be one of the main reasons what Vista has been getting such a bad rap, its just damn annoying. But could anyone ever have guessed that MS designed it to be just that - annoying?
French Cops on Rollerblades Prepare for Olympic Protesters.
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Entertainment 💬 0
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to make fun of the French, they have to come out with this:
Mutant Grapes in My Breakfast
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Entertainment 💬 3
The Cascade food court in Southern Oregon University is notorious for its horrible food. So far I’ve found that it lives up to expectations. Today I made a healthy choice and chose grapes as part of my complete breakfast. This is what I found:
The Agony and the Ecstasy: from GIMP to Photoshop.
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Technology 💬 0
For all of my computing career I have been using The Gimp to edit and create images. Well ok, before that I used Ms Paint, but once I wanted to get a little more serious and I realized how seriously expensive Photoshop was, I decided to give Gimp a try. He worked out well for me over the last 5 or 6 years and I have no complaints. Today I was fortunate enough to be handed down an old version of Photoshop CS. Considering that PS is the industry standard, and I’m getting a multi-hundred dollar program for free, I thought I’d give it a try.
A Show That Makes G4 Not Suck.
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Entertainment 💬 2
G4, the television network for gamers, really sucks. Unlike other networks such as Oxygen and Fox that suck because they always have and always will be horrible TV networks, G4 is an even worse kind of suck. G4 is the worst because of what is was, what is is, and what it could be.
Nigerian Letter Scams and Pets. Online Fraud Increases in 2007, and How They Did It.
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Online Crime 💬 0
According to a report released on Thursday by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), monetary damages caused by online fraud were up 20 percent in 2007. The total amount of damages reported added up to over $239 million, with a median* loss of an astonishing $680 per complaint. This is an increase of the $199 million caused in 2006.
Great Online Radio Stations
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 💬 1
Getting sick of listening to the same songs from you library over and over? Try listening to on-line radio from your favourite music player. It can turn you onto new music as well as freeing you from your old boring mp3s. There are hundreds of radio stations on the net, and the majority of them are commercial free! And because there are no commercials, the stations are free to play whatever they want! You will find some great non-mainstream music on some of these stations as well as the hits.
Next Time Bird, Pay More Attention
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 Entertainment 💬 0
We heard a great “BANG!” while going over the days lecture in spanish class. When we left the room, this is what we found:
and closer:
That must have hurt!
Worst Prescription Drug Ads
🖊️ Austin Riba ⌚ 🔖 💬 0
We’ve all seen those pharmaceutical ads on tv that are smiles, laughter and sunny skies. But what can be unsettling are those words the narrator spits out usually in the last few seconds of the commercial.