] Is the DoD going green? The new diesel-electric hybrid
] Shadow RST-V certainly makes it seems that way. It uses
] less than 50 percent of the normal fuel weight of a
] Humvee, and runs on four magnet motors and two
] lithium-ion battery packs. A typical Humvee guzzles over
] 1,000 pounds of fuel per mission

With all the diffent forecasts about oil availability over the next several decades, makes since the military would start making hybrids or alternate fuel vehicles now.

Humvee goes Hybrid: Diesel-Electric Shadow RST-V

A very good song about confronting and dealing with cancer

Now I could lie by your side
All serrated for you
Down below cancer grows
Weeping waits inside you too
All our rage begs a stage
It's a waste of time though
And you style seems worthwhile
But this lonely road has turned
And you faded there
They pretend to care
Vultures waiting
If you don't like me
Certify Me
Yeah, I don't know
Yeah, I won't go
Yeah, save it I'm okay

And in the sun, a loaded gun
Makes for conversation
All the while in denial
It's too late for me to change

And you were unchained
Nothing more had changed
I could fake it
If you still hate me
Confiscate me

Oh we're jaded - I don't know
Overrated - I won't go
All serrated - Save it I'm okay
Yeah, I won't play
Yeah, go away
Yeah, save it I'm okay

The Offspring - Vultures

What you need to make in one city to have the same style of living at a fixed salary in your current city. Atlanta is cheap!

Cost of Living Calculator

] Six-figure zip codes
] Here are the U.S. communities with the highest percentage
] of six-figure income earners, according to OnBoard LLC,
] which created this list based on statistics collected
] from government and commercial sources.

Highest income zip codes

] SINGAPORE (Reuters) - E-mail users inundated with
] unsolicited "spam" messages have reason to hope Microsoft
] Corp. will develop better tools for tackling the problem:
] Bill Gates is suffering more than anyone.
]
] Gates, Microsoft's chairman, gets 4 million e-mails a day
] and is probably the most "spammed" person in the world,
] his Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
]
] However, only a few junk e-mails get through to Gates's
] inbox thanks to anti-spam technology that filters his
] messages, Ballmer said at a Microsoft (Research) event in
] Singapore.

This sounds like bullshit. Maybe bgates@microsoft.com or wahtever gets 4,000,000 emails, but I highly doubt they are running spam filters against all of that. In fact, I'm sure most mail tohis publically available email addresses that isn't from microsoft.com addresses goes to /dev/null (or the sucky Windows equivalent, the recycle bin).

I mean think about it. Lets assume he gets 200 emails that are real emails (10hr workday means 20 an hour, which means 3 minutes an email, if he does nothing but read email. 200 seems like a good estimate). 200/4,000,000 is .005%. Five. Thousandths. of a percent. Contrast that with consider the false-positive rate of most spam filters. Depending on the settings, some important mail is getting lost, or a hell of a lot of spam gets through.

Now granted, alot of the spam will be duplicate, which the filters will grab easily. Imagine, there is a cluster of windows machines (can windows even cluster?) that do nothing but spam filter Gates email. He might as well pay an intern to manually sort it after some basic filtering is done.

Gates gets 4 million emails, A Day!

] Speaking to high-ranking military officials Wednesday,
] Putin said that while international terrorism was one of
] the main threats facing Russia, the country's nuclear
] defenses also had to be kept up to date.
]
] "We are conducting research and are testing the most
] up-to-date nuclear missile systems, which, I'm sure, will
] be supplied to the armed forces in the near future,"
] Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
]
] "What is even more important, these systems will have no
] analogues in the other nuclear powers during the next few
] years."

Putin followed by saying "We will bury you."

Did I wake up in 1972? I wonder why he is rattling his sabre. Coupled with the recent consolidation of government and Putin's roll-back of a representative goverment, this is troublesome.

Putin: Russia testing new Nuke missiles

] Hybrid has developed an interace solution for the demise
] of the xmPCR. With this cable and our software you will
] once again be able listen to XM satellite radio in your
] home or in your car using the included Hybrid eXeM
] interface along with the xmDirect. This will work with
] Timetrax version 2.5 but not previous versions, other
] than timetrax all other existing xmPCR software will not
] work with this solution, However The SDK is available for
] developers that want to continue using xm radio within
] their applications.

Hardware hacking is 1337

Company offers XM Hack to listen on a PC

] Charges have been dropped against a woman who paid for
] clothes with a fake $200 bill that featured President
] Bush's picture and the serial number DUBYA4U2001.
]
] Westmoreland County prosecutors dropped all charges
] Friday against Deborah L. Trautwine, 51, after she paid
] the store in real currency.
]
] Trautwine wasn't aware that the bill wasn't actual legal
] tender, said her attorney, Harry Smail Jr.
]
] A clerk at a Fashion Bug clothing store also apparently
] was fooled by the funny money.
]
] She gave Trautwine $100.58 in change following an August
] transaction.

Charges dropped in bogus $200 Bush bill

Holy Shit!

Raw Video Captures of The Battle of Fallujah

"No, a triangle with 4 points is what Euclid rides into hell"
-Albert Einstein, Picasso at the Lapin Agile

While I was disappointed with the production I saw of this Steve Martin play, the script is extremely funny.