He's actually more eloquent drunk. He still seems dumb though.

Dubya drunk on video.

] I travel a lot and one of my favorite destination lead
] through poisoned with radiation, so called Chernobyl
] "dead zone" It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite?
] because one can ride there for hours and not meet any
] single car and not to see any single soul. People left
] and nature is blooming, there are beautiful places,
] woods, lakes. There is no newly built roads, but those
] which left from 80th in fairly good condition

I am SO making a side trip to Ukraine next time I go to Moscow. I've GOT to see this place.

Photoblogging Chernobyl

] If you've been wondering how to build OpenGL applications
] on the Linux platform, then take a close look at this
] article and its companion piece, "OpenGL Rendering and
] Drawing." I'll walk you through the basic steps and put
] you on the path to creating your own OpenGL games and
] applications.

Sister article is http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/23/magazine/opengl_render.html

Figure its time to bite the bullet and learn OpenGL.

O'Reilly Network: Preparing to Build an OpenGL Application [Jun. 23, 2000]

Incredible design. Fresh like dew on flowers in the morning. VERY good.

If have ever been a designer....

] The range of applications in the area of motion analysis
] and image sequence processing is expanding with the
] steady increase in the use of video and television
] systems in a variety of different fields. A consequence
] of this expansion is the increased interest in research
] in this area. Motion Analysis and Image Sequence
] Processing brings together the fundamentals of various
] aspects of image sequence processing, as well as the most
] recent developments and applications.

Find myself regretting large holes in my mathematical education as I work my way through this bad boy. Am working on a quality assurance system that compares a known good video output to one generated by automated user input, to make sure nothing got broked in the new version.

Anyone got helpful links? ;)

Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing|KLUWER academic publishers

] The researcher accidentally pricked herself with a needle
] that contained a weakened form of the Ebola virus last
] week while she was injecting mice with the virus as part
] of a research effort.

[ Oh *man* that sucks! You can't even hyperbolize it, like, "That sucks like ...", because anything you put in there for ... is probably less bullshit than "accidentally giving yourself Ebola." Sure, she may be fine (god willing), but shit man, that's so, so not good. -k]

CNN.com - Researcher isolated after possible Ebola exposure - Feb. 19, 2004

] PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has
] sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a
] nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
]
] "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed
] and that they be released into their natural habitat,"
] the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its
] weekend strike.

Still makes me laugh to think about....

CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000

] This weeks illustration was originally slated for the
] cover of this months Popular Science Magazine but it got
] bumped to the interior... too bad... would have loved to
] have seen it in full on cover goodness. DARPA (R&D of
] Defense department, if you didn't already know that) is
] putting together a race of autonomous (robotic) vehicles
] that runs from LA to Las Vegas. Completely remote, no one
] at the wheel. They are recruiting people (these guys are
] serious robot geeks who build and tinker with this stuff
] as a hobby and obsession) to build their own vehicles to
] participate in the race. The vehicles range from
] motorcycles to HumVees. The point of this story is to
] illustrate DARPA's interest in this technology, and that
] they hope to have autonomous vehicles waging war by 2015.
] Mark Pauline eat your heart out. ;-)

Some very interesting images and thoughts here. Its really stupid that this website doesn't offer article specific links instead of one link that changes every week. This might be gone when you see it.

Image of the week: DARPA Terminators

] Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with
] the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very
] clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed
] to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't
] allowed to do. He collected those things into a
] hillarious list and posted them to the web. The site
] hadn't been updated in a couple of years and has since
] gone away; but the list is classic, so I saved it.

There are some great ones in here..

# Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody.

# (Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I *did* bring enough for everybody.

# My name is not a killing word.

213 things you can't do in the Army

Cold beer going cheap. Tank and small military unit needed to get it out of fridge.

After cooling off in a watery grave for more than three weeks, 10 tons of beer have been rescued from beneath the ice of a Siberian river with the help of a T-72 tank, Emergency Situations Ministry troops and six divers. Its fridge, a KamAZ truck, was not so lucky.

One diver was injured in the operation Tuesday, but the beer is good enough to be sold, if at a discount, said the beer's producer, Omsk-based Rosor, which is perhaps best known for its Sibirskaya Korona label.

The beer ended up beneath the ice of the Irtysh River in the Omsk region after the truck delivering it sank while crossing a southern passage over the river just a few days before New Year's.

Russian Troops and Tank Struggle to Save Beer