You work hard everyday, so why not relish the opportunity to celebrate your laboring and take an extra day off Monday?
McCain is a military man who spent time in a Vietnam prison camp, the character of Col. Tigh is a military man who spent time in a Cylon prison camp. Sarah Palin comes from a family of school teachers, the character of Laura Roslin was school teacher before becoming Secretary of Education (and then later President).
If you want to stand out in the pro sports world, you've got to make a name for yourself. Or come up with one.Turns out some gay ass wrestling federation threatened to sue [UFC] because they recently named one of their wrestlers The War Machine Rhino and trademarked the name. Too fuckin’ bad that I have been using this name for 6 years, have it tatted on my body and it is what my fans yell out when I’m fighting. If you know my personality then you know damn well I am not gonna let some faggot ass, FAKE wrestler steal MY name… SO 6 weeks ago I filed a change of name request and today I had court to make my name officially WAR MACHINE.
Not to get all technical, but wouldn’t Marvel Comics have the trademark (or copyright, whatever] on War Machine?
Three years since our current administration royally fucked up their response to Katrina, a new hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf, and it's not going to be any better as Gustav heads towards them.
Unlike Katrina, when thousands took refuge inside the Superdome, there will be no "last resort" shelter, and those who stay behind accept "all responsibility for themselves and their loved ones," said the city's emergency preparedness director, Jerry Sneed. Residents were streaming out of the city even though a mandatory evacuation order had not yet been issued for New Orleans. Hotels closed, and the airport prepared to follow suit as Mayor Ray Nagin confirmed the danger to the city was growing and told tourists to leave.
The very unclever Oompa-Loompa song was dropped over this, so you may as well kill the volume and add your own soundtrack. But seriously, this guy is tearing up the Middle East!
David Duchovny must be turning into a method actor. Currently playing a womanizing writer on the Californication, has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction.
am want since Flirting With Disaster
Jesus, get off that cross and play some hot licks!"Grab the guitar and play along with top Christian bands! Shred those riffs or blast the bass…you add a unique sound to the solid Christian rock. But watch out: if you can't keep up, the artists will take a break and stop the music. Crank it up and try again - you'll soon be rockin' with the best while praising the Lord! Order the second guitar and jam with a friend!"
Yes, Guitar Praise is here! The New Testament rock video game gives all those devil worshiping heathens from Guitar Hero salvation. It costs $99.95 with one guitar and plugs into any Mac or PC (what, you thought the consoles were going to have it?). I tried to ignore this story, but after Gizmodo and Boing Boing carried it, I had to just on the eternal life of rock bandwagon.
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A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the eternally unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his web site was arrested. After appearing in court, his bail was set at $10,000, the approximate sales for the album if it ever came out.
Blonde herpes Paris Hilton and poseur supreme Benji Madden’s want to give you ear cancer.
A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time. There goes the neighborhood? There is the neighborhood!
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The nation of Japan summed up in one manga panel.Nick Pitera is an animator at Pixar, but he can also sing like a pretty lady. He's made a whole bunch of videos, and his Whitney Houston is frightening.
With Leather, the sportier counterpart of WWTDD and Film Drunk has scholastic sports news!
Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die, a travel guide, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home at 47. You can't make this stuff up because it's too perfect.
Anyone who is a fan of 1960s-era guitar idol mythology knows that crazy custom circuitry and effects pedals are nothing new. But the OpenStomp Coyote 1, billed as the "world's first open-source guitar pedal" updates the trend for today's slightly more nerdy shredders, who can recreate the crazy circuit bending of yore in a custom software package that visually edits effects patches. On top of that, all aspects of the hardware—including the added LCD screen, 80MHz Propeller processor, microUSB and RJ11 interfaces—are documented, too, so feel free to change all that up. Be warned that it will set you back $350.Mary-Kate and Ashley cut loose, showing the moves that made them millions. Literally millions. Each.
loud enough to be heard on multiple sensors, up to 5000km apart. Scientists dubbed it the "Bloop" (not to be confused with the "Boing".)
far the deepest hole ever drilled by humans. The last of the cores to be plucked from from the borehole were dated to be about 2.7 billion years old. Although the Kona hole was the deepest hole ever drilled (until this one), seven miles was still very short of the 20-80km required to penetrate the earth’s crust. 
It has also been speculated that these noises happen everywhere and that ambient noise from communities simply make them harder to hear. Sound travels farther over water than over land, and so the sounds are more easily heard in remote, quiet areas close to bodies of water. 
recorded by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration located around 15 degrees S 115, degrees W. It is called the Slow Down because the sound slowly decreases in frequency over the span of about 7 minutes. It was detected using the same hydrophone array as the Bloop, and was loud enough to be detected on multiple sensors 2000km apart. 
from space.
I have said for some time that the Desperate Housewives pee standing up and that the Grey's / Private Practice ladies have no need for stirrups. Now, photo proof backing my claims!
Halfway to who-know's-where on His Words-Not Mine. Because that's how we do at the begining of each week. Really, you should know this by now.
Famous Mom, Scarlett, and Rybot are all scattered around the country this weekend, but just because they're away doesn't mean I'm all alone. Herr Docktor and I are certainly going to kick it with a little vinted spirit, just like we used to when we were a couple of rambunctious youths renting houses in the Valley.
Yeah, I go old school with Hall & Oates. Like back to the 1982 H2O tour at the Universal Amphitheatre, old. So fancy that moment when I found out that Mr. White Soul himself has an interweb show where he has guests over to his place to jam on tunes and chill out. Sweet. Your move, Mr. Oates...
The Hong Kong Lego User Group takes their bricks and games seriously.
Tragedy! Sho'Nuff, the shogun of Harlem — and better known to his friends as actor Julius Carry — passed away recently at the age of 56. This has created a major vacuum in the power structure of the Harlem kung fu underworld, and more importantly, a hole in all of our hearts which can never be filled, as no one will ever be that simultaneously mean, bad and pretty again. Bruce Leroy is wanted for questioning.
Matthew Syed, former Olympic table tennis player and current contributor to the UK's The Times, produced an enlightening article on sex in the Olympic Village that mixes his personal experience with the vibe of these Olympic Games. And that vibe is: people be humpin'.There is a famous story from Seoul in 1988 that there were so many used condoms on the roof terrace of the British team's residential block the night after the swimming concluded that the British Olympic Association sent out an edict banning outdoor sex.He ends up hypothesizing that higher levels of testosterone and the release from Spartan training regimens makes everybody eager to hold hands and do whatever it is mommy and daddy do, which makes the last half of the article pretty boring, actually. But if you want to get really crazy, ESPN has a huge scoop on all that gold medal sexy (and don't worry that it's from the last Olympiad - it's still relevant and detailed as hell).
I too have the Brother HL-2040, and it is a pain in the ass. It constantly jams, which is my punishment for not having toner troubles, but I am totally going to do this hack. Take that (big) Brother! Via Slate:
How to fight back against the lying, infuriating, evil ink-and-toner cabal
I bought a cheap laser printer a couple years ago, and for a while, it worked perfectly. The printer, a Brother HL-2040, was fast, quiet, and produced sheet after sheet of top-quality prints—until one day last year, when it suddenly stopped working. I consulted the user manual and discovered that the printer thought its toner cartridge was empty. It refused to print a thing until I replaced the cartridge. But I'm a toner miser: For as long as I've been using laser printers, it's been my policy to switch to a new cartridge at the last possible moment, when my printouts get as faint as archival copies of the Declaration of Independence. But my printer's pages hadn't been fading at all. Did it really need new toner—or was my printer lying to me?To find out, I did what I normally do when I'm trying to save $60: I Googled. Eventually I came upon a note on FixYourOwnPrinter.com posted by a fellow calling himself OppressedPrinterUser. This guy had also suspected that his Brother was lying to him, and he'd discovered a way to force it to fess up. Brother's toner cartridges have a sensor built into them; OppressedPrinterUser found that covering the sensor with a small piece of dark electrical tape tricked the printer into thinking he'd installed a new cartridge. I followed his instructions, and my printer began to work. At least eight months have passed. I've printed hundreds of pages since, and the text still hasn't begun to fade. On FixYourOwnPrinter.com, many Brother owners have written in to thank OppressedPrinterUser for his hack. One guy says that after covering the sensor, he printed 1,800 more pages before his toner finally ran out.
Brother isn't the only company whose printers quit while they've still got life in them. Because the industry operates on a classic razor-and-blades business model—the printer itself isn't pricy, but ink and toner refills cost an exorbitant amount—printer manufacturers have a huge incentive to get you to replace your cartridges quickly. One way they do so is through technology: Rather than printing ever-fainter pages, many brands of printers—like my Brother—are outfitted with sensors or software that try to predict when they'll run out of ink. Often, though, the printer's guess is off; all over the Web, people report that their printers die before their time.
Enter OppressedPrinterUser. Indeed, instructions for fooling different laser printers into thinking you've installed a new cartridge are easy to come by. People are even trying to sell such advice on eBay. If you're at all skilled at searching the Web, you can probably find out how to do it for free, though. Just Google some combination of your printer's model number and the words toner, override, cheap, and perhaps lying bastards.
Similar search terms led me to find that many Hewlett-Packard printers can be brought back to life by digging deep into their onboard menus and pressing certain combinations of buttons. (HP buries these commands in the darkest recesses of its instruction manuals—see Page 163 of this PDF.) Some Canon models seem to respond well to shutting the printer off for a while; apparently, this resets the system's status indicator. If you can't find specific instructions for your model, there are some catchall methods: Try removing your toner cartridge and leaving the toner bay open for 15 or 20 seconds—the printer's software might take that as a cue that you've installed a new cartridge. Vigorously shaking a laser toner cartridge also gets good results; it breaks up clumps of ink and bathes the internal sensor in toner.
These tricks generally apply to laser printers. It's more difficult to find ways to override ink-level sensors in an inkjet printer, and, at least according to printer manufactures, doing so is more dangerous. I was able to dig up instructions for getting around HP inkjets' shut-off, and one blogger found that coloring in his Brother inkjet cartridge with a Sharpie got it to print again. But I had no luck for Epson, Lexmark, Canon, and many other brands of inkjets. There are two reasons manufacturers make it more difficult for you to keep printing after your inkjet thinks it's out of ink. First, using an inkjet cartridge that's actually empty could overheat your printer's permanent print head, leaving you with a useless hunk of plastic. Second, the economics of the inkjet business are even more punishing than those of the laser business, with manufacturers making much more on ink supplies than they do on printers.
Inkjet makers have a lot riding on your regular purchases of ink—and they go to great lengths to protect that market. In 2003, the British consumer magazine Which? found that inkjet printers ask for a refill long before their cartridges actually go dry. After overriding internal warnings, a researcher was able to print 38 percent more pages on an Epson printer that had claimed it didn't have a drop left. Lawyers in California and New York filed a class-action lawsuit against Epson; the company denied any wrongdoing, but it settled the suit in 2006, giving customers a $45 credit. A similar suit is pending against Hewlett-Packard.
There's also a long-standing war between printer makers and third-party cartridge companies that sell cheap knockoff ink packs. In 2003, Lexmark claimed that a company that managed to reverse-engineer the software embedded in its printer cartridges was violating copyright law. Opponents of overbearing copyright protections were alarmed at Lexmark's reach; copyright protections have traditionally covered intellectual property like music and movies, not physical property like printer cartridges. A federal appeals court dismissed Lexmark's case, but anufacturershave recently been successful in using patent law to close down third-party cartridge companies.
In the long run, though, the printer companies' strong line against cartridge makers seems destined to fail. Buying ink and toner is an enormous drag. Having to do it often, and at terribly steep prices, breeds resentment—made all the worse by my printer's lying ways. Some companies are realizing this. When Kodak introduced a new line of printers last year, it emphasized its low ink costs. Kodak claims that its cartridges last twice as long as those of other printers and sell for just $10 to $15 each, a fraction of the price of other companies' ink. When my Brother finally runs dry, perhaps I won't replace the toner—I'll replace the printer.
