Model T Beats Nummer H2 in a hillclimb.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/30/model-t-takes-on-a-hummer-in-hill-climb/

Perspective

This is rather interesting.

Russian Military Ad

BTW: That ship is the USS Missouri.

The trouble with iTunes

Good reading.  Incremental updates don't come in 50mb chunks.

Ye Gods

An Error Message Only Windows Could Give

Caterham + Supercharger = Insanity. One Please.

Bugatti Veyron (W16, Quad Turbo) - 521 BHP/Tonne
McLaren F1 (V12) - 559 BHP/Tonne
Caterham X330 Concept (S4, Supercharged) - 600 BHP/Tonne

I want

Where do you get that many gray bricks?

The Mall Ninja is watching

I came across this charming bit of Internet history quite by chance.

There's really nothing more I can say, apart from have a look.

Ouch?

New Games

E3 is on and Ars have their coverage, so far there are two games that I want.
Stranglehold (Have to see if we will get the special ed. with the HD version of Hardboiled)
Bioshock (If you pre-order at EBs and put down $20, they'll drop $20 off the price)

Inaccuracies in the Paris Hilton interview...according to Letterman

How to measure the height of a building with a barometer.

There are many correct ways to answer a test question

R.L. Loeffelbein, a physics teacher at Washington University in St. Louis was about to give a student a zero for the student's answer to an examination problem. The student claimed he should receive a perfect score, if the system were not so set up against the student. Instructor and student agreed to submit to an impartial arbiter, Dr. Alexander Calandra, who tells the story.

Simple yet funny

Really creepy cartoon.

Best Headline Evar

Giant badgers terrorise Iraqi port city

THE Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a scary rumour – giant badgers are stalking the streets by night, eating humans.

More here.

Quote of the Day

I used to admire METALLICA and I don't wanna see them going to fucking therapy. I mean, that's fucking… keep it in the band, man ... I won't watch that movie ['Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'], because I don't want to think of them like that. I wanna think of fucking 'Battery' and 'Damage Inc.' and 'Ride the Lightning'. I don't wanna see these fragile fucking old men that can't have a cocktail anymore because they're afraid of what they'll become. Fuck that!

Slayer ax-man Kerry King

Creepy High Voltage Installations

More creepy stuff here.

Real Transformers...These guys need girlfriends...badly

Sometimes it's good to be in Brisbane

Sometimes it's good to be in Brisbane, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Sometimes it's good to be in Brisbane

Sometimes it's good to be in Brisbane, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Redneck Alert

Only in America

Man Beats Peacock to Death Because He Thought it was a Vampire

 

What more can I say.

WTF???

THE price of machetes has halved in parts of Nigeria since the end of general elections in April because demand from thugs sponsored by politicians has subsided, the state-owned News Agency of Nigeria reported.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22006281-1702,00.html

Coincidence?

Okay - so I have an iPod.  And like most people with iPods I use iTunes to synchronize my music between my pc and my device.  Not because it's a great piece of software - it's not - it's ugly, it's dog-slow at starting and closing, it's a memory hog, it frequently looses podcasts and other files that I've downloaded, it doesn't want to support a variety of other audio codecs like .ogg - you get the picture?  There are other alternatives out there that I could use.  I simply use it because it's the path of least resistance.  Sometimes you don't want to stuff around.  Sometimes you just want to use something that simply works (most of the time).  Anyhow...

Anyone who's paid any attention to technology news in the last week or so would be aware that Apple has just released the Jesusphone - you know - that $US500 flash music player that doesn't event support mms.  As part of this new release, they've updated iTunes to a new version to add phone support.  I don't need support for a phone that's not even available in Australia - do I?

Apparently I do...

For some strange reason, my version of iTunes decided to start crashing on me every time I attempted to start it.  It gave no reason in the error box other that it just decided to stop working.  My first thought was that is was one of those mysterious errors that Windows sometimes has with a program and rebooting would fix it.

But it didn't.  It just kept crashing.  So I figure - when in doubt - reinstall the program.  If it's somehow become corrupted, that should sort it out.

It didn't.  It still kept crashing.

I can't even start iTunes for it to tell me that a new version is available.  However I did remember a web site stating they're updated it with a new version.  Might as well give that a try - nothing else seems to be working.

So I went ahead and downloaded the new version of iTunes, installed it, and miracle of miracles - iTunes started working again without the instantaneous crashes.

Now I'm no conspiracy theorist (I leave that to Grant), but it seems awfully coincidental that at the same time that a new version of iTunes is released, my old one refuses to work, forcing me to upgrade.  The timing is just so.... convenient....

Now I'm drawing a pretty long bow here with scant evidence to support myself.  But then again - I've seen crazier theories thrown Redmond way with even less evidence...