Soccer Babes

June 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pm by johnsee (Around the World)

FOX Sports has a great gallery of babes from around the world at the world cup.

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Saw III Poster Released

June 29th, 2006 at 5:32 pm by johnsee (Movies)

Jigsaw has disappeared. With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff (Angus Macfayden), another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw’s own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that he has a much bigger plan for both of them…

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A Good Pub?

June 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pm by johnsee (Humour)

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40 Things You Didn’t Know about Superman

June 27th, 2006 at 5:37 pm by johnsee (Movies)

Here’s over 40 things you probably don’t know about Superman. I can’t wait to see it!

Singer was such a stickler for details that business cards were printed for the desks of every employee at The Daily Planet, and a backlog of Daily Planet issues was created for the newspaper’s office.

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Futurama Returns!

June 26th, 2006 at 5:58 pm by johnsee (Television)

This was announced a few days ago, but I’m still going to put it up due to the awesomeness of it! Futurama is BACK!

The quirky animated show from “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening was canceled by Fox about two years ago, but will return with at least 13 new episodes on Comedy Central by 2008.

This is only the second time in television history that a show sent to TV’s trash heap has been resurrected. Curiously, the first was “Family Guy,” also an animated Fox show.

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Getting Sandstorming Back on Track

June 26th, 2006 at 5:34 pm by johnsee (Site News)

I’ve been incredibly busy lately. I’ve gone from daily entries, to barelly doing one a week. I’ve been very busy with other projects and now have my own web design business underway.

I’m going to do my best to get it back on track with an entry at least every couple of days :)

The MPAA Threatened Sweden

June 21st, 2006 at 3:11 pm by johnsee (Around the World, Movies, Online)

“Clearly the complaints that we filed on behalf of out members in 2004 and 2005 with the police in Stockholm and Gothenbirg against the operators of The Pirate Bay have resulted in no action. As I am sure you are aware, the American Embassy has sent entreaties to the Swedish government urgirig it to take action against The Pirate Bay and other organizations operating with Sweden that facililate copyright theft. As we discussed during our meeting, it is certainly not in Sweden’s best interests to earn a reputation among other nations and trading partners as a place where utter lawlessness with respect to intellectual properties is tolerated. I would
urge you once again to exercise your influence to urge law enforcement authorities in Sweden to take much-needed action against The Pirate Bay.”

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Scientology is Not Science

June 21st, 2006 at 6:59 am by johnsee (Around the World, Humour, Tech & Science)

This religion has always fascintated me. How could people believe something which sounds so unbelievable. Ghosts, nuclear bombs, volcanos, aliens… all worked out by a man who wrote sciencefiction

[http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~achille/scientology.html]

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Backup USB Drive on Insertion

June 12th, 2006 at 9:02 pm by johnsee (Features, Gadgets, Tech & Science)

I use my USB drive for everything. It runs Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird and also holds most of my files. While it’s great having these programs run no matter where I am, frequently backing up the data is a pain. I wanted an automatic solution. Unable to find a good solution on the net, I created one for myself.

Step 1: Create the folder you want to backup to (Mines c:\removablebackup)
Step 2: Create the backup batch file for your USB key. You can do this by inserting the following in a textfile and saving it as backup.bat. An example is provided below:

@echo off
echo -------------------
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo -------------------
echo No Rights Reserved, do whatever you want with this.
xcopy "*" "c:\removablebackup\" /Y /E /R
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.

Make sure you change the section in bold to reflect your individual backup location.

Step 3: Place the following in a text document, and save it directly to your removable drive as autorun.inf:

[autorun]
action=Backup
open=backup.bat
label=Backup
includeRuntimeComponents=True

Step 4: Your done! Now whenever you insert your USB key you should see this nifty backup option:

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Monkey Chow

June 11th, 2006 at 7:09 pm by johnsee (Around the World)

This gentleman plans to eat only monkey chow for a week and keep a journal about it.

Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.”

Maybe I’ll lose weight. Maybe I’ll gain superhuman monkey strength. Maybe I’ll go crazy. Maybe it’s too late. Check back here every day to follow along with the Monkey Chow Diaries.

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