The National

Saw The National on sunday night and it was a pretty good show. They were tight and sounded good.
www.myspace.com/thenational

Proto. Pron Pronouncement

I am posting the following spontaneous IM yawp at the request of Rog:

[10:37] Heatkernel:* yeah, man the proterozoic era
[10:37] Heatkernel: that was the real party time
[10:37] Heatkernel: for the microbes
[10:37] Heatkernel: I've been reading about that in Margulis

(* "Heatkernel" substituted for actual IM screen name).

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest

This is really sweet: Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest

Wikipedia does Beer pong

One of the most awe inspiring wikipedia articles I have ever come across: Beer pong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Firefox saved passwords for all to see

I hate to say it, but I had no idea about this:
Firefox saved passwords for all to see

John's Adventures: John's Background Switcher

This is a really cool way to update your desktop wallpaper automatically at fixed intervals. You can even get fotos from Flickr, pick by tags, etc.
John's Adventures: John's Background Switcher

Shock Absorber

This reminds me of Weird Science: Shock Absorber

I love the internet.

Top 11 songs of the past few days

"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison
"Sweet Troubled Soul" - stellastarr*
"Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)" - The Killers
"Werewolves of London" - Warren Zevon
"Area Codes" - Ludacris
"You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
"An Honest Mistake" - The Bravery
"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your OWn" - U2
"Holidae Inn" - Chingy
"Emily Kane" - Art Brut
"It Takes Diff'rent Strokes" - Alan Thicke, Gloria Loring, Al Burton

Hugo Chavez holds up wanted pic of Freeze

Hugo Chavez holds up wanted pic of Freeze
Originally uploaded by heyrog.

The chavistas had better take a look at this. This has "international incident" written all over it.

First Impressions Of Beauty May Demonstrate Why The Pretty Prosper

These researchers have demonstrated that people can distinguish pretty faces from not so pretty faces in 13 milliseconds. i.e. they can not remember what the face looks like as this amount of time is pretty much sublimintal, but they are pretty sure it is attractive or not.
First Impressions Of Beauty May Demonstrate Why The Pretty Prosper

It's amazing to ponder how much of our thinking is done without even thinking about it...

Got flap? Public Service Announcement

Got flap?
Originally uploaded by xthecritic.

Some people, well you just never know where they've been, so if you touch them, better remember to wash your hands.