Police: Man Re-Enacts 'Halloween' Scene

Police: Man Re-Enacts 'Halloween' Scene: "Police: Man Re-Enacts 'Halloween' Scene

The Associated Press
Thursday, October 27, 2005; 5:24 PM

ROGERS, Ark. -- Police say something bad was bound to happen when a butcher knife, the movie 'Halloween' and a group of drinking men came together at a Rogers motel room.

John Hetzel, 40, was charged with aggravated assault and second-degree battery after attacking a man who checked on him at his motel room after a night of drinking, police spokesman Cpl. Kelley Cradduck said."

Joel on Software - Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

Joel on Software - Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You: "

Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

By Joel Spolsky
Saturday, April 21, 2001

When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they realize that there's a general pattern: sending files. That's one level of abstraction already. Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also 'send' requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It's the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it's getting really vague and nobody really knows what they're talking about any more. Blah."

motivated?

Agenda Inc. Live Feed - Keep up with the Jones

Agenda Inc. Live Feed - Keep up with the Jones: "Keep up with the Jones Beverages

Internet-savvy and youth-aware, Jones Soda makes customers prime participants in marketing the brand and keeping it fresh

Entrepreneurs seeking out a product niche are well advised to stay away from the dog-eat-dog world of soft drinks. Dominated by global multibillion-dollar soda giants who have a strong hold on distribution channels and pour hundreds of millions into advertising, the category is a formidable challenge to even the most experienced marketing minds.

All of which provided a wonderful opportunity for a former Canadian ski instructor who never went to college, let alone studied marketing. Peter van Stolk, the 40-year-old founder of Jones Soda, was quick to learn the rules of the industry and then ignore them. Since he began selling his iconoclastic drinks out of ice chests in snowboarding shops and tattoo parlors in 1996, he's sold 187 million bottles. (BUSINESSWEEK)"

Survivorman Official Web Site

Survivorman Official Web Site: "Survivorman - Home

No food, no shelter, no fresh water, no tools... no camera crew. One man - alone in the wild for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him.

Airing on “The Science Channel” in the U.S., and “The Outdoor Life Network” in Canada, each episode finds “Survivorman” Les Stroud abandoned in a remote location. He carries little more than the clothes on his back – and his cameras. Les not only needs to survive for a week without supplies, but he has to film everything himself, lugging over fifty pounds of camera gear the entire time. The Costa Rican rainforest, Arctic ice-flows, Georgian swamp and the high Sonora desert include a few locales where Les has overcome seemingly impossible obstacles."

Eat your brand "MAKE: Blog: Food embossing..."

MAKE: Blog: Food embossing...: "Food embossing...
Wpizza200I'm not sure why I like this, perhaps it's because I'd like to put text/code on edible things at all the conferences - then eat them. This company makes food embossing gear, I really like the pizza roller, you roll it along and it makes text in the dough, then you bake it. You could automate it, and put RSS feeds or stock prices on them, but that might be going too far. Link."

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News: "Source: Prosecutor to seek Libby indictment"

XM quips via CNN commute -> indictment over CIA leak

"... recon by fire"

"... perception is reality"

BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary

BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary: "

microwaiting: The time spent in front of the employee break room microwave while your lunch heats up. Regularly occurs a few minutes before noon and is generally not reported as a part of the lunch hour"

Blip Potential

Blip: "As a linguistic plunger, I invested heavily in blips two decades ago. 'Blip has good upside potential,' it was noted in this space in 1982, when a White House spokesman shrugged off bad financial news with 'We had one bad blip today.' Since then, the usage of this onomatopoeic word has soared as jargonauts in a variety of fields embraced it, and I remain bullish on blips because the word satisfies a need for 'sudden, minor shock; meaningless interruption.'"

Food Network: Braciole

Good Eats!

Food Network: Braciole: "Braciole
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown


Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
User Rating: 4 Stars


3 cups tomato sauce
1 1/4 cups flavored croutons
1/3 cup grated Parmesan
2 eggs
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary
1 teaspoon finely chopped thyme
1 clove garlic
1 pound flank steak, pounded to 1/4-inch thick
Olive oil, for brushing
Salt and pepper
Vegetable oil, for searing

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the tomato sauce in a 9 by 13-inch baking dish and place in the oven to heat.

In a the bowl of a food processor mix the croutons, cheese, eggs, herbs and garlic until it forms a paste.

Brush the pounded flank steak with the olive oil and season generously with the salt and pepper. Spread the filling evenly over the meat. Roll tightly and tie with butcher's twine.

In a large saute pan heat 1 to 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and sear all sides of the rolled meat. Remove from the pan.

Add to the hot tomato sauce, cover with a tin foil tent so that the foil is not touching the meat. Braise for 35 minutes or, up to 3 hours"

watchdawg247 - Buzznet Photo Sharing Community

watchdawg247 - Buzznet Photo Sharing Community

lifehack.org » Fifty Essential Topics on Economics

lifehack.org » Fifty Essential Topics on Economics: "Fifty Essential Topics on Economics

Economic is an essential topic for life. If you are working, understanding economics will help you understanding how are the products and services of your company relate to the markets and consumers. Why some products can mark the price so high and still there are demands on purchase? How services and products decrease its value? All of those questions can be answered by basic economics knowledge.

Arnold Kling has done a set of note pages for economics. Those 50 pages provide an overview on the best economics that you should learn about. If you don’t have time to read all of them right now, I recommend to select some sections from microeconomics and learn about it:"

Vader Butter

Cinematical: "Darth Vader, meet the Wicked Witch of the West. This sculpture of the dark lord is on display at the Tulsa State Fair, where every year a different artist is commissioned to make a sculpture out of butter. Click the link for the full thing – there's a Yoda, too. "

Exec Sued Over 241k Strip Club Tab - October 21, 2005

Exec Sued Over 241k Strip Club Tab - October 21, 2005: "OCTOBER 21--A Missouri businessman who claims that a $241,000 bill for a night of lap dance luxuriating at Manhattan's leading strip club is a fraud is being sued by American Express for refusing to pay the debt. "

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Grand Canyon Skywalk)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Grand Canyon Skywalk): "Illustrations show a proposed Grand Canyon skywalk. "

SiliconBeat: "Don't even tell you spouse what you're working on"

SiliconBeat: "Don't even tell you spouse what you're working on": "Somehow, entrepreneur Dan Dobberpuhl managed to keep his 150-employee chip company stealth for two years in gossipy Silicon Valley.

Today, he has launched chip company P.A. Semi. He concealed his team inside two floors of the McAffee high-rise buildling in Santa Clara, and told new recruits they'd have to get on board before they found out what the company was doing. He told them not to tell their spouses what they were working on."

Wired News: Camera Phone Has Life After Theft

Wired News: Camera Phone Has Life After Theft: "A New York stock clerk who had his camera phone swiped from his car this month says he was able to peer into the life of the gadget's new owner. The thief evidently didn't realize the copious photos and videos he was taking with the hot phone were accessible through a web account."

Cellphone Party In The Pants - Gizmodo

Cellphone Party In The Pants - Gizmodo: "bodysafe2-thumb.jpgLadies: We all know you have a special geek or dork in your life who’s into cellphones. That’s why you need to cook them a delicious meal, get them in the sack, then take off your clothes to reveal Karrysafe, the lingerie that has a secret holding compartment for your cellphone. Karrysafe is designed exclusively for women who want to carry personal belongings around safely and discreetly. They also say the Karrysafe has “stealth pocketing”, but really it’s just a PR term for “let’s have a threesome with the Nokia”. Considering it’s only £12.99, it might make a nice stocking stuffer for the holidays if the wife keeps her ringer on “Vibrate” a lot. If you’re a married geek, your wife will appreciate this sexy garment. If you’re a lonely geek… umm… Real Dolls?"

Gary Stein - Microsoft Connecting with Consumers

Gary Stein - Microsoft Connecting with Consumers: "Microsoft Connecting with Consumers

Microsoft is continuing to connect their internal teams with their consumers in very direct ways, including the new WSYP program.

The Apprentice: The Show: Bren's Blog

The Apprentice: The Show: Bren's Blog: "A little peroxide can make a whole lot of stupid."

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S SPINACH.

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S SPINACH.: " The Caffeinated Combo: For millions of Americans, a cup of coffee and a cigarette was considered breakfast. Well now you can simplify this process even further by smoking your coffee. Coffee grounds, that is! Of all the blends, the coffee and spinach combo 'tasted most like a joint, albeit a very old joint' and 'was not completely awful by any means.' While many said the 'coffee flavor isn't coming through too well,' others noted that the spinach 'added an interesting topnote -- and that's always nice.'"

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S SPINACH.

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S SPINACH.: " WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S SPINACH."

As with pruno, a prison wine made from all manner of things, inmates have turned to common items to get their fix, crafting smokes from dried spinach, spices and even coffee grounds. And as with pruno, prisons have cracked down, with Kansas prison officials removing spinach from the prison menu during a 1994 crackdown, trying desperately to stop the practice.

Psychology Today: Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability

Psychology Today: Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability: "Salvador Dali, the great surrealist, used to grab ideas for paintings from the very fertile semi-sleep state we call the hypnagogic state. He'd lie on a sofa and hold a spoon in one hand, balancing it on the edge of a glass placed on the door. Just as he'd drift off to sleep, he'd release the spoon, and the sound of the spoon hitting the glass would awaken him. Immediately, he'd sketch the bizarre hypnagogic images he was seeing."

Psychology Today: Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability

Psychology Today: Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability: "Diverse and changing stimuli promote creativity because, like resurgence, they get multiple behaviors competing with each other. If you put a Mickey Mouse hat and pliers on your desk in the morning, your thinking will move in odd directions during the day. Call these items distractions, if you like; they are great reservoirs of creativity"

The Sharpest Image - Popular Science

The Sharpest Image - Popular Science: "From a few feet away, a panoramic image he's taken of the Grand Canyon is startlingly vivid, almost hyperreal. As I move in closer, I am amazed that it retains its clarity. It does not become pixelated. Where I saw only a distant group of visitors standing across the canyon, I now see the fine chain-link fencing behind which they stand. Flint's photographs are like the hard-to-believe technology in spy thrillers—it turns out that you can, beginning from a panoramic shot of San Diego's skyline at night taken from a quarter of a mile away, keep zooming in until you can make out the poster on an apartment wa"

Funny eBay Auctions Weird & Bizarre Auctions From Across The Globe » I Will Shoot Anyone For You

Funny eBay Auctions Weird & Bizarre Auctions From Across The Globe » I Will Shoot Anyone For You: "
I Will Shoot Anyone For You
October 20, 2005 on 4:52 pm | In Misc | | Send 2 Friend |

IThat’s right! You send me a photo and I’ll shoot it and send it back to you! Are you mad at your Ex or your boss? Let me shoot his or her picture! Here’s how it works: You send me a photograph and I’ll mount it on a piece of posterboard. Then I’ll shoot it with a .40 caliber handgun!
View I Will Shoot Anyone For You Auction"

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Banana Skinned)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Banana Skinned): "In 1986, Silo (a chain of home electronics stores) ran a television commercial in 23 markets nationwide, offering stereos for '299 bananas.' They never thought anyone would take them at their word; after all, 'banana' is a widely accepted, if playful, term for greenbacks. Who could possibly mistake one for the other? Thirty-two customers held the retailer to its unwitting word — they showed up bearing loads of the yellow fruit and demanding the store keep its end of the
bargain. "

DEVO: UnOfficial Site - Lyrics to DEVO Songs

DEVO: UnOfficial Site - Lyrics to DEVO Songs: "they tell us that we lost our tails evolving up from little snails i say it's all just wind in sails"

NPR : 'Interruption Science': Costly Distractions at Work

NPR : 'Interruption Science': Costly Distractions at Work: "'Interruption Science': Costly Distractions at Work

Listen to this story...

Day to Day, October 14, 2005 · Technology forces us to juggle competing demands on our attention over the course of our workdays. Alex Chadwick speaks with New York Times Magazine contributor Clive Thompson about 'interruption science,' the study of the effect of disruptions on job performance."

Gyroball

Rob Neyer: "The second 'spin' -- and this is what’s revolutionary, perhaps -- is the motion of the upper arm. This differentiates from Mike Marshall’s Newtonian model and demands a forceful yet controlled rotation of the humerus. To get the idea of this in your head, hold your arm out so that your upper arm (humerus) is parallel to the floor. Have your forearm at a ninety-degree angle and hold the ball so that the ball is between your hand and your ear. The proper second 'spin' is done by rotating the upper arm so that the forearm goes from pointing up to pointing down and the hand goes from pointing in at the body to pointing away from the body (pronation) just after the release of the ball.
"

HeadBang's Lyrics: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

HeadBang's Lyrics: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger: "I just looked in the mirror Things aren't looking so good I'm looking California And feeling Minnesota"

Estate Legacy Vaults Blog: Aggregation is the new "scale"

Estate Legacy Vaults Blog: Aggregation is the new "scale": "Aggregation is the new 'scale'"

PEZ MP3

PEZ MP3: "Now Available for Ordering
First Edition PEZ MP3 Player"

Free Will

"you have an embattled relationship with time. Can anything be done about it? A little. You're now in a phase when it's possible to make modest progress. To get in the mood, I suggest you conduct a ritual to empower yourself. For instance, you could buy a cheap battery-operated alarm clock, take it into a natural place where the rhythms of nature surround you, and smash the clock with a hammer. "

Pumpkingutter - Outside-the-lines.com

Dynamic Performance Views for Tuning

Dynamic Performance Views for Tuning: "Dynamic Performance Tables

Throughout its operation, Oracle maintains a set of virtual tables that record current database activity. These tables are created by Oracle and are called dynamic performance tables.

Database administrators can query and create views on the tables and grant access to those views to other users. These views are called fixed views because they cannot be altered or removed by the database administrator.

SYS owns the dynamic performance tables. By default, they are available only to the user SYS and to users granted SELECT ANY TABLE system privilege, such as SYSTEM. Their names all begin with V_$. Views are created on these tables, and then public synonyms are created for the views. The synonym names begin with V$.

Each view belongs to one of the following categories"

AdPulp: Tofu Pie Favored By Resistance

AdPulp: Tofu Pie Favored By Resistance: "Tofu Pie Favored By Resistance

USA Today: Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, was hit with a tofu pie by anti-fur demonstrators as she attended Paris fashion week."

How to Win an Argument

How to Win an Argument: "The way to “win” an argument is to aim for a goal other than being right."

SNOOP DOGG (f/ Pharrell Williams) LYRICS - Drop It Like It's Hot

SNOOP DOGG (f/ Pharrell Williams) LYRICS - Drop It Like It's Hot: "I got the rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on"

Select Your Significator

Select Your Significator: "Knight of Wands: Departure. A journey. Advancement into the unknown. Alteration. Flight. Absence. Change of residence"

Free Will

"revisit thrilling schemes that at some time in the past you dismissed as impossible. They may not be quite so absurd anymore. "

words from Carlos Castaneda: "All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out from time to time. The difference between an average person and a warrior is awareness of this, and one of the tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when the cubic centimeter pops out he or she has the necessary speed and prowess to pick it up."