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Contemporaneous Epithet

Contemporaneous Epithet

Wow so it's been a while since I posted to this blog! Time to get back to it now that life will allow just a little more time for this sort of thing! I have been working freelance to write t3h softies-warez and almost forgot i had a public to tend to (you know who you are out there). So stop your incessant bitching and read all ready. New stuff be coming as this is apparently my best venue for mass communication. So... If you are looking for more of my mental bile (but need your fix "like yesterday man"), follow me on twitter. otherwise 73s to the lot of ya!

Ruby on Rails

There comes a time in every software developers life that the joys of programming can become hindered by writing line after line CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) procedures just to make your nifty new Killer-App work. Enter Ruby On Rails! I have been using the framework for about a month now and let me tell you, it blows visual studio out of the water! For instance, in VS (I'm a C# programmer) if want to create a database and then insert, update, and delete data from it through a convenient interface it requires me to:

1. use the visual tools to create the SQL statements to design the table metadata (columns , primary and foreign key constraints etc)
2. create a data table and table-adapter with these tools (which will have to be heavily customized for each CRUD operation)
3. hand code sql queries to get something useful out of the data.
   

It doesn't really seem like that much eh? Well what if you are not just writing an app for your personal used sock collection? If you need to start from a what-information-do-I-already-have, the tools in VS are not very adaptive to existing databases. On my last project i had to redesign the Human Resources Database Management System databases from an old Access MDB. Now, I went with what I know, C#. But what if I went with the Rails way instead? What if I had taken advantage of Ruby's convention over configuration principle?

What is to follow over the next however-long will be a series of Ruby on Rails posts (as I discover more about this exciting language) to help get more people into this fast-growing open-source community of developers. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions on topics you might be curious about!

Incarcerex: It's Time for a New Bottom Line

Now this is a drug company I can get behind!

you know you want to find out what this is

cbs5.com - Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

Jun 8, 2007 9:03 pm US/Pacific
Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

behaviour modification experiments on "unwitting" US citizens

BBC NEWS | Americas | CIA to reveal decades of misdeeds

behaviour modification experiments on "unwitting" US citizens... It evokes shades of KUBARK ... People have (and I mean citizens) been self deluding about this for years! I am willing to wage against people actually accepting that this happens.

FreeViral.com!

In less than 5 Minutes
you can have your own
Free Viral Marketing mini site....
and then watch your traffic EXPLODE !!

Mr. Wizard has gone to the great lab in the sky.

Mr. Wizard Studios



It is with a heavy heart I present to you one of the most influential people in my childhood has died.

He who influenced thousands since 1951 to reach beyond their own limited experiences to grasp at knowledge and to wield it with the precision of logic. He taught me that pragmatism and exploration were the keys to understanding. That these traits are not just stubbornness and daydreaming as many of my grammar school teachers treated them. Here's to the last man to be well-known for something other than being well-known.

A test of worth...

lang:ruby ai - Google Code Search



"There Appears to be a significant probability, provided all parameters are maximized to their fullest potential within the constraints of demographics variance, that none of the anticipated data will demonstrate behavioral objectives, so to speak, or the derivationally motivated contingency. This is of course somewhat oversimplified, but its implications need not be belabored, since they will be obvious to all of you, and you need only refer to the relevant literature (which, I might add, is abundant) for further details."

Jesus makes a rare appearance for San Antonio man!

From MySA.com:



" People have seen Jesus' image in a lot of places — in a pan, on a window, in a tree — but now a Floresville man says an image of Jesus has landed on his car "



Call me bat-shit crazy, gods or no gods withstanding; this is the best miracle I have heard about in a long time. Just think... the Lord Gawd Almighty ® saw it fit to bless Texas with his own hand and graciously smear his love all over this homeland of our president! You probably think that this blessing of avian excrement wasn't intended for the same guy that is ransacking this planet that he believes was handed to him on a silver platter by his vindictive deity. Well your wrong.



You should know better than that. Of course our favorite old man in the sky, with his zombie son in tow of course, would bestow this "spiritual gift" upon him at the Rose Garden! He is the decider , and has decided that since he is on a mission from god, he should authorize some "non lethal" CIA covert operations surreptitious gospel spreading in Iran. I think he needs to find some thing to keep him busy, idle hands are the Devil's Workshop! 

Snakes on a MotherFucking Plane!!!!

Man with 700 snakes arrested at airport - CNN.com

The sick guy who maintains the salad bar at the grocery store

At one of my local grocery stores, the guy who we will call K exhibits almost every symptom of viral hepatitis. How should K be dealt with? The managers refuse to re-assign him, or put him on sick leave. A large handful of other employees are getting sick but no one wants to talk about this pink elephant. What would you do?

What you thought only Zombie Jews could do it?

Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog

Female Sharks Confirmed to Reproduce Asexually

Category: Weird Science
Posted on: May 23, 2007 6:59 PM, by Shelley Batts

hammerhead.jpg In a really astounding discovery, it was confirmed that a 2001 birth by a female Hammerhead shark was achieved in the complete absence of males, in a process called parthenogenesis.

Fucking right!

House OKs 'outrageous gas prices' bill

WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed legislation authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and punish gasoline price gouging....



see full story here.

Real Gangsta

Bling Ballz



'Nuff said.

Dumps like a truck ... truck ...

AAAA That's FIVE A's: A Wet-Wipe Manifesto

A GNU kind of refreshment!

How to Make OpenCola - WikiHow



By profession, I am a programmer; by choice I contribute to open-source projects when I can. After following this phenomena, roughly since the mid-'90s, It has transformed from more than just a kick ass editing/everything software. It now includes Open Hardware, Automobiles, Media Distribution, and now Soda that you can make your self. Some day your own rapid-prototyper could be cranking out the plastic glasses for your tasty beverage.

What would happen if a blogger posed as a police officer?

From MetaFilter:





"If people can't trust that journalists are journalists, then we are on the road to intellectual anarchy."

May 22, 2007 6:37 AM Vancouver police posed as journalists to lure out and arrest the activist who threatened to bring protest of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to the doorsteps of Olympic officials - and it isn't the first time police in BC have impersonated the media to make an arrest. The Canadian Association of Journalists is not amused, but a constable speaking for the VPD "doubts the outrage from the person on the street over the issue would be the same as it has been from the journalistic community".

How much longer can we allow the FDA to keep doing this to us?

NewsLocale - Should Diabetes Patients Stop Taking Avandia?

"GlaxoSmithKline said its own meta-analysis had proved Avandia increased heart risks by 30 percent. "

The FDA has repeatedly fallen short with their so called studies. Time and time again we hear that this drug will will cause heart failure, or that drug will cause you deafness not to mention is the leading gateway drug, surpassing marijuana.

So were saying here that all these pills that even they tell us are bad for us are legal; however, something that even improves cognitive functions in schizophrenics is still illegal.



Perhaps it's not our best interest they are looking out for. Pharmaceutical companies have a great interest in treating illness not curing it. For if they were to cure AIDS, how could they afford to invent new illnesses for which to implement these drugs that they create without solving any problems we allready have.

'Nuff Said.

Manchurian Blowback is an anagram for McCain Blow Hunk Arab!

With the recent news of Guiliani's forgetfulness, I thought a few interesting anagrams would help:



Manchurian Blowback can become:



hunk mccain blow arab

bank club chairwoman

arab know mccain blur

arab howl mccain bunk





Blowback (intelligence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seed Faith

Have you ever received one of these? Personally I feel like mailing them back $20 in that little evenlope... in pennies.



Tulsa World ::: Reaping From Faith

I'm Back and I have found Jesus!

It has been quite some time since the last post. But we are back with renewed fervor and ready to ride this train to hell! Speaking of hell... They found Jebus! and to show my ever-growing support for Son-O-God, I have decided to clone the christ so we can get down to brass tacks and determine those questions that burn in our minds like salty splinters ; for instance: How much water can be transmogrified into water? Was he an inny or an outty? Or What Would Jesus Wear? This is all VERY important stuff kids.... check back for more on this later.







London, Feb 27: ‘Titanic’ director James Cameron is bound to stir up a

hornet’s nest with claims that he has discovered the coffins of Jesus,

as well as his ‘wife’ Mary Magdalene, and their son.



The Hollywood director has produced a documentary

called ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’ telling the story of ten stone coffins

found in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jerusalem by Israeli builders.

Grab your ankles and kiss your ass goodbye.

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law : SF Indymedia

October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

Other choice pieces:
For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public
order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the
objections of local governmental, military and local police entities;
ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement
mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters,
possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in
the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of
protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and
other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for
and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of
a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of
the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under
our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and
domestic agenda of the Bush administration.
*shits self*

oh Baby your so "talented"!

girl who pretends to eat her cat

Her name is Nakagawa Shoko. She eats pussy, and lots of it.

net neutrality is under (yet another) attack

BetaNews | UN Conference Convenes on Net Control

At a conference in Greece aimed at continuing the discussion over who should control the Internet, the United Nations once again renewed calls for diminishing the U.S. government's influence over ICANN. Additionally, an UN official said parties were growing tired of the argument that most did not understand the need for U.S. control.

International Telecommunications Union Secretary General Yoshio Utsumi said that no matter what has been said before or has been agreed upon, no one "can eternally claim they are the best." However, the most critical governments -- including Cuba, Iran and China -- are some of the most oppressive when it comes to free speech.
Can we really trust the same people who lead us into war with the great responsibility of regulating the last truly open form of communication?

consume bitches!

The Man, The Car, The end is nigh.

*stomach churns*

i <3 jebus!!!!

and you thought cristains had no talent!

another paedo is about to go on the run...

hmmm sounds kinda like this

Perhaps Pyrroh was right all along.

Pyrroh of Ellis, student of Socrates, and founder of skepticism once argued that one must doubt everything unless empirically proven to be true. Of course this cannot be used in practice as the anecdote about him nearly getting squashed by a run-away cart while suspending judgment about whether or not he should believe his own eyes.

In this day and age what we perceive is hardly ever true. With advertising, SPAM, SEO moguls, propaganda, and , of course, blatant lies everywhere the signal to noise ratio is very abysmal indeed.

Photos: Pictures that lie | CNET News.com

Just remember Plato's thoughts on whether or WYSIWYG: "These Passing shadows we call reality provide only the merest hints of an invisible truth."

Yet Another Google tool! [yay]

From those who want to organize the world's and make it universally available , comes the Google Book Search . It allows you to search through countless books (some complete others not) and view them right on that inter-web-thingy. Free, informative, and even useful. This will be a great boon for students and professionals alike, Kudos Google Team!

Pantech/Lunar Design Pivot Cellphone Concept

Pantech/Lunar Design Pivot Cellphone Concept: "Although this looks more like an alarm clock or a desk phone rather than a cellphone, the concept phone is really supposed to fold up and fit into your pocket. The device has a swiveling screen that allows you to prop it up to angle it at your face when you're making a speakerphone call. The screen will also be used for video-conferencing, which again is made easier thanks to the prop-up-pivot

This looks like an interesting design mockup, but still has a lot of bugs to work out before it can come anywhere near production. Which is a shame, because we hate holding and angling our cellphones when we're making a speakerphone call. Isn't speakerphone supposed to keep your hands free so you can do other stuff—eat, blog—while you call? – Jason Chen

Cell PHones of the Future [BusinessWeek via TechEBlog via Sci Fi Tech]

"

Sanyo Katana 2?

Sanyo Katana 2?: "We got this blurry phone pic from a reader that claims it's the sequel to the Katana phone offered by Sanyo on Sprint. Tentatively titled the 'Katana 2', the phone will still be on Sprint, but curiously, has a Samsung badge on the inside. The reader couldn't explain why, and neither can we. Strange indeed. – Jason Chen

"

More Insurance Games.

"This is getting really old quick", I said to my self. However there is hope on the horizion! Here is a site that does wonderful things in the way of a nice, easy to navigate, and effective tool for getting the best insurance money can buy.

more linky goodness

Dakota Tundra Directory

Dakota Tundra Directory - Submit Link

Playing the quote game

Can be very confusing. Every once and a while, I like to see just how much lower my rates could be. Here is a site that I found to make it the whole process far easier.

Resources to find auto insurance quote information.

So lets say your in Cleveland, Ohio, 44101.  All you need to do  is chuck  in your Zip and away you go!  A list of several competing companies  will be right there at your finger tips.

Enter the call of tomorrow.

Sometimes you need  a way to get out  of that meeting, or an uncomfortable  dinner date. This site here is the answer to your needs. Just enter a time, a number to call, a CID number, and a time; then POOF! Use it for reminders or even for a little prank on your friends.

http://www.callthefuture.org/

How to get Traffic by attacking other Bloggers.

I think this a great point of discussion for those of us just getting into blogging. The number of feeds I read keeps growing greater and greater, however this also increases the noise to signal ratio. In other words, with all these people posting just to be posting content is really starting to make it difficult to weed out the REAL tasty bits of information on the Internet. What worries me is the ethics of some who just link bait just to obtain traffic and not to contribute anything of value.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/11/10/linkbaiting-with-attack/

LEGO my Reality!

Legos have always been a staple in the prototyping phase of many of my real world projects. Growing up, I have a few large tupperware boxes of these nifty  little building blocks in which to create everything from evil robots to happy island
resorts. It's so nice to see that LEGO culture continues to evolve.

This however is something that I never envisioned! An M.C. Escher woodcut  reproduced in this novel medium. It's is one of many creations that will get those creative juices pumping for your next other worldly masterpiece.

http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html

Supermarket Wine Shopping?

In highly competitive world of wineries, It can be hard to find that happy medium of price vs. quality. Here is a nice source to help with the selection process.

Supermarket Wine - An easy way to find recommended wine at your supermarket. The site lists wines on sale in supermarkets which have been reviewed and recommended by experts in the national press. Users can rate each wine and leave their own reviews.

http://www.supermarketwine.com

You should have paid attention in ENGL 1003.

I personally can’t wait for our Italian Powered Genital Overlords!
Independent Sources » Blog Archive » The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs

The Lesser Of Two Evils.

I just can not understand why it is so difficult for these "representatives of the people" to take the their peoples' welfare into consideration without the need to fill their gullets with the very same bile they fling at one another.

BBC NEWS | Business | Senate blocks minimum wage rise

Senate blocks minimum wage rise
Democratic Senators have voted to block a measure that would have increased the US minimum wage from its current level of $5.15 (£2.80) an hour.

The bill, already passed by the US House of Representatives, would have raised wage levels to $7.25 by 2010.

But Democrats were unhappy that it was tied to a Republican plan to cut inheritance taxes paid by the rich.

The Republican-led Senate did not gain the 60 votes needed to enable final congressional passage of the package.

Opponents of the joint bill had previously said they were not expecting the bill to gain approval in the Senate.

'Fattest cats'

On 30 July, the House of Representatives voted in favour of increasing the minimum wage from the existing hourly rate of $5.15 to $7.25 by the middle of 2009.

But the bill also included plans to cut estate taxes, which are a form of inheritance tax levied when a property transfers from one person to another following a death.

Republicans say small businesses and farmers would benefit.

But many economists argue that expanding the estate tax benefit would only serve a small slice of the US population, who are already rich.

"The Republicans can get 6.6 million Americans an increase in their basic minimum wage, as long as we promised that the fattest cats in America would get a great big bowl of tax cuts," said Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/5244518.stm

Published: 2006/08/04 09:19:51 GMT

The propaganda mill is running full tilt!

The new movie Miami Vice is more of the Glorious War On Drugs. According to Patricia Schwarz , a Salon.com contributor, :

Back under Asa Hutchinson, the DEA held a secret meeting at tbe Beverly Hills Hotel with producers including Michael Mann and other Hollywood types known to be sympathic to the war on drugs.

The purpose of the meeting was to convince the film industry to produce content that would stimulate flagging public support for the DEA and the war on drugs.

To get producers interested, the DEA offered a previously unheard of level of access to their undercover agents, technology and operations in the war.

That's what makes this movie so special -- Mann had more direct access to the DEA than he's ever had before in his career.

Of course the reason the DEA gave this unprecedented level of access was to encourage the production of pro-DEA propaganda.

Unfortunately, Stephanie's review gave no clue whatsoever whether the DEA accomplished their goal with this film.

Now what does this all mean to John Q. Public? It means that they know that the only way to convince us all of the evils of drugs (especially marijuana ) is to show us that  cops are cool. Specifically puppy killing and floral print shirts makes you even cooler! Boycott this film. 

On a personal note: At what point did we give the okay for the government to put a lid on media whenever it affects "National Security" ? Hmm... This sounds so familiar... More on this later. Isn't that the same reason they listen to all our phone calls and emails? Disco. So in other words: if you say the wrong thing on the phone, in your blog, or even in print and television you violate National Security and therefore need to be put in Cuba with the other terrorists. This reeks of McCarthy with just a hint of Rove.

Google Goodness: Free Invites [w00t]

Google's beta services have always been highly selective, at least since gmail first came out. But here is your chance to try out the two new services from Google Labs called Gsheet (an online spreadsheet) and Writely (a M$ Word work-alike). After trying these out even a hardened Linux zealot like myself can appreciate the usefulness of being able to collaborate with MS users online. True OpenOffice has more features and  and is  allready cross platform; but have you ever tried to  get one of those users  who does  EVERYTHING in an Excel spreadsheet to even consider using  anything  else? Give it a shot!

Gsheet / Writely

[Yawns]

Bored? Feeling nostalgic perhaps?
Check out these great golden oldies from the black and white era!
Keep these great submissions coming folks!
Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) - Google Video

Television Commercials (1950s-1960s)

SubVersion 'nuff said.

SubVersion has to be one of the greatest software systems around. As a programmer I have had gotten a lot of mileage out of it. However this seems to be a growing trend among many to start using revision management software for all sorts of uses. I like the idea of people getting organized for it's own sake. Really now at least half of the crap that comes through my filters is disjunct, unrelated, utter mindlessness. If only more people would remember that not everyone can read their messy minds for the content the were trying to convey; we wouldn't need this sort of thing. But I digress, Read this great HowTo on lifehacker  for some SV goodness.

Quality time with the wife.

The posts have been rather skimpy as of late. reasons for this are as follows:

• broke my leg
• spending time with the wife
• moving my office
  

Under the heading of quality time we sat naked in the bare floor drooling and listening to take on me and  giggling like maniacs to a loop of Chris Griffin
from family guy; were trying to find the hidden meanings in a creepy Charles Manson kind of way.

The following diagram explains it all:

Mordours updates!

Good news cretins! It appears that Mordours has added a line of rather tasty pasteries. Consume Bitches. Consume well.
Contemporaneous Epithet: Mordours Pizza; to eat it is to love it

Monetizing can be a serious bitch.

I have been hacking at this template to get a decent weblog going for like a  week now. This is research for an e-book (or possibly a series) on how to startup a profitable blog from the ground up without investing a single dime. check back often to see a few tips and tricks.

More Google goodness.

I think the core of this subject is great, however the wording should be altered for ethics' sake. All in all I think it is a wondrous thing for the small to enterprise level businesses to keep their finger on the pulse ( I am a small business owner my self) of their clients as well as the competition. Overall this is a great article on utilizing a neato hack. This combined with  gmail rss feeds could be a powerful tool for instant mineable data. Read on for more.

Using Google Alerts for Intelligence Gathering

Spy on Your Competitors

Every business has a competitor. More likely, you have several direct competitors and several more indirect competitors. While regularly checking out their websites is an important part of the process, it doesn't paint the whole picture. A competitor's website is very much crafted to the image that they want to portray to their customers. This is great if you want to know what their latest sale is or how much their new product costs, but it isn't likely to feature a negative review in last Sunday's newspaper. That's where Google Alerts comes in. By simply setting up a News, Groups, and search alert for each of your competitors, you will know what other people are saying about your competition both the media and consumers, both good and bad.