VideoTwo Boys Reduced to Screaming Girls While Playing Doom 3 - A little over dramatic but still hilarious.

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George Michael discovers a stalker has been living under his floor

New Sex Crimes? - Man Tries to Charge Wife for Domestic Abuse for not having sex with him for 5 consecutive days

Celebrate your first day on jury duty by getting drunk before you go - Supreme says its okay, “no different than a virus, poorly prepared food, or lack of sleep”

Saving the best for last -

Schwarzenegger outlaws sex with corpses - This ones too easy to make fun of…discuss amongst yourselves.

It’s time for you to close Internet Explorer …forever. Firefox has hit its 1.0 Preview Release. For those of you who haven’t tried Firefox yet, here’s the list of why you should take it for a test surf:

• Popup Blocking


Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox’s built in popup blocker.

• Tabbed Browsing


View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they’re ready for viewing when you’re ready to read them.

• Smarter Search


Google Search is built right into the toolbar, and there are a plethora of other search tools including Keywords (type “dict ” in the Location Bar), and the new find toolbar (which finds as you type and eliminates the annoying window that always seems to be in your way).

• Privacy and Security


Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your online activity your business.

• Live Bookmarks


RSS integration lets you read the latest news headlines and read updates to your favorite sites that are syndicated. Find out more…

• Hassle-Free Downloading


Files you download are automatically saved to your Desktop so they’re easy to find. Fewer prompts mean files download quicker.

• Fits Like a Glove


Simple and intuitive, yet fully featured, Firefox has all the functions you’re used to - Bookmarks, History, Full Screen, Text Zooming to make pages with small text easier to read, etc.

• S, M, L or XL—You Choose


Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet. Customize your toolbars to add additional buttons, install new Extensions that add new features, add new Themes to browse with style, and use the adaptive search system to allow you to search an infinite number of engines. Firefox is as big or small as you want.

• Setup’s a Snap


At only 4.5MB (Windows), Firefox takes just a few minutes to download over a slow connection and seconds over a fast connection. The installer gets you set up quickly, and the new Easy Transition system imports all of your settings - Favorites, passwords and other data from Internet Explorer and other browsers - so you can start surfing right away.

• A Developer’s Best Friend


Firefox comes with a standard set of developer tools including a powerful JavaScript and CSS error/warning console, and an optional Document Inspector that gives detailed insight about your pages.

In honor of the 1.0 preview release, a goal has been launched to get 1 million downloads in 10 days. They’ve reached 159,000 downloads so far and there is 9 days left. Help spread the fire!

Ever wanted to be on a stamp? Maybe you’ve thought of something a little more creative than that. PhotoStamps allows you to upload a picture to create a custom postage stamp of anything you like.

Yes, they are usable.

I’m not sure how much a sheet costs, I haven’t tried it yet, but I think I might give it a whirl.

Ah, more GMAIL posts. In lieu of my hopes for pop3 GMAIL, I did come across a plugin for Trillian Pro to check your GMAIL accounts: You’ve Got GMAIL. (Yeah, I still have many more invites to give out)

Handy for those of you that use Trillian Pro. With all of the plugins that Trillian Pro now has, it’s practically a replacement for windoze.

More GMAIL invites to give out.

Let me know if you want one.

I have 3 GMAIL invites burning a hole in my inbox, if you want one let me know.

The most exciting thing about GMAIL, for me so far, is that it’s still possible to get your desired username without it being taken already. However, I just want GMAIL pop3 style, I’ll take a cut in the storage size for pop3.

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) should come with warnings. Not for the content but for its addictiveness. I propose a dependency scale be made for such games. I wish someone would have warned me. We recently purchased Dark Age of Camelot. We bought the first game, no expansion packs, as I assumed that I wouldn’t like it enough to continue playing, let alone beef up the content. Growing ever so tired of first person shooters, I decided to try a different genre of games and for $10; Dark Age was a reasonable choice.

I never thought I’d see the day when I started using words like questing, guild, leveling, and XP. I’ve even found myself trying to recruit others to play.

At first, I couldn’t understand the fun in doing mundane tasks and slaying monsters. Until I realized that you’re just buffing up your character to participate in a large scale, realm-vs.-realm (player-vs.-player style) war.

I’m completely sucked in and I fear the day I decide to try Star Wars Galaxies.

Try Dark Age of Camelot for 7 days.

My Linux hunt is over and my quest for the perfect distro for my ThinkPad 600e has officially ended.

After a few days of using Fedora, Dave suggested that I try Mandrake. I’ve used Mandrake before, as I found a copy of version 7(?) floating around my desk. I went ahead and downloaded Mandrake 10, even went as far as downloading all three disks that were available for download. The install was blasted 80 minutes, with minimum packages. Install was painless as it was graphical. I prefer text mode, but they both get the job done.

When it was up and running, everything worked, except sound of course. I found Mandrake to be very slow on my machine and didn’t really like the package management. I think I’m just completely biased and Debian won my heart at first install. As I’ve never liked anything since.

I gave Mandrake a whirl for a few days but continued pining for Debian. Once again, I caved and decided to delve back into Debian. This time I downloaded a 110MB copy of the latest Sarge image for a bare minimum install and crossed my fingers and hoped my Nic would be detected during install. It was! apt-get install kde, logged in, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, reboot…sound aside, everything was flawless and speedy.

After a few apt-get installs and customizing, I set out to find a sound fix. I came across one of the forums on LinuxQuestions.org, same thread I’d been reading since the beginning of this mission, only this time someone posted a new fix. I’ve already tried every Thinkpad600e fix that I came across, this one, however, was new so I followed the quick one minute directions, and rebooted.

The sound error didn’t pop up but I refused to let my hopes get up. I threw in Sleater-Kinney’s One Beat album and BAM! Sound works perfectly!

Huge thanks go to jhalford for posting the info and even bigger thanks to blissex on the Debian support on IRC for providing the fix to jhalford.

Ah, more of my neophyte adventures with Linux. Debian was working for me for a while but then began to degrade over time. It was annoying enough that I couldn’t get the sound working but then it would refuse to display in 24 bit. Despite all of the changes I made to force a 24 bit display, it wouldn’t stick and I couldn’t take it anymore. So, I went on a hunt for a new Linux distro to experiment with and decided on Fedora Core 2.

Well, I admit, I did try to revert back to Windows one more time, but XP is still boycotting PCMCIA. Instead of fighting with Windows, I continued the search for Linux. With Windows, there isn’t a bunch of fixes you can try, well, in my particular case I mean, with my ThinkPad 600e. I’ve found that, while neither OSs are flawless, Linux gives me the ability to try more than two things to work, if that makes sense to anybody. Moving on….

At first I was going to use Gentoo but decided on Fedora Core 2. I figured if it’s based on Red Hat I’d be able to find a little bit more stability and support for everything that goes wrong with ThinkPads.

The installation was extremely simple using the graphical method. However, the process itself was almost 80 minutes. Whew.

Upon first boot I noticed that it was trying to load the network before it loaded the PCMCIA nic, which resulted in errors and internet access was…well, inaccessible. After a little bit of searching, I came across a fix by removing the ‘alias eth0′ line from the modprobe.conf file. Which worked, but then on my second reboot it no longer worked. So what I did was, remove network loading on boot and now I manually start the network once I’m logged in using the command, “service network start”, which works fine. I’d rather have a permanent fix. Luckily, this problem isn’t uncommon, so I anticipate a solid fix for this soon.

For package management I installed Apt and Fedora comes with Yum, which works like apt. This works okay, kind of slow, and I miss the huge reservoir of packages offered through apt from Debian.

My screen depth and resolution has stayed consistent, which is nice. Of course, there’s always the one thing that just doesn’t seem to work: SOUND. Now, at first, I didn’t care but the more I use the laptop the more I long to listen to music. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find a solution for this, until then, I’m satisfied for right now, but being such and OS whore, I’ll probably be installing something new very soon.

If by any chance any of you own a ThinkPad 600(e) and run Linux, I’d love to know which distro you use and which you think works best, as far as getting everything working, including sound.

Since the arrival of our new computer, I’ve been taking advantage of PC gaming. Unfortunately, I’m getting a little burnt out on Unreal Tournament 2004. I recently bought Jedi Outcast but have quickly lost interest. Most of my friends aren’t into PC games, so having light saber battles with 12 year olds just isn’t too appealing any more. So now I’m currently on the hunt for a new game. I’m curious to what others have been playing and looking for some suggestions for something new. Something preferably different, meaning: A game that doesn’t involve the beaches of Normandy or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.