A U.S. Air Force warplane dropped four enormous bombs Monday on a residential complex where "extremely reliable" intelligence indicated that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and one or both of his sons were attending a meeting, senior administration officials told NBC News. The sources would not rule out the possibility that Saddam could have moved before the bomber struck, but they said it was likely that he and his sons were dead.
U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.- Reuters
Man, Maddie poked me in the eye last night with her nose. I was trying to get her to move over and she raised her head real fast and poked me in my left eye with her nose. You wouldn't think a dog's nose would be that hard, but it feels like someone jammed their finger in my eye as hard as they could. I've been feeling crappy all day and my eye feels bruised. If it's still bothering me tomorrow, I'm going to call a doctor.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon".
A Dream Theater fan is releasing a series of videos in DivX v5.03 format called "Nine Degrees of Backstage Tourbulence." The series contain backstage video from the guys in Dream Theater. I'm trying to download the videos now, so I may post an updated
Todd, Eric and I finally got together for the first time since like September to jam. I'm really glad none of you were there to witness it. :) I haven't played much in the past 4 months and it really showed. I really need to work on picking up my bass for a few minutes a day. I had really gotten out of my routine of playing every day once I started spending all my time w/Jenn and then when I got the puppy, my time grew to nothing. Anyway, I've got to get back in to the groove and and start playing every day.
Todd called me this afternoon and wants to put together a flyer for a drummer and I'd assume for a keyboard/guitarist/singer. We really would love to find a keyboardist who can play several instruments. There's a guy I have in mind who may fit that role, so we'll probably ask him to jam again. I can't wait until we get a drummer to play with, playing w/a live drummer makes such a huge difference. Playing to a midi drummer sure beats nothing, but it's just nowhere near the real thing.
Anyway, for as bad as I sounded (and was,) it sure was nice to get together again to jam. I'm really hoping this becomes a more regular weekend event. Honestly, when we play more than once every month or two we actually sound not too bad!
Ok, it must be science day today. I found a link to this article and just found it too strange not to post. Personally, I think this is ridiculous, but I'm sure people thought the idea of "an electronic buggy" was ludicrous too.
...the space elevator is a cable with one end attached to the Earth and the other end roughly 100,000 kilometers out in space. Standing on the Earth at the base of this "beanstalk " it would look unusual but simple, a cable attached to the ground and going straight up out of sight.
A new paper by University of Utah physicist Lior Burko, building on earlier work, raises the possibility that black holes may not annihilate everything, and that the potential for hyperspace travel is still open.
Someone posted a link to this site on the Flashcoders mailing list today. There's some very interesting Flash stuff and other miscellaneous programming related things on the site. However, you must check out The Flash-based version of "Donkey Kong." It's obvious a lot of time was spent to replicate the game engine, graphics and sound.
Look in the middle section for the "Games" icon--the first
icon to the right of that will launch the game.
Donkey Kong
Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.
Well I believe we have to be conscious on how we treat the enviroment, I've also found it odd how we people thought we an accurate view of weather patterns to declare we were causing the "Global Warming" pattern. We've only had reliable recorded weather data for the past 90 years or so (and you could debate that it's even that long.) Any real data analyst would tell you that that's nowhere near long enough data to accurately report a trend. The bottom line is we don't really know enough about weather patterns to acculate perdict what's going on.
U.S. soldiers evacuated an Iraqi military compound on Sunday after tests by a mobile laboratory confirmed evidence of sarin nerve gas. More than a dozen soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division had been sent earlier for chemical weapons decontamination after they exhibited symptoms of possible exposure to nerve agents.
The review showed that I did indeed break one of the rules related to embedment. I'm sorry that it happened and I assure you that it was inadvertent. Nobody was hurt by what I said. No mission was compromised.
Does anyone really think that Geraldo wasn't aware of what he was saying? Geraldo carefully calculates everything he says and I'm sure he knew all to well that what he was saying was in violation of the rules set up by the Pentagon. The problem is, he doesn't care about the consequences, just being in the spotlight. I'm just glad that 101st Airborne unit wasn't ambushed (although I'm sure they adjusted their plans accordingly.)
Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed "Chemical Ali" by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said Monday.
After 77 years of living together, Zyness O'Haver and Sallie Warren have decided to make it legal. The blushing bride is now 94 and her new groom is 95. The couple married Wednesday at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City. The judge said he can't remember a more anxious bride. Three of the couple's four grandchildren were on hand. Family members say it was O'Haver's idea to finally get married. He made good on a frequent promise to make an "honest woman" of his housemate.
A new build of OpenAMF was released recently. OpenAMF is an open source server-side Java implementation for Flash Remoting. It's definitely an interesting project and one that could increase the usage of Flash Remoting on the web.
OpenAMF: