Tin Foil Soldier

MTV Advocates Narcissism
Generally Steve is an asshole and i would refuse to link to his site, but…
he is usually well written, occasionally funny, and he has a point on this particular entry

eBay: NEW RS-TX20 Toshiba Tivo DVR PVR and DVD Burner 140hr (item 5796459667 end time Aug-13-05 12:24:42 PDT)
anyone wanna buy my Tivo?
let me know u read my website and I can cut you a great deal

hiroshima - Google Search
Today marks the 60th “anniversary” of the Hiroshima bombings
between 80,000 and 120,000 people died instantly
with about twice that dying as a result of it later
8:15AM, Little Boy, a 13kiloton TNT equiv nuclear chain reaction was initiated 1,800ft above the ground
before the bombing

after the bombing, the city was flattened

from Wikipedia
The atomic bombings of [...]

US Patent Office
someone is trying to patent the word BLOG
via BB
Marble Sportswear, Inc.
9465 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 850
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
United States
Legal Entity Type: Corporation
State or Country of Incorporation: California
Phone Number: (310) 274-5752
Fax Number: (310) 247-9045
thinks that BLOG is
Retail clothing store services, namely, retail clothing stores at physical locations and online
concerning
Bathing suits, blazers, blouses, boots, [...]

Good As You: Sheldon book details ‘homosexual agenda
Sheldon book details ‘homosexual agenda;’ we’ll wait for the movie
Regarding the homo-fighting “plan of action” that the Traditional Value Coalition’s Louis Sheldon outlines in his new book, The Agenda – The Homosexual Plan to Change America, TVC staffers say it involves…
I think they sum up how retarded they [...]

Tin Foil Soldier

Microsoft Free Friday is now over
I caved
but honestly, use Firefox

Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record
By historical standards, it is the longest presidential retreat in at least 36 years.
cause all problems with the nation have been solved, right

Police group OKs shooting suicide bombers in head

police officers have been told that if they think you are a suicide bomber, to shoot you in the head, that way you can’t trigger the device (even if the device is your cellphone to call 911 cause some fucker shot you)
Schneier on Security: Shoot-to-Kill Revisited
The police group’s [...]

Wikiquote:Quote of the day - Wikiquote
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi

Tin Foil Soldier
so it is Friday. and officially Microsoft Free Friday here at Tin Foil Soldier
see http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/2005/08/02/mod_msff/ for prev post
I think its funny, I hate IE, I dont think I could internet without tabs

Cocaine residue in Italian water reveals more users than official estimates
The levels of cocaine residue in flowing water in Italy suggest that many more people take the drug than official national estimates previously suggested. A study published today in the open access journal Environmental Health reports on a new tool used to measure the levels [...]

You Can’t Make It Up: Roll of a Strifetime
But what really got my attention was the “Allergy Data” that is listed for each food. Note:

Anything there seem…. strange and out of place. Sure, tree nuts. That’s weird. Although I guess it makes more sense than peanuts no doubt. No, that’s not it… hmm Phenylalanine?? No, [...]

THE MEATRIX
The meatrix is the world around you
via chai and sympathy

Flickr: Photos tagged with d70
You can lose yourself in flicker
click a tag, follow it to a new picture, something catches your eye, follow that persons photostream, change tags, follow something new and amazing
I started looking @ Dooce’s pictures from blogher, then went to d70
then i found this which i think looks amazing(unfort no higher res), [...]

Masculinity Challenged, Men Prefer War and SUVs

Men whose masculinity is challenged become more inclined to support war or buy an SUV, a new study finds.
Their attitudes against gays change, too.
apparently, if you say a guy is girlie, he wants to go to war, drive a SUV and hate the gays