Indie film based on Half Life 2 - Escape From City 17 - is incredible!

Independent film makers Purchase Brothers have put together a film based on Valve’s Half-Life 2 video game. If Valve is smart they’ll hire these guys to make a full blown film. Check it:

Supposedly this only cost around $500 to make. Found over at Joystiq

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Stem cells appear to have cured AIDS in a test subject, but there’s a catch.

Doctor’s in Germany appear to have cured a man suffering from AIDS with transplanted stem cells:

A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes . . . → Read More: Stem cells appear to have cured AIDS in a test subject, but there’s a catch.

Asshole knew he was selling salmonella tainted peanut products and did it anyway.

I haven’t written about it previously, but I’ve been following the peanut products tainted with salmonella outbreak closely since it started. I figured once it was traced back to the source it would be discovered that it was the result of incompetence or ignorance, but not outright criminal negligence. As it turns out I was . . . → Read More: Asshole knew he was selling salmonella tainted peanut products and did it anyway.

Here’s something you don’t see every day…

Someone managed to snap a picture of the literal end of a rainbow:

A reader, who has finally been identified as Jason Erdkamp of Lake Forest, took this photo while traveling north on the 241 Tollroad in northeast Orange County. Stefanie Sullivan, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, says she’s never seen the “end” . . . → Read More: Here’s something you don’t see every day…

The agony of being older and wiser.

I’ve been thinking I need to buy a new laptop. I have two laptops at home already, but they are so old that they are painfully slow to use with Windows XP. Running Linux on them helps to speed them up a bit so long as I either use a very old distro or one . . . → Read More: The agony of being older and wiser.

Despite my better instincts I am now on Twitter.

Apparently not having learned from any of the half-dozen other social networking sites I’ve signed up for and then more or less completely ignored, I’ve gone ahead and signed up on Twitter in part because there’s a couple of other folks using Twitter I wanted to follow and the RSS feeds leave something to be . . . → Read More: Despite my better instincts I am now on Twitter.

Norm Coleman declares that God wants him in the Senate.

The election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman for Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat still hasn’t been resolved as Norm has decided to tie the whole thing up in court for as long as possible. The courts haven’t reached a decision yet, but that hasn’t stopped Coleman from going around telling folks what what outcome God . . . → Read More: Norm Coleman declares that God wants him in the Senate.

When your job feels more like being back in high school…

… it can be hard to take it seriously.

The contract house that employs me to work at Big Dot Com company also employs the 250 or so operators who work the the stations I support. Once a month they hold a meeting for both shifts of operators wherein they make announcements, give attaboys to . . . → Read More: When your job feels more like being back in high school…

Eric Maisel on the word “Atheist.”

A small quote from the first chapter of Maisel’s book The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods.

The word “atheist” is a larger, friendlier, and more glorious word than you might imagine. It stands for a conviction about the non-existence of gods but it also vibrates at other wavelengths. It is about a solidarity with . . . → Read More: Eric Maisel on the word “Atheist.”

The Onion on Sony’s latest Stupid Piece of Shit.

I love Sony products, but this had me in tears laughing. Lots of NSFW language so put some headphones on or wait till you get home:

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

I so gots to get me one of those.

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