Hah. Looks like it was true. Google just acquired YouTube.

Slashdot has the skinny on Google Code Search which Google just released. Here's a direct link to the cnet story.

Here's a cool report from Gina Trapani over at lifehacker about Yahoo! Open Hack Day '06. It's pretty interesting. You could say Yahoo! Open Hack Day is like Google Code Jam.

I know it's a little late but it's gold comedy.

The Register has an interesting Q&A from an engineer who makes the case that the net neutrality argument could kill the internet.

If you want a laugh then listen to this NPR commentary by Scott Cleland against Net Neutrality. His idiocy will astound you. If that doesn't convince you to support Net Neutrality then listen to Craig Newmark's counter commentary.

BitTorrent's Bram Cohen is all for a two tiered internet? Wow he's nuts. Also some good posts at slashdot of the same article.

Very small TWI this week, heh.

Don't like the NSA? You can foil it if you use VOIP. Speaking of things on the net heres another link about the net neutrality front.

That's it.

Notable: Chatology

You can do this by going to your
C:Documents and SettingsUser NameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles directory. From there it might be either xxxxxxx.defaultchrome or default.xxxchrome. Create/edit the userChrome.css file, then add to it the following code:

/* Make menus disapear */menubar > menu{	display: none !important;}

You can also just hide specific menu items which you can do using the following code:

/* Hide menu Name */menulabel="Name" {	display: none !important;}

Sometimes I wonder if I shoulda named this site Politic Blog or something with all the time I spend thinking and posting about politics. I get sorta worked up when I hear about yet another crapy thing Bush or the republicans are doing. Thankfully I have a job and classes or maybe it might become depressing.

Anyway I have v2.3 of sparce out. Lately I've been thinking about link/bookmark management and how to incorporate something like del.icio.us with a compact front end like sparce that uses a plugin to both do what the del.icio.us firefox extension does and also record the number of clicks on those links to manage the order of display in each category. I've also thought of some new types of tags such as smart tags like most visited links (by you or other del.icio.us users) or most popular links (by you or other del.icio.us users).

In that same vein I have been thinking alot about the statistics of my music and web habits. I wonder what songs or albums or artists I listen to the most, or what web sites I visit the most. iTunes does have that information, though listening to music on many different computers its spread across them and it is a bit cumbersome to try and grab that information. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of doing that kind of tracking for firefox without making my own extension. The people over at Attention Trust seem to be going in that direction at least in terms of using that kind of data for something useful.

So I read on Slashdot that Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code. This is kind of interesting because Orkut is not even close to being on par with what Google has done in the past so it might just be true. You'd think a company like Google would just write their own stuff.

It seems there's some good news about Guantanamo with the ruling from the United States Supreme Court. Kuro5hin also has a good article outlining more about the ruling and other things going on about the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld case. I've also been keeping my eye on the Cassini mission which got close to Saturn this week. Fahrenheit 9/11 made a big wave last weekend, I guess I'll have to go see the movie. I've kinda flip flopped between skepticism and agreeing with Michael Moore.

In site related news, I'll be adding a mathematics section here shortly. It will mostly be focused on Calculus with limits as a kind of background for my philosophy section topic in objective observations.

Yeah um so in keeping with my general disregard for updating the web site in anything close to a timely manner... I'm all moved in and classes are over, wahoo. It's gonna be a fun filled summer. Got alot of projects I want to get going, gonna be taking calc II also over the summer, and maybe ill have time to go visit my friend Dan in Nevada. Just wanting to let you'se know that I _am_ still working on the material for the site. Click here and um here and also here for fun and information about the end of the world, the next generation in batteries, and SCO. Cause I said so.

I havn't been keeping the HOSTS file up to date cause when it loads it eats a significant amount of resources and seems to take a long time to load. Some of my friends have been complaining about sluggish machines when they have it loaded as well. One of my friend suggested it would be cool if there was a web site devoted to managing the HOSTS file, allowing people to add and remove sites. The site could make sure there are no duplicates and could run through the list every week or month to see if any of the sites in the HOSTS file no longer exist so it can remove them. I just might do that. If you don't know what a HOSTS file is go here.

I hate moving. All my shit's packed, 'cept my computer of course, so I don't have any of my notes I been writing for the site. Cable and Phone companies have been screwing with me for the last two weeks. I've been trying to get them to get everything done so I can get my freaking internet and phones hooked up in time for the move so I can still work. Bloody assholes are running around in circles telling me im not in the system yet so I should call back tomorrow, next day its in the system but they can't get out there yet to turn it on but oh wait its all hooked up but they have to put in another order to flip the switch oh wait your not in the system again. Fuckers.

All my systems are packed up, guess all I can play is EverQuest.

For anyone who wants a huge HOSTS file that ive been keeping up to date then cleeeeeek.