Its also on July 21st, not in August. ^^

Gutenberg Marks 35th: Makes Plans for Free Million eBook Give-Away

In celebration of Project Gutenberg's 35th Birthday, this year it's giving away 1/3 Million Free eBooks between July 4th, 2006, and August 4th, 2006. Each subsequent year, the Free Anniversary Give-Away will greatly expand. By 2009, Gutenberg plans to give away One Million Free ebooks!! They're Absolutely Free and Yours to Keep Forever !!!

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Books that I have downloaded:
Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
1984 - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Zidane headbutts Italian player, gets ejected from the World cup Final

Watch this replay as France's star player levels Italy's Materazzi, for which he recieves a red card. Some of the worst sportsmanship ever from one of the sport's best

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Adam Carolla hangs up on Ann Coulter

On yesterday
�s Adam Carolla radio show, Ann Coulter called in to the show an hour and a half late, then told the host "I am really tight on time."Carolla responded, "All right, well get lost" and then hung up on her mid-sentence.

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Worst Soccer Keeper

Dear lord...

A Look into the TENTH DIMENSION.

This site goes from the 0 dimension, a point, all the way to the tenth dimension, a point containing all possible time lines for all possible universes.

Go to the Imagining the Tenth Demension for an audio and visual guide throught the demensions.

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Clerks II director commentary track to be offered on iTMS

The track will be synced to the scenes of the movie and is meant for movie-going fans to listen to while watching the upcoming sequel to Kevin Smith's Clerks.

Clerks II July 21!

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How Does Your Political Compass Compare To The Rest Of The World?

Not just another Internet questionairre, PoliticalCompass shows where you stand on the two dimensional political plane. Communist or Neo-Liberalist? Economy vs. Society. Which takes priority with you?

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51
I seem to be close to the Dahli Lama, which in my opinion is a pretty good place to be.

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Competition Winner: 3145 Miles Per Gallon

Just think, this car could drive from New York to L.A. on a gallon of gas. Plus, it looks damn cool.

If they can develop an experimental car with this much MPG... what in the world are we waiting for? Development costs too high, along with price point for the average consumer? I think we found a better use of that $200+ billion spent on the war.

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Futurama to Return to Comedy Central

Since its cancellation more than two years ago, devastated Futurama geeks have had little to no reason to live -- besides DVD sales, and plans for a straight-to-DVD movie slated for 2007. But last night came fresh hope. Actress Katey Sagal told Craig Ferguson that brand-new episodes of Futurama are on their way to television.

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Wall St. Journal Smokes the MPAA in Interview, Says they Stifle Innovation!

"I have not been asking for media free of charge. I have been asking for it free of usage and interoperability restrictions that go beyond copyright. I support a market in which creators are compensated for their works, but not one in which a creative industry can monopolize cultural reference and the technology around its works."

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Net Netrality as described by a Ninja.

Get it? Got it? Good!

Seriously folks, Net Netrality is important.
I found it a fitting post for my 100th!

Who thought this would be a good idea?

But its a teddy bear!

Sand... Ice... Nails

Hello all,

Well it been quite the crazy couple of weeks for me, a lot of fun in a short period of time... I'll let the pics do the talking for now.

Pearl Jam - Life Wasted

SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!

Yes. It is really very, very free. There�s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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Why Qwest Hung Up On NSA

If Qwest was availible in my area, I would sign up in a instant. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Glad to see at least one CEO is looking a the fine print before rollingo over any playing dead.

"When he learned that no such authority had been granted and that there was a disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process, including the Special Court which had been established to handle such matters, Mr. Nacchio concluded that these requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommications Act..."

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NSA now immune to the Department of Justice

The NSA has denied clearance to the DOJ, in an effort to investigate the Bush administrations illegal use of wiretaps. It appears that the NSA now has a sort of pocket veto power when it comes to any investigation involving domestic(or otherwise) spying albeit legal or not.

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" Solved?

Researchers have proposed an answer to Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery": the inexplicably rapid evolution of flowering plants immediately after their first appearance some 140 million years ago.

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Congratulations Andrew

Andrew, my brother-in-law just recieved his degree in Chemical Engineering this past weekend from Washington State Univeristy. Mel had the chance to go out and celebrate the accomplishment, I'll have my chance in two weeks when we all are going down to the Bahamas, but for now, congrats Andrew!