Wow, it’s been awhile. It’s also been quite a hectic at work recently. The week before last, I worked over 60 hours, pulling about 12 hours each day and a couple more on the weekend. But it looks like our product (at least version 1) is ready to be shipped. Last week has been quite chilled, but I was busy catching on stuff I missed while working so hard, which included:
- WarCraft III – I’m almost done, just the Elf campaign left
- ドラゴン桜 (DragonZakura) – Another Japanese drama a friend recommended to me that has the guy from 結婚できない男)
- Heroes – Season 1 – Story is getting interesting. Hiro is awesome!
- Veronica Mars – Season 3 – Just started watching
- Random anime episodes which I didn’t have time to watch
Cat – I think there’s a spy among us… (from Esca)
Black cat adoptions banned on Halloween – Like many shelters around the country, the Kootenai Humane Society in Coeur d’Alene is prohibiting black cat adoptions from now to Nov. 2, fearing the animals could be mistreated in Halloween pranks — or worse, sacrificed in some satanic ritual.
Amazon River Flowed Backwards in Ancient Times (from Cari) – South America’s winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds. This is actually quite interesting. The also have a map of showing the flow patterns at LiveScience.
Statue of Dennis the Menace stolen – The mischievous Dennis the Menace has gone missing — except this time, he’s not hiding because he broke the rules. … Police said the statue, which is 3 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds, is worth as much as $30,000. The city is offering a $5,000 reward for its safe return. Article wasn’t that interesting, but I loved the cartoon when I was a kid.
Who on earth would pay $1 million for hell? – HELL.com was among hundreds of Internet domain names up for auction in Hollywood, Florida, by domain asset management provider Moniker.com, a unit of marketing services firm Seevast Corp. The owner put a minimum price of $1 million (527,000 pounds) on the underworld’s domain, confident of high interest after the salacious address, Sex.com, sold for about $12 million earlier this year. But there were no takers with bids failing to reach the reserve price.
Irishmen hit paydirt selling soil to the New World – Two down-to-earth Irishmen have set up a business selling soil to nostalgic Irish Americans who want a handful of “the mother country” on their graves. Pat Burke, 27, and Alan Jenkins, 65, have just shipped their first $1 million (about 528,000 pounds) load of “official” Irish soil to New York — at $15 per 0.75 lb bag — and confidently expect it will be followed by many more. Wow! Now, who could’ve thought of that! I bet there are more countries where this would be a suitable business for. I hope they didn’t patent selling of soil from another country. ;p
U.S. sex offender given “exile” in Canada is freed – A New York state judge had allowed Watson to live in Canada on probation rather than have him spend time in a U.S. jail. Ottawa, unhappy about what it sees as U.S. courts dumping unwanted offenders in Canada, wanted Watson to stay in jail until a hearing to determine whether he should be kicked out of the country. When I first started reading this article, I also thought it was quite weird that we can exile someone, especially a sex offender, into Canada. Wouldn’t the Canadians be pissed? I mean what would we do if Canada exiles their criminals into the US?
Rapist Search (from FuzzyWuzzy)
I actually laughed out loud.
Toddler gets stuck in vending machine – When she turned her back to get another dollar for a second try, Robert took off his coat and squeezed through an opening in the machine. He landed in the stuffed animal cube. … “He was having a ball in there, hugging all the stuffed animals,” Bierdemann said. “He was so good-natured, but I was shaking like a leaf.” Of course he wasn’t scared! If I were him, I’d be having the blast of my life. Being able to hug and play with all those cute plushies, it’d be like heaven! That statement will still hold true today.
Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits (from /.) – Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang’s sales of PSP consoles unlawful. I’m not sure if you’ve been following the Sony circus, but once again, they’ve managed make me even hate them more. Guess the Sony brand is going to be marked off from the list of TV brands I’ll be looking at.
A Hand Drawn Revolution (from RayAlome) – This video was an entry for a contest to win a Wii. The total time spent was close to 80 hours between drawing and editing on the computer. A really neat animation done with pencil and paper.
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Bob (from /.) – It is a song by Weird Al done completely in palindromes