 I posted this video here, because I figured it would get lost in the unsifted fray. It's still interesting for some of us who care about hearing perspectives on the free market. From Y/T :"Professor Dominick T. Armentano and Congressman Ron Paul discuss anti-trust and monopoly. Recorded 13 July 1983. For more free resources and media discussing anti-trust and monopoly, visit the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Mises.org."  From: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/27/1295499.aspx "Less than a month after its public debut, the Rocket Racing League is putting a bigger, more powerful prototype plane through its first flight tests - and the results are so impressive that the craft's rocket engine will be adopted as the standard for another five racers, the league's chief executive officer says." Armadillo's Carmack was pleased as well. "I am very happy with how the tests are going - the first three flights were done in the first 24 hours we had clearance and cooperating weather," he told me in an e-mail today. "We have been ready for a while, but the FAA held our R&D permit until after XCOR flew at Oshkosh, then two weeks ago we were up in Oklahoma and had rain or cloud cover all week." -- I'd sift this, but the "embed" (iframe) isn't valid, but does work here.  Hey! Lookie lookies like this is unlocked! If anyone is playing spore, please let me know! I'd love to add you to my buddies list to swap content!
My spore account name is 'NicoleBee' (of course)  Use in good health...
           So when I moved into my buddy's house last December, I had a furnished basement to myself. There was a bathroom down there and I found some old tattered Playboys from 1999 or earlier under the sink, graciously left by his old roommate. As I was flipping though them, I found gems like these -
Laptops for $6,000 with a 266 Mhz processor and a portable DVD player for $1,300 and a plasma tv that you would buy for $2,000 today, but back then was more expensive than a Ducati. Now you can watch any of the 1,500 movies available on DVD in style! Click the pictures for higher (readable) resolution.    In light of the end of the Beijing Olympics (and the start of the Paralympics) I came accross this amusing list of comments from the 2004 Olympics that I thought I would share. Accroding to Snopes this list may or may not be real, but it sure is funny in any case:
Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during
 Now it's on, full bore, until November 4th. Any bets on where polls will settle once the convention bounces tamp down, in a week or two? The next big events are the debates. Here's the schedule:
First presidential debate
Vice presidential debate
Second presidential debate (town meeting)
Third presidential debate
I'll be serving popcorn for the VP debate, I'm expecting fireworks. Finally, it seems someone might DO SOMETHING about all this shit, Joe Biden hints at a criminal investigation of the Bush years if Obama is elected.
From The Guardian : Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/uselections2008.joebiden   So, this video host for http://www.videosift.com/video/Sarah-Michelle-Gellar-Jonathan-Ross has been pissing me and others off, but I've found a replacement to resubmit with. only problem is its a bit raw, being an 150meg .mpg(VCD). Anyone able to DL/encode/upload for me? what with the no self linking and all.
 Well, this post is being written in Google Chrome, Google's shiny (HAR HAR HAR!)new web-browser, I've only been using it for half an hour or so, but so far I like it alot. its really, really simple to use, its much faster for me than firefox is, and its just overall awesome in functionality
http://tools.google.com/chrome
Discuss  Was in Vegas with a friend this weekend. Didn't do too much gambling, mostly saw a couple shows and watched a lot of anime on laptop. (Only true geeks would go to Vegas and spend half the trip in the room watching anime.)
My last hour in town I did my only real gambling. I laid down $100 at a roulette table. I followed a couple of ad-hoc strategies like splitting between two numbers across the board and selecting birthdays and anniversaries (which I hit on a few times). After the dealer told everyone zeroes kept coming up at her previous break, I denied my instinct to bet on them, and of course they came up. After that I kept laying a stack across zero and double zero every spin. Finally 0 hit and my pile of chips was up to $165. It was at this point I decided to place the most exciting bet of my life thus far. The entire time I was at the table red came up 3 times and black about a dozen, and every time I bet on red I lost. So to the dealer's dismay I enjoyed slowly pushing my entire enormous pile over to black. I wanted to vote red the whole time, but it just kept failing me. It was a calculated risk and I had no delusions about any magical ability to entice black to come up. (Though I was stupid in thinking that there is some kind of a trend to consider. I reminded myself later: It's completely random, stupid!) So as you can probably tell by now, that little ugly ball landed on red. I wasn't shocked, nor upset. I simply had a big smile on my face as I stood up and walked away knowing it was a great gambling experience to look back on. (At least I lost to red instead of a zero!) Roulette's really fun. I can't wait to go back and play some more, but next time with Charms so I can really have some fun.  (I missed her terribly.  )So, I could do with a nice source of regular exercise that is fun and social and which I will sustain, so that I can restore the fitness I would have liked to have had before I fell ill. Anyone else here played at capoeira?
This is something that looks fun, and is happening just up the road from where I live. Which is cool. Aparently this guy would be my teacher. I'm up for that. http://www.capoeira-cornwall.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7589382.stm
So, any costal places needing a sun shy programer? Oh, and "Demographers have compiled a so-called "Love Map" that shows how the various clusters of unattached men and women are distributed across the Australian continent. " sounds a vluable resource... 
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