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My opinion of natural health supplements has always been that they might actually help and are natural so if they don’t they’re probably harmless. The most harm I could imagine them doing was for people to delay treatment taking useless stuff and having their condition get much worse. You know kind of like the nutters that have cancer, but instead of going to the doctor they try homeopathy, weird berries, and or praying. Then they die from something that probably could have been treated. You’re never going to get away from that kind of stupid even if they didn’t have health supplement stores people would just wonder into the woods to munch on mandrake root to cure their cancer or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »

When Jenny McCarthy set out on her foolish and unholy crusade to stop people from vaccinating they’re kids most people could understand where she was coming from. After all her son was diagnosed with autism shortly after he got his vaccines. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike most things you see in Sci-Fi movies one intriguing and very useful piece of tech might be closer than I previously thought. No I’m not talking about flying cars or killer robots. I’m talking about a personal heads up display.  Something you wear as a pair of glasses or contacts that can display things like a GPS map or text messages. The University of Washington has made several contact lens style HUD’s that they’ve been testing and will hopefully develop into something that can be commercially made. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you that don’t know what Homeopathy is let me enlighten you. Homeopathy is when you take medicine and dilute it so much that the medicine is no longer present but the remaining water “remembers” the medicine was there and can heal people. Ok ok stop laughing some people will believe anything. Read the rest of this entry »

So in this video you have a talking head blathering on about interest rates or some other bank related nonsense. All the while the dude to the left about halfway through the video starts looking at porn, and to make it even better he manages to do it while some guy is talking to him! So next time your at a bank watching your loan app getting shot down for some crappy reason or you see some bank CEO getting grilled before congress to explain why the economy tanked, and can’t. You will know why.

Video is safe for work as the images on his monitor are tiny.

Does anybody remember way back in the early 90′s when Microsoft was the king on the block when it came to innovation and releasing of cool new things? Remember that feeling when you first used Windows 95 after all the promotion on TV and the radio, I must’ve heard “start me up” a hundred times in that time.After using Dos and Windows 3.1 for years Windows 95 seemed like night and day. That was back when if you saw full motion video in a game it was awesome! Then most of the cool stuff still ran better in Dos, but that quickly went away. Windows was king and its GUI was genius. That and with the birth of the internet it just got even better.

So where do we stand today. Surely they would have taken us to glorious new heights by now. Unfortunately things kind of stop there, it’s like Microsoft’s frozen in time in 1997. Yes we do have newer versions of Windows and Office and they are better in various ways, but in alot of other ways they’re the same. After all we still have the start menu and we still have Icons. Now I can understand if its not broke don’t start trying to break it, but I would have thought that after 15 years they could have thought something else up. Then again with the fact that Windows and Office are pretty much the defacto standard for business I can understand the stagnation. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok so I’ve been playing submarine sims since Silent Service came out for Nes back when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. It was a pretty good game for its time. It had limited graphics and realism was shakey but was fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_(video_game) It was probably the last time a sub sim was released for console too. Fast forward to 1995 and I was the proud new owner of a Packard Bell with 8 megs and a 100mhz proc in it. So me and my dad went out to buy some games. I got Warcraft 2 and Jetfighter 3 and he got Silent hunter. Since I was a larval simulation player after having got hooked on flight sims on a Mac a year earlier I loved Silent Hunter! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_hunter Read the rest of this entry »

So i’ve been meaning to get a second laptop for work/internet surfing for a while now but didn’t know what I want. I currently have an XPS 1330 which is a damn fine notebook, but even in the 13 inch form factor it sometimes seems a bit big for just surfing at the bar or Star bucks. Read the rest of this entry »