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“If only everyone saw you the way your dog does” - from Digg

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without a doubt the best Guitar Hero mod ever. i would love to make one of those, but there’s no way I’d be able to mold the plastic but the translucent buttons.

EyelessWriter.com called Verizon Wireless 56 times and asked 2 simple questions. Out of all 56 people, only 1 actually answered both questions correctly. In fact, the reps were wrong 93% of the time. That’s a lot. I’m a Verizon Wireless customer and I’ve found them to make up numbers every once in a while, but this is ridiculous.

Actually, after thinking about this for a while it seems that the problem isn’t only that employees can be clueless, but that they were trained improperly. When the correct answer was $0.002 (2 tenths of a cent), most of the answers had a 2 and some zeros, but the decimal was in the wrong place. The reps who answered correctly said “point zero zero two dollars“. Perhaps that’s how they were trained to say it. But since the question was “how many cents” some of the reps probably messed up the decimal. I’m not trying to make excuses for them, though. 93% incorrect is absolutely horrible. Inexcusable. Horrendous. Substandard. Mediocre. Negligent. Incompetent. Yet strangely funny.

I didn’t make this but it’s still funny!

I am an Apple-fanboy-typing-this-on-a-Logitech-S530-Laser-Desktop-For-Mac-connected-to-
a-MB-running-Leopard-with-dual-monitors-while-listening-to-my-iPod(s)-on-my-BOSE-QC2-
headphones-bought-from-the-Apple-store-and-reading-TUAW,-fake-steve,-Engadget,-and-
idolizing-Woz-and-Leo and I am proud.

“You literally just click on the application’s icon and the programs opens right there for you on the screen… in a matter of minutes”

Ahhh yes. This kind of precision and dedication is exactly why I still use Windows 95. Yes, this is a prime example of how Microsoft is painstakingly porting last decade’s technology into our modern computers for our own enjoyment. Yes, MS Paint is the future.

This video was actually aired on November 1, 2006. Imagine what technological advancements have come in the past year, and what “they” can do now…

Today, there are over 540,000 words in the English language: 5 times the number in Shakespeare’s time. I find this amazing. As slang and new terms like “cool”, “Internet”, “blogs”, and “Google” are officially accepted, it not only complicates our lives, but enriches them. It is predicted that by 2049, the computation power of a single, ordinary laptop will exceed that of the entire human race. Combined. Kind of hard to believe, especially considering that every 8 seconds 34 children are born, and that number just keeps climbing. At this rate, the human race won’t fit on 2 Earths by 2049.
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Tremulous is not only unquestionably the best free game I’ve ever played, but right up there on my list with other games that I’ve payed for. It’s a great fps (first person shooter) with a little bit of rts (real time strategy) thrown in. You choose your side: humans or aliens (I’m always a human) and play away online. Even compared to non-free games, it looks great. Not top-of-the-line, but still great.

If you play as a human, you start out with only a rifle. You have to hunt down the aliens, and each time you kill one you get “credits”. You can use these credits to buy new armor, weapons, etc. Each time you die, you loose everything except your credits. But that’s not all. There’s also a lot of strategy involved. The humans have to protect their reactor, the main core of their base. The reactor provides power for other structures, such as respawn points (telenodes), medistations (heals you), armories, and turrets. If the aliens destroy your reactor of all of your telenodes, you loose.

The aliens, meanwhile, have to protect their “overminds”, the alien equivalent of a reactor, eggs (like telenodes), and so on. Aliens don’t have credits, though. Each time they get a kill they can evolve one step higher. The more they evolve, the bigger, stronger, and faster they get.

Tremulous is awesome. Even if it doesn’t sound like fun to you, trust me, try it. It’s free, so what do you have to loose? The music in that promo video is kinda weird, though.

Official Site: Tremulous.net
Windows and Linux versions: http://tremulous.net/files/ (get the ’stand alone’ version, at the top of the list)
Mac Version: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/tremulous.html (universal binary)