April 30th, 2007
A woman in Maine accidentally dropped one of those modern power-saving CFL light bulbs, the spirally ones that cost umpteen times more than the regular ones. Knowing that these little greenpeace bombs contain mercury, she asked everyone she could think of on how to best clean up the mess and avoid “contamination”. Eventually someone told her they’d come over and make it all go away in a professional manner, for the low low price of $2000. Oh noes!
In reality, a home thermometer contains anywhere from 100 to 400 times more mercury than a CFL bulb. This brings us to two possible conclusions:
1. this person truly exists, and was so dumb that eventually someone just made up a price to shut her up.
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2. this story is a fabrication of the conservative political groups, as a way to secure lobbying funds from electricity producers and marketers.
In the end, do whatever the hell you want. Buy new bulbs, or don’t. I personally like the idea of a bulb the produces more light than heat, but the people behind the buzz aren’t really doing it for the sake of conserving energy. They’re doing it because someone’s going get rich selling new lightbulbs. Don’t buy the hype!
April 29th, 2007
I’ve been using a neat little utility for the past week called Synergy. It allows one keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers over the network, in an extremely intuitive way. You still need a monitor on the extra computers… Synergy kind of merges all your machines into one huge desktop… Read the rest of this entry »
April 29th, 2007
Kaleidescape, makers of ultra-high-end media center equipment, have won a court ruling vs the DVD CCA (copy control association), which alleged that the defendant’s product was illegally circumventing DVD copy protection. For you lazy tards, the Kaleidescape system is like a video iPod on steroids… Read the rest of this entry »
April 28th, 2007
Trent Reznor, the man behind Nine Inch Nails, released three songs off the latest album “Year Zero” in multitrack format, making it possible for just about anyone with music software to remix the tracks. That in itself is nothing new, he did the same thing two years ago when “With Teeth” was released… Read the rest of this entry »
April 28th, 2007
On the web, the PDF format is pretty much the de-facto standard for distributing printable media. For years, Adobe’s Acrobat Reader has been getting fatter, slower, and buggier with each new release. So bad in fact, that a lot of people switched to Foxit Reader, which is fast and lean but kind of feels like a Windows 3.1 app :P… Read the rest of this entry »
April 25th, 2007
The Quantum Sleeper, “The safest rest you’ve ever had”.
This is one of those things only Americans would ever think of. It’s a bed built like a safe-room. This thing will keep you safe from bio-chemical terrorist attacks, natural disasters, burglars, rapists, jehova’s witnesses, intellectuals and gun fire!… Read the rest of this entry »
April 25th, 2007
Check this out:
Man charged with DUI on way to DUI hearing
For those of you too lazy to click a goddamned link, the article speaks of a 74 year-old cheap excuse for a man. He was headed to court for a DUI offense from February. The problem is, he never made it to court, he crashed his tardwagon into a guard rail and was arrested again for drunk driving… Read the rest of this entry »
April 24th, 2007
Hey wiseguys, how do you like my new home ? Welcome to the new and improved blog of your favorite evil overlord, Billco!… Read the rest of this entry »
