Here’s a link to a scanned version of a little booklet that the US “War Department” gave to soldiers who were being sent to Iraq (i-RAWK, according to the book, where Iran is EE-RAHN) back during WW2. http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/w0025.pdf Its kind…
John's Random Review
A totally random collection of stuff. Though now that facebook exists, its mostly guns and video games…
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And you think your wife is a neat freak?
You think your wife is a neat freak? Has yours ever vacuumed the back yard? 🙂 I laughed when i saw her doing it, and i needed to get an “out of context” picture for laughs. She was vacuuming up…
The best analysis of the VT-Massacre
After reading so much crap (literally, crap, everywhere) about the massacre, this post at Zen of Design is by far the best thing I’ve read. It has some very good links to videos about Jack Thompson’s anti-videogame craziness too. …Any…
Blogger’s code of conduct?
So there’s a big brouhaha on the intertubes about this whole “Blogger’s Code of Conduct”, as proposed by Tim O’Reilly, et al. Apparently they never learned from the Comics industry… == ? At least they aren’t proposing that there’s a…
Want an overpriced Resolver?
I never thought that i’d see anything i worked on would show up on ebay. Well, mostly because i work on software for a living. And its very specialized software. And it isn’t really something you look for on ebay.…
“E-gate”? you have to be kidding me.
According to king5 news here in Seattle, some port of Seattle police officers received or sent or forwarded on some porn or “racist” emails (the “racist” email they used as an example was a video (probably a link to a…
Now Reading…
Hooked up and installed the Now Reading plug-in for WordPress. So now on the right side you can see the books i’m reading/read lately. I might go back and backfill some other books i’ve read lately as i find time.…
What’s up with BN.com?
So I got some Barnes&Noble gift cards for xmas/birthday this year. I went to their website, and not only are the things i was looking for more expensive than Amazon, i get to the payment page, and i see this:…
The best lunch video ever.
During lunch today i watched the most amazing thing ever. I watched live coverage of 2 spacewalking astronauts messing with a solar panel on the international space station. What a marvel of technology we have nowadays: I can sit in…
Winter in Seattle…
Every once and a while, it actually snows in the seattle area. From the Seattle traffic cameras, it doesn’t look like much of Seattle proper got any snow, but we live in what is called the “puget sound convergience zone”.…
