The article even mentions Sean Connery, who, by the way, is the man.

What I also find interesting is that the case was about whether or not InfoSpace had to "disclose the identity of nearly two-dozen people who posted anonymous comments on message boards," I can't find any information about who was trying to get this information from InfoSpace. Heh, it seems like those people are seeking some anonymity of their own. Or maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

The CNN article is available here. There's also this government site with even more fly-bys and pictures and related goodies. If you have a sweet internet connection, you can check out some cool movies of Colorado and Atlanta, among other places. I was getting a download speed of about 250 KB / sec. :) I'm so going to miss that once college ends. *sigh*

But the game does seem to have one major problem. It runs like ass. People with 1+ Ghz Athlons and GeForce2 cards are bitching about their framerates. And the recommended system requirements on the Tribes 2 box say you need a pII or pIII 300-500 Mhz CPU depending on what video card you have.

After a certain number of people get into a server, the game starts getting choppier and choppier, and soon you'll be trying to infiltrate the enemy base at about 10-15 frames per second. Totally uncool. While the folks at Sierra and Dynamix are taking their time in trying to resolve the issue, a dedicated Tribes 2 player was apparently really bored and came up with a way to improve your framerate significantly. If you happen to play the game and you're having fps issues, check out this forum post I copied and pasted. I haven't tried any of his ideas myself yet, so I can't comment on how well this works. He's getting a lot of kudos on the build-in messageboard forum, though, so...

That is all. Go about your business as usual.

According to this study, the more hours a kid spends in day care, the more likely he or she will "[score] higher on items like `gets in lots of fights,' `cruelty,' `explosive behavior,' as well as `talking too much,' `argues a lot,' and `demands a lot of attention.'"

Interesting information, but I would have liked to see if there was a corelation between family income and child attitude. Kids in daycare for several hours are probably there because both of their parents have to work to put food on the table...

Speaking of graduation: You know that humanities course b.s. I brought up a long time ago? I don't think I mentioned this part yet, but I will be able to take the course away from RPI. I worked something out with the professor where I can just send him periodic emails containing whatever work is due. That kicks ass; I don't have to dick around for six weeks and I can actually get a "real job." Of course, I still have to find a company that won't reject my work application... *sigh* I've heard they're hiring at this seafood and ice cream restaurant place near my house...

I also mentioned a while back a similar occurrence happening in New Zealand. According to the article I have linked above, it hints that the Jedi movement in New Zealand didn't go through. Good. Otherwise, I'd have to make a little trip to the country and take those Jedis' lightsabers and put them where the sun don't shine.

Stop wasting the government's time. Go make something of yourself instead of whacking it over Princess Lea. God damn...

Stupid Conservatives.

Hehe. Funny.

On a not-so-related note, Nedstat can stop being so sucky. Ever since they messed with my counter and I used their new HTML code I had to add, about 70% of my hits don't get tracked anymore. Heh. The five days' hits after adding the new code summed up to be as many hits as the day before I added the code. Something's wrong with that. :p At least I have two counters on that site, so I was able to do a little comparing and contrasting. Ah well, time to replace a counter.

With 150,000 registered users, Blogger is the leading tool in this rapidly growing area of web publishing. Blogger makes it simple for users to maintain a web log, easily handling the tasks of posting, editing, formatting and archiving content. In fact, active Blogger users update their sites an average of 2.2 times per day.

Cool. I'm bumping up the average just a little bit. :)

I'm pretty psyched I have "Pants Patrol" again. I kinda need it for some other site I work on.

I then surfed the net to find out if this is actually her song. Would she give up her super-stellar (heh) acting career to be a not-so-energetic singer?

It turns out that she "sang" the song for some British group named HAL. She even starred in their video for the single, too.

If you're on the RPI network, you can take the mp3 from my computer (Max_Jerome). If you want the mp3 (and you aren't at RPI) or if you want the video, tell me. Or search elsewhere for the mp3 and/or download the video slowly from this site.

The song is an X-File in itself. Weirdness.

If you have nothing to do on this fine Easter Sunday, amuse yourself with this... uh... "thing" for a couple minutes, courtesy of my mother. Hey, if I had to go to that URL, so do you. :p

Man, this would have came in pretty handy in my 10th grade English class, where we had a weekly spelling test from words people in the class brought in. I remember having to know how to spell "arachibutyrophobia" and "misophobia" and using them in a sentence. "Paraskavedekatriaphobia" was another winner. Oh yes, good times.

And I wonder how many college students have ablutophobia. Heh.

And if anyone has truely been diagnosed with having ommetaphobia or lutraphobia... wow. Something cataclysmic must have happened in their lives.