Inventor says “miracle tube” produces more energy than it consumes - Boing Boing
And we always believe inventors. Me thinks that it all depends on how it’s tested and what the figures are that they are testing it against.
Or it could just be gas…
Copyright office should free the database of copyrights! - Boing Boing
Typical bureaucratic BS. And YES the database should be free, as we the people have paid for every bit of it. ASSHATS!
Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village
Shades of Stephen King! That was one wicked hard impact. Wonder if it was something from the meteorite or something boiling out of the hot ground that caused the problems?
Linux Today - SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing
“SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.”
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I think it had more to do with Mr. McBride attacking the FOSS community and trying to make everyone using unix or linux pay license fees for something that SCO didn’t own. But then again maybe I’m just not looking at it with his magic glasses. ASSHAT!
Clocks: Hard Drive Clock - Gizmodo
Now that’s one wicked cool clock! Talk about a serious amount of re-engineering to get this to work right!
Ancient Records Help Test Climate Change
Good read.
Schoolgirl’s “Smog Hog” Cuts Air Pollution (TreeHugger)
Good idea. I suspect that the process to reduce the liquid to a solid to burn will require a bit more work to remove some of the more toxic products before it can safely be burned in a house.
French art from 1910 depicting the year 2000 - Boing Boing
Interesting stuff. Gonna have to go to Google and do the translate thing on the site so I can read what these are about (mangled French and all). 
BRio - The Brazilian Flying Boat
Tis certainly different. Not that I would go up in one of those things…
dreamstate - Currently ranting about PC World
A new chapter in the saga of the faulty hinge mount. Looks like PC World only hires folks with bad attitudes. The Linux voids the warranty line about hardware problems is stupid (and I suspect illegal) but it seems to be company policy with these folks whether their head office claims otherwise or not.
I’m waiting for the video.
Groklaw - SCO Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Well, here’s the news that I have been expecting to see. Would like it better if it was a going out of business/fire sale but this is close. Guess they are trying to beat Novel to the mark so they will only get pennies on the dollar when the smoke clears…
Been working from the iBook (with the external hard drive) for the past while (months it seems), trying to get my head together enough to figure out how and what to do to fix the linux machine. Yesterday seemingly was the time. Got it up and running with a PCLOS 2007 bootable cd and copied the files from the going bad 30gb hd to the storage drive. Then took the 30 gb drive out and put a 10gb in and installed PCLOS. Rebooted, reconfigured and am back up and going.
Main reason was to scan as there are only 2 USB ports on the iBook and with the mouse in one and keyboard in the other there’s no place left for the scanner. Anyway now I can scan more book covers and get back to working on the Nero Wolfe site.
Feel worse today than I did yesterday. Suspect that I am a couple of days behind Cat with this bug, and she was in bed all day yesterday. Got the 2 steps away from normal feeling, which started late last night. Hoping it will go away soon.
More as I feel up to it… 
Awoke this am to find a large number of hits on this site. Turns out that Morris, the fellow with the broken hinge mount, noted my comment on his problem and put a link to it on his site. Thanks for the link! His site can be found at http://www.dreamstate.eu/ for those of you who wish to follow his ordeal.
Also awoke to find that the update I did at The Nero Wolfe Site had managed to break most of the picture links, which is a BIG thing on that site as it is mostly dealing with the cover art of books in the Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout. So after trying it figure out what I had done originally to get them to show up (2+ years ago and my memory is much like swiss cheese but with more holes) I went back to the old theme (which had displayed quite broken yesterday) and for some reason it worked right off. Had to add some of the new tracking code and scripts in here and there, but considering what I had done to get the pix to show up in the first place and what I would have had to do to get them back in now, tis no biggie. I’m gonna leave the old theme in place for now and just start redoing the entire pile of covers on another of my sites in a sub domain. Hate to loose the work and the domain but that one is coming up for renewal in Dec and I ain’t gonna spring for another year. Just ain’t worth it as there has been NO income from the site in the entire time I have had it online, so fark it…
I’m trying to decide what path to take on the new site. I want to sell books on it as well as showcase my collection but I don’t want to limit it to just the Nero Wolfe series so I need to decide on whether to use blogging, content management, e-commerce, or what kind of software. I’m more comfortable with Wordpress but adding the code to each post to sell via paypal can be a bit of a bother. But the amount of crap that you have to go through to get the data into some of the other programs can be worse so gonna have to cognate a bit more on it. Comments and ideas are more than welcome.
Both of us have been down with something (still or again, not sure which) after having a couple of days getting things done. I’ve been mostly house bound and doing nothing requiring being upright for the last 3. Cat is doing the bed thing today. I’m upright but just barely. Guess I will post this and then go unlock the far gate so should anyone need to get in they can. Then will most likely come back and poke at the computer some more.
Don’t know if I broke it or what but the comments aren’t working right. So am back with this one for a bit till I figure the problem with the other one.
PC World denies Linux warranty void - ZDNet UK
Yep, reinstalling that crap Window$ bloatware will sure-nuff be required to fix that broken hinge mount. IDIOTS!
The Essence of Nearly Anything, Drop by Limpid Drop - New York Times
Sounds good. Gonna have to try it sometime soon.
Working Hard: Testing the HappyVappy Vaporizer - Gizmodo
Now we know what the folks at Gizmodo REALLY test. Love the peanut butter from the spoon toward the end! Probably not safe for work.
