A group of New Yorkers recently pulled off a stunt in Grand Central Station whereby they essentially “stopped time.” A pretty unique stunt and definitely entertaining to see the reaction of other people. Check it out:

During a recent post-game interview the basketball coach of my alma mater, Seton Hall, was wished “continued good sex in the Big East.” I’m not going to argue with the inherent implications of that statement.

Watch and enjoy:

SpeedDate.com and Meebo have teamed up to a launch a speed dating application within Meebo. As a way to market the service, they chose eight celebrity bloggers and had them engage in a speed dating session. The result is pretty comical, especially Wired’s Aaron Rowe, who in my opinion was the star of the show.

This is probably one of the most ludicrous things I’ve ever come across in my 25 years on this planet. An 11th grader at Big Spring High School in Newville, PA was given detention for using the Firefox Web browser instead of Internet Explorer.

Here is a copy of the letter, note the red-boxed area:

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Update: 12/18/2007 - Turns out it this was all a hoax. Oh well, it was fun to gather the troops in support of Firefox.

Courtesy of Christopher Knight in Rockingham County, North Carolina. There truly are no words to convey just how amazing this campaign ad is, so I’ll let this this YouTube video speak for itself.

If only G-Dubya had this guy as a member of his cabinet…

Starbucks has become synonymous with the word coffee. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe have indulged in their many flavors of Juan Valdez. So many people, in fact, that it appears as if the coffee hegemon has begun seeking alternative markets.

Enter Carin’s chihuahua, who has enjoyed a cup of Starbucks on more than one occasion:

On “The Word” segment of his September 19, 2007 “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert criticized the youth generation of today for doing nothing about the problems in society. It all started with the University of Florida student who was tasered during a John Kerry speech. The inaction of the student’s peers caused Colbert to make the following remarks:

“Look at these guys in the back,” Colbert said, pointing out one frame from the video of the event. “You don’t need a Fox body language expert to tell you that kid in orange is bored. He’s probably thinking something like, ‘I wish they’d stop tasering this guy so I could go home and watch this guy getting tasered on YouTube.’”

“One thing you can’t argue is that his cause was joined by hordes of no one. … Students used to be a rebellious bunch. … Today’s kids are so different.”

“The kids in that auditorium who sat idly by as their fellow student was seized, thrown to the ground, and tasered didn’t lack the courage to help,” Colbert added. “They’re just so used to watching videos like ‘Crazy guys thrown out of lecture hall’ that they didn’t know how to help other than to link to it. I’m sure that guy in the orange is going to spring into action as soon as he gets home and fires up his blog.”

“And that’s what’s so great about this new kind of activism,” Colbert remarked. “It’s convenient. Just like masturbation. It’s better than sex because it’s on your own time. So … make me proud, young people. Continue waging your protests from the polite distance of your home computers. Make ‘the Man’ wish he’d never visited your site. And if a fellow-student is denied the right to speak, remember, the best way to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him is by sitting alone in your seat.”

Here is the video in its entirety:

It’s sad to say but Colbert is absolutely 100% on point with these statements. Sure it’s an entirely different generation with an entirely different lifestyle, but the fact remains that the general public does not gather collectively to demand a particular action of the government. How many people complain online about the expanding of Bush’s spy program, or about the unending Iraq war? Thousands if not millions. But how many of them march on Washington to show their opposition? None. If millions of people were to converge on Washington demanding an end to the Iraq war and would not leave you can bet the troops would start coming home by Christmas.

While it is good that at least people are speaking out in some sort of fashion, writing about problems doesn’t go far enough. Your support and time needs to be given to those causes that you hold dear to your heart. So if you haven’t done anything to support something you believe in lately, I encourage you to go out and make a small gesture. Acting alone behind our computers won’t do anything except consume bandwidth, but acting together we have the ability to change the world.

Remember, as Abraham Lincoln pointed out, that our government is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

According to a search run on Linux.org, there 218 currently maintained Linux distributions. Two of the more popular ones that have widespread adoption are Debian and Ubuntu. But how does a person choose one over the over? While there are similarities between all Linux distributions there are also stark differences.

Well, for those on the fence between Debian and Ubuntu, perhaps this may help you in making your decision:

Personally I’m an Ubuntu man, but we all have our different tastes when it comes to Linux.

UPDATE: The original Debian girl photo has been removed at the request of someone whose opinion I can respect. This post was in no way meant to inflict damage of any sort on anyone. If it has done so inadvertently, my apologies.

That being said, to the women who so ignorantly attempted to bash me, realize that by judging me with this post you’re committing the same act that you’re criticizing me for: misrepresentation.

This picture offers some insight into the phrase “behind every great man there’s a woman kicking his butt.” Ladies, would you do this for your man? Or would you sit back and laugh at his non-functioning tricycle?

Snapped this picture from the hotel in Los Angeles last week and have been meaning to post it. For those who don’t understand the post-worthiness of this, check out this Wikipedia article about the main subject of this picture.