A Peculiar Blog

Anybody remember Thoof? Well, it won’t be too long before most people answer that question with “What’s a Thoof?”.

With all the stuff that’s gone on in our house this last month I have to say that we definitely deserve a vacation from the hassles. Two hospital stays just this month, several more doctor visits and very nearly a third hospital stay not only leave you behind on everything, it also leaves your nerves frazzled to the max.

The US Attorney General is proposing new guidelines that could, according to Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the new rules would permit the FBI to use “a variety of intrusive investigative techniques with no evidence of possible wrongdoing”.

Imagine going to the trouble and expense of making all of the travel arrangements, getting a passport and flying all the way to China to attend the Olympic games. You are expecting to relax and take it easy while you watch all of your favorite events when all of a sudden, during the opening ceremonies, there it is.

The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim against YouTube recently to get them to pull a video that was made by Students for a Free Tibet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There’s a really interesting bit over at Scientific American about, of all things, Invisibility. It seems that scientists have made a lot of progress in coming up with materials that bend light around them making them effectively invisible.
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Joe Public had a problem. He’d been working what seemed like non-stop for months. That big project at the office had taken over his life, even to the point where he was spending most of his time at home working. Nights and weekends blurred into workdays as he dealt with one problem after another. Finally the project was finished and Joe wasted no time in putting in for that two week vacation he didn’t take the year before.

A lot of people seem to think that Obama has the best shot at winning, but there’s a CBS news article that raises some questions about that. Notably there’s seven factors that could individually or together serve to put a damper on Obama’s run for the White House.

I’m always interested in a good deal and VistaPrint is a good one. Their site features just about any kind of print job you can name. From custom stationary to business cards (and business card holders of course). Speaking of business cards, VistaPrint is famous for it’s free business card offers.

Audacity is a digital audio editor. It allows you to edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF audio files. You can do cool tricks like change the speed or pitch of a recording. Want to know what you’d sound like as a chipmunk? Audacity can help you find out.
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