Iranian Woman Won't be Getting Stoned After All

No I'm not talking about stoned as in herb. A story broke yesterday about an Iranian woman who was convicted of adultery (confessed through torture). Her sentence was to be buried up to the waist and stoned for a few hours (with rocks small enough to not kill her instantly). They were going to do this until she finally died but they wanted to torture her some more first.

An international outcry rang out across the internet and today they decided that they wouldn't carry out the sentence. I'm amazed by this actually, not because of the Old Testament style punishments. No I'm amazed that Iran didn't get smaller rocks after the international outcry, just to make it worse on her.

Here's the story:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iiMdjOhATvlq2KjorjnafLkv1z1A

Night Vision Monocular

This is a pretty cool deal. I've always wanted to be able to see in the dark. I've always thought that the technology was expensive. I didn't realize one could buy a night vision monocular for this cheap. It uses an infrared flashlight to illuminate the surroundings. IR isn't visible to the human eye so no one will see it. This means that the device can be used in a completely dark area. Some of the other devices use starlight and such to illuminate the environment. This one does not.

Newton NV Night Vision monocular Multicoated lenses With Built-in IR illuminator -- Great For Camping And Hunting

While I'm on the topic of product reviews, I'd like to say that I've been extremely impressed with my Seagate FreeAgent 500gb external drive. I have had a few external drives, and this one so far has been my favorite. It doesn't require an external power supply. It gets its power from the USB port. It's small, compact, and easy to carry around. It's almost unnoticeable in a laptop case. I recommend these things to anyone who wants to keep a backup of their pictures, music, videos, etc. They have more than enough room.
Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905003FAA2E1-RK (Black)

Night Vision Monocular

This is a pretty cool deal. I've always wanted to be able to see in the dark. I've always thought that the technology was expensive. I didn't realize one could buy a night vision monocular for this cheap. It uses an infrared flashlight to illuminate the surroundings. IR isn't visible to the human eye so no one will see it. This means that the device can be used in a completely dark area. Some of the other devices use starlight and such to illuminate the environment. This one does not.

Newton NV Night Vision monocular Multicoated lenses With Built-in IR illuminator -- Great For Camping And Hunting

While I'm on the topic of product reviews, I'd like to say that I've been extremely impressed with my Seagate FreeAgent 500gb external drive. I have had a few external drives, and this one so far has been my favorite. It doesn't require an external power supply. It gets its power from the USB port. It's small, compact, and easy to carry around. It's almost unnoticeable in a laptop case. I recommend these things to anyone who wants to keep a backup of their pictures, music, videos, etc. They have more than enough room.
Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive ST905003FAA2E1-RK (Black)

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Beautiful Infrared Images

One of my favorite internet posts today is this site: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/trees_photographed_in_infrared_pics.php
It has some amazing images of trees and nature in infrared. It makes me wish I could see everything in infrared.

Sunday - June 21, 2010

Hello, internets!

Today was father's day, and it was also my wife's birthday. I told my wife that those two events canceled each other out, so we didn't need to get each other any gifts. I baked her a cake.  It's day 62 of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. I'm wondering if they'll ever get that plugged up. Amazingly enough, many people seem to be blaming President Obama for this disaster. Fox stooped to new lows today by making fun of Obama's pants and the way he dressed while visiting the beaches where oil is coming ashore. 

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Here is an awesome video of a tornado destroying a building. Unfortunately the person operating the camera did a terrible job. 

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I'm a huge fan of Carl Sagan's work. I love the Cosmos TV series. I recently heard about a BBC television show called "The Wonders of the Solar System". I had to download them through torrents just to be able to watch them though because I can't view them on the BBC website. They are unavailable outside of the UK. This is why people pirate. If you want to watch something, it's sometimes the only way to get it. Here is a famous poetic clip that Sagan is well known for, entitled "The Pale Blue Dot":

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New Portal 2 E3 Demo

If you haven't played Portal, it's a very cool game from Valve. Their new Steam engine can be used to buy and download it. I won't spoil the games storyline, but it's actually one of the coolest in any game I've played in a while.

I didn't play Portal when it came out. I just recently played it, because Valve was giving it  away with their Steam engine. This was a promotional offer. One thing that it did was peak my interest in the sequel to Portal which is due to be released very soon. If you haven't tried out Portal, buy it. It's a rather cheap game at the moment, but it's very addicting. The sequel is set to be even better still. From what I've heard, it will incorporate multi-player online play modes.

Here is the video from E3 showing some gameplay from Portal 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQLpU0T-Sow

HFCS and Dr.Pepper

If you've been keeping up with the latest health studies, researchers at Princeton University found that high fructose corn syrup causes rats to gain weight when the same amount (caloric) of sucrose did not. This is important for all of us soda drinkers. HFCS is the sweetener in most sodas presently. It was used as a replacement sweetener. Back in the old days, soda was made with real sugar. Some still are. For instance, Pepsi makes "Throwbacks" which are great. Also, there are Mountain Dew Throwbacks. Additionally, Jones Cola is made with pure sugar cane. Jones is pretty dang good.

My favorite soft drink has always been Dr. Pepper. I found out about 7 years ago that the original Dr. Pepper manufacturer still makes it with pure sugar cane. I didn't think to look for it till today. It's available online, although after shipping it's a bit expensive.

http://www.olddocs.com/product.aspx?id=174&up1=269&up2=274&up3=275&cat=Drinks&subcat1=Dr%20Pepper&subcat2=Made%20with%20Sugar

A case is $10, plus it's $5 shipping for each package. A package can contain up to two cases. So, for $25 you could get two cases (48 drinks). That's right at $0.50 each, which really isn't that bad compared to sodas out of a vending machine. To bad they don't have them at a store nearby. I'd buy as many as I could fit in the car.

ProNicheStore - An easy to use niche web site builder

ProNicheStore - An easy to use niche web site builder

I've been slow on my posts lately. This is why. I've been finishing up the development of a project that means a lot to me, ProNicheStore. I will be posting more about it as the days go on. Currently, I'm awaiting ClickBank approval for it. I've been waiting for many days too, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Friday - March 12, 2010

This will be a short post. I have a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, I've spent the last 30 minutes reading through this site:

http://www.dontevenreply.com/index.php

This guy pranks people on Craiglist. It's hilarious. It appears I've found another internet genius.