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I have friends who love Xbox 360. These are the same friends who wake people up by sining Strutter by KISS while playing air guitar. <br />[Via: <a href="http://joystiq.com">Joystiq</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/04/good_vs_evil_fo.php">Good vs. Evil Foosball</a></dt> <dd>I never thought of Hitler, Flash Gordon, Idi Amin, and Saint Francis of Assisi being depicted in such a light. ElevenForty, however, has had such visions. If your dream has always been seeing God versus Lucifer in a game of football, get ready to weep.</dd> <dt><a href="http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm">The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel</a></dt> <dd>Utterly incredible. Not living in New York City, I had no idea such extravagant methods of burrito transport were even feasible. This is certainly a stop I will have to make next time I visit. (It would be great if this were true.)</dd> </dl> <p class="postlink"><span>Comments Off</span> | <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/04/use-bombs/duly-noted-april-11th-through-april-12th/">Read Full Article: "Duly Noted: April 11th through April 12th"</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="post"> <div class="avatar Administrator"> <h2><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/04/use-bombs/video/">Video</a></h2> <p class="meta">Administrator - Sunday, 8th April 2007</p> <br /> <p class="postlink"><span>Comments Off</span> | <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/04/use-bombs/video/">Read Full Article: "Video"</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="post"> <div class="avatar Arion Londraville"> <h2><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/03/use-bombs/support-the-cause/">Support the Cause</a></h2> <p class="meta">Arion Londraville - Wednesday, 7th March 2007</p> <p>Okay, I know I’m a little late on this… (I’ve been busy trying to get a some variation of the Daily Del.icio.us plug in working so I can share my links.)</p> <p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/putting-our-money-where-our-mouths-are-boycott-the-riaa-in-march-239281.php">Gizmodo is sponsoring a month long boycott of the Recording Industry Association of America</a>. Quite frankly, every single person should be taking part in this. </p> <p>I mean, it should be pretty easy to hop on board. A boycott is practically made for lazy people. All you have to do is not do something. Hell, I’ve been not doing things for years! (That includes buying albums released by RIAA members.) So, I don’t want to hear any whining.</p> <h3>Why?</h3> <p>If you’re unfamiliar with why people hate the RIAA so strongly or why this boycott is a necessary, look no further then the overview below.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html">Underpaying and taking advantage of the very artists its member companies represent</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/RIAA-price-fixing-settlement-delivers-dud-CDs-to-libraries.html">Fixing prices on their products</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead/">Going lawsuit-crazy all over the faces of its own consumers</a> for <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35669">unnecessarily crazy amounts of money</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/">Invading personal privacy and compromising or damaging personal property in the name of enforcing copyright</a>.</li> <li>Blaming poor financial trends on <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4831">unfounded digital piracy claims</a>.</li> <li>Making governments support RIAA member company’s dying business models with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy">a tax on every blank CD or piece of recordable media their citizens buy</a>.</li> </ul> <p>That’s just the start of it all. Dig around and you’ll find issues dealing with mix tapes, pre-litigation, and all kind of <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47552,00.html">really</a> <a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/">bad</a> <a href="http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/new-senate-bill-targets-satellite-radio.html">legislation</a> that the RIAA has helped to draft. </p> <h3>How?</h3> <p>Go to <a href="http://www.riaaradar.com">RIAA Radar</a> if you want a list of what not to buy. And, If you live in a country like Canada, I guess you should also avoid buying blank CDs. <img src='http://www.use-bombs.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':-?' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <p>So, allow yourself to be lazy for once, don’t do anything, don’t go out and buy that CD you wanted; all crippled with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management">Digital Rights Management software</a>. And, if you really feel the need to get up and do something, go donate to a foundation like the <a href="http://www.eff.org/">EFF</a>.</p> <p>Whatever you do, do it knowing that we as consumers have a responsibility to correct the current situation.</p> <p class="postlink"><span>Comments Off</span> | <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/03/use-bombs/support-the-cause/">Read Full Article: "Support the Cause"</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="post"> <div class="avatar Josh Allen"> <h2><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/02/use-bombs/childbirth-ideas/">Childbirth Ideas</a></h2> <p class="meta">Josh Allen - Wednesday, 28th February 2007</p> <p>This is a post that I started a year ago or so and I never completely flushed it out. As I have little recollection of my old theories, I feel there is enough content here, with some slight additions, to post. If it seems sort of unorder and out of whack, then deal with it. </p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>—————————————-</p> <p><strong>Childbirth</strong>.</p> <p>We all know what it is*. I have a few questions about it, and, since I’m a male, they will probably be very stupid, innappropriate questions. Well, you know what?</p> <p><em>Too bad.</em></p> <p>I heard some people talking about childbirth, and I was thinking, “<i>Why does childbirth hurt?</i>” This spawned a few thoughts in my head. I feel like giving you my philosophical thoughts about childbirth. Beware, you’re in for a scare (maybe).</p> <p>* - <small>If you don’t know what childbirth is, I suggest sticking any two fingers up your ass and checking to feel if it’s decently warm. If the previous is true, then proceed to impale yourself on a brick. It may take multiple tries, but you’ll get it with time and training. ^_^</small></p> <p><b>Why does childbirth hurt?</b></p> <p>If females must bear children into the world to propagate the species and the very future of our race, why must it be such a pain in the ass/uterus/whatever? The thing is: <em>It hurts</em>. As you might have guessed, I have never given birth, so you might be asking yourself why I’m writing this. Well, if you find out, let me know. I have never personally felt this pain so I have to go by what I’ve heard and what I’ve seen/heard in media.</p> <p><b>Childbirth Portrayals in the Media</b></p> <p>As this is generally a horrible basis, movie births have a general concept: The mother hurts like Hell and tends to take it out on the man who “did it” to her. She’ll want all sorts of drugs to help with the pain. Good and bad movies alike have had childbirths in them. Good movies, such as Coneheads, and bad movies such as Nine Months and Junior. In most instances, childbirth is made out to be a very painful, yet very rewarding experience. I think they tend to exaggerate sometimes on the hectic antics of it, but as I’ve never witnessed a real childbirth, I can’t say. If some of the things I’ve seen going on in movie hospitals, I expect the surgeon general and the department of health to get off their asses and fix it, because that’s some crazy shit.</p> <p>To think that is must have been significantly worse for those in the past who didn’t have as many methods of medicinal technology or none at all. By which, we could say that since childbirth has been facilitated due to knowledge and technology, it would be much more prominent. Does that mean that our own development of technology, due to our instincts of sex and survival, is leading to our eventual overpopulation? Maybe the said deity thinks we’re becoming too smart? Maybe it misses the old days of widespread, multi-form ignorance? </p> <p><b>If so, why does sex feel so good?</b></p> <p>If the above factors in, then is it a “test” from some agnostic deity to have us hold our instincts for sex to prevent childbirth, lest we overburden ourselves and our Earth, causing irreparable/fatal damage to the human race?</p> <p>Is AIDS a “plague” brought upon the people because said deity thinks we’re popping out too many living environmental burdens?</p> <p>Who knows? I’m just a man who can sperm and term-inate the relationship depending on the interference of law and perhaps social services. Why does something that feels so good lead to something so painful (although rewarding)? Perhaps it is so we’ll get caught up in the reproductive process in the beginning without much though of the consequences. Hell, we’ll even do it again and again. We’re human, and we’re known for doing things over and over regardless of the consequences. Maybe it’s all just a part of the great mystery of life. Or maybe the said deity thinks it’s funny. Either way, we have to deal with it.</p> <p class="postlink"><span>Comments Off</span> | <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/02/use-bombs/childbirth-ideas/">Read Full Article: "Childbirth Ideas"</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="post"> <div class="avatar Arion Londraville"> <h2><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/02/use-bombs/why-red/">Why Red?</a></h2> <p class="meta">Arion Londraville - Monday, 26th February 2007</p> <p>It’s assertive, ambitious, dramatic, and passionate. (<a href="http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/colors/Colors.html">Or so I’ve been told</a>)</p> <p>Anyway - aside from some tweaks to the underlying code and fixes for a few browsers, I’m deeming this site redesign as complete. I pondered waiting until the next <a href="http://www.cssreboot.com">CSS Reboot</a> event to update the site, but decided against it. I wanted the redesign up as soon as possible.</p> <p>Personally, I’m extremely pleased with how the design turned out, far more than I was with the last version.</p> <p>Too much content occupied too little space in the old design. Upon reexamining all that material, it really became clear how unnecessary it was. So, we’ve removed a lot of that clutter, making the layout feel much more elegant. This means that eyeballs no longer scream in frustration as all sorts of stuff competes for their unwavering attention.</p> <p>The whole site also feels much more harmonious. There always seemed to be some sort of infighting between the elements of the old design. I could never put my finger on what the cause of that battle was, but it bugged me to no end.</p> <p>Along with redesigning the look of the site, we’ve also finally enabled a lot of functionality that was missing. Some of the biggest changes include…</p> <ul> <li>The Gallery link no longer leads to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/use-bombs/sets/">the Use-Bombs Flickr profile</a>. Instead we use the <a href="http://www.randombyte.net/blog/projects/falbum/">FAlbum plug-in by Elijah Cornell</a> to integrate the gallery directly into the site.</li> <li>The Video button is now more than a link to Google Video. The launch of our video section makes finding our film bits and pieces much easier.</li> <li>We’ve launched a music section. With the help of the <a href="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Media_Player">Flash Media Player</a>, a person can play music directly from our site or download a copy. Although it only has material from Josh right now, I expect this section to grow quite a bit in the near future.</li> <li>Link bubbles! I can’t get enough of the little speech bubbles that appear when you hover over the “Recommended” links. They illustrate <a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/">XFN</a> relationships, show a thumbnail of the linked site, and give a description.</li> <li>Although the site will still stretch to fill the screen of longer windows, it will now only do so up to a maximum width.</li> <li>We’ve carried a set of text based ads on this site for a good while. (They’re a little more prominent since the redesign.) We’ve also recommended Firefox or Opera as long as I can remember. As a note of disclosure, I finally figured it was time we sign up for a Google AdSense “Get Firefox” link. Don’t worry, you’ll only see it if you’re using Internet Explorer.</li> </ul> <p>Some have asked me about the lower right hand portion of the site, which we had set aside for del.icio.us links in the past. I still plan to gather those links together and post them every few days or every week. However, instead of keeping them in their own list I will be posting them as a standard post.</p> <p>Enjoy the update and let me know about any issues you have (with operating system and browser versions please)!</p> <p><b>Note:</b> I know the video page looks goofy on Internet Explorer 6. Live with it or, like I said, go <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">get a browser with <em>far</em> fewer bugs</a>! I’ll get to it when and if I have the energy left in me to try and debug another page for that <a href="http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html">horrid software</a>. Users of Internet Explorer 6 and below: You’re lucky I’m sending a style to you at all!</p> <p><rant>I want to make it perfectly clear that Internet Explorer is generally a bad browser; even version 7. This statement is not just personal opinion, but <a href="http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/">based on technical facts</a>. 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Migrating, at least for the time being, is most likely your own good!</rant></p> <p class="postlink"><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/02/use-bombs/why-red/#comments" title="Comment on Why Red?">1 Comment »</a> | <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/archives/2007/02/use-bombs/why-red/">Read Full Article: "Why Red?"</a> </p> </div> </div>  <div id="siteinfo-legal"> <p><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/page/3/" ></a><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/page/5/" >« Older Posts</a> <a href="#top">Back to Top</a> <a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/page/3/" >Newer Posts »</a><a href="http://www.use-bombs.com/page/5/" ></a></p> <p>© Copyright 2005-2007 Arion Londraville, Arison Londraville, David Bova, Josh Allen, Brett Ramus.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-251906-1"; urchinTracker();</script> </body> </html>