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When I was in high school I used to have a recurring nightmare once every month or so. It was part of the most important spiritual developments in my life. I am running.

Seriously, a group of young gentlemen have developed a recipie for beer incorporating guarana which counters the drowsiness you feel when you drink beer. They have released the recipie under the Creative Commons license as an experiment to discover what happens when you use the open-source model on a real-world product like beer.

Every time that you support the RIAA or MPAA in their misguided DRM crusade, whether it is to restrict innovations in technology or to sue their fanbase, it is also true that:

I know many fine folks on the net have expressed their disappointment regarding the next version of Windows codenamed Longhorn. At first I was very excited. The proposed WinFS which would track files using a relational database was an ambitious and worthwhile project, as are the Avalon and Indigo projects.

I know I have posting a lot of links lately, and I do promise more actual content soon, but I can not resist directing your attention to this one. Apparently, a man has fallen afoul of a revenge plot aimed at discrediting him.

Well, it looks like the military will soon have the energy weapons us geeks have always envisioned, although we a far cry away from the future we hoped for. This article from Wired.

Gas to get to Best Buy and back: $0.75 Cost of a discount DVD: $9.99 Hearing “Greetings, Starfighter!” one more time: Priceless

I found this link on the blog of my friend British Chris. You do not even have to be a gamer to appreciate this. Leeroy has set a new standard in stupidity and it is pretty hilarious listening to his friends reaction to him.

I found this link on Robot Wisdom, about a different way of looking at evolution. (I even used a variation on Jorn Barger’s entry title for this entry.) Scientists are attempting to map evolution as a virtual tree.

To begin with, my friend in London is safe. Chris, who my friends and I always refer to as “British Chris” for some reason, was unharmed in the bombings that took place this morning.

Seriously, this is hilarious. Apparently, there was a group of D&D geeks who like play medieval battles every weekend. So a group of hipsters dressed up as zombies and stumbled out of the forest attacking the so-called knights.

Finally, people in the movie industry are starting to think about combatting piracy in an effective way. Morgan Freeman (yes, that Morgan Freeman) is teaming up with Intel to form a company that will make it easier to buy movies than to pirate them, even while they are still in the theatre.

I recently found this article through Robot Wisdom about a 15 year old girl who sleepwalked out onto 130 foot crane. What a way to wake up! Read about it here.

One of the fathers of blogging is actually homeless. You can read a good article about him here, and you can visit his site here.

I just stumbled across this entry on Boing Boing. Apparently, you can have the educational experience of being buried alive. Check it out.

This may not sound very hip in these days of iTunes, iPod and the Mac Mini, but I really dislike Apple. I have always thought that Apple products as a whole were ridiculously over-hyped, and that their performance was not nearly outstanding enough to merit the rabid fan base they had developed.

I survived my weekend at work and I am totally burned out. I plan on having a beer and crashing until tomorrow, but in the meantime you should read about the research that I am sure will someday evolve into our cybernetic overlords.

It’s true. I see an open source application and I get all excited. Hey, baby! You want to come play with me for a while??? Oh, it gets me hot!

You observant folk may have noticed that my blog now identifies me by my real name. Now, those who know me might be a little surprised by this because they are familiar with what a private person I am, but I say screw that.

My friend Christina was just accusing me of being deliberately mysterious. Admittedly, this is sometimes the case. The important thing is that Christina has officially appointed me Minister of Intrigue. How sweet is that?