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Archive for September, 2005

Islamic Schools

By Marc • Sep 26th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the Weirdo

OK, here’s a story about how the Islamic madrasas, or religious schools in Pakistan will now have to be registered with the government. It would have been so much easier if Pakistan had done it the way we do here. They’d just need to set up some certifying authority to make the schools [...]



A woman was arrested today

By Marc • Sep 26th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the Ranter

She was breaking the law. She was told three times by police to stop breaking the law. She was arrested. Now how hard is that to understand?
It’s amazing what some people will do for attention…..



Geeky Engagment

By Marc • Sep 21st, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

Jerry O’Connell (or Sliders fame) and Rebbecca Romijn (Mystique from X-Men) got engaged. I wish them all the happiness married life has given me. But that’s not why posted this. It’s to point it out to all the single geeks out there. Have hope! If the fat kid from Stand [...]



Iranian cleric says US does not deserve Karina aid

By Marc • Sep 17th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the Ranter

OK….So let me see if I get this straight.
“Those who spent millions of dollars to kill the people of Afghanistan and Iraq are now asking the people of the world to assist them in providing relief for their storm-hit people,” Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshippers at Friday prayers.
First off, I don’t recall us [...]



A few thoughts on Battlestar Galactica

By Marc • Sep 16th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

The last two episodes, while looking like they were going to be kind of dull, weren’t. Both of them were cool.
Chief’s a Cylon…
The new ship “Laura” is part of their “plan”…..



What if “Brushed Metal” could talk and had an agent…….

By Marc • Sep 14th, 2005 • Category: Mac OS X, the Geek

This is pretty funny. It’s conversation between “Brushed Metal” and his (I assume “Brushed Metal” is a he) agent right after the first public showing of iTunes 5. It’s pretty funny, but I must give a “NSFW” language warning. It contains a few profanities.



Michael Jackson at the water park

By Marc • Sep 14th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

Such wierdness… Michael Jackson showed up at a water park in Dubai in a skin tight body suit that covered almost his entire body.
The reclusive superstar, now based in the middle east, baffled onlookers at the Wild Wadi park, wearing a white lycra body suit that exposed just his nose and eyes.
Covered his nose???? [...]



Pledge of allegiance unconstitutional

By Marc • Sep 14th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the Church

You read it here first folks. Reading this story is all it took for me to have a matter fit only for confession. I used the horrid “f” word and called this poor judge all manner of names a good Christian should not call another human being. May God forgive me.



Luka for Bond?

By Marc • Sep 13th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

C’mon! This makes no sense! How can someone who can’t even speak the “Queen’s English” play Bond????



BugMeNot Firefox extension

By Marc • Sep 13th, 2005 • Category: Software, the Geek

There are few things I hate more than having to have a “free account” somewhere to read their articles. Isn’t is bad enough that I have close all the pop-up advertisements. I guess not. I guess now they want a way to put that stuff in email inbox. Well, here’s a [...]



Linksys Compact Router

By Marc • Sep 13th, 2005 • Category: Computers, the Geek

Now isn’t this cute? It’s a little router that fits in your pocket. It’s perfect for the business traveler who wants to place himself behind some virtual safety that’s not tied down to their computer. It will also allow for multiple computers to hook up to a single high speed Internet connection in [...]



Great Catholic Jokes

By Marc • Sep 9th, 2005 • Category: the Church, the Weirdo

I just saw where my favorite Prairie Priest posted these two great jokes here on his blog.
Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. “What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? ” the one asked. The second replied, “Well, they were both founded by Spaniards — St.Dominic for the Dominicans, and [...]



BIC sells hundred billionth pen

By Marc • Sep 8th, 2005 • Category: the Weirdo

Yes, thinking about a number that high makes my head hurt too. But it looks like BIC has done it. They have sold their 100,000,000,000th pen. Now if they could just come up with something that fits comfortably in the pocket of a pair of jeans….
Read about it here.



Scam artists take advantage of the disaster

By Marc • Sep 8th, 2005 • Category: the Ranter

Low life scum.



Rest in peace little buddy…..

By Marc • Sep 6th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture

It’s a sad day in TV land. Gilligan has left the building.
Actor Bod Denver has passed away. Read the FoxNews story here. This may just be childhood nostalgia, but I remember loving both “Gilligan’s Island” and “Far Out Space Nuts” when I was a child. I kind of miss the days [...]



CSS From the Ground Up Tutorial

By Marc • Sep 3rd, 2005 • Category: the Geek

This is a really cool tutorial on how to work with CSS (cascading style sheets). CSS is used to style web pages for a lot of the sites you see on the world wide web. It provides instructions to web pages so that they are presented in a similar manner across a web [...]



Hurricane Katrina

By Marc • Sep 3rd, 2005 • Category: In Other News....

We all need to keep the victims of hurricane Katrina in our prayers. If you can, please give to Catholic Charities who are trying to help with relief efforts.