A Plan for Spam

A great writeup by Paul Graham about what spam is and how to stop it.

SpamBayes: Bayesian anti-spam classifier written in Python.

A great Outlook plug-in that learns what your good mail looks like and moves all the spam "out of the way". So far, it has worked great for me!

The Alliance to Save Energy says Americans driving SUVs paid $180 more for gas in 2004 than they did in 2003, passenger car drivers paid $144 more, and hybrid electric car drivers paid only $50 to $67 more.

New American Dream points out that bicyclists' gas costs were the exact same in 2004 as in 2003!

http://www.newdream.org/bike/

Saturn Today - Your Daily Source of Saturn News Brought to you by SpaceRef
It's amazing what we are capable of, technologically. We have robots on Mars and a surveyor satellite orbiting same, as well as a surveyor satellite orbiting Saturn. And Now, we have a probe on Titan taking color pictures and listening to sounds. That's right, sounds from another planet!

Now, if we could only put aluminum foil in the microwave...

J-Pass 2.0
Ever wonder where that pesky International Space Station is? Boy, I do! Here's a site that lets you predict the visible passes. Even though my kids can see the wings, they love knowing that there's a big box flying through space hundreds of miles above them.

Finch Facts
Doh! I seem to have fallen asleep for a few months. Can you ever forgive me?

Half.com
Amanda & I decided to get rid of a lot of our CDs and videos that we've been storing in a closet. At first we thought about just dumping them, but then we thought, "Wouldn't it be more fun (and lucrative) to sell them on the Internet?" So, we've become engines of the economy and set up shop at Half.com.

I just asked my four-year-old daughter, Emily, if her brother's milk is half empty or half full. She looked at the glass for a minute, then said, "It's half".

I guess that makes her a pragmatist.

Alex's Dance Fever
Boys love train hats, and boys love to dance!
Alex's Dance Fever - Catch it!

A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting ...
One of my favorite jokes

Welcome to The Shmoo Group - Security, Crypto, and Privacy
Here it is. If you want evidence for your paranoia, this is the place to be. These people live to hack into your system. Oh, they won't steal anything - they promise.

Tinfoil Hat Linux
A great application of AFDB. I like the motto - "Careful Just Got a Console".

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
What can you say? AFDB is a great project. Make it your home page.

Flying Buffalo Game Company's Home Page
Ahhh, now here's a blast from the past. I remember many a night playing Tunnels & Trolls with my friends. T&T was so much simpler than D&D, and they even had those wonderful "solo adventure" booklets you could enjoy when your friends weren't around. Boy, if I'd had more money when I was in Junior High, I'm sure FBInc would be a much bigger company now. :)

Catfish Namaji's Room
Angling is the way to solve the world's earthquake problem.

Two Actual “Scratch ’n’ Sniff” Ads:

• In 1977, the Rolls-Royce Motor Car Company introduced an ad campaign entitled “This, in Essence, Is Rolls-Royce.” The “essence”: a scent strip that was supposed to smell like leather upholstery.

• In 1989, BEI Defense Systems ran a “scratch-and-sniff” ad in the Armed Forces Journal for the Hydra 70 weapons system. The ad pictured two battling helicopters; when scratched, it gave off the smell of cordite, the odor left in the air after a rocket explosion.

Hollywood Is Calling

Boy, is this something! Don't you wish you were a Hollywood has-been so you could call strangers for some extra cash?

BRAVO > Celebrity Poker Showdown

Some serious fun! When Amanda saw this she thought, "This is something Steve will enjoy watching!" I thought it sounded stupid, but I was hooked in about three minutes.