CheyTac

After watching the Shooter movie, I had to go check out CheyTac's website. The M-200 is pretty sweet, but $14k for the civilian model? Probably for just the rifle? Ouch!

Bad Motivational Posters

Sma sent me this great link to a parody of a parody, the Demotivators series of posters. Remember, "None of us is as dumb as all of us."

Encrypted Mail on OS X

Found a couple links on how to get OS X (1, 2) working with Thawte's free encryption certificates.

Hitachi GST News

The Reuters article, in English (print version) and Japanese, reeks of authenticity. Maybe some good will come of it, who knows.

More on the Eee PC

Ars Technica has some more details about the Asus Eee PC (previous news). I'm tempted to buy the $299 model. $100 for another 2GB of flash is a bit steep, especially since there's an SD slot. The one downer is the battery life: 3 hrs is paltry. I'd expect more since there's no optical drive or HDD.

Pimp My Rice Paddy

Real or Photoshopped, I'm not quite sure. But they look convincing....

ふもふもさんメキシコ版

かわいいじゃんか。

Notary Publics

Since reading about the Thawte CA's Web of Trust, and becoming a notary in their network, I was curious how to become a real notary public. There's an organization called the National Notary Association that has a how-to. eHow also has instructions on how to become a notary public.

Ready?

Here's that disaster preparedness website I'd seen before. I could use the list of stuff to have. Sheesh, they left guns and gold off the list? That's a disservice!

Baby Names

Was looking for some information on issuing of SSNs for a friend and came across a list of top baby names on the SSA's website. Also has a breakdown by year.

Men Want Hot Women

Yeah.

Mental Floss

The past week, CNN's feature "Mental Floss" feature has had interesting articles.

A couple days ago was a list of five nasty parasites. That was pretty intriguing, if not more than a little gross.

Today was a bit on Latin phrases used in American English. Featured were:

Caveat Emptor
Persona Non Grata
Habeas Corpus
Cogito Ergo Sum
E Pluribus Unum
Quid Pro Quo
Ad Hominem
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Sui Generis

The last two I actually didn't know. Perhaps I should take up Latin.

Asus Eee PC & Cute Taiwanese Girl

Slashdot had a post on Palm's announcement of the withdrawal of their Foleo PC handheld from their product plan. Actually, I hadn't paid any attention to this, but the Asus Eee PC that was mentioned in the same post is sort of interesting.

Even more interesting still was that a girl in Taiwan had posted some pictures of a marketing prototype. Never mind the handheld, this girl's cute in some of the pictures! I like her smile, anyway.