from the desk of stinkpot

alternative energy articles keep making mainstream news outlets. i just came across this suprisingly lengthy piece on cnn money about the prospects of ethanol as a gasoline substitute. there’s a lot of cheerleading in the article, and unfortunately, not much serious discussion about real hurdles to overcome, such as overall efficiency (i.e. do you spend […]

i was really excited to read tom friedman’s editorial calling for a change in american energy policies the other day in the nytimes. [for those of you who haven't figured out a way yet to sneak onto times select, i've put a transcript of the article at stinkpot.afraid.org_colon_8080_slash_friedman_dot_html, at least until i get an angry […]

just a stunning internet video clip. in all of 30 seconds, this clip manages to be hilarious, puzzling, offensive, and finally, tastelessly shocking. man, i really need to grow up and stop posting this crap.

lately, i’ve come across a bunch of stories where victims of thefts or scams have been using the internet to get a little vengeance. here’s a novel way with preventing a stolen laptop from getting sold on ebay. this guy gives one of those nigerian scammers what he deserves (the e-mail transcript is a fun […]

i was chatting with a friend today about the things that make firefox really useful (for me at least). in fact, if not for the following two tools, i’d have long ago ditched firefox for something that uses much less memory + cpu cycles, like safari. 1) sage – an rss feed reader. it takes […]

the incompetance of the people running the show in iraq is stunning. i wonder if anyone in the bush administration will own up to this one. doubtful, sadly … i bet it’ll be either ignored or worse yet, the bushies will attack the auditors for being unpatriotic.

i’ve had a little time on my hands during IAP, so i decided to take apart my itrip and make it suck less. here’re the results.

for those of you who like photoshop and zombies, here’s a fun tutorial on how to go from this: to this in photoshop: [via digg]

this story out of italy is great: [Luigi] Cascioli says that for 2,000 years the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people by furthering the fable that Christ existed, and says the church has been gaining financially by “impersonating” as Christ someone by the name of John of Gamala, the son of Judas from Gamala. […]

holy crap, there really is hope for SNL. go see this new “snl digital short” a tribute to the young chuck norris. christina thinks chris parnell plays the 80′s hair band lead singer, which if indeed true, makes parnell ginormously talented. andy samberg again seems to be in on the action; if you’ve been living […]