Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

Well, that's one way to do it - desperate times and all that.

Tony Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World

Newsday.com: Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World

Good Critique of 2004 Democratic Strategy

Salon.com | How the Democrats can change

Is the Bush Administration Corrupt?

Salon.com News | The scandal sheet

The Conspiracy Community Gets its Own Lobbyists

The Disclosure Project - Home Page

Google's Darkside

News & Features | Google eyes

Wired's take on Blogs: They Have Legs

Wired News: Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs

iPod Angst Redux

Well, I was overly optimistic. Seems that all I really did was access the library on my iPod separately from the library on the laptop. Not what I hoped for. Now it seems I have to find the Ipod CD-Rom in order to read up on how to transfer songs from the iPod to the laptop. Hopefully, I won't have too much trouble finding it since it's not where I thought I left it.

Hmm.

iPod Angst Resolved

Ok, things seems to be working out now. I had originally let the iPod run all the way down in the hope that this somehow would help with the langauge selection problem. However, that proved unnecessary to the fix I needed.

In any event, I hooked the iPod up to the laptop earlier today to (Successfully) resolve the language problem. I then let it run down again, and hooked it up to a different USB port. When it connected again, the laptop iTunes library now contained all of the songs downloaded from the desktop to iPod.

Not sure how that happened, but it's very cool nonetheless.

iPod Angst

Still haven't gotten my iPod to work properly (read: the way I think it should work). When I first set it up it displayed in one of the asian languages. Because I'm an American, I don't read instructions, and it took me forever to be bothered enough to check the troubleshooting guide. So that only took three months.

The other hassle is that I bought a new laptop at the same time I purchased the iPod. However, most of my music collection is on my old desktop. I hope(d) that I could download all of my music files from the desktop to the iPod, and from there to my laptop (on to which I had already burned a host of newer CDs). So far, I haven't figured out how to do that - the iTunes software recognizes the iPod as being hooked to the desktop, but only offers to delete everything on it and replace the extensive library from my desktop with the semi-empty library on the laptop.

Dubious Achievement in the War on Drugs

This really is a clever way of discouraging drug use in bathrooms - making the drugs disappear. However, most people tempted to use drugs in a public rest room likely would not be so brazen as to snort off of a sink basin.

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