Month: August 2004

Pink Floyd Causes Accidents

Long ago, I had a friend named Terry, who was in the service when Vietnam came about, and smokes pot all day for years. He would tell me stories of his exploits in his past, and one story was that he has been in 3 car accidents, and each time the accidents happened he was…


FoxyTunes Extension For Firefox

The best browser in the world just got better, with a new extension available for it called FoxyTunes. It supports a large list of media players, letting you control volume, song selection, changing of tracks, and more via the status bar of Firefox. Very nifty, and a welcome feature for me since I have iTunes…


Bears Prefer Rainier Not Labatt Blue

A bear drank 36 cans of Rainier beer, and avoided the Busch beers, then passed out on the lawn. Glad to see male bears exhibit the same behavior as male humans when it comes to drinking large quantities of beer. MSNBC has the story on this. “Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture…


The Battle of Digital Music

RealPlayer wants to play hardball with iTunes, by marking down prices of individual songs to $.49 and full albums to $4.99. This is timed alongside the release of a new RealPlayer version that supports Harmony, Real’s way of letting you use iTunes downloaded tunes in their RealPlayer software. The digital music age is teething, it…