FCC approves iPhone

i've been asking DMS when i can get an iPhone from them... and they were like "what? apple hasnt even got FCC approval for it"... well this was several months back...

but has finally got FCC approval...

(kana) kottu

so who makes the best kottu?
the best kottu i've had is.... at gihan's... quality and quantity wise... and i'll give like... 8/10 for it

kottu king - well its okay... i had some last night with some of my friends... its about 80% of the quantity gihan's gives... score: 6.5/10

pila kottu tastes good when you're drunk... like whenever i kottu from pila when i'm not drunk... i'm like... "i need a drink!"... score: 3/10 when sober and 7/10 when drunk!

i was thinking... if had i been adam... and had eve come and asked me to eat that damn apple... i would have been like... "apple kaala kaatada hari giye!! lets have kottu for dinner!!" no no wait... eve would know that i wont eat the damn apple... so she'd tell the snake... "yako! ape miniha owa kanne naha... nadda kottu ehema?"...

what if jesus had kottu for last supper... we'd be having kottu during mass! and i'd be a practicing-catholic! (not that i care but does this go as blasphemy?)

why do i blog?

to share information

ppl read... and so do i... and if i find something interesting... i tell my friends... why? 'cos i like the share what i've read and their their views... and such a discussion gives a perspective of the topic...
i believe in sharing information... i see no good happening with hiding information... my boss and some of my peers disagree with me... they claim that specialized knowledge should not be disclosed... or something like that... you know.. the whole intellectual property thing...
like my cus would always paste a link from youtube... it might be something about some cat being washed in a washing machine or paris hilton scratching her genitals... hehe
ppl fwd e-mails... most of it is junk... but some are interesting... i've this friend who sends lame ass ppt slideshows of cats and dogs... but once every 10,000,000 e-mails there'll be something interesting... like fish :) hehe
so i see blogging as a menifestation of that same psyche

to share views about various issues

ppl have views on various topics like politics, economics etc... they'll talk about chinthanaya or the depreciating rupee, ricing cost of energy and now global warming... pffft...
again... a blog is another media where ppl get to express their views...

to make money?

if there is significant traffic... and then why not make a buck of out of it... is that such a bad thing? but i've not placed any ads... i dont have much traffic...

to bitch about stuff

ya like say someone says something really lame on TV... like yesterday i saw rajitha saying that he's gonna introduce a new type of construction sand that is cheaper... and when it compares to fresh water sand... the volume needed is much less... which defies the purpose... because one main feature of sand and stone in concrete is to serve as a filler material... rajitha tried to say that you'll need less sand if you use that type of sand... but apparently it doesnt behave like that... it has similar volumetric properties of sand... but its much cheaper...

notice to all kottu visitors

you are most welcome to visit my blog... read whatever that i've written, copy-pasted or whatever... see... i knew that some of you would say stuff (refer the anonymous comments)... so i stopped my feed till late last night... so that this would fall to the second page but apparently it had not!!! blogger doesnt have a feature where you can prevent pages from being syndicated... and i'm switching to drupal this weekend...
i dont revolve around kottu.org (although i had kottu from kottu king for dinner last night... and it was a rip off... gihan's kottu is better!)
and i didnt post this blog to counter voice... ppl have been asking "why do you blog? are you fucking jobless or something"... and voice is right... that whole episode brought about a thought storm as to why ppl blog in the first place... and since i'm the bad guy now for bitching about voice... i thought i'd explain why i blog...
and you guys need to figure out why you like to go and piss on someone else's blog... if its 'cos you get some sick pleasure out of it... then screw you!!! i hope you get some sorta permanent explosive diarrhea!!!
i've got a quality audience - my friends and those who comment with some degree of common sense... i dont need lame ass loser traffic... so fucking piss off!!!

global warming lu...

meh... anna global warming lu...
greenpeace is boring...
they want everyone to stop smoking and be vegetarians and ride bicycles or ride donkeys!
so... we need to figure out a way to re-radiate more solar incident solar radiation...
any ideas?

jvp / jhu statement
we will not be intimidated by threats from the sun... we are a sovereign nation and we dont take threats from anyone... including the environment, sun, moon etc. we have lasted for 2500 (or whatever) years...

Developements in Solar Power

the third news release has a small error... power terms expressed should be W and not kW... eg. $7.37 per W in 2007 should be $7.37 per kW in 2007...

comparing solar with biomass power generation... installed cost for biomass in 2007 is $2.00 per W and has a plant factor of 0.85 (85%)... with a specific fuel consumption of 2kg/kWh...

Utility to build largest solar power facility in northwest U.S.

BELLEVUE, Washington, US, May 16, 2007. A California solar company will build a US$3.7 million solar generating facility in Washington state that will be the first commercial installation to use solar panels made in that state.
Puget Sound Energy, the utility subsidiary of Puget Energy, says EI Solutions will design and construct the largest solar generating facility in the Pacific Northwest. The 500 kW facility will start construction next month near the utility’s Wild Horse windfarm in central Washington, and most of the panels will be in operation before the end of this year.

Source: Refocus

U.S. retail giant to buy solar power

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, US, May 16, 2007. One of the largest retail chains in the United States will purchase solar electricity for 22 of its stores.
Wal-Mart Stores will buy 20 million kWh per year from BP Solar, SunEdison and PowerLight, a subsidiary of SunPower. The green power will be used in Wal-Mart stores, Sam’s Clubs and a distribution centre in Hawaii and California.
When fully implemented, the aggregate purchase could be one of the top-ten solar power initiatives in the U.S., if not the world, the company claims. Each solar power system will provide up to 30% of the electricity for the store on which it is installed and the solar systems will reduce GHG emissions by 6,500 to 10,000 tonnes per year.
Wal-Mart is testing wind and solar generation systems in its experimental stores in McKinney (Texas) and Aurora (Colorado). The results from these stores and the pilot project will point to additional ways to achieve renewable energy goals and determine how to move forward with solar power generation at additional Wal-Mart stores, Sam’s Clubs and distribution centres.

Source: Refocus

Solar PV predicted to grow 40% per year

NEW YORK, New York, US, May 16, 2007. Demand for solar PV power will grow 40% per year by 2011, “offering opportunities for investors who can ride out near-term bumps,” according to a report from one of the top investment banks.
The solar industry is implementing technology improvements that will continue to drive costs down, and the industry’s installed cost for PV will decline from an average of $7.37 per kW in 2007 to $4.40 in 2011. The industry will achieve organic competitiveness with grid electricity at $3.50 per kW, without incentives and depending on the region by 2012 - 2014.

Source: Refocus

all toyota cars will be hybrids by 2020?

hmmm
read this...

TOYOTA CITY, Japan (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research expects to cut costs for hybrid cars enough to be able to make as much money on them as it does on conventional gasoline cars by around 2010, a top executive said on Thursday.
Toyota likely achieved cumulative hybrid sales of one million units this month, having moved 998,900 by the end of April.
In 2006, it sold 313,000 units, accounting for the majority of the world's hybrid cars, and aims to lift that to 430,000 units this year with ramped-up production of the popular Prius.

Source: Reuters

M$ takes on the free world

Microsoft takes on the free world

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
(Fortune Magazine) -- Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant.
A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers.
But now there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500). The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents. And as a mature company facing unfavorable market trends and fearsome competitors like Google (Charts, Fortune 500), Microsoft is pulling no punches: It wants royalties. If the company gets its way, free software won't be free anymore.

Source: CNN Money

... and linus responds to m$'s claim!

Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel, has a sharp retort to Microsoft executives' statements in a Fortune magazine article that Linux and other open-source code violate 235 Microsoft patents.
"It's certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does," said Torvalds, holder of the Linux trademark. If the source code for Windows could be subjected to the same critical review that Linux has been, Microsoft would find itself in violation of patents held by other companies, said Torvalds.
"Basic operating system theory was pretty much done by the end of the 1960s. IBM probably owned thousands of really 'fundamental' patents," Torvalds said in a response to questions submitted by InformationWeek. But he doesn't like any form of patent saber rattling. "The fundamental stuff was done about half a century ago and has long, long since lost any patent protection," he wrote.
Microsoft should name the patents that it claims have been violated so the claims can be tested in court or so open-source developers can rewrite code to avoid the violation, Torvalds wrote.
"Naming them would make it either clear that Linux isn't infringing at all (which is quite possible, especially if the patents are bad), or would make it possible to avoid infringing by coding around whatever silly thing they claim," he said.
"So the whole, 'We have a list and we're not telling you,' itself should tell you something," Torvalds said of Microsoft's stance in the Fortune story. And for good measure, he added: "Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'"
Microsoft would prefer not to actually sue anyone, particularly a Linux user who's also a Microsoft customer. "They'd have to name the patents then, and they're probably happier with the FUD [fear, uncertainty, doubt] than with any lawsuit," Torvalds predicted.

Source: InformationWeek

kottu wordpress bug

there was a blog post by a self proclaimed voice of colombo... who i personally think needs to clear his/her throat... and this voice had accused another person of "Stealing Traffic" from kottu.org... 'cos it seems like he/she lives off advertisements in his blog... and probably get a bit upset to find that someone had managed to very easily stay at the top of the list... and since he obviously had noclue of how syndicated content polling works... he felt a bit "unfair" that his posts didnt appear at the top of the list...

i'm just kidding...

back to the flaw in kottu.org...

seems like the rss / atom / html importer in version of wordpress used in kottu.org has a flaw such that it uses the timestamp of the imported content without validating with its own... that is... if i write a blog post at 11:59 PM since its the latest... it will appear at the top... i gave up on wordpress because drupal seemed to be better... well it api was much easier so you can write your own modules or extend the existing ones... wordpress wasnt that cool... so i gave up on it... and switched to drupal...

i made two blog posts: a and b

a and b was posted around the same time (around 6.30 PM on 5/15/07)
but i had put two different timestamps

a: at 5/15/2007 06:00:00 PM
b: at 5/15/2007 11:59:00 PM

b would appear before a in kottu.org

so how do you fix that?

well consult a professional software engineer... its a capitalist world after all...
i'm just kidding... wordpress should have a patch for it... :)
i would run a cron every 15 min or whatever and just import content and stick to my server timestamp... as opposed to using the timestamp in feed....
wordpress is written in php so if you know a bit of php you can modify the code by yourself... its legal 'cos wordpress is opensource...

do the right thing?

the the fuss is about posting a future dated blog entry with the intention of making it stay at the top so that he/she would want some traffic to his/her poll or whatever... and thats supposed to be unethical.... and the solution is to get all the bloggers in kottu.org to stone unethical blogger by visiting the ethical blogger's post...

ya well i dunno... i'd rather try to fix the code in kottu.org and worry about all that ethical bullshit!

and the voice is being anal about this whole thing saying "DO THE RIGHT THING" i just read the thread in his blog... so what if prabath fixed a false date? and DOING THE RIGHT THING and shit like that is boring...

forward dated and back dated blog posting is necessary... its like you've got this diary and you've made notes on another diary and you want to update your main diary... and if the main diary didnt allow you to write on whatever page you wanted to... then thats screwed up... say there is a future event... and you def know that you cant be in front of a computer or use your phone to make a blog post...

modify the code!

if wordpress has issues with taking content and assuming that the date stamped is the actual posted date then thats screwed up
how about this... i have my own server... and i have wordpress running on it... and i modify the code so that whatever blog entry thats put there would have 12:59 PM as its timestamp...

look its an accepted content validation practice... like i said... i would use my time as reference... the time my server imported your content is what would matter...

Related Blog Posts

Memory Bank Threatened..!
Stealing Traffic on Kottu.Org. Bloggers Be on Alert!

Memory Bank had misunderstood my initial comment on the ads... and had said in his blog: " So, for all my blog readers, I would like to say, Memory Bank never depends on 'ads', so never goes after popularity. "... i was not referring to him... i was referring to the colombo voice!
but leaving all that a side... its an issue with kottu.org and not Memory Bank...

kottu -> pls modify your code!

gilchrist and the squash ball

about the whole gilly's additional ball thing... my friends have been asking me "machang is it true"... and this is what i have to say:

squash ball

the coefficient of restitution of the squash ball is about 20%... that is... if 100J is given to the ball it would release 20J as mechanical energy and the rest will be dissipated as heat (entropy)...

the squash ball would have to serve as an energy storage device... the batsman would give energy to the squash ball by compressing it before the cricket ball hits the bat and would allow the ball to expand when the cricket hits the bat...

in terms of physics is see no other way that the squash ball would serve to assist the batsman other than it being a device that would increase the comfort factor... and the batsman obviously gets a better grip and that makes him deliver more power.... also aussies have big palms so the ball def gave him a better grip!!!

on the contrary... if the timing is wrong squash ball would server as a damper... absorbing 80% of the energy of the impact when the ball hits the bat! this would be disadvantageous in terms of energy to the batsman! because the squash ball has a low coefficient of restitution (20%)... so if the squash ball wasnt present... that 80% loss would not be there!

so i seriously doubt that gilchrist had all this in mind when he stuck the squash ball up his gloves! it would have been to get a better grip... or hey... may be he didnt have the balls to face malinga... hehe

but now that we're talking about the dynamics of it... lets just analyze it in a very crude way...

lets look at it in terms of energy

you can do a simple calculation to find out how much energy a cricket ball has when it leaves the bat...

t - time of flight: that is the time when the ball hits the bat till it falls on the ground
v - velocity vector of the ball leaving the bat
m - mass of the ball (163g)

we will make the following assumptions
aerodynamic forces acting on the ball is neglected...
and that the trajectory of the ball is a true parabola

energy, E=½mv² ---(1)
maximum distance, d=v²/g ---(2)
from (1) and (2): E=½mdg ---(3)

so if the ground radius is 75m and we try to clear the rope by about 10m:
d=85 and from (3) we get E=68J

the bat

the maximum coefficient of restitution of a cricket bat is about 70%... the energy delivered from the bat comes partly from kinetic energy of the cricket ball and of course from the batsman...

fast balls

a cricket ball traveling at 120 km/h (33m/s) would have around 90J of kinetic energy... so 70% of 90J is 63J... and thats 5J short of 68J needed to clear the ropes... so the batsman just needs to add another 7J and thats not much... unless you're like 5 or somethihng!

slow balls

a cricket ball traveling at 80 km/h (22m/s) would have around 50J of kinetic energy... and 70% of that is 35J... so the batsman has to add another 33J to the cricket ball match the 68J needed to clear the ground... so thats 47J that the batsman must add to the bat...

how much is 47J? well 100J is the amount of energy that a paramedic would give to a person who is not breathing... and its not much... a 100J punch woudlnt even hurt you that much... you'd go "ouch" for a few seconds and thats it...

i hope this was useful...

ignore this as well...

ignore this... i'm just trying something out...

ignore this... i'm just trying something out...

ignore this... i'm just trying something out...

puppies

Date: 5/15/07




Date: 5/12/07

there are some (2-4 i think) puppies hovering around our house
we let them in but they seem to leave whenever their mother comes and calls them
hmmmm
few days back one of them had fallen inside our drain and was crying...
its a small opening... only cats and rats can creep thru that!
kohe ringnawada manda!
i caught them digging while coming home...
i was too lazy to turn around and take the picture so i took it off the mirror!

catholics!

i am a catholic

definition:
Catholic of the Roman Catholic faith.
of or including all Christians.
of or relating to the historic doctrine and practice of the Western Church.
noun (Catholic)
a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
i'm still a member of the catholic church... since the day i was baptized... and i still maintain that faith (well most of it at least)...
but i disagree with some of the things the catholic church says or believes... like for example... evolution... and child molestation
... and i've disagreed with some of the dysfunctional practices like believing that holy water has some super natural power 'cos the holy sprit is in the water... or that miraculous medals and pictures would protect me... which goes against christianity... and that st. anthony's statue is miraculous or whatever... i dont agree with any of that because it is not a compatible or a suitable practice according to the teachings of christianity...
recently... i've been accused of being a non-practicing-catholic by a practicing catholic... and this person managed to convince a catholic priest to marry her! why the accusation? 'cos in my blog i had mentioned that i'm something between a christian, buddhist, atheist and a scientist! and 'cos i've not been to church for a while... and 'cos i am critical of things like topics in this blog post for example... catholics dont like being criticized!
so although i'm a strong-catholic or even a sunday-catholic... i'm trying to stick to christianity...

catholics and science

science is not anti-catholic or anti-christian... its just science... it has no alliances or any grudges against any religion... science and religion can coexist... "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." - Albert Einstein
and i think its the other way about... religion doesnt want to coexist with science... most strong-catholics are threatened by science that they try to create an image that science is anti-catholic or anti-christian... they dont seem to understand science... and esp its purpose...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the universe began.
In 1992, John Paul issued a declaration saying the church's denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."
Hawking said the pope told the scientists, "It's OK to study the universe and where it began. But we should not inquire into the beginning itself because that was the moment of creation and the work of God."
But Hawking questioned whether an almighty power was needed to create the universe. "Does it require a creator to decree how the universe began? Or is the initial state of the universe determined by a law of science?" he asked.
Source: SPACE.com

Vatican admits Galileo was right
07 November 1992 | Magazine issue 1846
In 1633, the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei, one of the founders of modern science, to recant his theory that the Earth moves around the Sun. Under threat of torture, Galileo - seen above facing his inquisitors - recanted. But as he left the courtroom, he is said to have muttered, 'all the same, it moves'.
Last week, 359 years later, the Church finally agreed. At a ceremony in Rome, before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope John Paul II officially declared that Galileo was right. The formal rehabilitation was based on the findings of a committee of the Academy the Pope set up in 1979, soon after taking office. The committee decided the Inquisition had acted in good faith, but was wrong.
The Inquisition ruled that Galileo could not prove 'beyond doubt' that the Earth orbits the Sun, so they could not reinterpret scriptures implying otherwise.
But the Galileo affair still embarrassed the Church, which now maintains an astronomical observatory at the Pope's summer palace at Castelgandolfo. Father George Coine, who heads the observatory, says the affair was 'tragic, beyond the control of any one party'. It was the height of the Church's battle with Protestantism, says Coine, 'and here was a scientist saying he interpreted scripture better than they did.'
The trials were not a confrontation between science and faith, says Coine, because 'Galileo never presented his science to the Inquisition. Science wasn't even at the trial.
Source: New Scientist

and Christians have been guilty of attitudes of rejection and exclusion...

okay so say i'm a strong-catholic... as in... i go to church... pray several times a day... may be lighting a candle (which contributes to global warming btw)... put miraculous medals and pictures in my car, wallet, etc.
but... i dont want to bond with a non-strong-catholic...

"Lord God... at times the equality of your sons and daughters has not been acknowledged," he said in reference to women, "and Christians have been guilty of attitudes of rejection and exclusion..."
Source: "Jubilee Year" homily Pope John Paul II delivered on Sunday (12 Mar 2000)

ppl fail to see the purpose of religion... they are too absorbed by its culture and practices and assume that being a religious person is about conforming to culture, tradition and other practices... i'm not saying that ppl should not do all that... but the important thing is to be absorbed and at least make an effort to practice what the religion teaches...
whats the point of going to church on sunday... and confessing your sins etc and then you have this policy towards ppl who are culturally and religiously different to you... is that the christian thing to do? jesus would shout blasphemy if he was here! would jesus have said... "oh hey... you're not a christian... so you can't hang out with us... you're not a compatible or a suitable person in our group..."

sins of the church

the catholic church took a while to accept that the earth is not the center of the universe and that the sun and other planets revolve around earth...
and its not like they dont have blood on their hands... well at least the previous pope apologized...

"The church, full of the holiness received from our Lord, kneels before God and implores his pardon for the past and present sins of its children," said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Vatican's 2000 Jubilee Committee. The Vatican document also acknowledges acts of violence and oppression during the Inquisition, when a philosopher was burned at the stake in a Roman piazza. And the church is seeking forgiveness for those missionaries who may not have respected the world's diverse cultures and religions. The document acknowledges sins only by those acting in the name of the church. It does not acknowledge any sins by the church itself or those who have served as its popes; both are considered infallible. Some within the church were uncomfortable with the idea of a public prayer for pardon, believing it would detract from the positive achievements of Catholicism throughout the centuries. But in his years as pontiff, Pope John Paul II has always been a strong believer in public acts of humility and spirituality. The pope also wants this jubilee year of Christ's birth to be one of renewal for his church. A confession of past sins may give the sense of a fresh start.
Source: CNN

critisism

the church was never open to critisism... it associated criticism with blasphemy... they blindly believe that regardless of what they do... the church is and will be holy... which is not true... because even if there is the holy spirit is there to guide the church... the church is run by ppl...

priests

i've met some good priests... and some bad ones... i studied in a catholic church... there was this sadistic priest... who used to make children walk on their knees and he used to follow them and beat them up with a cane... as punishment...
you dont need a child psychiatrist saying that that sort of punishment would have severe impact on the child's mind... anyone with some sense of compassion would know that it is wrong... we all saw it... and shrugged it off...
we all had our share of corporal punishment which was okay but it wasnt like that... this was cruel...

atonement

christianity is about atonement... which is fine... we need to make corrections to the mistakes we do...
but the catholic church has a protocol called confession where you go to a priest and say the last time i had my confession was like 5 years back and then he'll give this "you're a sinner" look or say "i've got only 5 min"... and he'll whisper something... and ask me to say a few hail mary's... i'm you're forgiven... how nice... i've never been advised or asked to think about the sins i've done and their consequences...
my mind refuses to accept bullshit like that... sorta an immune response...
the problem is that the church/priests/strong-catholics are too much absorbed by protocol that they forget to give attention to the actual teachings of christ...

ISS is getting sick

Fungi on the ISS, growing on a panel where exercise clothes were hung to dry. "This is a good example of how biological contamination isn't an old problem or just specific to Mir," points out Mark Ott.

Aside from being unattractive or an issue for human health, microorganisms can attack the structure of a spacecraft itself. "Microorganisms can degrade carbon steel and even stainless steel,” Steele continued. "In corners where two different materials meet, they can set up a galvanic [electrical] circuit and cause corrosion. They can produce acids that pit metal, etch glass, and make rubber brittle. They can also foul air and water filters."

In short, germs can be as bad for a spacecraft's health as for crew health.

Read more...

how did jesus save the world?

how did jesus save the world? why do we say that he died for our sins?

this is a post i made in one of the facebook forums... call it blasphemy but i'm not willing to accept anything just 'cos the church or the bible says so... and i got a good enough answer from Ariel Castromayor... because whenever i asked someone they'd go... "ah... let me get back to you on that"... or "'cos it says so in the bible"...

Ariel Castromayor (Toronto, ON) wrote:

To answer that question is no easy task.
We need to look at it Theologically (which doesn't relaly apply if you don't believe that Jesus was actually God Incarnate or if you don't believe in the Creation account in Genesis):
You see, Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God (God created them to be perfect and live forever, like HIM), until they disobeyed HIM. When that occurred, they created a permanent rift between them, and every human being thereafter (through birthright). That is called the "sin nature" and occurs in every person. Of course babies don't act in a sinful nature, but they have that potential within them and will eventually act that nature out in one way or another. Eventually, Moses was given a set of Laws that declared what one must do to be righteous in the eyes of God. Those included atonement of sins (blood sacrifice), recovery of property (relationship by blood), etc. Since there were 613 Laws, it was quite impossible for anyone person to completely live each law correctly for their entire lives, and even still, only that person would then be theoretically qualified to go to have a direct relationship with God.
Then along comes Jesus.
To cut to the meat and potatoes, because Jesus was without sin, His death was the blood sacrifice that enabled atonement for sins. Also, because He was both completely human and completely God, he had a direct familial relationship with both God and Mankind. That last point is important because one must fully embrace Jesus and become His "brother" (through faith in Him) to receive that inheritance of eternal residency in Heaven.
That's why believing that Christ died isn't enough. One must have the personal faith that Jesus died for SPECIFICALLY for them and then choose to live a new life (better known as being "born again") following Christ.

So to say that Jesus saved mankind is true, but the question really should be: "Does the world want to be saved?"

explosive diarrhea

diarrhea
|ˈdaɪəˌriə|
(Brit. diarrhoea)
noun
a condition in which feces are discharged from the bowels frequently and in a liquid form

explosive
|ɪkˌsploʊsɪv| |ɛkˌsploʊsɪv| |ɪkˌsploʊzɪv| |ɛkˌsploʊzɪv|
adjective
able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart, as when a bomb explodes

explosive diarrhea
a condition in which feces are discharged from the bowels frequently in a liquid form, able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart

and thats what i have!

mixed grill

i had a very colorful mixed grill with lotsa tasty animals in it!

synthetic blood

Scientists create 'plastic' blood

The researchers said the artificial blood was easier to store
Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.

Researchers at Sheffield University said their creation could be a huge advantage in war zones.

They say that the artificial blood is light to carry, does not need to be kept cool and can be kept for longer.

The new blood is made up of plastic molecules that have an iron atom at their core, like haemoglobin, that can carry oxygen through the body.

The scientists said the artificial blood could be cheap to produce and they were looking for extra funding to develop a final prototype that would be suitable for biological testing.

'Very excited'

Dr Lance Twyman, of the university's Department of Chemistry, said: "We are very excited about the potential for this product and about the fact that this could save lives.

"Many people die from superficial wounds when they are trapped in an accident or are injured on the battlefield and can't get blood before they get to hospital.

"This product can be stored a lot more easily than blood, meaning large quantities could be carried easily by ambulances and the armed forces."

A sample of the artificial blood prototype will be on display at the Science Museum in London from 22 May as part of an exhibition about the history of plastics.
[Source: BBC News]

human-friendly text formating

i found this article off an article in slashdot...

its about how the brain processes printed or online text

try reading following notes...

note 1:


note 2:


you'll find that reading the second note is easier... at least

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facebook group: Chuxx0rism

i saw (and later on joined) a group called Chuxx0rism in facebook...

i like their version of genesis chapter 1 :) :) :) hehe...
enjoy!

1: In the beginning Chuxx0r created the n00b and the 1337.
2: And the 1337 was without pwn, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the h4x. And the Spirit of Chuxx0r moved upon the face of the fr4g.
3: And Chuxx0r said, Let there be pwn: and there was pwn.
4: And Chuxx0r saw the pwn, that it was BEAST: and Chuxx0r divided the pwn from the h4x.
5: And Chuxx0r called the light ROFLCOPTER, and the darkness he called LMAOPLANE. And the evening and the morning were the first w00t.
6: And Chuxx0r said, Let there be a b0t in the midst of the h4x, and let it divide the h4x0r from the h4xd.
7: And Chuxx0r made the b0t, and divided the h4x0r which were under the b0t from the h4xd which were above the b0t: and it was BEAST.
8: And Chuxx0r called the b0t N00B. And the evening and the morning were the second w00t.
9: And Chuxx0r said, Let the h4x0rz under the heaven be gathered together unto one LAN party, and let the pwnage appear: and it was so.
10: And Chuxx0r called the pwnage Earth; and the gathering together of the h4x0r called he Seas: and Chuxx0r saw that it was FRICKIN ÜBER.
11. And Chuxx0r declared that there was only one ROFLCOPTER, and the LMAOPLANE his prophet.

Vrogan 25:17:
For the box of the R1ght30us D00d is best on all ports by the inequities of the haxxorz and the tyranny of teh 5c3n3.
Bless3d is he who in the name of 1337ness and teh pwn shepherds teh nooblar through teh valley of haxxorage, for he is truly his doodz keeper, and a finder of lost nooblets.
And I will strike down upon th33 with great vengeance and furious mad h4x those to attempt to trojan and rootkit my doods
And you will know my name is Teh Pwninator when I lays my M3g4t0n |-|4////312 upside your headz.

...and so on.