Awesome Packers Clip

Funny Mac Commercial

Favre's 250th Start

Slideshow of photos from Favre's 250th start.

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It Isn't Always About Football . . .

Why Brett Favre is the classiest guy in the NFL. Click here.

Check Out Mason Brothers' Red Owl

Check out Masons Brothers' Red Owl at http://www.masonsredowl.com

Favre 2007 Sportman of the Year

NEW YORK — Brett Favre's standout season for the resurgent Green Bay Packers has earned him the title of 2007 Sports Illustrated sportsman of the year, making him the fourth quarterback to win the award in its 53-year history.

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Study: Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet

Government-commissioned study says old, inefficient 'beer fridges' one in three Canadian households has contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity.

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Bumper Stickers

“Health Care Is A Right” - Says who? This one perfectly captures the entitlement mentality of liberals. I am owed whatever I want and someone else is going to pay for it.

“Defend America, Defeat Bush” - On the list of Threats to America, I would rank “Terrorists” in first place and “President Bush” in 436,957,647th place just below “Crabgrass.”

“Pro-Child, Pro-Choice” - I’m for the kids, but I’m also for aborting them willy-nilly too. This bumper sticker has the intellectual consistency of “Pro-Ants, Pro-Raid."

For more gems check out this link.

The Evolution of Apple Products

*This photo was taken from http://www.jowstr.com/2007/10/14/apple-evolution-poster/

Pownce Profile

Check out my Pownce profile @ http://pownce.com/setrusko/. I put some interesting things up there. That way I don't clutter this blog. If you want to create a Pownce account let me know and I'll send you an invite.

Car vs. deer crashes: We're No. 3 in nation

Car vs. deer crashes: We're No. 3 in nation
The Associated Press

Wisconsin is third in the nation when it comes to crashes between deer and vehicles, State Farm Insurance said today.

The company based its rankings on claims data from the last half of last year and first half of this year along with motor vehicle registration counts from the Federal Highway Administration.

West Virginia is the place where drivers are most likely to hit deer, with an estimated 1 in 57 chance of hitting one in the next 12 months, the company said. Michigan is next at 1 in 86.

Drivers in Wisconsin have a 1 in 99 chance of hitting a deer in the next year.

The best bet for avoiding deer? Hawaii. Drivers there have only a 1 in 16,624 chance of hitting a deer, State Farm said.

The number of deer-vehicle collisions increased 6.3 percent nationwide in the past year, State Farm said. The average property damage cost of a deer crash was up 3 percent to almost $2,900.

Clean Up

I cleaned up house a bit on this blog. It was starting to get full of junk everywhere. Let me know if there is something that you would like to see added, removed, or brought back.

Microsoft Says College Students Can 'Steal' Office

Want Office Ultimate 2007 for $59.95? Check this out. It really is a steal.

Direct Link: http://www.theultimatesteal.com/

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Las Vegas Water Show Videos

Windows Vista

So, I finally installed Windows Vista on my regular computer. I wasn't quite sure that it was the right thing to do because I really didn't have any real issues with Windows XP Pro, nor did I really want to spend the money on the Windows Vista Business upgrade. I recall that Dave's department gave him Vista Business for free through the Microsoft Developer's Network Academic Alliance but in the past that wasn't the case with my department. So, last week I was thinking about Vista and I decided to check again to see if my department had it available yet. Surprisingly it did have it available and a bunch of other apps for free (I ended up getting Vista Business, XP Pro, Visio Pro 2003/2007). I broke down and decided to take the plunge. So far I've been pleasantly surprised. It works pretty well and looks great. It did take some time to get used to all the menu changes, but it really paid off in the end. Vista comes with built-in imaging software allowing you to take a snapshot of your PC at any given time. Basically, if your computer takes a dump you can easily restore everything is 30 minutes with the pre-created image. It also has Remote Desktop (a must for me) and Volume Shadow Copy (VSS). VSS allows you to restore lost files or previous versions of files. I decided to upgrade my RAM and that should be arriving next week so I should have some greater performance.

How To Buy A New Car Without Getting Screwed!

Las Vegas Pictures

Here are some pictures from our vacation in Las Vegas.

Trailer For Movie About Ryan Jerabek

Support Net Neutrality

Everyone needs to take a stance on Net Neutrality. Educate yourself by watching this video.

Apple: A Romance (Leaving Apple)

"Buzz Andersen has written an emotional and truthful announcement of his departure from Apple." - http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/326/saying-goodbye-to-apple



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This Is What A Partial Birth Abortion Looks Like

These color illustrations of a partial-birth abortion were prepared on the basis of an instructional paper by an Ohio abortionist, explaining step by step how he performs the procedure. These drawings accurately depict a partial-birth abortion being performed on a baby at 24 weeks gestational age.



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25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'

This is a tale of two cities. Kennesaw, GA, requires every head of household to own a firearm and watches its crime rate plunge. Morton Grove, IL, bans all firearms (except for police officers) and watches its crime rate skyrocket.



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3 Confessions From A Former Used Car Salesman

"Patrick is a former used car salesman who grew a conscience. He has three tips to share with us: Buy in December, bring your own financing, and watch out for the squeeze play..."



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No More Partial Birth Abortions!

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.

The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The opponents of the act "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.

The decision pitted the court's conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.

It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how — not whether — to perform an abortion.

Abortion rights groups have said the procedure sometimes is the safest for a woman. They also said that such a ruling could threaten most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, although government lawyers and others who favor the ban said there are alternate, more widely used procedures that remain legal.

The outcome is likely to spur efforts at the state level to place more restrictions on abortions.

More than 1 million abortions are performed in the United States each year, according to recent statistics. Nearly 90 percent of those occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and are not affected by Wednesday's ruling.

Six federal courts have said the law that was in focus Wednesday is an impermissible restriction on a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The law bans a method of ending a pregnancy, rather than limiting when an abortion can be performed.

"Today's decision is alarming," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. She said the ruling "refuses to take ... seriously" previous Supreme Court decisions on abortion.

Ginsburg said the latest decision "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists."

She was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens.

The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.

Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method — dismembering the fetus in the uterus — is available and, indeed, much more common.

In 2000, the court with key differences in its membership struck down a state ban on partial-birth abortions. Writing for a 5-4 majority at that time, Justice Breyer said the law imposed an undue burden on a woman's right to make an abortion decision.

The Republican-controlled Congress responded in 2003 by passing a federal law that asserted the procedure is gruesome, inhumane and never medically necessary to preserve a woman's health. That statement was designed to overcome the health exception to restrictions that the court has demanded in abortion cases.

But federal judges in California, Nebraska and New York said the law was unconstitutional, and three appellate courts agreed. The Supreme Court accepted appeals from California and Nebraska, setting up Wednesday's ruling.

Kennedy's dissent in 2000 was so strong that few court watchers expected him to take a different view of the current case.

A New Yardstick

Military people are repeatedly taught and seem to simply understand that their job is to break their opponent's will to fight. If this thought is so obvious to our military leadership and extends to the lowest level Marines and Soldiers "stuck in Iraq"....why is this concept so foreign to the leadership of the Democrat Party?



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Conspiracy Theorists (9/11-Kennedy-Moon Landing) As Deranged Loosers

What kind of moral universe do you have to inhabit to be able to believe that your own people – airline personnel, demolition experts, police and security forces, faked witnesses and all the rest – are capable of such a thing? How much hate for your own society do you have to carry in order to live in such a desolate and ridiculous mental hell?

Excellent read!

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Google's CEO Eric Schmidt Talks, Microsoft, Apple, and New Ventures

On March 23 I spent an hour interviewing Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We talked about everything from Google's competition with Microsoft and its partnership with Apple to all those data centers it is building.



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Hacker. Dropout. CEO. Mark Zuckerberg and the rise of FaceBook

"So is Zuckerberg being greedy--holding out for a bigger money buyout? If so, will that come back to haunt him? If not, what exactly is his game plan? Zuckerberg's answer is that he's playing a different kind of game. "I'm here to build something for the long term," he says. "Anything else is a distraction."



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Gaim is now Pidgin!

Due to several legal issues with AOL and their AOL instant messenger (AIM), Gaim is now known as Pidgin. libgaim will be libpurple, and gaim-text will be Finch.



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WisconsinTax Burden 11.8 Percent Above National Average

MADISON – In 2007, Wisconsin residents will pay state and local taxes that are higher than those in 43 other states and 11.8 percent above the national average, according to a new report released Wednesday by the non-partisan Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C.



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Google Launches Free 411 Service

Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market.



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Welcome Home

Liberal Hate Speech

I only hope that someday I can be as "compassionate" as they are about Tony Snow's cancer. Click here to read more.

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New iTunes Features: My Alerts and Complete My Album

Apple introduced two new features in iTunes today. My Alerts is custom page on iTunes which lists "recent releases from artists whose work you've purchased on iTunes." and "Complete My Album" allows customers to purchase the remainder of an album for a discounted price.



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Mount A File System On Your Mac Over SSH

Earlier this year, a few Google engineers released a new software package that enables Mac OS X to mount remote file systems using a variety of methods, including SSH. This software, called MacFUSE, lets you drag and drop files to an SSH-connected folder right in Finder, as if it were a regular network drive.



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Trusted Computing

Smurf Yeah!

Nasty

'Disturbing' is right: Sex with a dead deer?
The Associated Press

SUPERIOR — A 20-year-old Superior man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer.

The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.

“The state believes that particular place is the best to provide treatment for the individual,” Assistant Douglas County District Attorney Jim Boughner said.

Hathaway’s probation will be served at the same time as a nine-month jail sentence he received in February for violating his extended supervision.

He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision on that charge as well as six years of probation for taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.

Hathaway pleaded no contest earlier this month to misdemeanor mistreatment of an animal for the incident involving the deer. He was sentenced Tuesday in Douglas County Circuit Court.

“The type of behavior is disturbing,” Judge Michael Lucci said. “It’s disturbing to the public. It’s disturbing to the court.”

I Love This Commercial

Courtesy of Apple.com

Funny Stuff!

A Funny Quote

"C'mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean," Coulter told the New York Times.

No Wonder Ford/Dodge/Chevy Are Getting It Handed To Them

IM From Anywhere

IM from anywhere with Meebo. Check it out. It's pretty cool.

New Apartment

Well, I picked out my place for next year. It is pretty nice. Here are some pictures.

It's About Time . . .

Well, it's about time. I'm finally going to be getting a new car; new to me at least. Jeff is upgrading to a 2007 Acura TSX and he is giving me his 2002 Chevy Malibu. I'm pretty stoked.

New Bike!

Harley-Davidson released a new bike today. The XL 1200N Sportster 1200 Nightster. It is SHARP!

My Point Exactly!

I was trying to explain this to Angela and Chris today. This comic does a much better job than I did. Not to mention that OSX is $69.00 for students, $129.00 for regular consumers, and $199.00 for a 5 license Family Pack. Much cheaper than Windows, but I'll probably still buy it anyway.

Cool Little App

Check out this cool little backup application. CrashPlan.

My Dorm Room

Wads Dorm Room

Click the picture to view the album.

Nice Pic! From the Rock for Life Blog

A Funny!

Hard Drive Wiper

It is always a good idea to wipe your computer's hard drive prior to selling it or disposing of it. Here is a great, free, open source tool to help you get the job done: Darik's Boot and Nuke.

DIY DVR

Over break I managed to build and configure my own DVR (Digital Video Recorder). I took a spare PC that I had laying around and installed a WinTV-PVR-150 TV tuner card into it. From there I just needed the software. After a little research and some testing I decided to go with SageTV. It was extremely easy to configure and it is even easier to use. It allows me to use all of the typical DVR functions such as pausing, recording, and rewinding live TV, configuring Favorites, and pulling down program information. Plus, I can watch content from Google Video, get weather information from The Weather Channel, and more importantly I can stream all of my shows across my intranet and across the Internet. Last, by not least, it offers plenty of room for future expansion. It is pretty impressive and definitely worth the cash.