$30 A Month For Food?

A blogger from Lansing Michigan decided to spend only $30 on food for the month of November, just to see what it was like being poor. It's an interesting read.
"For the month of November, I'm only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less."

He survived, and lost 18 lbs. Click here to read his blog.

original link found here.

State to allow patients to grow own pot

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

It’s a decision that has made a lot of state law enforcement officials upset.

The legislature passed the medical marijuana bill into law earlier this year after a decade of lawmakers rejecting the idea. The law allows people suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and epilepsy to use marijuana for pain relief.

Now, just days before the law takes affect, the New Mexico Department of Health announces it will allow patients to grow their own marijuana because the state still hasn’t figured out how it is supposed to grow and distribute pot.

“This is about providing access now, and we are going to work on the next step,” said Health Department spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer.

The move has stunned law enforcement agencies statewide who say it flies in the face of what was agreed upon in the legislative session.

“It caught me off guard,” said Captain Gary Johnson of the New Mexico State Police. “I mean, I thought this was going to be very strict in the way this was going to be handled.”

“I really can not believe the state has decided to do this,” said Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano. “Personally, I do support medical marijuana with strict regulation, but the biggest problem with this new change is that it pretty much takes a lot of the regulations away.”

The state has asked the Attorney General’s Office for guidelines on how to proceed since federal law still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug.

“It may stop local law enforcement from knocking on somebody’s door who’s growing marijuana,” said Captain Johnson. “But certainly, I don’t believe it will stop the DEA or federal agents from doing the same.”

If the feds do come knocking, neither the Health Department, police or sheriff’s office say they can do anything to stop them from making arrests for marijuana possession.

Under the new rule, patients will only be allowed to have four mature marijuana plants and three seedlings. Until the Health Department comes up with its distribution plan, patients will have to buy pot on their own wherever they can find it.

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Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse

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If you can judge a historical period by the importance of its revolutions, we’re in trouble. Used to be that “revolution” was a word reserved for massive, sweeping changes in economic life (the Agricultural Revolution), or in political and social organization (the American Revolution), or in scientific understanding (the Copernican Revolution). Then along came the marketing industry – the marketing revolution, you might say – to devalue the word by attaching it to any hunk of crap that they wanted to seem “edgy”. The 18th century had the French Revolution; we have the Dance Dance Revolution.

One prime example of revolution deflation is the Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse. It won’t change the way you conceive of the cosmos, or put the workers in control of the means of production. All it’ll do is make your mousing experience smoother and easier, with a frictionless alloy scroll wheel, a dedicated search button, a thumb wheel, a plug-and-play USB wireless transmitter, and all kinds of programmable and adjustable options. You won’t even need to keep feeding it double-As on accounta it runs off a rechargeable Li-Ion battery.

Is the Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse a pretty cool mouse? Yes. Revolutionary? No. But at least you won’t have to worry about it rising up and sending you to the guillotine.

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The Rasterbator!

It's not as dirty as it sounds, in fact it's not dirty at all.
The rasterbator is actually a free internet tool/downloadable program used for printing huge tiled images. You can make some really awesome stuff with it. Here are a few examples I found on the rasterbators website.















so check out their website at http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

The Only iPhone Garbage Worth Posting

Newsweek's Steven Levy, one of the fantastic four of tech journalism, was nearly deprived of his exclusive review iPhone earlier this morning (around 9:25 AM, EDT) live on Fox News in front of the waiting hordes at NYC's midtown Apple Store.

As he prepared to demo the wonder device to the announcer a foolish would-be mugger jumped Levy and the camera man, taking them to the ground. As the Fox crew cut away, it was clear that police, the Fox crew and bystanders were taking care of the assailant. The in-studio Fox team appeared to fear (or hope for) the worse - full scale fanboy riot; the announcer was shaken. But Steven Levy, ever the pro, bounced up and delivered his prepared demo with sangfroid. For those concerned, neither the journalist nor the iPhone appeared to be harmed in anyway.

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Print Your Business Card On A Peanut

Japan leads the world on bad-ass novelty business-cards, so it's no surprise that they've got access to CO2 lasers that print your contact details on peanut shells.
Taberu Me cards are created using Arigatou’s high-grade CO2 laser engraver nicknamed “Shiawase-kun,” which can etch up to 700 characters per second on hard organic materials like beans, nuts, rice and pasta and which has been optimized to print clean-looking logos, names and telephone numbers on the irregular surfaces of peanut shells.

here is their site

Michael Moore's new movie SiCKO leaked onto p2p networks

But it doesn't seem to have been leaked by any Joe Schmo, but may have been leaked by Moore himself or by a close associate.

The movie, "Sicko" contrasts the U.S. health care system with that of several other countries and includes a trip to Cuba which Moore is being investigated for. He has, according to agency reports, stored a copy of the original film in Canada as a result of the investigation. His concern is that an attempt may be made to confiscate the section of the film shot in Cuba.

Benoit's Wife Reported Dead Early on Wikipedia

In a strange twist to the already macabre story of wrestler Chris Benoit's death, it's being reported that the first post saying his wife Nancy was dead was made to Wikipedia 14 hours before the police discovered her body in their suburban Atlanta home. What's making the story even stranger is that the IP address has been traced to Stamford, CT, which is the corporate home of the WWE.

This is so strange.

What it means is, either Benoit had some sort of access to the WWE computers remotely, and updated his Wikipedia page before killing himself, or someone at WWE knew about the murder, and took the time to update the Wikipedia page before contacting the authorities. Either way, it's bad mojo. When we get to the bottom of this whole thing, how much would you like to be it's going to be sticky, nasty, and unsatisfying.

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Brand New GTA 4 Trailer

The first video is the brand new trailer and the second video is the original one that has been out for a couple of months now.

Explore the world of Grand Theft Auto IV!

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Pinnacle DVD Maker Deluxe

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What’s that acrid odor in the air? Could it be the smell of…excitement? Yes, it’s time again for another installment of “Ask an Incontinent Viking,” the gadget column hosted by Fjafalgnjir the Vexed, an 11th-century Danish warrior transported into a modern world he never made. Fjafalgnjir certainly never expected to be vaulted hundreds of years into the future, nor did he expect to lose control of his bowels in the process. But like any good Viking, he’s soldiered onward, and he’s ready to do battle with your electronics questions.

Q. I have hundreds of hours of home movies taken from the 1980’s through the later 1980’s, all on VHS tape. I’m concerned that this historically important document – including six minutes of the Statue of Liberty when it had all that scaffolding around it, and some revelatory parachute-pants footage – will be lost to history as the tapes decay. How can I preserve this essential piece of our cultural patrimony?

A. The heavy tread of time stamps many a VHS tape ‘neath its boot, leaving your home movies looking as though Gjálp and Greip, twin giantess daughters of fearsome Geirröðr, had frolicked ‘pon them. No more, vow I! Pinnacle DVD Maker Deluxe includes a plug-and-play video capture device, and by the chill winds of Nifleheim, ye shall – oooh, ooh, wait, wait, be right back.

OK, ‘twas a fray raging inside my gut. But fear not, peace reigns again. Like I was saying, the plug-and-play video capture device features both USB 2.0 and FireWire/DV ports, so you just connect the capture device to your PC, hook up your VHS player to the capture device, and record the video directly to DVD, without saving it on your hard drive. Thus shall your home movies live as long as if they’d eaten the apples of Iðunn!

Q. I was excited to get a computer with a DVD burner, but I’ve found the whole process horribly confusing, and I’m afraid I might hurt myself. There’s got to be a better way! How can a person of limited computer acumen like me create high-quality DVDs? Give me hope, Incontinent Viking!

A. Hold the battle, timorous one, for hope ye shall have! Neither the patricidal dwarf Fáfnir nor all the armies of King Haki can stay the hand of the Pinnacle DVD Maker Deluxe. Hailed for its user-friendly interface and robust functionality, the included software makes DVD creation as easy as, er, and, uh, wolves tear at my bowels! At such times I must needs flee, to seek relief!

Whew! OK, I’m back. With this software, just a few mouse clicks will enable you to create DVDs complete with menus and chapter marks, as swiftly as Ratatöskr, impish squirrel of Yggdrasil, sows discord through his deceits. ‘Tis a miracle indeed, a gift from Odin to all of Midgard! I really should get going soon, but maybe I have time for one more question…

Q. What’s the biggest difference between the 21st century and the 11th?

A. By the hoary hosts of Hogarth, my profane affliction doth render me most appreciative of the wonders of 21st century toiletry! If you’d seen some of the holes I’ve had to squat over…and I’m telling you, the subzero temperatures didn’t help. Speaking of which – uh, help me, Odin – I really need to -

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