Current News (click to select feed)
- Top US & International News
- NASA Image of the Day
- CNN Top Stories
On August 1, 2010, a worldwide ban on cluster bombs went into effect. [...]
Trump administration prosecutors admitted Friday that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was due to a "botched installation." [...]
Acting Prosecutor General Koo Ja-hyun resigned after South Korea passed legislation ending prosecutors' supplementary investigative authority. [...]
Italy on Friday closed its borders with Spain over the Ceuta migrant crisis, suspending the free movement agreement between the two countries. [...]
South Korea found elevated chromosome markers in 44% of 59 defectors tested last year but could not link the findings to North Korea's nuclear tests. [...]
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its [...]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. [...]
This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars' atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA's MAVEN mission. [...]
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in a remote area near the [...]
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival [...]
• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]
The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]
A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, [...]
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Playstation Firmware 1.80 — upscaling DVDs and PS2 and PS1 games to HD
Well, I gotta say, Sony may have screwed some things up in terms of launching the PS3, but since it’s been out, they’ve been doing a breakneck job of getting up to speed. Most of the third party games have … Continue reading
Vonnegut’s dead, uh, yeah.
Someone wrote that Kurt Vonnegut is dead and I should write something. Okay. Here: Kurt Vonnegut is dead. I never cared for Vonnegut. I found his writing to be turgid, and even Slaughterhouse-Five bored the crap out of me. So … Continue reading
One cold frickin’ Easter Morning
Yeah. Right. I get this great idea, at 3:15 AM last Saturday night, that I’ll drive down to the house in Eastham (Cape Cod), open it up for the summer, air it out a little, maybe walk along the beach, … Continue reading
Playstation firmware updated to 1.60
Just a quick note/reminder to PS3 owners — plug that ethernet cable in, because Sony has just released version 1.60 of the PS3 firmware. If you’re having troubles connecting to the network with your PS3, you can always get the … Continue reading
Perhaps all women aren’t insane…
Well, I do have to report good news. I got in touch with an old friend whom I parted with on less than great terms — an old female friend, not a girlfriend, but a good friend. And the young … Continue reading
Splitfish introduces a first-person shooter mouse system for the Playstation 3
Yep, it’s true. We may not have rumble back yet, but for all of you people out there who, like me, like first-person shooters better when you have the freedom and precision of a mouse over the (for FP shooters) … Continue reading
Error 80710102 and the new PS3 firmware — issues resolved?
I’m not sure if the PS3 firmware updates (currently at 1.54, again) are responsible for this, or if Comcast did something to their network, but I have found that it is now a lot easier to connect. You no longer … Continue reading
Sony Playstation 3 Firmware Updated to 1.54
Yep. That’s all. The PS3 firmware is now at 1.54. Remember to hook up your ethernet cable.
The Universe’s Greatest Mystery: What Women Want
The title of the post says it all. Being a fan of the didactics of “Misogyny 101”, I’d like to point out another instance of a woman not knowing what in hell what she wants. The case in point is … Continue reading
MLB 2k7 does have Dice K in it…
I stand corrected. I posted earlier that MLB 2k7 does not have Dice K in it. I was wrong. Because Dice K is not a member of the MLB Player’s Union, they can’t use his real name. So, following in … Continue reading
