tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69322382012-04-15T16:03:02.850-07:00A blog about things everyone has at least one of. <br> Ramblings on technology, liberty, evolution in action, and general neat stuff.Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1118181951476513392005-06-07T15:05:00.000-07:002005-06-07T15:05:51.483-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com3More evidence that we really don't understand the Japanese. Greenhead links to this WMV display showing a woman in a Japanese talent show losing her head. I have a guess about how she does it, but...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/off-with-her-head.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117755013375321142005-06-02T16:14:00.000-07:002005-06-02T16:35:08.133-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0The FBI has weighed in on the moves by the FCC and FAA to legalize cell phone use in airplanes. Seems they are unhappy that they won't be able to wiretap calls whenever they feel like it. Terrorists...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/bin-laden-please-phone-home.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117753995098263712005-06-02T15:56:00.000-07:002005-06-02T16:13:15.103-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Kite flying in Pakistan seems to be a dangerous pastime. During the recent annual kite-flying festival in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, nearly twenty people died. Two were killed when hit by...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/hazardous-activities.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117752969244339062005-06-02T15:17:00.000-07:002005-06-02T15:56:09.250-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0There has been lots of coverage in the media about the revelation that ex-FBI #2 man Mark Felt was the infamous "Deep Throat" source that Woodward and Bernstein used to blow open the Watergate...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/inside-deep-throat.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117750458842911522005-06-02T14:58:00.000-07:002005-06-02T15:15:35.823-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Oxytocin is a hormone that up until now has been chiefly of to obstetricians. They use it to accelerate labor when 1; The fetus is in distress, 2; The mother has been having contractions for too...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/whom-do-you-trust.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117749240439285272005-06-02T14:53:00.000-07:002005-06-02T14:54:00.446-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Saddam Hussein has been in jail for eighteen months now, and appears to be no closer to going to trial. The convenient fiction is that he is held by Iraq, even though his guards are from the American...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/put-up-or-shut-up.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117748092592109392005-06-02T14:34:00.000-07:002005-06-02T14:34:52.600-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Somehow, it's comforting to know that there are people out there who are significantly weirder than you are. Take this piece that Xeni Jardin posted to BoingBoing: "Last night at Dorkbot SF, Violet...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/never-date-anyone-weirder-than-you-are.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117747626207656142005-06-02T14:26:00.000-07:002005-06-02T14:27:06.213-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Somehow I didn't get this on my calendar earlier, but it seems that today is National Leave the Office Earlier Day. So go home! You were probably goofing off anyway.http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/06/go-home.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117586911529319082005-05-31T17:42:00.000-07:002005-05-31T17:48:31.553-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0It seems that bureaucrats an politicians are the same all over. Some politicians in Europe are trying to take France's rejection of the EU constitution as a "maybe" instead of as a "no." Spiked...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/what-part-of-no-are-you-having-trouble.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117567423361637572005-05-31T12:18:00.000-07:002005-05-31T12:34:20.753-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Synchronicity rears its ugly head! I had no hint of this when I put up the previous post, but CNN is reporting that NBC and WB will be airing the first primetime ads for condoms tonight to be seen on...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/always-use-protection-ii.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117495126424855262005-05-30T16:16:00.000-07:002005-05-30T16:20:30.016-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0From WebProNews: "And here's the Firefox poster that isn't going to run, at least for now (click on it for larger image):"Why isn't it running? Because it might cause offense to some, according to...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/always-use-protection.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117494950459846152005-05-30T16:15:00.000-07:002005-05-30T16:21:51.280-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0When the owner of a new car wash in Fredericksburg, VA found the till was coming up several hundred dollars a week short, he accused the manufacturer of the system of having duplicate keys, and of...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/it-takes-thief.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117493152610297352005-05-30T15:39:00.000-07:002005-05-30T15:51:10.176-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0May the Farm be with you! One of the best Star Wars spoofs I've seen features Cuke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Cannoli, Tofu-D2, C3-Peanuts, Ham Solo, and Chewbroccoli against the forces of the evil Darth...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/store-wars.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1117258050981775312005-05-27T22:24:00.000-07:002005-05-28T11:18:59.663-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com2I walked into the local QFC supermarket yesterday to buy a couple of things, and I forgot to bring the @#$%&amp;^!* shoppers card. This meant that I had to pay about a fifteen percent penalty. The...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/big-brother-is-shopping.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116970072672664022005-05-24T14:23:00.000-07:002005-05-24T14:27:52.683-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0There have been we sites that track the cheapest gas for some time. Now someone has coupled that information with the capabilities of Google Maps to produce an interactive display. Cool. I would have...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/cheap-gas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116969057708153282005-05-24T13:48:00.000-07:002005-05-24T14:20:52.560-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0The Force was not with Mark Webb, 20, and Shelley Mandiville, 17 when they fired up their lightsabers today. Either that, or the Evolution In Action police trumped Yoda. The pair was trying to...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/dont-try-this-at-home-kids.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116910262189791912005-05-23T21:44:00.000-07:002005-05-23T21:51:02.196-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Seattle is installing speakers and some video displays on phone booths, stores, and at the ferry terminal. The plan is for people who have visual or hearing impairments carry an RFID tag which will...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/talking-phone-booths.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116908359999739782005-05-23T21:07:00.000-07:002005-05-23T21:19:20.020-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Everything you thought you knew is wrong. This seems to be a common finding in medicine. Recent research is showing that Vitamin D is essential in preventing several kinds of cancer, including...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/spf-12.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116886078493310342005-05-23T15:06:00.000-07:002005-05-23T15:32:48.546-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Here's something scary to consider. Are these really two different women, of has Hilary Clinton secretly taken over Washington State? ChristineGregoire HilaryClinton ...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/whor-really-in-charge-here.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116644127412921382005-05-20T19:29:00.000-07:002005-05-20T20:18:50.046-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Speaking of the new Star Wars flick. First, in connection with the recent Photoshop article, worth1000.com is running one of its contests under the title "Cliche Hell- Star Wars". Entries cover the...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/revenge-of-sixth.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116641176134624022005-05-20T18:58:00.000-07:002005-05-20T19:06:16.140-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0For those in the Seattle area, Propel has opened the first biodiesel station in the area, near the University Village shopping center. No word if you get to choose if your exhaust will smell like...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/just-little-gas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116640645250730522005-05-20T18:31:00.000-07:002005-05-20T20:16:37.566-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Within hours of the premier, copies of Star Wars III were circulating in various formats on the net, and being sold on street corners. Techdirt is proposing that, contrary to the opinion of folks...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/burn-em-if-youve-got-em.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116639046511117742005-05-20T18:15:00.000-07:002005-05-20T18:30:46.516-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Or free radio in Boston. Techweb's Mobile Pipeline is reporting that grass roots wifi is doing so well, that the city doesn't have a need to try to implement a municipally run service such as those...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/radio-free-boston.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116637759784891932005-05-20T18:08:00.000-07:002005-05-20T18:09:19.790-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Two Chicago companies are teaming up to resolve one of life's great dilemmas. Vienna Beef has convinced to market hot dog buns in packages of eight. For probably one hundred years, hot dogs have...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/eight-is-enough.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932238.post-1116010349428426272005-05-13T11:45:00.000-07:002005-05-13T11:52:29.436-07:00Ben Klausnernoreply@blogger.com0Several news sources are making a big deal about the results you get when you type the words "brothel near" and the name of your city into Google Maps. All that really happens though is that the...http://o-n-a.blogspot.com/2005/05/need-to-find-brothel.html