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“This will be the only sign you’ll see today not made by a corporation.” The FreewayBlogger recommends a little dose of civil disobedience by posting subversive signs near freeways. This was also a common pastime for McMaster and Waterloo engineering students during welcome week; you’ll see banners shouting “Mac Eng #1” or enigmatically saying “Tool” (usually complete with a picture of a wrench) all along Hwy 401 on Labor Day weekend.

However, the webmaster of FreewayBlogger seems to be concentrating his energies on political anti-Bush sentiments, which is fine I guess, since it appears that the Bush administration is playing dirty too.

Media can be a powerful tool in swaying public perception of reality.

Really Slick Screensavers: Some very nice, free, open-source, cross-platform screensavers powered by OpenGL – and they’re less than 1MB.

They work in Windows, and there are ports available for Linux and OSX.

My favourite is Euphoria, on the left. It is 190KB. As you can see, 3D Pipes’s got nothing on it.

Cursed Asian Man, Simon has Ten Commandments for you.

Artist Derek Kim insists he is not Simon, but you can’t help but notice that all of Derek’s protaganists, from Simon to Onde Pik, are freelance cartoonists from California who have self-esteem issues. I should know, I’ve been through that self-hatred thing before. But it appears that, even when you’re dealt a bad hand, you have the make the most out it.

Once you’ve had your fill of self-loathing, have a dose of shaudenfreude by reading other people’s anonymous confessions.

In the D drive: Bloodrayne, Need for Speed Underground

Notable quotes:

Rayne runs faster and can jump higher than a repeat offender on “Cops”.

– Readme.txt for Bloodyrayne

As a kid, I delighted in drinking ketchup and ranch salad dressing, and who can resist a shot of Swiss Chalet sauce every now and then?

And now Jones Soda will be launching a limited run of turkey-and-gravy soda, just in time for American Thanksgiving. It has neither fat, sugar, calories nor carbs.

That would be possibly the funniest spam message title I’ve ever seen. Is “undecorously” even a word??

Top Three Questions Future Shop Asks Job Applicants:

1. Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?
   Yes, because I’m a pervert. Please hire me.
2. How much have you stolen from your previous employers?
   This one is followed by multiple choice selections of $0 up to $250. So I guess if you stole your boss’s new car, you’re off the hook.
3. Do you enjoy a good fight?
   Yeah, on Pay-Per-View!

Game of the Day: Gunny Bunny. Remember to press D to activate your left weapon. Fast and furious.

In the D drive currently: Need for Speed Underground demo, and Halo PC demo (finally). The screencap on the left was taken on my Radeon 9800, 800×600, 4xAA, 16xAF, high graphic detail. Unfortunately the “Motion Blur” graphic option makes the anti-aliased edges a bit jaggy, while simultaneously making it impossible to see where you’re going. Hopefully this game will do what NFS:HP2 failed to do (although there’s still no dashboard views or instant replay 🙁 )

Funny church signs…and if that isn’t enough, try his automagic Church Sign Generator. But look out when the Neowin regulars get a hold of this power…

I’m in a bit of a car mood today, so let me introduce you to something you can buy if you have a lot of money: a Pagani Zonda. It’s completely handmade from carbon fibre parts, and hits over 350kph courtesy of a 7.2L Mercedes V-12 tuned by AMG. As extra perks, it comes with matching luggage (specially designed to fit inside the small interior) and matching driving shoes (made by the Pope’s cobbler).

Oh, and it compares quite favourably to Lambourgini’s latest offering, the Murcielago.

Here’s some more car videos to entertain.

Kids today review games of yesterday, including such cutting edge rad stuff like Pong, Super Mario Bros., and even ET. What will our kids think of our UT2003s and Half-Lifes?

In the D drive currently: Homeworld2 and Max Payne 2.

On the bookshelf: Just finished the fantastic Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov. He has a way of making a novel suspenseful, even if you already know the outcome; in this case, that the Foundation will persevere through every Seldon Crisis. No, the fun is reading the logical arguments and discovering how it’s done, sans cheap potboiler gimmicks. In this way, Asimov’s books are timeless, even though they are anachronistic with their male-dominated societies, “atomic” power, and cigar smoking.

The Nizkor Project has a special feature on their site: the complete text of Labossiere’s Fallacy Tutorial, which outlines 42 forms of errors in logical judgement. A good read, if only to improve your critical thinking. What I found particularily interesting is how politicians and public relations folk use many of these fallacies to boister their agendas.

Unfortunately, the Nizkor Project has probably seen quite a few fallacies in its day. Its site has been up since the birth of the web. Nizkor’s handlers are grizzled veterans in Internet flamewars, as the Nizkor Project is dedicated to refute Holocaust deniers and their claims with logical arguments and insurmountable truths.