Is there anything you can’t make awesome?

Check ‘er out.

I have yet to see a double blind test that shows the ultra-high-quality (and ultra-high-priced…) cables are way better then the el-cheapo ones you can pick up from Home Depot.

And, because I don’t feel like making another post just for this, a link to the most redneck statement ever put in print.

I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen it myself. This is a typical-quality youtube video:

This is an ultra-high quality Youtube video:

Notice the completely inaccurate timecode for the section (and it’s just a hair below the 10 minute YouTube limit). The sound and video quality are just awesome - pop it up to full screen and it just looks great.

It’s not easy on the bandwidth; but it really shows you what even a basic flash player like Youtube’s is capable of. I think Flash video is the future of web-distributed video and audio.

… make me less sad that I’m single.

“Rachel Marsden” supposedly was dating the founder of Wikipedia. When the founder (Jimmy Wales) was responding to alligations that he edited Marsden’s Wikipedia entry favorably because they were dating, he responded that they were not, in fact, dating, and that they had only met once.

Marsden is now selling Wales’ clothing on eBay, apparently as some sort of a revenge move.

She’s got a bit of a spotted history, though:

In 2004, she was given a conditional discharge for harassing a Vancouver radio host following their breakup.

In 1996, while a student at Simon Fraser University, Marsden accused her swim coach of sexual harassment. The coach was fired, then rehired when SFU admitted its investigation was flawed.

This coach was supposedly stalked as well; here’s an excerpt from an older article by Salon:

According to Donnelly, Marsden had been stalking him for years, making multiple hang-up calls and showing up at his home. Donnelly claimed that this behavior had begun as early as 1992 but had worsened over time. He alleged that by 1995, someone he believed to be Marsden had vandalized his car, strewn condoms in his driveway, posted graffiti advertising his number as a phone-sex line in campus bathrooms, subscribed to Playboy in his name, and left phone messages for him with a voice-altering machine. Donnelly later told the press: “She was everywhere. She would turn up at events where I was working. She was phoning me all the time … She admitted she bought a voice-altering machine. That was the one that scared me the most. It sounds like the devil.”

Yeah… situations like that scream “mentally stable” the same way that beating peaceful protesters with batons screams, “democracy”.

The Salon article actually has a whole bunch of examples of some crazy stuff she did.

So, not so bad to be single…

the brave?

Oh, uh, don’t watch this if you’re sensitive towards animals…

Youtube Removed the vid…

Marines… an army of one…

Apparently Blackwater has confirmed that this is NOT one of their guys. His friend was stupid enough to use a last name. His Bebo profile was accessible earlier this morning; now it’s set to private.

Way to go, US Military. Really winning the hearts and minds of the locals.

EDIT: Ugh; that’s the second time YouTube has pulled this video down. Here’s another source. What “terms of use” could this video be violating?

Looks like the Maple Syrup season is coming up fast!

That means Spring is just around the corner!

One thing I never realized was that Quebec supplies some 75% of the world’s maple syrup. I wonder why that is… I know Ontario’s climate is A-OK for maple syrup production; and I assume vast tracts of Russia would be perfect. I guess it’s a case of tradition, more then anything else. I can’t imagine maple syrup is all that big a thing in Russia…