Virginia ranks up in the top 7 states for economic activity, according to the “Corporation for Enterprise Development” – I have no idea about who they are or why we should listen to them, besides that they like Virginia. Which is reason enough for anything, right? Here is the article. Gooooo Virginia!!
In an attempt to talk less about gay people and their various plights, here’s this thing. Slow news day maybe? I’m gonna tag some people at the bottom of this post, don’t feel required to respond…although you might have BAD LUCK FOREVERZ if you don’t. Four jobs I’ve had Co-owner of a web/media firm Computer [...]
The other day I was discussing with our leader Maxpower that I wanted to do the link warp up again. So I am going to start doing that; and what better day than Christmas eve? If any of you are like me you might have some time to kill in the next couple of days. [...]
The latest in the ongoing wrangling over the National Slavery Museum here in Fredericksburg. Basically the story right now is that the Slavery Museum received $1 Million from the City of Fredericksburg to do “studies” on stuff like the economic impact of the proposed museum, the traffic impact, demographic studies, all of those sorts of [...]
Starting today and going on through December 4th, VDOT is holding an online poll to choose the new Virginia Welcome signs. You can go vote here. How exciting! Some of them look pretty nice. You’ve got to look at them for the next 14 years, so try to pick something good.
My mind is blown. George Takei is gay. Also, and I sort of already knew this, he was in a Japanese internment camp in the US during WW2. That’s when we rounded up all the Japanese-Americans we could find and rolled them into concentration camps after Pearl Harbour. You know, just in case. Sulu is [...]
His name is He-man and he baked these delicious apple pies!
Enjoyable article in this month’s Front Porch Fredericksburg, the free monthly newspaper for the Fredericksburg area. I know everyone out there already reads this cover to cover, so stop me if you’ve heard this one, but for those of you who couldn’t find one this month (they tend to be rather elusive), here is the [...]
As many of you know, a few of us at haduken have been working on a side project dealing with crime in Richmond. As of today, the site is officially open to the public: RichmondCrime.org. At RichmondCrime.org you can see recent crime plotted on a google map, in a nice human-readable format. You can also [...]
hansmast has done some legwork and compiled a big list of contradictory things that ol’ Tim Kaine has said in the past. You may remember hansmast from that time I posted a funny thing he said on the board. And to my chagrin he showed up on the board and replied to it. Eek. Anyway, [...]
While scrolling around the planet today (Google has recently included satellite images of distant lands into Google Maps) I came across several places I would never want to live. So there be the contest (no prizes). Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego would you not like to live? Here is a good example. Or [...]
Stuck at Prom is an anual scholarship contest that the Duck® brand duct tape company sponsors. The rules? Make a sweet prom outfit using some duct tape. Everyone is elligible! “…as long as both of you are over 14 years of age, and are attending a high school prom wearing duct tape, you are eligible [...]
Ralph Nader has an article up about some kids in Ashland who proposed a redesign of the one dollar bill in 1998. They wanted to remove the weird/creepy masonic symbols from the back and put an abbreviated version of the Constitution on there. The bill was introduced into congress quickly, but has since bogged down. [...]
Some crazy stuff going on in the world of gadgets Hopefully at least some of this will be new to you.
The less than 8-bit edition. A short one today, just two links. But they are sure to waste all of your time.