Posted Dec 29, 2009 at 5:11 pm
As of January 1st, the use of trans fats by restaurants will be banned in California. That’s right, restaurants are being forced to change their long established ingredients. Most have already made the move to alternative oils, so the only real difference is that it’s official now. Trans fats are a byproduct of hydrogenation, which [...]
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Posted Dec 28, 2009 at 2:43 pm
If you read my post titled Evil Whale Masterminds you know my opinion on “global warming.” Well here’s a video that I think sums up the whole thing pretty well. John Coleman is a meteorologist, founder of the Weather Channel, and a global warming skeptic. Here’s what he has to say:
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Posted Dec 24, 2009 at 10:41 am
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Posted Dec 22, 2009 at 7:06 pm
So I saw some news story about medical marijuana or something and it got me thinking. I was curious to see exactly what negative effects are caused by marijuana and compare that to other, legal drugs. What I found is that it really is relatively harmless, and about as potent as caffeine (except caffeine can [...]
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Posted Dec 19, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Editing videos is kind if a hobby of mine. Sometimes I put together DVDs for my family, but that doesn’t really allow for a lot of creativity. So another thing I do is make videos from game footage. I, along with several other people, formed a group of video makers for TheVille called Ville Productions. [...]
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Posted Dec 16, 2009 at 2:12 pm
All Half-Life and Source based games include a utility for recording games in a special format called a demo. The recorded footage is only readable by the game itself. Here’s a step by step tutorial to convert these recorded demos into video format. Recommended Method This is the method I always use, and is the [...]
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Posted Dec 11, 2009 at 4:32 pm
You know that expression you use when some kid puts something in his mouth, “You don’t know where that’s been?” Well it might have worked on kids because they’re stupid, but it really is a weak argument if you think about it. How many people can actually identify the origin of much of the food [...]
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Posted Dec 7, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I am posting this from a new freshly built computer system. I thought this would be a good time to list the components that went into it. Click on titles for more info. In short, it has an Intel Core i7 CPU with 12 GB of RAM and Radeon HD 5870 (interesting story about that) [...]
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Posted Dec 4, 2009 at 4:55 pm
So I was browsing YouTube when I came across this ad: Normally I just ignore this stuff, but I actually thought about what the headline is suggesting. Why would anyone want to stop climate change? I know this is supposed to be some kind of charity, but it sounds more like a plot from an [...]
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Posted Dec 2, 2009 at 11:08 am
I’ve been trying to get something new posted here for the last few days. It’s just that whenever I started to, someone would say “durrr, let’s play L4D2″ and I did. Sorry loyal reader(s) but playing that game is more fun than writing. So the reason I’m posting is to talk about my adventures ordering [...]
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