Security a Little Jumpy these Days?

Apparently one of the 7 diverted flights recently was accounted for by a person losing his iPod... details on this rather hilarious (and apparently true) WoW forum post that I came across via google...

The New Word?

check out writely.com, a word processing program beta release that will eventually be merged into existing google accounts, looks cool so far, does all the traditional word stuff, saves as .doc or .pdf, and most importantly without all the auto-formatting headaches of Word. I think I konw what I'm using for papers this year!

Talladega Nights....

WARNING: spoiler, and possible bias ahead (being a nascar fan)

ok this should be an interesting post. Finally got to see the movie last night, contributing to it's very impressive opening weekend. After seeing it, I must say this surprises me for several reasons. First of all from the start, I didn't think it would have a big following outside of the Nascar crowd, though the box office numbers apparently prove me wrong. Secondly, it will be interesting to see how well it maintains this attention and interest, considering it didn't strike me as the movie that most people will want to see more than once (myself included more than likely). I would definitely say Anchorman was better, as in my opinion Talladega Nights, while it had its moments, just couldn't pull everything together to really develop the plot and make it interesting. I mean kid grows up without dad, takes to racing to prove himself, gets "injured" then returns with motivation to beat his enemy on the track (the French driver), while realizing he's doing it for himself not his dad. Not exactly very creative or original. In addition, the ending came off as rather contrived (I mean who didn't see that footrace coming?). That and the whole thing with the gay French driver got old and annoying pretty quick, I mean there were times where I was thinking they should have called it "Brokeback Racing". There were some funny lines ("don't snort these lucky charms") , and Ferrell was his usual wacky self. However I think as a Nascar Movie, Days of Thunder was better, and as a comedy, I'd go with Anchorman.

As a side note, I wonder how much Applebees paid for that. First time I've actually seen a commercial during a movie... granted it was part of the "satire" of Nascar's commercial obsession, however they could have done it with a fake company like the products Ricky Bobby was pitching in the beginning.

PSU prof. to use Facebook for course assignments

well this is certainly interesting. An IST professor at Penn State is planning to use facebook for course assignments and announcements. I wonder what the average college student will think of having their prof. on facebook? Depends on who the professor is, I suppose...

Microsoft's Farewell to Gates

this rather hilarious clip recently played on the Late Show with David Letterman

Go Google!

Well looks like Google made the list of top 10 most popular sites for college students according to this article, found via Digg. No major surprises in the list, at least in my opinion, mostly what I expected, well ok the music one surprised me, guess I thought it would be itunes or Napster...

Corn Stover, a new energy source for Ipod's and cell phones?

Apparently a possibility based on this article stating that Penn State Researchers that who

"are developing new ways to use corn stover, which are the dried stalks and leaves left over after a harvest, as a form of electricity generation."

Hmmm. maybe that will help my problem of always forgetting to recharge stuff...