Paris Hilton’s sidekick, day II
A reader over at Gawker did a reverse look-up on the # of one Dr. Pat found in Paris’ now famous T-Mobile Sidekick.
I’m sure she just keeps the number handy for friends.
Dr. Stephen Patt
Address: Stephen Patt MD Family Practice
2001 Santa Monica Boulevard, Sui
City: Santa Monica, CA
Phone: (310) 582-1114
Stephen Patt,Suboxone and Subutex approved doctor in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Stephen Patt may be able to help patients struggling with drug addiction, specifically those withdrawing from herion or other opiates by prescribing suboxone or subutex. For more information, please call Dr. Stephen Patt at (310) 582-1114.
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Abe Vigoda status extension for FF
This isn’t that new and is definitely the least useful thing on my computer right now, but I can’t stop staring at it. Like I just might be the first to know.
mother of all ringtone tools
For the last year or so I had been using a Sony Ericsson t616 mobile from AT&T equipped with Bluetooth, but I never really made much use of the BT except for transferring ring tones and backing up my phone book from my laptop. After AT&T merged with Cingular a few months back, I took the opportunity to get a free handset by switching. I grabbed the SE z500a, which I’ve been more than satisfied with except for its lack of BT or IrDA for file transfers. Ring tones are really not that important to me so I didn’t mind too much, plus editing files just to send to a phone was more time consuming than it was worth.
Then yesterday I came across smashTheTONES from smashsworld.com this is one of the best free services I’ve come across in years. Take any mp3 on your HDD, upload it to their site and they convert it for you to the ring tone format of your choice. They’ll edit the bit rate, the start/stop point and the length of the track and then send you a text message to retrieve the file automagically. All for free. FREE.
At first I was a little skeptical, being a bit on the paranoid side when it comes to handing out info, but the site was recently reviewed by the Screen Savers with flying colors; so near as I can tell this is just a cool, free tool with no strings attached.
$5.99 for a ring tone? No thanks.
Gawker? Hello?
It seems that the majority of the Gawker Network is down, which in turn is causing me great stress and anxiety. What’s up with that?
apparently some things are easy to forget
I for one welcome our new random number generating overlords
I don’t even know where to start with this one.
DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream.
At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators.
But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the ‘eye’ of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events.
The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.
Don’t worry about terrorists, Halliburton can do the job
Earlier this week Halliburton notified officials that it had inadvertently misplaced some of its radioactive play stuff, for FOUR months. As it turns out the materials were supposed to go from NJ to Texas, but somehow ended up lost at a port here in Beantown. NICE!
Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan said Thursday that Halliburton’s four-month delay in reporting the loss didn’t comply with notification requirements and the incident is under investigation. The material was two sources of the element americium, which is used in oil well exploration.
According to the report, the americium was imported from Russia by Halliburton Energy Services. The shipment went through Amsterdam to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Oct. 9. It disappeared until Wednesday when it turned up in Boston.
Pseudoscience to be offered as a degree program at MIT
Ok so it’s not, but if there is any truth to this joint study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility it may as well be. In the report, over half of the countries Fish and Wildlife Service employees claimed to have been pressured into falsifying scientific data regarding endangered species to make life easier for corporate interests.
More than half of the biologists and other researchers who responded to the survey said they knew of cases in which commercial interests, including timber, grazing, development and energy companies, had applied political pressure to reverse scientific conclusions deemed harmful to their business.
Now before I get my feathers all ruffled here, I’d like everyone to take note of the groups charged with this study, Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility? Something tells me, and this is just a hunch, that the folks over at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility might have an agenda when it comes to, oh I don’t know, let’s say Environmental Responsibility? BUT, assuming that there is some truth to this report, we as a country can begin to consider ourselves scientifically screwed. There is nothing worse in the international scientific community than being viewed as having science for the sake of the state, pseudoscience. This is what happened to the Cold War Soviet scientific community and they as a group are still fighting to regain their credibility. We have already taken major hits in perception due to the Bush administrations policies on stem cell research and alternative fuel research. To bring something like this to lab is no good.
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Viva RFID
Steve Wynn has announced plans to use RFID tags in the gamming chips at his new Las Vegas Casino. Last time I was in Vegas I was a little surprised to find out the casinos haven’t been doing this all along. Privacy concerns with RFID tags used in more public places, consumer goods and government issued currency are obvious. But here we have an industry which produces its own wampum in the form of little clay chips that can’t be too hard to reproduce. The addition of RFID tags won’t effect game play, and considering the watchful eye of the LV gaming comish the change won’t give the house an upper hand at all. As someone who can sit at a 10 or 25 dollar blackjack table for a twelve hour shift and stagger bets very frequently into the 100’s not expecting to make any money, but not loose anything significant either, I want to see some comps. With the tags in place this should really balance things out for players sitting at low denomination tables but betting significant hands, and still allow the pit bosses and hosts to play nice to the people blowing wads. Vegas is a city of people looking to screw someone, weather it’s a hooker or Steve Wynn a little protection can’t hurt; especially in a case like this where we are dealing with such a closed monetary system.
Unless of course they can track the chips from the table, to me, to the hooker and back to the table; that would suck.
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MS karma v. 3.5.1
A Trojan has hit Microsoft’s AntiSpyware (Beta), which disables it, and steals banking details login Ids and passwords.
