Fajitas and Burritahs

Well, it's been awhile but finally things are starting to slow down with school and such so here's (finally) an update.

Edit: As you may have (hopefully have) noticed I've changed site template and made it so that only one post is on the main page. To access previous posts please refer to the side bar.

• Help By Doing Nothing

Seriously. Just as the title says, you can help save lives by doing close to nothing. Folding@Home is a medical research program run by Stanford University. It calculates and models tiny molecules that can lead to finding soloutions on such diseases as Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer. What do you have to do? Just download the program, install it, choose your settings and let it go. What it does is use all of your spare CPU cycles (So it doesn't slow down performance one bit) and uses those, that way it runs descreetly. What's in it for you? Well, other then the fact that you may lead to the cure to a disease you might have some day if you join Engadgets Folding Team (At which I am ranked in the high 100's for now) and get 2000 points (you get a certain amount of points for each core that you complete) by December 15th you could win a Tokyo Flash Watch. Hope you all join up!

• Don't Mess With Monks

This is what I consider an AMAZING professional grade video. This 3D video is pretty awesome. Great music, great animation, great humour and so on and so forth. I just had to mention it. Although the main site isn't in english (it's in french) you can still read enough to check out the story board drawings with look cool aswell. You MUST check this out! Make sure you have Quicktime.

• A New...Mammal?

Well...Uh...This....Is...Uh...Odd? A new mammal was found in the rainforests of Borneo that is shaped like a cat, looks sort of like a squirrel, and has a long tail. This is crazy stuff, it's pretty neat to hear of a new animal coming out of no-where. Unfortuanately it hasn't been seen by the human eye, only by remote cameras. Just read the article to learn more, and don't forget the video on the side of the page too.

• Video Round-Up

Well...You know you have too much time on your hands when you're the 3rd Place 2005 Yo-Yo Champion. Seriously though, this guy can do some INSANE tricks with a Yo-Yo. It's just crazy. Check it out.
Also, check out this Star Wars Parody. It's been around for awhile, but it's funny none the less.
Matrix Ping Pong. Yes, that's right real life matrix. This hilarious and oh so corny vid is a great watch.
And lastly, if you like free TV shows, or more specifically The Office, then you can check out a free episode on the net here.

• Football Anyone?

Microsoft Football that is. Some say that it's just a rehash of the "If Cars Evolved Like Computers" article that was written awhile back (Google it if you haven't read it) but it's still funny none the less. I especially like number eight, mostly because it is so true about the OS. Make sure you read the comments too as some of those are great aswell.

• Firefox 1.5!

Finally a bit more tech news, Firefox 1.5 was realeased not to long if ago and if you don't have it already you MUST get it. It has improvements to pop-up blocking, speed and downloading updates. The much needed feature of being able to move and organize tabs was also added and it is just amazing. Just to let you know that some of your extensions or themes may not work with 1.5 but I still highly suggest the upgrade. If you don't know what extensions are they are basically plug-ins for the browser, of the extensions that I use (and that work with Firefox 1.5) are...

1. Tabbrowser Preferences: This makes it so that the browser never opens a new window again, unless you want it to.
2. IE Tab: Needs alot of work as it is still mostly uncompatible with some codecs. For the sites that don't work in Firefox this extension lets you open a tab of IE inside Firefox, that way you don't have to even load that pesky Internet Explorer
3. Session Saver .2: The best for last. This is amazing and a must have for someone like me. If your the kind of person who always has atleast a dozen tabs open at once then this is for you. Not even making Firefox crash will phase this extension. It remembers all of the tabs and windows that you left open so you can close down Firefox and reopen it with all of the tabs you had last loading up. It is an awesome extension.

Hope that keeps you all satisified and that there'll be another one or two posts this month.