Senate expected to pass troop exit bill

Last night, the House voted 218-208 to pass the $124.2 billion supplemental spending measure containing the provision.President Bush is expected to receive the bill next week, and swiftly veto it. (People we're just screwed. We will never get out of Iraq.)



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Top 10 Most Un-Wanted Violations (in Texas)

In 1984, a city ordinance was approved that prohibits the parking of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and other vehicles in certain areas of residential property. Here some pictures of people in Texas being Texan. That's how we do it. Go down to the bottom to see the others listed.



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Install Default wish list for Ubuntu

Changes that need to happen. Here are things that need to be installed by default for business and personal.

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REVELinux Gear - Open Source T-shirts ;)

Well the shirt designs are not open source but you know what I mean. 100% of every shirt sold goes to that open source software organization. Something Linux users should wear besides the same shirt for 9 days straight. And I'm also a Linux user and I have good hygiene but when with other Linux users smelling of taco bell from last week it lingers.

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Business modeled Youtube Company. (Ads in your video?)

The company has advertisers like FOX. I love it when they need to push more junk like The OC into your eyes just one more time. It
’s a nice I idea if I get paid for people viewing my video with an ad at the end. Also you can put the ad where you want it.

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Synfig (vector-based 2D animation software)

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

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Zune Commercial (Microsoft's Ipod killer)

Microsoft tries to be cool with a different type of commercial. You can see that there trying to put hype behind the Zune by putting it on YouTube. You know this because the quality is better than �man getting hit with football�.

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Station17.org Update

Well I've got some bad news. The video we shot wasn't good enough. So I'm now going to re-shoot everything. Sorry again for the delay. I know I haven't posted in a while but I've been busy with the project itself.

How do you like my new tag?

Station17.org
How do you Ubuntu?

Dutch politicians fight drugs rap duel

The Dutch justice minister, a dour Calvinist named Piet Hein Donner, has astonished his countrymen by fighting a "rap duel" with the mayor of Maastricht over drug laws. Those pushing for the liberalisation of laws on the growth and sale of cannabis have been rallying around a record by an established band featuring guest vocals by the mayor.

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Station17.org (New Show and better idea.)

I just launched my new site. It's Station17.org and I'm going to be doing a show that will highlight things about Linux and Open Source Software. I think the first show will be up by April.

SharpMusique (the iTunes Music Store for Linux)

I don't know if this is legal but I found this cool program for linux. I haven't downloaded anything from it yet but I think it sounds cool to use. You can install on Windows and Ubuntu.

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CES 2006:Google's Larry Page (This guy is really a nerd)

You can just tell this guy is a nerd just by hearing his voice. This is just the worst keynote I've ever seen. I can just tell that everyone at google is a scientist. I think they need a public relations department.

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For Linux users only.

This is what some linux users. Go thought sometimes. We know this sucks. But is funny what it says. I use Ubuntu and I'm trying not to laugh. Man I'm a geek for loving this.

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PenguinTV (RSS feed reader of Linux)

Until now, the only solutions for listening to podcasts on Linux have been clunky apps and unreliable bash scripts. Many solutions require the user to browse file directories named by date to find media files. With the large amount of information in podcasts and videos, a user needs help to keep track of everything.

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Deadtime Stories (Watch the teaser.)

an animated horror series about a schizophrenic girl dealing with the demons of suburban life. currently in development at MTV animation. (pilot completed)

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CROMM CRUAC (Really Dark Flash Site.)

This site is different from most sites. It mixes flash, 3d images, and video. To make one dark and crazy site. Go to the gifts area and find out about collecting all the keys to unlock extra content.

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Massive In Feature Films (Program used for King Kong 2005)

Massive is a powerful tool for making creative visions come to life on the big screen. Feature filmmakers have used Massive to create scenes once possible only in the imagination, but now affordable and within reach. (It say's it affordable but it's $18,000 USD per permanent interactive license.)

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Blender Animation Festival 2005 (Open Source 3d modeling)

These are the nominations and winners of the third annual Suzanne awards, this year entirely devoted to animations created in Blender. I like the one with snoopy.

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Multibooting with Windows XP : From Microsoft

Mulitibooting with windows. That's funny. They have ad campaigns that say Windows Server it better than Linux and this is on there website. It's old but still funny that why have this. It say's Windows 98 but you know you wouldn’t need do it for that.

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The New Format

Just after posting my new episode. I'm happy to say "This Rocks". I know that sounds corny but I'm glad the 4 emails. I've received were positive. Thanks for listening. I'm going to have a special guess for the show next time. If things work out. And I know my audio is popping in a bad way.