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August 01, 2001 Megan's Inner Spaz

Bucky balls! I love it when the hosts talk about drugs (see my entry for 5/8/2001).
Probably has something to do with my working in the pharmaceutical industry. For more info about bucky balls, or more properly, buckminster fullerenes, check out this site: Bucky Balls (Queen's University). It's always interesting what you can turn up with a Google search. Apparently there's a punk band named Bucky Balls, and I also found a funny story about a Bucky Ball's visit to his shrink: Bucky Ball Goes Crazy. (A warning, this story uses a lot of esoteric references)

I like POW, which was Megan's download of the day today, but it is not as effective against the X10 ads as I would like. POW works by having the user tell it which windows are pop-up ads. The program then remembers the window title, and closes any future windows that pop-up with the same title. X10 has gotten smart and regularly changes the titles on it's pop-under ads, so that someone using POW has to "train" it for each and every different title. However, I still prefer to use POW because it's the least likely to accidentally kill a legitimate non-advertisement window.

Here's a tip for those of you who want to know what will be coming up on TSS episodes. TSS does post a weekly schedule on the main page of it site, usually on Monday, for that week. But if it's the weekend and you want to know what will be on for the coming week, Yahoo TV listings usually has the info ahead of time.

Easter Eggs. Tonight's segment featured easter egg programs on the Palm, but my favorite easter eggs of all time have to be the ones featured on this scanning microscopy site: Molecular Expressions. This is a collection of easter egg pictures buried in the etchings of processor chips. It something like what chip designer turned comedian Don McMillan described in his interview on TSS: Chip Design is Hilarious-- Really. (Check out the video highlight)

I loved Megan's superheroine bit tonight. She must be taking lessons from Leo and getting in touch with her inner spaz.

Posted by Christy on August 01, 2001 10:07 PM

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