Fnliii, pointed out that wetwired should be having its bday. I’d like to point out this post : Blast From the Past.

The subject of this site starting is of much debate because of the initial hosting problems. First off, never ever use www.matrixcubed.com A quick check tells me they finnally ripped off enough people and got put out of business. Basically they screwed me over. Anyway, after filing at the BBB, and talking to other customers I found another host.. and then moved on to where I am a reseller. Ok so back to the task at hand. The actual launch date of wetwired I think was in september of 2000, but since I did not use blogger at that point nor did I have a great archiving method But, I did save things.

After some digging I have procured one of my first backups of the site when it launched in September. Click here to check it out.

Ah, as things start coming to a close on survivor, tomorrow we will see the survivors become three. Check out the action here.

Hey, Py?

I’ve got a question for you- and think about this one.

What day is the official four-year anniversary of Wetwired? I know it’s coming up, but I don’t remember when. Fill us in, so we can have a celebratory back-slapping and I can work on a SOM for it.

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http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com Go there. Watch the trailer. Read up. He catches him in his lies. It’s excellent. A documentary about Michael Moore, and the real America.

New blog showcase This is something to watch because there is always new talent coming into the blogging world.

Even though I am not going to see Fahrenheit 9/11, in the next few days and weeks we will surely be hearing more and more about Michael Moore and his new movie; so I

It’s so rare these days to actually have someone do something for you out of just plain kindness. Usually it

You may not know who Christopher Hitchens is. If not, here is a link to a listing of his articles. Read them, you’ll possibly agree with me that he’s a pretty liberal writer but he’s an honest writer. He believes in fact over flamboyance, telling the right story more than the fashionable story. I’d say he is the real liberal answer to Wiliam Buckley. I’d say in truth that while I vary on what I agree and disagree with him about, I find him to at least be enjoyable a read, and I’m looking to pick up his books based on the articles he writes. (A note: If you think I’m being dishonest about his political stance, read his article ripping into Reagan and try to challenge the position again.)

Tell you what- take a look at some of his articles and come back here when you’re done.

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(whistles)

Okay, done? Good.

Now that you may have more of an insight into the guy, take a look at this article. The article is one of he best examinations of Michael Moore’s “talents” as a documentary filmmaker by having the absolute gall of challenging Moore based on facts in the public record. At one point, he says the following:

Moore has announced that he won’t even appear on TV shows where he might face hostile questioning. I notice from the New York Times of June 20 that he has pompously established a rapid response team, and a fact-checking staff, and some tough lawyers, to bulwark himself against attack. He’ll sue, Moore says, if anyone insults him or his pet. Some right-wing hack groups, I gather, are planning to bring pressure on their local movie theaters to drop the film. How dumb or thuggish do you have to be in order to counter one form of stupidity and cowardice with another? By all means go and see this terrible film, and take your friends, and if the fools in the audience strike up one cry, in favor of surrender or defeat, feel free to join in the conversation.

However, I think we can agree that the film is so flat-out phony that “fact-checking” is beside the point. And as for the scary lawyers

So, let’s see. A full nine days after turning 18, one of the Olsens is already in a treatment facility.

Mary-Kate Olsen has gone ahead and checked into a treatment center- thought it may not be for what you think. See, she’s the brunette Olsen who you may have noticed is much thinner than her sister, Ashley. I hadn’t noticed until it was pointed out to me, but that’s because these two never really did it for me and hence I don’t follow them like several of the freakier cats out there. Hell, I didn’t know one of them was a brunette now.

Ahem… ANYWAY, she’s in a center for an eating disorder- and really, that’s a shock. I mean, the girls have been in the public eye since they were 6 fricking months old. Pervs across the land have been waiting for these two to turn 18 for a long while. They have a fanbase of girls in the millions, and their image is used to make a BILLION DOLLAR empire. Who would think that ANY of this could possibly negatively affect them?

Honestly, the only thing that would surprise me less is if one of them ended up in rehab by the time they’re 21. Just watch- we’ll have an E True Hollywood Story ready to go in five years.

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Three inmates, two with artificial limbs, escaped from jail by squeezing through an 8-inch gap onto the roof and using bed sheets to descend three stories.

Two were captured Monday.

William Clay Bohanan, 40, Berl Keith McKinnie, 38, and Billy Leo Potts Jr., 39, fled Saturday night from a special needs cell at the medium- and maximum-security jail in Nashville.

Left behind in the inmates’ beds were dummies made by stuffing newspapers into jail-issued orange jumpsuits, authorities said.

McKinnie has a prosthetic foot and Potts a prosthetic leg. McKinnie was caught by the U.S. Marshals Service in north Nashville late Monday night about two miles from the jail.

Bohanan — awaiting trial on homicide and arson related to a 1993 fire in which two children died — was captured about 15 miles east of the jail, officials said.

Potts remained at large.

McKinnie faced charges related to a police pursuit in a stolen car. He also is a suspect in a homicide case and wanted for an aggravated sexual assault in Chicago. Potts faced charges including robbery and theft.

Amid the abductions and beheadings we can still stop to marvel at science. This morning commercialism at its best sees the first privatized space flight.

Cnn: MOJAVE, California (CNN) — SpaceShipOne made a flawless takeoff into pale blue skies over the Mojave Desert at 9:47 a.m. ET on Monday. The rocket plane lifted off carried by the jet White Knight for an hourlong ascent before it attempts to reach space.

The pair is expected to reach 50,000 feet by about 10:30 a.m. ET when SpaceShipOne will decouple from the jet and rocket into space.

It will be the first private manned spaceflight in history.

As the planes taxied onto the runway of the Mojave Airport, the pilot of SpaceShipOne, Michael Melvill, and the pilot of White Knight, Brian Binnie, waved to spectators from round portholes in the two craft.

Chase planes followed the craft as they gained altitude.

Once reaching its scheduled height, Melvill plans to ignite SpaceShipOne’s rocket engines over the desert and bring the ship into a vertical ascent at Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound. The craft will coast in a massive arc, about 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, above the Earth.

From the cockpit, the curvature of the Earth and a thin blue line that demarcates our atmosphere will be visible against the black sky.

Melvill, then the first astronaut to pilot a private spacecraft, will experience weightlessness for about three minutes.

He will then maneuver the plane for descent.

The remote desert Mojave airport, home to the world’s only civilian test flight center and a licensed spaceport, was also host to an assortment of vehicles that converged on the site from around the country. Buses, RVs, electric scooters, small ultralights and a menagerie of other vehicles were parked in the sandy soil across from the runway.

A sense of historic anticipation was shared by many of the spectators. Some said that after waiting decades, they were finally witnessing the first steps toward spaceflight for them.

Josh Collins, 25, said he had flown from Maryland to see the attempt.

“Some people thought I was crazy, other people are jealous,” he said. “I can’t wait to see the launch. It’s going to be historic.”

Melvill, 62, a veteran test pilot, becomes the first civilian flier to earn his astronaut’s wings aboard a privately financed spacecraft.

The rocket plane designed by Burt Rutan and built by his firm Scaled Composites is taking its 15th test flight — its farthest and fastest to date.

Scaled Composites is one of 24 companies from several countries competing for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which will go to the first privately funded group to send three people on a suborbital flight 62.5 miles (100.6 kilometers) high and repeat the feat within two weeks using the same vehicle.

The nonprofit X Prize Foundation is sponsoring the contest to promote the development of a low-cost, efficient craft for space tourism in the same way prize competitions stimulated commercial aviation in the early 20th century.

The prize is fully funded through January 1, 2005, according to the foundation’s Web site.

With only veteran test pilot Melvill on board, Monday’s flight is testing SpaceShipOne’s ability to reach the 62.5-mile altitude, which is the internationally agreed-upon boundary of space.

Depending on the success of the initial flight, it will compete for the X Prize later in the year.

“We’re hoping this will be just a repetition of the last flight, just a little faster, a little higher,” said Melvill, who on May 13 flew SpaceShipOne to 212,000 feet, or a little more than 40 miles, at more than twice the speed of sound. (Full story)

The significance of the launch was hailed during a news conference Sunday at the Mojave launch site by two of the project’s most enthusiastic backers: Rutan and billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft Corp.

“Tomorrow we will meet to add one more page to the history books,” Allen said. “[Private space flight] will undoubtedly lead to unprecedented new endeavors in the years to come.”

Both men said they expected the technology to lead to a human space flight industry financed by the private sector.

Allen has invested more than $20 million in Scaled Composites to create the manned program — a fraction of what government-sponsored efforts have cost.

Rutan predicted that the small investment would be just a start.

“Space flight is not only for governments to do,” Rutan said. “Clearly, there’s an enormous pent-up hunger to fly into space and not just dream about it.”

He hesitated to give a precise prediction when a major tourism industry would develop. But he said that within 10 to 15 years affordable suborbital flights would become a reality, and it wouldn’t stop there.

“We are heading to orbit sooner than you think,” he said. “We do not intend to stay in low-earth orbit for decades. The next 25 years will be a wild ride. … One that history will note was done for the benefit of everyone.”

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