Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

Veronica found a new demotivational poster at despair.com: Wishes. It’s a classic!

Today’s filk of the day isn’t really a filk. It’s the lyrics to the TOS theme, by the Great Bird himself. Note the karaoke image; you can just see Khan’s red pajamas under the blacked-out part of the viewscreen.

Just in case anyone out there still cares…I stumbled across a page of Star Trek: Voyager transcripts. Many thanks to Chakoteya for the effort.

I was introduced to the Sudoku fad through the ever-disposable Metro, the newspaper of choice for Boston commuters. But you can also play on the web.

Fun link of the day: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme (Daring Fireball)

Loyal readers (and I know I’m running out of them) know that I appreciate the occasional educational video. BitTorrent, however, is a den of thieves just waiting for the next big police raid. So I decided to move on with the technology to eDonkey. I checked out likely eDonkey clients for the Mac and decided on the cross-platform aMule, even though their mac client is just an experimental daily build.

To set up aMule I followed the directions in their wiki, with some bandwidth-setting advice from their ED2K faq. Other things I’ve heard about the network are that it’s not as fast as BitTorrent, but has more stuff available. I’ll find out either way.

I had a couple of kernel panics last week, so I tried out the X Lab’s advice on resolving kernel panics. There was nothing wrong with my disk or my memory, and repairing permissions didn’t help. In the end, I uninstalled the graphics program I’d been playing with and reinstalled. So far, so good…

Kitty is doing fine. Here’s a fun link: Google Moon (with an Easter egg if you can find it).

Quiz of the day: the Lüscher Color Test

Veronica has run off, and I’m left watching Kitty, the former evil attack cat, now chubby and retired. So far, he’s been good. I’m also caught up on BSG and I noticed it won’t be on this weekend. I’m going into withdrawal already.

Google has instructions for connecting to Google Talk with iChat. If you have a Gmail account, then you can Google Talk. The general FAQ is here.

Way back in The Disease that Dare Not Speak its Name, I blogged about the disease theory of (male) homosexuality. GeekPress has linked a recent Globe article about the state of research into the elusive gay gene, indicating that environmental factors in the womb may be the answer.