Ike Shore is a student from Pennsylvania who keeps a Livejournal of his digital art. I often catch myself pasting links to Ike’s work into IMs and chatrooms, so I promised him I’d do a sort of mini artist profile in my blog.. Mostly just for kicks, but also to promote a friend’s blog and hopefully spread the word about his nifty creations.

A 100m-deep hole opened up this morning in Guatemala and swallowed several houses. Let’s get a grenade in there!

Read the related Somethingawful thread here, where I think they made the same joke as me.

An website called blog.thebudgetgraph.com made waves on Digg last week, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It discusses the US Government’s $145 billion dollar budget for their war in Iraq, and things the money could be better spent on.

Data: From a Bread for the World study done in 2000. Or we can just give every tax payer their thousand dollars back. Unfortunately we don’t have time to entertain such flights of fancy like ending hunger or free health insurance. Don’t you know there is a war on?!

Be sure to check out the very cool Zoomify poster, too.

Neutrality.ca is “An open letter to the government of Canada” about the issue of net neutrality in Canada. I remember when the neutrality buzz was in full force, but all of the articles I saw were USA-specific, and it never fully occurred to me that this could be- and IS going on here in Canada. According to neutrality.ca, Shaw Cable (my ISP) is guilty of intentionally throttling competitors’ VoIP services unless the customer pays an additional “Quality of Service” fee.

Sorry if I’m really late posting this, I’ve been busy
Canadians: tell your friends about neutrality.ca, and tell them to tell their friends. I think I may actually email my MP, as the Internet is probably one of four things I take seriously.

Even though most of the videos you’ll come across on the web these days will be flash based, a few of them still use embedded WMV/Quicktime. (…You know, the technologies that Ms and Apple spent so much time and money developing?) For those of you using Firefox in Vista that want a quick and painless way to watch videos at places like gametrailers, NeoWin has the info you need (care of the Mozillazine knowledge base).

Neowinian Basho1 posts:

You need to copy three files (npwmsdrm.dll, npdrmv2.dll and npdsplay.dll) to the “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins” directory.

Done. You don’t even have to restart the browser. Check about:plugins and try watching a video to see if it worked.