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Net Neutrality: Google Threatens To File Anti-Trust Lawsuits Over Abuse

Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators.

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doesn't major nelson's new blog comment box look familiar, you be the judge

just was checking the site and something looked kinda like something we all know. maybe the digg comment box. can't he be a little more creative.

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13500 results

13500 results, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

My 300th Flickr Photo!

171_7189, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

My photostream has also been viewed over 2000 times!

Chorus Concert

T-48 minutes and counting I'm taking as many photos as I can before places are packed, for example the formerly empty music room and gymnasium, where we'll be performing tonight. BLAH! TEH 3N3RGY!!1!11!1!!!

wow....

I dodged a bullet, and the bullet turned into a candy, and the candy was delicious.

I got an Xbox360!!!!!!!!!

Check out my gamercard in the upper-right hand corner of the page! Lots of photos are coming soon!! EDIT 1: Please keep in mind that right now this version of the gamercard only looks good in Firefox

New Flickr Bar (as seen above)

I edited some code in a tag badge that I found at another blog, and the result is a random, automatically refreshing set of 5 of the most recently uploaded photos on flickr. Take a look, press the "Home" key on your keyboard!

Google Desktop

Google Desktop, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

I started this process about 16 hours before taking this screenshot. Ignore the time estimate, it's been that way for 11 or so hours; it must be some kind of safeguard against scaring the crap out of Google Desktop's users, as it was rising at a steady rate of +0.1 hours to the estimate every minute or so.

Beatbox Giant Productions

Beatbox Giant Productions This site is apparently the mothership to which askAninja.com returns every year to regenerate its piemaking abilities....

I'm a podcaster!

You can now find my podcast on iTunes! If you have iTunes, Click here to view my podcast! If you don't have iTunes, Click here to get iTunes! I'll get a link on the sidebar of this blog going soon, but you can access the RSS feed here

Zomg jesus haxxors!!

Click here for the best YTMND that I've seen to date

I got an iPod Video!

165_6516, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

30GB, you can view the rest of the photos in the flickr photoset here! I love this thing, I've already downloaded and watched 3 episodes of the new series of Battlestar Galactica!

I'm getting an iPod!

30GB, check it out here: 30GB iPod = $299.99 My current mp3 player can only hold 128MB and has a battery life of about 3-4 hours, not that it could ever store that much time. I can barely fit 4 podcasts in it at once, sometimes 5 Also, I have over $700 and after the 360, will have over $300 left, a perfect amount for the iPod. Actually, I think I may have broken $800, but I'm not completely sure.

AHHHH!

Behold my new god

Sorry that I haven't posted in so long, but

I've been busy with a lot of things. 90% of those things will be posted in a link dump that I may or may not be able to get around to today.

"Vortex"

Vortex, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

I'm posting this because for the first time probably ever in the history of me using flickr, a photo that I uploaded has 0 (zero) views. That doesn't necessarily mean that the photo is bad, it means that no one has had or taken the chance to decide if it is bad or not.

Flickr Pro Account!

It is done! WOO!

"Mist"

Mist, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

Holy crap...I took and uploaded this to flickr yesterday. Today it already has been marked twice as a favorite!

I checked as I regularly do, and saw "2 people count this photo as a favorite"; my heart skipped a beat.

By the way, my Pro account may be less than 20-40 minutes away or less!

"Foggy Sunset 2"

Foggy Sunset 2, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

I took this photo today and uploaded it to flickr shortly afterwards, and already it is the 16th most-viewed photo in all of the 64 out of 65 photos that are visible to public viewers. It has been viewed (as of the time that I am posting this) 28 times (not counting me, since flickr viewed counters do not count the person who uploaded the file in viewing statistics). The 15th most-viewed photo in all of my photostream is 150_5024, one of the photos taken on the Thanksgiving trip that I took in 2005 to New York City. Overall, I'm very pleased about the general responses that I've been getting about my recently uploaded photos, especially since they are all (so far this month) photos that I have taken in 2006, and I think (but I'm not sure) that (so far) all of my photos that have been uploaded this month were uploaded on either the day or the day aftwerwards that they were taken.

To summerize: ":D@photostream!1"

Flickr Pro Account Tomorrow!

At least according to what my Dad just told me, that is. Hopefully in 14-16 hours I will have added at least 10 more photos to my photostream, without even looking at what percentage of my monthly upload limit I've used, or even thinking about the word "bandwidth" ! :D :D :D

Liquid Energy

Liquid Energy, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

This photo has also been marked twice as a favorite! Let the good times roll! Hopefully within 5-30 hours I'll have a pro account, and I'll be able to post even more photos! :D

2 Favorites!

150_5025, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

(Note: I have not gotten my parents to upgrade my flickr account, and the target date for any discussion pertaining to letting me spend my own money on something that I want to purchace is still some time this weekend.)

This photo, 150_5025, has been marked as a favorite for the second time today! This is the first time that any of my photos have appealed enough to more than one flickr user to mark it as a favorite! :D

Flickr...blah...poop

Although my parents still haven't let me spend my own money yet on a flickr pro account, saying that they would talk it over this weekend, it doesn't matter. January ends today, and February is a whole new month, with 20mb of extra bandwidth. That will tide me over until this weekend, if not longer. Still though....sucks....assssssssssssssssssssssssssss that I have all this money, and CAN'T EVEN FREAKING SPEND IT!!!!

Flickr Pro Account

I can't believe this: I want to upgrade my free flickr account to a $24.95 per year account. The result would be unlimited bandwidth. I have over $700 and haven't spent a dime on it because the entire state of New Hampshire remains sold out of Xbox360s. I did the math, and it turns out that a 1-year subscription to flickr costs $2.08 per month, and (on average) $0.07 per day. That's rediculous. Unlimited bandwidth (as well as 20GB of storage space per month) on flickr for less than 7 cents a day!? I relay this to my mom, since I'm still too young to get a credit card, which is the only way besides (shudder) mail order to send the money to flickr, but she is telling me that she wants me to talk about it with my dad. The trouble is, he'll get home right around dinner time tonight. The trouble with that is that all of the things that belong to me that plug in are required to be turned off at dinner time since it is a schoolnight. Apparently having fun makes me do badly in school, so having the least ammount of fun possible will theoretically make me do better in school. Assuming that my dad will accept what I ask and relay his agreement with my proposal to my mom, which in any case will happen either over or after dinner, I will have to wait another 20 hours until I can do what I was looking forward to doing all day. SUCKS TO BE ME.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us - Rhapsody

My version of the video The original site that I watched Videos 1 and 2 on

Archive Digging

I reinstalled Picasa so it now contains all of my photos. It lost almost all of them when I renamed "My Pictures" to "My Pics". I didn't think of this solution until today, and this is one of the many photos that are now available for me too see again: 

This may shock you, but

GASP I don't have an Xbox360 yet! zomg! SHOCKER! *sigh*

146_4654

146_4654, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

People are going nuts over this photo! There are already 3 comments, and someone marked this as a favorite! I uploaded this only 16 hours ago!!

Holes in Warlock

You can find the video here or you can copy the link below into the address bar of your web browser: http://useruploads.mythica.org/view.cgi?f=Holes_in_Warlock__S haymus22.wmv Size: 16.4 MB Takes about 4-6 minutes to download with a Cable Modem (around 500 kbps) ? Please leave your comments below and tell me what you think of the video editing, quality, hosting provider, and anything else you want to add.

155_5595

155_5595, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

(I'm posting this via flickr at school) In the 2 days that this photo has been on flickr, it already has accumulated more views than most of my New York photos! It's 1 view away from surpassing the photo of the Empire State Building!

Yakalike

Posted by Stosh on Bungie:

I was reading up on digg and found a neat firefox extension called yakalike. Basically allows you to chat with anyone who is currently surfing the same site you are...provided they also have firefox and the yakalike plug in. Anyway lets test it out! Although I imagine the site is getting hit pretty hard right now so it will probably be pretty slow mo.yakalike Bye bye.

Reported teh spam!

 

East Coast Photography - My flickr group

http://flickr.com/groups/east_coast_photography/

Flickr Badge

You can see my flickr badge on the right-hand column of this page. I updated it so that it shows new photos as I upload them. (By the way, there's more to flickr than meets the eye) You can view my flickr photostream here.

The theme of this blog

I realize that my blog has taken a slightly political role lately, but that isn't really the main theme of this blog. It simply starts to get that way when get sick and tired of hearing BULL on the news.

Why the hell hasn't Bush been empeached yet?

HE BROKE THE FREAKING LAW! You're not going to make any enemies by trying to encriminate him, shown below is a rough representation of his approval ratings:

I've lost all faith in humanity

BRAILLE?! 

Dear Bush; Resign. Signed, America

Anti-Intellectualism

Courtesy of Wikipedia

Renaissance 2006

Let's start a Renaissance of our own. There's energy and resources for it. We don't have to look to the past in search of artistic ability and talent. Just LOOK at flickr's Explore page. There are artists and art everywhere, all it needs is a distinctive purpose. Intellectualism is not a crime. The knowledge is there, we but need to reach out for it. If the human race would simply stop hating itself, a utopia of mental exploration would arise. I'm not talking about a spiritual, religious, or ethical revolution. What I'm saying is that we are on the verge of something amazing, and all we need to do is notice it. The information age isn't about information. The Internet is about people. Without people contributing to the Internet, it would cease to exist as it is today: a hotbed of ideas, opinions, creativity, and above all, intellectual thought. And you wonder why they call them "Forums".

Litchfield, NH wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litchfield%2C_New_Hampshire I edited and submitted the image shown on the right side of the page. Before I edited it, there was no image on the page.

I caught the bus

As I mentioned before, my computer is back where it belongs. Now if only my Xbox and TiVo would follow suit.... 

Dec14#74

Dec14#74, originally uploaded by shaymus022.

I posted this on / via flickr.

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This is one of the first pictures that I took with the digital camera that I continue to use to this day. I found it in the depths of the file tree of my old Windows 98.

Pie.Blogspot.Com

Yep, it really exists. Check out how old it is, too. I just typed this into my address bar out of curiosity, and WOW.

My Backpack

By the way, my computer is back where it belongs, but my TiVo and Xbox are still nowhere to be found. I have a new photoset on flickr: My Backpack.

Chorus Concert

In T-26 minutes. EN3RGY

To Clarify

I'm going to be offline for a WHILE. I'm talking after January is over. If I'm a perfect student. Which is looking pretty gloomy at the moment. Get this: Competencies. Every class in my school is broken up into things called cometencies. 1) You must pass every competency or you will fail the class 2) Every piece of work goes into either one, multiple, or possibly all competencies of the class You can take a test with 10 questions. Questions 1-9 could be on Competency 1 , while Question 10 could be on Competency 2. If you get 1-9 correct and 10 wrong, you will get a 90% on the test; "A-". However, the test will be split into two grades: One for Competency 1, a 9-question test that you got 9 out of 9 questions correct on (100% test grade) and One for Competency 2, a single-question text that you got 0 out of 1 question correct on (0% test grade) To return to fact #1; "You must pass every competency or you will fail the class". Some classes have up to 7 or sometimes 8 competencies. That doesn't mean they give more work in the class. That means that the originally allocated work for the class is spread out over the sometimes 8 competencies, just like the example above. SOME COMPETENCIES ONLY HAVE 3 TO 5 GRADES PER SEMESTER. 100% + 50% + 0% = 150% / 3 = 50% = F = Congratulations you just failed the class. See you at summerschool.

I missed the bus

My Xbox - Gone My TiVo - Gone My Computer - Gone I missed the bus. How are you today? Don't leave the stupid comment of "OMG liar you're posting this aren't you!11", what do you you think, there's no such thing as a computer lab at school? Also, don't mind me, I'm just fuming with the fumes of a thousand sons.

"Unhackable"

The term "unhackable" is thrown around a lot these days, but I think that I can say with some certainty that 01110100011010000110000101110100001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100000011100110110100101110100011001010010000001101001011100110010000001110011011000010110011001100101001000000110011001110010011011110110110100100000011101000110100001100101001000000110010001100001011011100110011101100101011100100111001100100000011011110110011000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110100101101110011101000110010101110010011011100110010101110100

Xbox360 Gear! Festivus! Yay!

Although I usually would have posted this immediately, my newest addiction was a bit distracting.

This bottle actually makes the drink inside taste better.

I'm not a hat person. I don't like wearing hats. I don't look good in hats. I don't feel comfortable in hats. I never take this hat off.

A Shiny New Addiction - BF2MC

You can check my stats by going here. The game is awesome! I love the game! Destroy all non-believers! All hail BF2MC! 

Stargate SG-1 (2006) - 244 SciFi [This program will be saved until you delete it]

And LO but did the feeling of total joy overtake him as the announcer’s words washed over him like those of a sea.  The sea into which he was swept was not that of water, but that of complete and total bliss.  Thus is the result of such a grateful reaction to those lovely words spoken by such a kind announcer:
“And now the SciFi channel original series, Stargate SG-1”

KillSomeMime

I've posting the following in the form of a new thread in every forum that I know of in which it was on-topic: -------------------- Now, I know what you're thinking. Actually, on second thought, no I don't; so you're all going to have to let me know what you think by either replying to this thread, messaging me, or by commenting on the site: http://www.killsomemime.blogspot.com KillSomeMime is a blog that I just started. On it there are (so far only) 3 short video clips depicting how to kill someone in mime-fashion. Eventually there should be dozens, and depending on the site's success and popularity, perhaps hundreds of KillSomeMime videos. The videos so far (which can be found on the site) are "Grenade", "Call in a Hit", and "Gasoline". You can email me at shaymus22@gmail.com --------------------

Happy New Year!

Thanks to everyone who made 2005 rock!