Saturday, October 9, 2010

Originally a reply to Jason's post :)

With the recent instability in galactic politics, we're all wondering, "Where's the safest place to put my credits?" Well, I'm here to tell you it's something that has seen a sharp rise in recent weeks, and if you've been keeping your eye on the commodity prices you're already aware of the fantastic opportunities in Wampa Meat!

We all know that following the tragic loss of the "Freedom Star" station, tourism to Hoth has increased immensely. Did you in fact know that the actual number shows an increase of OVER SIXTY THOUSAND PERCENT?
You might ask yourself, "What are all these people going there for?" Well, I'm here to tell you that exports of Wampa Meat have increased tremendously, according to this colorful graphic [insert colorful graphic].

Please don't miss out on this FANTASTIC opportunity, operators are standing by...

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Today in History!

1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.

1911 – Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.

1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the USA to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.

The best story among these is probably Flipper's. Take fifteen minutes from your day and read it.

Monday, June 14, 2010

This Date in History:


Some favorites:

1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".

1938 – Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.

1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

So it works, kind of...

More testing.

What I'd like to do is put my Google Reader's "shared" items into facebook as posts, in real time. Facebook's "imported sites" doesn't like to do this in a timely manner for me - the application is broken.

What may have just exploded your feeds with 20 articles, was me substituting my public Reader page ( http://www.google.com/reader/shared/electrodyne ) for my public page (on which I am making this post).

In a perfect world, this little slice of google here (my blogspot page) would collect all my personal interest crap (reader, buzz, et cetera) and then push it to Facebook. That way I'd only need to link one application...

A test!

Here I am testing methods of interconnectivity to Facebook.

1, 2, 3.

Monday, May 31, 2010