We went to Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Fest 2004 on Friday night. It’s not a bad show (and we did get to see the boobies on one of Wee Man’s entourage), but the best thing — the thing that all by itself makes S&M’s S&T AF worth seeing — is Dr Tran . Do everything in your power to get to see this baby. It’s one of the funniest things I have ever scene. Becky, Zack and I were in tears from laughing.

We promise to try really hard not to quote from it over and over again, but we’re not that good at keeping promises over something this cool.

There a pretty good article at Crutchfield Advisor discussing using an iPod in the car including a new accessory I saw for the first time in the store last Tursday, Belkin’s TuneDok.

I think I’m gonna hold out for this baby from Alpine.

A point-and-click game called LOGAN’s Mystery of Time and Space Adventure features simple graphics and interface, but is pretty clever. I especially like the attention to detail with features like an associated chat room (for hints and such) and the clocks reflecting the current time.

This is a great article on learned lessons from Iraq at the Washingon Post. It discusses the use of ‘the web’ to disseminate information from experienced soldiers in Iraq to incoming soldiers.

The big deal, socially speaking, about Viet Nam was the immediacy and graphic depiction of war due to technology advances in the media. It is becoming quickly apparent that the internet, and blogs specifically, will be the big deal in this conflict. Increasing the immediacy of information from the battlefield will certainly have an effect on dessert-bound soldiers — hopefully for the better. It will give them a more honest view of upcoming battles than the WWII-aligned training they get in boot camp.

The DNC is focusing on Bush’s 2005 budget — calling it A Deficit Disaster — including a special sidebar showing how the budget affects your state.

Texas loses an estimated $2.1 billion under the Bush budget. Lost funds include:

• $134,605,643 in housing assistance for families.
• $73,124,352 in funding for Title I education.
• $11,878,905 for community development.
• $7,866,371 to help keep our water clean and safe.

What’s more, the average Texas taxpayer’s share of the Bush deficit is $1,660.

This nutzoid’s website has photographic evidence that NASA is (literally, with it’s own Mars rover) covering up evidence of organic-looking objects on Mars.