Retired Russian colonel Stanislav Petrov received a special World Citizen Award at a UN meeting in New York on Thursday. Petrov was honored as the “Man Who Averted Nuclear War”.
In a meeting held at the UN Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium on Jan. 19, the Association of World Citizens (AWC) presented the retired officer with his award. … it was determined that sunlight reflecting off clouds in Montana had caused a faulty satellite computer assembly to report a missile launch flash.[.continue.]

Holy crap that was close!
Thank you Colonel Stranislav Petrov!

I’m a Lamborghini Murcielago!

You’re not subtle, but you don’t want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you’re a raging bull.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

This is the first flash movie I have added to my site. The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is quite awesome.
Can Chuck Norris defeat them all?

Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips. [.continue.]

One thing the article touches on that I think is a huge problem is the lack of financial education taught in the school system. How to manage your money, how to build wealth, how to make smart decisions with you money. These things are very critical in determining how one lives after school. This is much more important than knowing the periodic table of elements, memorizing Othello or being able to use the Pythagorean Theorem. This is something that should be taught in high school. It isn’t, at least where/when I went and the class should be mandatory for all students. The college I am attending does offer a couple classes about building wealth and managing personal finances, but these are just electives thus being optional. Unfortunately for most people dealing with money is not optional.
For those that cant or wont take a class and need to know how to handle their money better check out Personal Finance for Dummies.

I had the first edition, but gave it to someone last year that got about as much education in school about managing money as I did, which was none.
Fourth edition is out and I am picking it up, probably the best $15 I’ll spend all month.

I have changed the layout of the site a bit. I took out about all the positional divs and setup the layout of the site with tables. Yeah, those “evil” tables. Personally I think working with tables is easier than divs. I guess it is what you know. The divs were giving me issues with the sidebars. If the center content did not have enough horizontal space to display, the sidebars would push the content down toward the bottom of the page underneath the sidebars, quite annoying.
With the table layout if there isn’t enough horizontal space I get the horizontal scrollbar. I’d rather have the 5 pixels or so of horizontal scroll instead of the big blank spot in the middle of the top of the page.
I like the boxes I have the sidebars content in, I think they make the site look a bit cleaner.

Still have to do something with the footer of the page, and the photo album banner is messed up. It does validate XHTML 1.0 Transitional, atleast the frontpage.

I have added a Games section to the website.
These will be flash games that I find enjoyable. The games can be accessed by selecting Games from the menu on the left.
The first is the original Penguin game. The game became so popular it spun off variants of it and even made it to the xbox and cell phones.
The next one is a remake of the original Penguin game called Part 1, a little nicer with different penguin physics.
Part 2 involves hitting the penguin with a snow ball on to a target.
Part 3 involves throwing the penguin as high as you can, with a little help from some Seals.

More information about YetiSports can be find at YetiSports.org.

About half of these theories I have heard about.

The Nazis had a Moon Base.
That one I havent heard before, I wonder where they all went to.

What is more entertaining then the actual conspiracy theories themselves is the comments people are leaving, so funny.

Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories

Another 8 weeks, another pint of blood. Today I went to the blood drive over at Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department. Everything was routine, but ended up getting another rookie trying to stick me. Fortunately he didn’t spend that much time trying. Someone else came over and got the vein right away. I had a bag of the Famous Amos Oatmeal Raisin cookies instead of my normal Chocolate Chip, not bad.
I usually get a sticker telling me when I can donate again, didn’t get one this time for some reason. No worries just have to count 8 weeks from now. I’m lazy so I use the online form here, it is toward the bottom of the page on the left. March 14 is my next donate date.

Did you know in the state of Maryland if you are 16 years of age you can donate blood? You just need written permission of a parent or legal guardian.
Did you know that 50% of the US population is eligible to donate blood, yet only 5 percent actually donate?
Did you know there were 30 blood drives today in the Maryland, Virginia area alone, and almost that many tomorrow?

Do you believe, as someone somewhere perhaps does, that meetings, meetings, meetings, followed by more meetings are altogether a good thing? If so, Alexandra Luong and Steven G Rogelberg think you should think again. In a newly published study, they say: “We propose that despite the fact that meetings may help to achieve work-related goals, having too many meetings and spending too much time in meetings per day may have negative effects on the individual.” [.continue.]

I totally agree more
By why risk it, lets get rid of meetings altogether.

She has the world at her feet, but no man in life, and that makes U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice incomplete, claims Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
According to this Russia’s Liberal and Democratic Party leader, Rice has no business to tell Moscow to ‘act responsibly’ in supplying natural gas to Ukraine.
Describing Rice as a cruel woman who had failed to attract the attention of men, Zhirinovsky was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying “If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied.” [.continue.]

Vlad is apparently very concerned about the ladies. First he says there are too many lonely women in russia. Now he think Dr. Rice needs to hookup.
Sounds like fighting words to me.
I’d pay to see that.