My Lexar Sport USB drive died today

Last night it was working fine. Today I put it in and get a message saying 'do you want to format?' WTF?????
At least I made a backup of my data last night. Whew!

(Repeat, it was a drive from the LEXAR corporation. Keep that company name in mind when you are buying something)

College Football Playoff Proposals

Sports Fans of America Association College Football Playoff Proposals

Here is a list of 6 proposals for a college football playoff system.

STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE

Dateline: Hollywood: "STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE"

Wait a minute, I thought that marketing was the driving force in how successful a movie is, not the quality of the movie itself...

A idiot story, told by the idiot

This tale of stupidity is brought to you by something that I did.
A Certificate of Deposit of mine had matured at a large national bank
(think of people inquiring about the contents of your wallet). Before
I could call the bank up and properly close the account, I needed to
have the account number (I was about a hundred miles from the forms
which contained my account number). So I went to the bank's Web site
and plugged in my username (let's call it "QWERTY") and password...and
got an error message saying that my username or password were invalid.
I tried again, same error message. I typed "QWERTY" in again and
clicked on the "Forget Password?" link, and I get another error
message. I assumed they were having computer problems at their end,
but then I remembered that I changed my password when I logged in a
few days earlier. But I made sure I was using my new password to log
in, so I tried to use my old password. Nothing.
A scary thought then occurred to me: was the "Change Password" page a
fake? Did I inadvertently give somebody my bank password? Did somebody
log into my account and change my password, so I couldn't get back in?
Did this person clean out all my savings there?
I called the bank's tech support and told them I could not log into my
bank account. I told him my username was "QWERTY" the username , and
he said he couldn't find it...but then he said there is an account in
my name, and it was called "ASDFGH".
I realized what happened: I was using the wrong username! "ASDFGH" was
my account name for this bank, "QWERTY" is my username for my local
bank!
I apologized, hung up and tried again. Sure enough, I was able to log
in using "ASDFGH". I called my bank (got a different person, whew!)
and was able to close out my account.
I actually have my username and password written down; if I had looked
at that beforehand, you would not be reading this.

Boilers lose again

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
How can you go 0-4 after going 5-0? How????

Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

Slashdot | Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

Yet another example of "Sleeping with the enemy"...

Cobra Commander for President

Something Awful

I predict he'll get more votes than Nader.

GTA - training game for murderers?

NewsFromRussia.Com GTA - training game for murderers?

Here's another 'Violent Video Games Turns Kids Into Killers" article. In my opinion, watching Purdue lose their third game in a row is more likely to drive people to violent acts.