If you love kids and want a practical screensaver, you might want to check out the Missing Children Screensaver to help find missing kids. I think it’s pretty cool that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has come up with a modern version of milk carton ads. Plus, instead of getting one [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/08/09/missing-children-screensaver/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/20/devil-makes-man-microwave-baby/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/20/devil-makes-man-microwave-baby/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 22:42:00 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=286 from CNN: Woman: Blame devil for infant in microwave

Um, wow. A man puts his baby girl into a microwave for 10 to 20 seconds and his wife claims that the devil made him do it.

When I described myself as an atheist to someone, he called me a “devil worshiper.” My response was that [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/20/devil-makes-man-microwave-baby/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/17/poor-risk-assessment-for-improbable-events/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/17/poor-risk-assessment-for-improbable-events/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 03:13:33 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=283 From Wired: Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses

The article discusses how our brains are not very good about judging the probability of rare yet horrible events, and consequently overreacting to them.

Here are some interesting tidbits:

As someone who loves to read the news, the Google Personalized homepage is really handy for me. Now Google has added a new feature to add a little pizazz to the page: dynamic themes. When I first read the initial announcements I didn’t expect much… just the ability to change colors.

When the feature [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/20/google-personalized-homepage-skins/feed/ 3 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/17/woman-sues-wayback-machine/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/17/woman-sues-wayback-machine/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:19:49 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=234 Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts

The Internet Archive, archive.org, goes around the web and stores copies of websites indefinitely. This is a useful resource when the information is no longer available and you want to view a copy of it. It’s not so great for webmasters who want to have no [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/17/woman-sues-wayback-machine/feed/ 1 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/11/man-mugged-101-year-old-woman/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/11/man-mugged-101-year-old-woman/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:14:38 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=226 http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/10/elderly.robbed.ap/ A guy pretended to offer to help an old woman. He then punched her in the face and took her purse, netting 33 dollars in cash.

Loser mugger. This reminds me of the time in kindergarten or elementary school when my grandmother was walking me to school. This guy starting walking with us and [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/03/11/man-mugged-101-year-old-woman/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/02/27/wii-in-a-league-of-its-own/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/02/27/wii-in-a-league-of-its-own/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:30:46 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=222 Sony execs and fans are doing all they can to differentiate Playstation 3 from the Wii, to the point of saying PS3 shouldn’t be compared to the Wii. They’re right. I didn’t consider buying a PS3, so Sony didn’t lose a customer, but Nintendo gained one.

From all my Wii posts, I might come across [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/02/27/wii-in-a-league-of-its-own/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/01/08/google-fortunes-1-company-to-work-for/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/01/08/google-fortunes-1-company-to-work-for/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:58:29 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=200 Anyone who works at Google know it’s the best place to work. This was the first year Google was eligible for the list, and it shot to the #1 spot on Fortune Magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work for for 2007. I read the article to see if there was anything new I [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/01/08/google-fortunes-1-company-to-work-for/feed/ 7 http://takethu.com/blog/2006/09/04/crocodile-hunter-killed-by-stingray/ http://takethu.com/blog/2006/09/04/crocodile-hunter-killed-by-stingray/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:14:06 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=158 Stingray Pierced and killed Steve Irwin

While watching a tivo’d Grey’s Anatomy, I saw the commercial for the 11 o’clock news saying that Steve Irwin died. I couldn’t believe it so I had to rewind to make sure I wasn’t hearing things. Unfortunately, I was watching the show way past 11 so I missed [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2006/09/04/crocodile-hunter-killed-by-stingray/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/04/gas-saving-techniques/ http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/04/gas-saving-techniques/#comments Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:40:32 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=149 Since filling up my Honda Accord coupe costs $50+, I have had to modify my driving habits and they seem to help. With my previous tank of gas, I was getting 19/20 mpg, according to my GPS system’s trip information thingamabob. First, I tried to resist the urge to be Racer Chick, where I would [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/04/gas-saving-techniques/feed/ 2 http://takethu.com/blog/2006/03/14/more-pets-than-people-in-america/ http://takethu.com/blog/2006/03/14/more-pets-than-people-in-america/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:57:40 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=141 CNN: U.S. is a nation of 360 million — pets

Wow, there are 60 million more pets than people. I guess it’s due in part to people like me who have more pets than humans in the household. That number probably doesn’t include the number of pets waiting for homes.

My cats are going [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2006/03/14/more-pets-than-people-in-america/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2006/02/15/chinese-pairs-figure-skating-silver-medalists/ http://takethu.com/blog/2006/02/15/chinese-pairs-figure-skating-silver-medalists/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:20:11 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=69 http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olypairs15feb15,1,5601607.story?coll=la-headlines-sports

I admit I hadn’t planned to watch the Winter Olympics… my Tivo queue is out of control and I didn’t need to add more to it. But when a coworker mentioned that pairs figure skating was going to be on at night, I figured I’d tune in. When I did, it was the latter [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2006/02/15/chinese-pairs-figure-skating-silver-medalists/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/29/religous-wrong/ http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/29/religous-wrong/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:18:30 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=60 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html

A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of

“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”

“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/29/religous-wrong/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/28/interracial-love-scenes/ http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/28/interracial-love-scenes/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:16:13 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=59 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4609992/

From MSNBC, there’s this unconfirmed rumor that Denzel Washington…

“reportedly .. asked that love scenes between him and Mimi Rogers get cut from the 1989 flick “The Mighty Quinn” after the scenes drew howls of protests from black women during screenings.”

“Denzel Washington is concerned about the way audiences react to him in an [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/28/interracial-love-scenes/feed/ 0 http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/22/love-law-order/ http://takethu.com/blog/2004/04/22/love-law-order/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:41:51 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=55 http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/22/law.order/index.html

This article describes the writer’s addiction to Law & Order. My siblings and I can relate. When we’re at home, we can watch hour after hour of L&O, especially on TNT.