blainegarrett

One foot in the hustle and bustle of the wonderful Twin Cities and the other foot deeply planted in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. I suppose "urban lumberjack" might be the appropriate term. I am a recent Computer Science and Art graduate from The University of Minnesota. By day I am a web developer for this here site, and by night I am the Executive Director of TC based Adamantine Arts as well as an aspiring artist, musician, and experimental cook. I am working on being involved more in the community here, so please consider me to be just another member. I usually am interested in art, music, politics, and humor stories. Yup, so that is me in a nutshell. Word.

Website: http://blainegarrett.com/

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Killer robots pose latest militant threat: expert
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Killer robots pose latest militant threat: expert

News – Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (74) (news.yahoo.com) 130 days ago by STONERS

Voted for on February 27, 2008 11:36am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / No sinks

Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo

Gadgets & Tech – This morning, Richard Branson's spaceship startup Virgin Galactic unveiled the second design of its suborbital vehicles... Branson suggests that if Virgin Galactic can prove the commercial viability of space flight, it will unlock a "wall of investment that could rival the amount invested in mobile or the Internet."

View Story Discuss (1) (techcrunch.com) 165 days ago by Jordan

Voted for on January 23, 2008 12:11pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 28 votes / No sinks

Tiger escapes S.F. zoo cage and kills 1

News – Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its zoo enclosure on Christmas Day - killing one man and mauling two others - plan a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 193 days ago by Marengo

Voted for on December 26, 2007 11:10am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / No sinks

Woman on Accused of Groping Connecticut Mall Santa While on His Lap

News – Santa Claus says that a woman who sat on his lap was naughty, not nice. A Santa at the Danbury Fair mall said the woman groped him.

View Story Discuss (1) (foxnews.com) 201 days ago by cmetzger4

Voted for on December 18, 2007 02:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 58 votes / No sinks

Poll : What are 7 characteristics of humankind

Art & Design – Hi Propellerheads! Help me out with my new painting series and describe 7 characteristics of what separates humankind from other species.

View Story Discuss (2) (blainegarrett.com) 211 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on December 07, 2007 06:25pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / No sinks

Because Now it Really Hurts! - Anti-Smoking Blog

Do-It-Yourself – I want to quit for my health. I have no pulse in my legs and my doctor says I'm going to need surgery. But he won't even consider operating until I quit smoking. Besides this, I have had throat polyps removed and all of my doctors say I have to stop smoking.

View Story Discuss (10) (anti-smoke.com) 214 days ago by antecs2

Voted for on December 05, 2007 02:52pm Commented on 1 time: 1

Thanks To Friends At Propeller.com
This story has mostly positive ratings. 133 votes / 5 sinks

Thanks To Friends At Propeller.com

Do-It-Yourself – This one is just a little show of appreciation for those that participate, share stories, vote on stories, visit blogs, and comment on stories submitted at social networking sites like propeller.com. And it's also a shout out to those who put up with all the stories I submit.

View Story Discuss (37) (blogcontentprovider.com) 221 days ago by namecritic

Voted for on November 28, 2007 01:20pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 47 votes / No sinks

'Futurama' Is Back! Grab a Can of Slurm and Settle In

Television – Set in the year 3000, Futurama's interstellar sci-fi future isn't a shiny utopia like The Jetsons or a dark dystopia like Blade Runner. It's a time that seems wonderful or awful depending on how you look at it -- just like the present.

View Story Discuss (7) (wired.com) 222 days ago by corey.spring

Voted for on November 27, 2007 04:02pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks

MD5 My Passwords, for f*ck's sake

Gadgets & Tech – A quick note on proper online password securities using MD5 hashes. Those who do not use this are idiots.

View Story Discuss (2) (blog.jeffkee.com) 473 days ago by jeffkee

Voted for on November 20, 2007 05:55pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 59 votes / No sinks

Google as a Password Cracker?

Gadgets & Tech – While doing forensics, I thought it would be interesting to find out the account password. Wordpress stores raw MD5 hashes in the user database (despite my recommendation to use salting). As with any respectable hash function, it is believed to be computationally infeasible to discover the input of MD5 from an output.

View Story Discuss (14) (lightbluetouchpaper.org) 229 days ago by tdrapeau

Voted for on November 20, 2007 05:49pm Commented on 1 time: 1

AWOL soldier seeking treatment arrested
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AWOL soldier seeking treatment arrested

Do No Evil – A soldier who served two combat tours in Iraq was arrested Wednesday for leaving the Army without permission more than a year ago to seek treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. Sgt. Brad Gaskins said he left the base in August 2006 because the Army wasn't providing effective treatment after he was diagnosed with PTSD and severe depression.

View Story Discuss (244) (news.yahoo.com) 234 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on November 15, 2007 02:24pm

Netscape Messenger 9 Alpha Released
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Netscape Messenger 9 Alpha Released

Gadgets & Tech – We are pleased to announce the availability of the first public alpha of Netscape Messenger 9, a mail and news client, to complement the Netscape Navigator Web browser.

View Story Discuss (4) (blog.netscape.com) 234 days ago by cfinke

Voted for on November 15, 2007 02:20pm Commented on 1 time: 1

U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases
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U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases

Health & Fitness – More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year, the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. The count broke the single-year record for reported cases of a sexually transmitted disease, which was 1,013,436 cases of gonorrhea, set in 1978.

View Story Discuss (132) (news.yahoo.com) 236 days ago by Aidenag

Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / 2 sinks

Why do people still play Halo 1?

Video Games – What makes Halo's multiplayer so popular and enduring? Ever since Halo debuted as a launch title for the Xbox in 2001, the series has consistently been the most popular multiplayer title in the first-person shooter genre.

View Story Discuss (7) (advancedmn.com) 280 days ago by TheVisionary

Commented on 1 time: 1

Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in 'Halo 3'
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Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in 'Halo 3'

Video Games – "A lot of teenage kids out there play dozens of hours of multiplayer Halo a week. They thus become insanely good at the game: They can kill me with a single head shot from halfway across a map. I can't do those things. So after a few weeks of this ritual humiliation, I got sick of it. And I devised a simple technique for revenge..." [via

View Story Discuss (18) (wired.com) 244 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on November 05, 2007 03:56pm Commented on 1 time: 1