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.
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News – Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday.
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Voted for on February 27, 2008 11:36am
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."
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Voted for on January 23, 2008 12:11pm
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.
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Voted for on December 26, 2007 11:10am
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.
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Voted for on December 18, 2007 02:44pm
Art & Design – Hi Propellerheads! Help me out with my new painting series and describe 7 characteristics of what separates humankind from other species.
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Voted for on December 07, 2007 06:25pm
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.
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Voted for on December 05, 2007 02:52pm
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.
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Voted for on November 28, 2007 01:20pm
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.
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Voted for on November 27, 2007 04:02pm
Gadgets & Tech – A quick note on proper online password securities using MD5 hashes. Those who do not use this are idiots.
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Voted for on November 20, 2007 05:55pm
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.
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Voted for on November 20, 2007 05:49pm
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.
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Voted for on November 15, 2007 02:24pm
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.
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Voted for on November 15, 2007 02:20pm
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
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Voted for on November 05, 2007 03:56pm
Science – We plant them in our gardens, grow them in our houses, and buy them from the local greenhouses. But what you don't know may hurt you. Some flowers are more fatal than you think!
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Voted for on November 02, 2007 03:56pm
Art & Design – The amazing technoviking story. The challenge of one man trapped in an era he doesn't belong protecting the people of his future native lands and also dancing to techno.
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Voted for on November 01, 2007 03:00pm