News from Gabe

Eltolad in 3D: NCWC is over, Baby's coming soon, and tons of great things going on!
From my sons blog, enjoy his escapades in Indonesia.

Google Image Labs

Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.

Google Image Labeler

Looks like an interesting way to spend some time that you would be doing nothing. You can sign in as guest or as your Google acount name.

No God in Veggie Tales - say it is not so!

Had he known how much he would have to change the show -- including Bob and Larry's tagline, "Remember kids, God made you special and he loves you very much," that concludes each episode -- Vischer said he would not have signed on for the network deal.

CNN.com - God references quashed; 'VeggieTales' creator steamed - Sep 22, 2006

Veggie Tales without a reference to God! This is just totaly insane!!!

CNN.com - Criticism doesn't crash ABC miniseries - Sep 10, 2006

CNN.com - Criticism doesn't crash ABC miniseries - Sep 10, 2006:

"'And if you don't like the hits to the Clinton administration, well, welcome to the club,' Lehman said. 'The Republicans have lived with Michael Moore and Oliver Stone and most of Hollywood as a fact of life.'"

No truer words were ever spoken. Why did ABC bend to pressure when pressure was not put on Michael Moore to change his lies. Sorry, what you sow, you shall reap.

T-Shirts and beliefs

Got this as part of an email from Integrity Music:

Hearts On Our Shirts

On a recent trip to the supermarket, I counted 17 people of all ages wearing T-shirts that proclaimed brand names, ideas, opinions and beliefs. And I wondered what, if anything, those words meant to the people wearing them. I was reminded of Deuteronomy 11:18-21: "So commit yourselves completely to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands as a reminder...Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away on a journey, when you are lying down and when you are getting up again. Write them on the doorposts of your house...so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish...." Whether we wear it on a T-shirt or not, what a wonderful promise that, as we grow in our knowledge of God's Word, He will cause our lives to flourish and thrive in Him!

I had never really thought that the T-shirt that I wear was part of what Deut 11 was telling the Hebrew people to do. If you are a Christian, does wearing a t-shirt with a bar on it(Eskimo Joes, Planet Hollywood) sound like a good thing to do, or how those that come from Abercrombie and Finch.

To paraphrase a credit card comercial "What's on you shirt?"

Techworld.com - zCodec promises video, delivers nasties

Techworld.com - zCodec promises video, delivers nasties:

"Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not just be in danger from media lawyers. Security firm Panda Software last week warned that zCodec, which claims to offer 'up to 40 percent better (video) quality,' is in fact an adware program that can install Trojans, rootkits and other malicious software."

If it sounds to good to be true.......

Kill a Smiley

Kill a Smiley

If it only was so simple in real life

CBS to use Bluetooth wireless to market new shows | Tech News on ZDNet

CBS to use Bluetooth wireless to market new shows | Tech News on ZDNet:

"Starting in September, people will be able to download short video clips of five CBS prime-time shows onto their cell phones or PDAs (personal digital assistants) from billboards in New York City's Grand Central Station, according to a Wall Street Journal article published Thursday."

While this is a little scary, it would appear that the people are going to have to request it rather than have it being forced on them. Otherwise we would have a bunch of people just saying receive it so that it will stop asking like the way some viruses spread.
What is it with CBS this year, first eggs, now this???

CNN.com - Morning-after pill to be available without prescription - Aug 24, 2006

CNN.com - Morning-after pill to be available without prescription - Aug 24, 2006:

"The compromise decision is a partial victory for women's advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation's 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity."

It is a fairly well established fact that the unplanned pregnancy birthrate increased after the pill was introduced. I cannot see how giving a person a chance to take a pill to make it all better will be any different.
Our society is in a 'take a pill' mode. Let's get to the real problem behind the situation, not a quick fix. I have no problem with rape victims using a pill like this, but over the counter is different.

Home Depot for August Project

For August, the Home Depot had a Pencil Box to take to school. We worked real hard on it, hamering, and sanding, maybe even some glue. Mom helped and we have some other pictures up at my picassa site. We had a lot of fun. Next month we make a Bird House.

Judge to lawyers: Play the game - Jun. 7, 2006

Judge to lawyers: Play the game - Jun. 7, 2006:

"NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Faced with the inability of two bickering attorneys to resolve even the most innocuous scheduling questions without his intervention, a Florida federal judge yesterday ordered the two to meet on the steps of the federal courthouse and resolve their latest quarrel by playing 'one (1) game of 'rock, paper, scissors.' ' (Read the ruling.)"

Looks like my little ones favorite game has hit the big time!

Bible and Blood: an ad by the gay community - Adpunch

Bible and Blood: an ad by the gay community - Adpunch:

"An advertisement recently published in a leading newspaper has shown a Bible next to a pool of blood and it is carrying the headline, ‘In the name of the father’. Scotland Yard, which is carrying out the enquiry, will concentrate on whether the ad constitutes faith crime."

You go to the web site and tell me what you think. If this is not a faith crime then there is no faith and/or crime. Why is it ok when the other side does it but not when Christians do things. Nicky Cruz almost got his outreach shut down in London because he said the homosexual life style is wrong. Now this?????

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks | Tech News on ZDNet

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks | Tech News on ZDNet:

"The malicious JavaScript can be embedded in a Web page and will run without warning when the page is viewed in any ordinary browser, the researchers said. It will bypass security measures such as a firewall because it runs through the user's browser, they said.

'We have discovered a technique to scan a network, fingerprint all the Web-enabled devices found and send attacks or commands to those devices,' said Billy Hoffman, lead engineer at Web security specialist SPI Dynamics. 'This technique can scan networks protected behind firewalls such as corporate networks.'"

And just how are we supposed to protect against this. Maybe it is time to shut off the computer. Nahhhhh I will just stay away from bad web sites.

Cartoon Network Develops Online Game: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Cartoon Network Develops Online Game: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance:

"The Cartoon Network is developing a 'massively' multiplayer online game in the vein of 'World of Warcraft' and 'EverQuest' for kids 6 to 14.

The yet-to-be-named game, expected to launch in 2008, will let players interact with Cartoon Network characters like Mac, Bloo and the Kids Next Door."

Can you say "Neopets competition"? I guess if something works, you steal the idea. Here the combine World of Warcraft with Neotpets. I shudder to think of the results.

Which one do you think is the bigger kid?

So just which one is the bigger kid?

New Monopoly game uses debit card, no cash - Yahoo! News:

"A British version of the classic Monopoly board game released this week substitutes a Visa-imprinted debit card for the stacks of yellow, blue and purple play money long hoarded by children worldwide."

In the new British version of Monopoly Here & Now, players type amounts into a palm-sized scanner and swipe their debit cards to seal the deal.

Guess the term for counterfit money that I used for so long 'Monopoly Money' will have to go out as well. Does this mean that a counterfeit credit card will be a 'Monopoly Visa'

Those Who Do Not Learn from History...

This was weird looking at and seeing what was back then, and where we have come from...

CBS Hopes to Beat Other Networks With Ad

CBS Hopes to Beat Other Networks With Ad:

"More than 35 million eggs will be marked with phrases such as 'CSI: Crack the Case on CBS' and 'The Class, New Grade-A CBS Comedy' as part of a deal between the CBS Marketing Group and EggFusion, an egg-coding company."

I am really sure that this idea is kind of cracked-up. Oh, did I really say that. Oh well, hope you got the yoke.

Gays accused of discrimination in resort town - Yahoo! News

Gays accused of discrimination in resort town - Yahoo! News:

"Gay-marriage advocates have set up a Web site -- www.knowthyneighbor.org -- that publishes the names of people who have signed the petition, including at least two locals in Provincetown who say they have been singled out and verbally abused by gays since their names appeared on the Web site."

I guess tolerance is a one way street. If you want tolerance, you have to give tolerance IMHO. Of course I am now a redneck from Oklahoma instead of the Yankee I used to be.

Online 'advergames' target kids - Games - MSNBC.com

Online 'advergames' target kids - Games - MSNBC.com

Let me give you a clue parents (as one who has them from 8 to 26), the computer has an off switch. Shut it off, take out the plug and hide it, whatever. Tell the kids to go out and play, take them to the library and get a good book to read. Let's not blame the new one-eyed monster for all of the worlds ills like our parents tried to do woth the TV.