When you open this link, there is an image from the final episode. I tried to close my eyes as fast as I could, but I glimpsed it!!

I promise that in one week from now I will have seen the last two episodes and I’ll stop with the obsessive Lost stuff. Hopefully.

One more episode to go! Which means one more episode until I stop posting Lost articles & I will just read them right away :)

I’ll be honest. I’m a complete, freakly fanatic about Lost. And there are only a two episodes left for me to watch (only one left to air). And I’m so worried that every possible article may spoil things for me, I don’t actually read these Lost articles that I’m linking to. But the reason why I keep posting them, is to keep an archive of Lost articles that I want to read once the series is complete.

So….. check this one out from Wired.com, because I won’t (yet):
Storyboard: Unraveling Lost’s Island Paradox

I always thought that graduating from college essentially equals “old.”

Apparently, finishing grad school equals “fogie.”

Not really. At least the article doesn’t say that. But I am DEFINITELY not 35 (see above article), roughly a decade younger (more or less than a decade is left to guesswork), and I have a superior hate for the new “like” feature, AND I’d rather be a fogie than “like” a whole bunch of random shit.

As I am boycotting Arizona and all things Arizona-related, I am also boycotting Facebook’s coup d’éta to overtake the entire Internet.

F both of them.

Wired.com reports that Facebook CEO apparently “doesn’t believe in privacy” in this article:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/report-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-believe-in-privacy/

I really enjoyed the article; particularly the reflections on Facebook’s recent attempt to take over the web with the new “Like” button.

If you’re caught up on Lost, I would check it out:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html

It is baffling to see how many of our top military and political leaders spend creating or watching PowerPoint presentations. And I thought my stint with PowerPoint was limited to semester-end presentations… Apparently, I was horribly mistaken.

UPDATE 1.0: I was discussing this NYT PowerPoint article with my co-workers and we made quite a few jokes at PowerPoint’s expense. A few of my fav’s:
“At one point I was the Vice Chancellor of PowerPoint” <-- probably only funny to those who work for a University, but I am one of those so I found it hilarious
"Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely"

UPDATE 1.3: Google that last quote, Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely, and the first search result is a Wired article from 2003 titled "PowerPoint is Evil.”

Check out Gentry’s work on Flickr or check out the article about Gentry on Wired.com.

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It took about a week to receive our streaming DVD (for PS3) when we requested it, but we haven’t had a major problem yet. The only instance (problem) that I can think of is Season 1 of TV show Jericho. The first few episodes play properly, and then the rest of the season doesn’t have any sound. But that was over a month ago — it could be fixed by now — and it was just that particular season of that particular TV show.

Elsewhere on the web I’ve seen that people are having issues with their Netflix streaming DVDs. Truly, I feel very bad for them because we’ve never had any issues (besides said issue with Jericho Season 1) and I use the streaming DVD every single day. Crazy, right? But it’s true. After work I come home and I do my exercise videos using the Netflix streaming DVD and usually watch a movie or TV show sometime after dinner. It’s great. I’m a HUGE advocate.

/* ——- UPDATE ——- */
Article in NYT today, “Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video” adds that the Wii gaming system is not powerful enough to play the Netflix Instant Watch movies that are HD. It does note that:

“the Wii’s unusual interface, as well as the specifications of its hardware, created technical challenges to getting the service to work properly.”

It will be interesting to see how well the Netflix streaming DVD works on a Wii.

This makes me happy because I lean towards the crazy ramblings of conspiracy theorists and I think only bad things will come from a national ID card. Between my passport, Driver’s License, Staff ID badge, marriage license, Social Security card, Credit Cards, etc.,…is it really that hard to tell who I am? And whether or not I’m a threat to national security? Well, the proponents of the national ID card say that the 9/11 bombers used Virginia Driver’s Licenses to board the planes, so we need higher ID security. I get that. I really do. But I don’t think that a national ID card will be anymore effective in stopping airplane hijackings than a state driver’s license.

Anyways, the other stipulation that Wired’s article mentions is that (before pushing the deadline back another year) effective Jan. 1 persons would not be able to board any airplanes with a driver’s license if their state did not comply with the Real ID program. Craziness. Well, I’m just happy that it has been delayed again and hopefully (from my point of view) it will never come into existence.