Neall Alcott

One more for the night – this one is country. But wait! It’s good.

Here’s another indie song from Blues Tom. It’s pretty good…

Here’s some indie music from a couple of guys that are writing a musical called AmokOpera. This song is called Stick. It’s pretty good/funny. BEWARE: naughty words are present! Enjoy…

If you are a reader of the New York Times, you have probably seen this strange reference to “Al Qaeda in Iraq” as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia”. My assumption is/was that they refuse to acknowledge that Al Qaeda is in Iraq, so they use this historical reference to blur the line. Last Thursday night I [...]

I hope they find something on Republican Ted Stevens. He’s probably the worst offender of pork and earmarks in the US Senate. The sponsor of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere“. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that he’s corrupted… It won’t effect the balance of the US Senate, since the Democrats already [...]

Back in Feb 2006, police officers from my township pulled over a car for going through a stop sign. They struggled and the suspect charged police brutality. Of course, the video in the patrol car captured the whole thing (it’s about 14 minutes long). After the scuffle (about midway through) it’s kind of comical – [...]

I’m on the Philadelphia Phillies email list. It’s useful since they’ll occasionally do Internet ticket specials like buy-one-get-one-free. And you get some news too… like this: Subject: Phils add depth to starting rotation ================================================== PHILLIES NEWS ================================================== PHILLIES ACQUIRE LOHSE Looking to add depth to the starting rotation, the Phillies obtained right-handed pitcher Kyle Lohse [...]

Michael Totten has a new article where he accompanies some US soldiers on a nightime raid in Baghdad. Baghdad Raid Night

Since this man basically built my house, I’m still interested in hearing what he has to say about technology. He’s stepping down from a day-to-day role at Microsoft next year and this article discusses it: Microsoft’s Gates Plans Leave Amid Great Change – New York Times In light of the success of the iPod, Treo, [...]

Here’s an interesting article about the Iraq War in the New York Times noting progress due to the surge. Read the whole thing… A War We Just Might Win – New York Times

All I can say is “WOW!” – I could have said “Ay caramba!” or “Excellent…” but why push it? I haven’t seriously watched the TV show in 5 years or so, so when I heard they were going to the silverscreen I was skeptical that anyone would bother. I took my son Jake to see [...]

This whole story sounds like a bunch of bunk. I haven’t seen any concrete evidence and from the reports it sounds like a rumour that is getting reported as fact. To top it off (pun intended), this article from MSNBC has the following “fact”: Despite official denials of drinking before Russian flights to the space [...]

Here’s a post on One Track Mind about the Beatles’ song called “Hey Bulldog”. This is one of my favorite Beatles songs. I think one of the reasons why is that it’s a relatively unknown song (at least compared to the rest of their catalog). There is also a cool video of the Beatles in [...]

A new article from Michael Yon. Interesting discussion on the structure of US forces and some of the technology (i.e., drones) they are using… from small to medium to large. Michael Yon : Bird’s Eye View

Interesting… looks like the Microsoft – Google war is starting to heat up: Digg fires Google, hires Microsoft for online ads