The Lynnertic

There’s noone as Irish as Barack Obama

Collette — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:16:01 +0000

Irish TV presents Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys!

Open microphones reveal what conservative pundits really think about Sarah Palin

Collette — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:31:40 +0000

MSNBC’s Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy and Chuck Todd agree that McCain’s Gimmicky choice for VP means: his campaign is over. They’re all bummed out.

Who is Mike Murphy? Only McCain’s former campaign manager.

Silicon Valley, birthplace of electronic warfare.

Collette — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:57:02 +0000

The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Google Tech Talks
December, 18 2007
Speaker: Steve Blank

How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he works in? Silicon Valley. Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

Speaker: Steve Blank
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Engineering.

UFO lands near Las Vegas, NV

Collette — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:07:38 +0000

….only to be swept away within 17 minutes

KLAS-TV, Channel 8 covers the glowing, turquoise, oval-shaped UFO sighted near Las Vegas shortly after 3am August 3, 2008 local time (a timestamp of 08/03/08 0308 would be so very cool, wouldn’t it, but now I’m just being a geek.) Let’s all keep our fingers crossed for Bob on the River and wish him a safe return.

Wish you could just get lost for a while?

Collette — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:12:40 +0000

Part 1 of the season finale of Doctor Who airs in Britain this weekend, and the BBC is streaming all of the Season 4 episodes here.