Explorer Destroyer

I've been feeling kinda sick the last few days, so when I got home from work the other day I went straight to sleep. It felt really good but since I was still used to getting six or so hours of sleep a night I ended up waking up at 2am. I decided that since I was up I might as well surf the net for a while.

I came across an interesting article on BoingBoing which talked about a site called Kill Bill's Browser. It was a list of reasons why people should switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Not really that funny but it did have the Steve "I'll Fucking Kill Google" Balmer video where he's screaming developers over and over again, that's always good for a chuckle.

As I've mentioned before I'm a pretty big advocate of switching people off of Internet Explorer so I was interested in a link to a site called Explorer Destroyer. As you may have noticed there is a new button on the sidebar advertising that site and if you were using IE to get to my site (tsk tsk) then you would have had to go through a pop-up asking you to switch.

Explorer Destroyer offers a pretty interesting deal: You sign up for google adsense and put this script and link on your page. The script detects for IE and gives you a pop-up if you are using it. Every time a person switches over because of your pop-up you get some cash. Being the good Firefox-Zealot that I am I put the script on the page but I did not sign up for the adsense part of it.

I've heard some horror stories about google adsense not recognising ligimiate clicks and refusing to pay the site owners and because of stories like that I don't want to support google with their adsense program. I do like how google is making a major effort to take Microsoft down a notch and I think sponsering a program like this is awesome but I'll do google a favor and let them keep the cash.

Sim Ant Eat Your Heart Out

So a while ago a few of my friends and I ended up scoring this awesome paid internship. Now besides all the bitches and platinum Bentleys we were able to premptivly waste a shit load of cash at thinkgeek.

This is what I got.
Pretty sweet eh?

The only major drawback was that it didn't come with ants and the weather had started to turn a bit brisk so there were no ants to be found. I ended up having to order some ants from Life Studies. It was only $4.00 including shipping for about 25 ants. The problem was that Canadian customs have this thing about live animals being shipped inside an envelope. As such it took nearly 3 weeks for the ants to finally arrive; only half of them made it across the boarder.

After I put them into their home I tried to clean out some of the dead ones and the little buggers made a break for it. I was able to contain a few of them by keeping them running on my hands but that didn't last too long. You see, I didn't get regular ants, I got Western Harvester Ants and little did I know that they have stingers.

Since when do ants have stingers?

It only took them a few minutes until they found a soft spot on the palm of my hand and boy oh boy did it ever swell up.


That's when the ant Holocaust occurred.

Since then the ants have been more cooperative and quite productive. They have dug them selves many little tunnels and it's looking pretty impressive. It's pretty neat to see them haul out their dead and bury them with the gel and how they will rescue any ants that some how get trapped.