Guide to food expiration dates

As someone who's been guilty of moving expired cans & jars of food - pasta sauce, tinned meats, etc - clear across the country (the company was paying for the move, not me!), I think this would've been a handy reference to have: http://www.stilltasty.com/articles/view/5

Space exploration from your computer!

Ok, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time - an interactive Star Viewer that combines Google Earth & Hubble telescope images, as well as constellation outlines & satellite locations - you know, just in case you wanted to see if your "Men in Black" TV signal is ironically bouncing off Orion's Belt or something.

You can click on the list of galaxies to the left to zoom in on them, check the boxes at the top to show different features, and of course pan & zoom using the standard click-and-drag or navigation bars to get around. There are also some embedded videos. The one thing that seems to be missing is planets, but I may just not have found them yet (my geography is pretty iffy, even in spaaaaccee).

Enjoy!

A kind request

To Whom It May Concern:

Typos and the occasional auto-fill or T-9 errors aside, and assuming English is your first language, please learn the differences and appropriate usage of the following, and comply as soon as is humanly possible, in all communications:

* "your" vs. "you're"
* "their" vs. "they're" vs. "there"
* "its" vs. "it's"
* "whose" vs. "who's"
* "hear" vs. "here"
* "imply" vs. "infer"
* "hers" & "yours" do not have apostrophes

It's a short list, so your immediate attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated. You know who you are. And you're killing me.

Sincerest thanks.

Coveting new GHWT drums...

Have been coveting these new drums with the raised cymbals for both Rock Band & Guitar Hero World Tour play to take my playing to the next level:

Excited that they're finally available to purchase separately! Now just need a sugar daddy :)

Facebook public profile

So today I accidentally discovered my Facebook "public profile" page while signed out of the service... it's pretty incredible how much information is exposed to a general web search by default, even to those without an FB account:

* profile photo
* sample set of your friends
* sample list of pages you're a fan of: products, music, celebs & places


If you're like me and primarily use Facebook for your personal virtual life rather than a professional or similarly-edited profile, or you simply feel this is too much of a snapshot of your life & interests for general public consumption, or for many other reasons - you may want to adjust some of these privacy settings. To do so:

* hover over "Settings" in the FB header - click "Privacy"
* click "Search" on the privacy settings page
* on this page you can adjust which items are shown in any search, who is able to find you on FB, as well as select to enable or disable your public profile altogether.

Personally, I've become comfortable with having multiple searchable profiles out in the virtual world, but there was a time it freaked me out a little. I still like to have a bit of control over my online "personal brand" as you probably do, and have learned how to manage my LinkedIn and similar profiles for this purpose - and now Facebook as well.

Ask me how excited I am to ROOOCCCCKKK!!!

Guitar Hero Metallica ships 3/29 for PS3 and Xbox 360! The official press release from Red Octane conveninently lists the entire setlist (25 of them including "Fuel", "Master of Puppets", "One", "King Nothing", "Enter Sandman" which I am SUPER-excited to play) - and YES!! it's for the full band, so I get to attempt to channel Lars Ulrich on all of them and pound those (plastic, electronic) skins. Can. Not. Wait. Looking for a date to hold the house party right now...

“All Nightmare Long”
“Battery”
“Creeping Death”
“Disposable Heroes”
“Dyers Eve”
“Enter Sandman”
“Fade To Black”
“Fight Fire With Fire”
“For Whom The Bell Tolls”
“Frantic”
“Fuel”
“Hit The Lights”
“King Nothing”
“Master of Puppets”
“Mercyful Fate”
“No Leaf Clover”
“Nothing Else Matters”
“One”
“Orion”
“Sad But True”
“Seek And Destroy”
“The Memory Remains”
“The Shortest Straw”
“The Thing That Should Not Be”
“The Unforgiven”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Whiplash”

Complementing Metallica’s intensity are the following 21 rockin’ tracks personally chosen by the band:

Alice In Chains - “No Excuses”

Bob Seger - “Turn The Page (Live)”
Corrosion of Conformity - “Albatross”
Diamond Head - “Am I Evil?”
Foo Fighters - “Stacked Actors”
Judas Priest - “Hell Bent For Leather”
Kyuss - “Demon Cleaner”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Tuesdays Gone”
Machine Head - “Beautiful Mourning”
Mastodon - “Blood And Thunder”
Mercyful Fate - “Evil”
Michael Schenker Group - “Armed and Ready”
Motörhead - “Ace of Spades”
Queen - “Stone Cold Crazy”

Samhain - “Mother of Mercy”
Slayer - “War Ensemble”
Social Distortion - “Mommy's Little Monster (Live)”
Suicidal Tendencies - “War Inside My Head”
System of a Down - “Toxicity”
The Sword - "The Black River"
Thin Lizzy - “The Boys Are Back in Town”