Fail2Care.COM

A co-worker of mine saw that I was eating a steak and bacon sandwich and asked me if steak-bacon (if it was real) would be my favorite food ever.

I replied to him that it would indeed be my favorite mythical food and that I would treasure it always.

He then asked me if I would marry Steak-Bacon.

I told him “Yes” and every question about Steak-Bacon would also be an affirmative.

I told him I would not only marry Steak-Bacon, I would introduce it to my parents and meet Steak-Bacons parents as well.

That is when he realized what I was up to.

He accused me of only agreeing to meet Steak-Bacons’ parents with the intent eating them.

I admitted it. He asked me if Steak-Bacon and I would have children and if I would even think of eating them.

To that I replied “No.”, I would not eat my Steak-Bacon children but what I would do is support them and hope that someday they would meet someone special, preferrably Gravy so that they could produce grandbabies made from Steak-Bacon and Gravy.

And then I would eat them.

Finally when my dear co-worker decided to get a little personal with his line of questions he asked, “Would you spoon your Steak-Bacon?”.

And thats when I told him…
“You don’t spoon Steak-Bacon…you fork the sh*t out of it.”

The KDE development community announced yesterday the first KDE 4.1 alpha release. Although the alpha has a lot of bugs and rough edges, it gives users a very promising first look at the KDE 4.1 feature set. We tested KDE 4.1 by installing it from Stephan Binner’s openSUSE LiveCD, which is available for download from his web site.

The open-source KDE desktop environment is built on top of Trolltech’s Qt development toolkit. One of the most significant changes in KDE 4.1 is the adoption of Qt 4.4, a new version of the toolkit which includes important features such as a built-in WebKit-based HTML rendering widget and support for placing widgets on canvases. These features will bring some new capabilities to KDE’s Plasma desktop shell.

Although the number of plasmoids has grown a bit since the initial release, the third-party plasmoid scene isn’t very diverse yet. Qt’s new built-in WebKit HTML renderer could potentially reduce the barriers to entry for plasmoid development in KDE 4.1 by making it possible to create fully functional plasmoids with JavaScript and HTML. Qt’s newly-added support for widgets on canvases will also likely reduce the complexity of developing certain kinds of plasmoids. KDE 4.1 will have some other nice additions that will also help expand the ecosystem. In the new alpha release, Plasma has preliminary support for SuperKaramba and Mac OS X Dashboard widgets. Users can import these and add them to their desktops alongside regular plasmoids.

In alpha 1, users can add and remove Plasma desktop panels with simple context menu items. Plasma theming support is also much better now and is accessible through the desktop configuration dialog. Changing between themes doesn’t seem to be fully implemented yet, but previews of the themes are selectable and displayed in a combo box.

Although Qt 4.4 brings a lot of nice advances to Plasma’s power and versatility, the transition has been bumpy and brings with it some serious regressions that will have to be addressed. Plasma in the alpha release is extremely fragile and crashes often. There are also some features from KDE 4.02 that have been temporarily lost or broken. For instance, support for vertically-oriented panels appears to be inoperable right now.

This alpha release marks the start of the 4.1 feature freeze, so virtually all of the remaining developer effort between now and the official 4.1 release in July will focus on bug-fixing, polish, and stability. Despite the current breakage, the actual feature set that has been stubbed out for this release is pretty darn good. If the developers can deliver on all of this functionality and make it stable and robust, version 4.1 will offer a much better overall user experience than 4.0, and Plasma will come close to achieving functional parity with the KDE 3.5.x panel system.

There are a lot of other really cool things planned for 4.1, like the first release of the KDE 4 PIM suite. For a full overview of new features planned for the 4.1 release, check out the specification at the KDE Techbase wiki.

CHICAGO — David Blaine set a new world record Wednesday for breath-holding, 17 minutes and 4 seconds.

The feat was broadcast live during The Oprah Winfrey Show and the studio audience cheered as divers pulled the 35-year-old magician from a water-filled sphere.

Blaine looked relaxed afterward and said the record was “a lifelong dream.”

The previous record was 16 minutes and 32 seconds, set Feb. 10 by Switzerland’s Peter Colat, according to Guinness World Records.

Before he entered the sphere, Blaine inhaled pure oxygen through a mask to saturate his blood with oxygen and flush out carbon dioxide.

Guinness says up to 30 minutes of so-called “oxygen hyperventilation” is allowed under its guidelines.

Previously, Blaine was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York and spent more than a month suspended from a glass box by the River Thames in London.