This is a long documentary created by an American Muslim.  He warns of radical Islam.  Radical Islam is a threat but it is enabled by Islam as a whole.  The Koran is what motiviates radical muslims.    As long as muslims believe that the Koran is the word and the will of God the West needs to approach Islam as a threat as dangerous as the fascist powers of WWII.

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.”  C.S. Lewis

Ran across this joke the other day…

“We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” said the bartender.

A neutrino walks into a bar.

(Author unknown)

No, it is not photoshopped.

U.S. President Barack Obama waves while standing with other leaders during the Open Government Partnership event at the United Nations September 20 in New York City. The United Nations General Assembly kicks off September 21, with leaders from around the world attending.

From… http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7862290-barack-obama-joins-open-government-partnership-for-group-photo

No actual men (or their preferences) were referenced in this article.

Men?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904900904576554380686494012.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_editorsPicks_2

One of the first computers that I owned, back in the early 1980s, was a TI99/4a.  I was single, in the Army, had my own place off base with quite a bit of time on my hands.  I liked to tinker around with programming but was too poor to buy a storage device to allow me to save my work.  I spent hours typing in code that accomplished the most mundane tasks.  When I turned off the computer I lost all of the work I had done.  Eventually I managed to scrounge up enough money to buy a game cartridge.  I purchased Tunnels of Doom.  It is the type of game that people these days call a dungeon crawler.

Tunnels of Doom

I spent a lot of hours moving a pixelated-looking guy through hours of colored tunnels fighting pixelated-looking monsters.  The graphics were terrible, the sound effects were poor, the song that played as the game loaded seared into my brain in such a manner that I can still hum it after 30 years.

Part of the game’s code was located on a cassette tape.  I had to purchase a cassette player and a special cable in order to load the entire game into the computer’s memory.

I still have my original TI99/4a computer.  Somehow it stayed with me over the years.  A couple of years ago I pulled it out to see if it still worked and found that it worked perfectly.  I managed to find a cassette player at Goodwill and was able to run Tunnels of Doom.  I was surprised that the cassette tape was readable after 30 years.  You can purchase old Tunnels of Doom cartridges on Ebay, but you will rarely see the cassette portion of the program.  Magnetic tape doesn’t last forever.  Eventually all of the Tunnels of Doom cassettes will die from old age and then there will no way play the game.

With this in mind I decided to try and digitize the cassette in order to preserve it for those who might want to run the game sometime in the future.  I remember hearing (back in the 1980s) that the cassettes were copy protected.  During the process of digitizing the tape I was able to use software to bypass the protection.  I am not going to explain how I accomplished the feat in this post.  It would require to much typing.  But I will explain the process to anyone who is interested, if they send me an email.

Below are links to download the files of both games that were included on the cassette, Pennies and Prizes and Quest of the King.  I tested both recordings and they worked in place of the original cassette.  The volume, during input, has to be within a certain range in order for the TI99 to read it.  If you have trouble loading the sound file try adjusting the volume level of the device feeding the sound into the TI99.  I used my Mac laptop to play the sound files and fed them into the TI99 using a 3.5 inch connecter from the Mac headphone jack to the TI99′s input jack.

Quest of the King (36.6 MB, WAV format)

Pennies and Prizes (38.4 MB, WAV format)