Put this on my list of Things Forgot to watch as well…dang it!
A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the early morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The event is widely visible from the United States and Canada as well as South America, the Pacific Ocean, western Asia and Australia. During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon’s disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray.
An eclipse of the Moon can only take place at Full Moon, and only if the Moon passes through some portion of Earth’s shadow. The shadow is actually composed of two cone-shaped parts, one nested inside the other. The outer shadow or penumbra is a zone where Earth blocks some (but not all) of the Sun’s rays. In contrast, the inner shadow or umbra is a region where Earth blocks all direct sunlight from reaching the Moon.
If only part of the Moon passes through the umbra, a partial eclipse is seen. However, if the entire Moon passes through the umbral shadow, then a total eclipse of the Moon occurs. For more information on how, what, why, where and when of lunar eclipses, see the special web page lunar eclipses for beginners.
More info: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/lunar.html
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What the hell? I missed it?! I thought the live show was coming on tonight!?
I just heard from my wife that they are showing it on MTV right now but she changed it so that we can watch it later tonight. But I got to thinking…how can they show it live tonight and its showing right now? Yeah, I got that all messed up! Thank god for MTV repeats. :)
Anyway, here are the winners to MTV’s Making the Band 4:
Willie
Robert
Brian A
Mike
Qwanell
Donnie
Donnie – Signed for Solo?
Congrats to the winners and also congrats to me for missing the show.
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That’s right, WebTurd.com turned 3 years old. It seems like it was just yesterday when that little phrase popped in my mind and I thought…hey, I have to register that domain name!
I just wanted to say thanks to the loyal fans that keep coming back for more and I am glad that you click on my ads. Hehehe.
What does the future hold for webturd.com? Who the hell knows? :)
Take a trip back into time and check out how webturd.com evolved: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.webturd.com
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Many of you have been experiencing the connection issue with Skype over the past few days. Unless you are not digging around their website for answers, you wouldn’t know what is going on.
Here is some info that I discovered on what happened:
"This problem occurred because of a deficiency in an algorithm within
Skype networking software. This controls the interaction between the
user?s own Skype client and the rest of the Skype network"
Here is the latest:
"An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know
we?re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we
were yesterday.
Finally, we?d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still
hearing. Neither Wednesday?s planned maintenance of our web-based
payment services nor any form of attack was related to the current
sign-on issues in any way."
More information can be found here on this page: http://heartbeat.skype.com/
It would be helpful if Skype put something on their homepage that when right to that info. In anger, I uninstalled Skype yesterday but then reinstalled after I calmed down a little.
During the writing of this article, my Skype finally connected…none of my contacts are online yet though.
EDIT: Right before publishing this article, Skype took another crap…WTF SKYPE?!
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I thought that there was an usual amount of shooting stars last Saturday night. I counted a total of 6 within about 3 hours but I had no idea that we were supposed to be having a meteor shower…I just thought that it was my lucky night and was making wish after wish.
Supposedly, the meteor shower was supposed to reach its peak last night at about 1am…I was only seeing the beginning.
Here are some articles on the showers in case you missed out:
" Perseids meteor shower hits the Earth?s atmosphere tonight which
will be happening for several days and they peak almost always in
mid-August. The best time to catch the meteor showers is starting late
tonight and early Monday morning.
Other names for the meteor showers are shooting stars, or falling
stars. They really are not stars at all. The dirt and dust debris of
the meteors catch on fire as they enter the Earth?s atmosphere causing
the appearance as if a star was falling.
You can still see more on Monday night, but there will be less
meteor showers than tonight. Astronomers are predicting approxiametely
60 meteors an hour to fly into the sky during the peak of the shower. "
Article Source: http://www.bestsyndication.com/…meteor-showers-schedule-calendar-peak-hours.htm
More articles: http://news.google.com/…=meteor+shower…
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Just a quick heads up that we launched a new section on webturd.com called "Game Trailers".
This section works with feeds from www.gametrailers.com and you are able to view the latest and greatest game trailers right here on the site.
Grab your popcorn and head over to the new section: http://www.webturd.com/component/option,com_gametrailers/Itemid,102/
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After about a year in the making, the Grow A Ghoul guide has been launched!
Forget about those high-priced Halloween yard
props and those silly inflatable Halloween balloons! Try something different and Grow A
Ghoul this year!
I have been building my own Halloween yard props for about 5
years now and have finally mastered it. This guide will show you how to easily
grow your own ghoul that you can display for years to come. Save your money
and do it yourself with this guide.
This is a step by step Halloween guide (13 pages), Halloween ebook or Halloween eguide that will show you how to make awesome Halloween yard props. It will explain everything in detail so that you get the most out of this instructional guide.
These do-it-yourself Halloween decorations will be the scary halloween props that you have 
been looking for. Halloween crafting has never been easier. Impress your friends and scare your neighbors this Halloween season!
The Grow A Ghoul Guide was written, illustrated and published by myself so don’t expect to see any jibberish…just plain instructions so that you can understand and fun at the same time.
This download is a PDF file that is viewable on a PC. Adobe PDF Reader is required.
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