January 2012
19 posts
Warner Brothers Acquires Tad Williams Sci-Fi... →
One of my favorite series of books - I read these in high school and have gone back to them a couple times since then. I hope they do this well.
“But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google....”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero. (via thisistheverge)
I am not a hacker. →
stryker:
But in my recent research, I’ve talked with a lot of them. Not just the “lololol we r legion” kind either. The real deal. Guys who now work for McAfee or run their own security contracting firms. When I asked them about whether further government restrictions on internet behavior,…
Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech... →
Any unauthorized usage of the “I Have A Dream” speech and a number of other speeches by King – including in PBS documentaries – is a violation of American law. You’d be hard pressed to find a good complete video version on the web, and it’s not even to be found in the new digital archive of the King Center’s website.
WatchIncredible waves. Scary, amazing stuff.
Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social... →
The secret to building real cities? Really narrow... →
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...
“Parking spaces can be amazingly expensive to fabricate. In aboveground...”
– Between the Lines - The True Cost of Parking
December 2011
7 posts
Thrilling and Amazing! – 15 Tips for an... →
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time →
“A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian...”
– On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
November 2011
19 posts
The 5 Best Toys of All Time →
Woman given 3-year prison term for food stamp... →
A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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[Judge] Wingate bypassed sentencing McLemore under federal guidelines that suggested she receive two to eight months in prison and would have made her eligible for probation. He instead sentenced her...
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? →
“I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their...”
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage →
If Herman Cain calling Nancy Pelosi "Princess...
October 2011
19 posts
Penelope by Pinback
One of my favorite songs. I...
The right wing is mounting a full-court press to... →
wilwheaton:
Krugman:
My first thought was that OWS must have the right really rattled. And there’s probably something to that. But actually, this is the way the right goes after everyone who stands in their way: accuse them of everything, no matter how implausible or contradictory the accusations are. Progressives are atheistic socialists who want to impose Sharia law. Class warfare is evil;...