Despite my penchant for bad music, I do occasionally listen to good music and consider myself appreciative of music I may not listen to all the time. So, it’s always a good laugh when some magazine/newspaper/webzine/blog comes out with their Top $QUANTITY Albums of the Last $TIMESPAN. Toady’s entry is SPIN magazine, who I thought […]
Some days, I really, really want to hate someone over this. If you use your debit card at a pump that does not require a PIN, the station regularly will block out an amount — often $50 or $75 — on your card. From the great minds that brought you “Anyone who listens to music […]
So, J– and I are moving to Chelsea in a few weeks, depending on the affordability of certain moving companies or the availability of anyone we can scam of kind family members to help us. In doing so, I hope to focus more on my new adopted hometown. Since I don’t have an original thought […]
Someone (warped23) posting on this story on Slashdot left a killer comment. The poster will probably get modded down since this thread has turned into a “my distro is better than your distro” and fact-checking free-for-all, but it sums up nicely what Linux maniacs are unwilling to acknowledge: Linux, to the average user, in inaccessible. […]
Jeb Bush seems to be leading the cause if you can’t. Come on Florida, you already have your own tag on Fark, what else do you need? You own Darwin-style award?
…if you think American soldiers are like Nazis, you’re a fucking idiot. Sorry, you needed a reality check.
First clue. It isn’t on TV. It’s Systm. Kevin Rose and Dan Huard, two refugees from the long lamented TechTV, have started Systm. They are also thebroken. System is a videoblog on steroids, television without commercials. It’s tech for tech heads and newbies alike. In short, it’s what TechTV used to be; ground breaking but […]
This is the best way, short of a kettle full of oil, to make popcorn. You will need: 1 sandwich-size paper bag 3 Tbl Popcorn 1 Tbl Olive Oil 1 Staple Put the popcorn and oil into the paper bag. Add salt if you want. Fold the bag over once, staple shut. Microwave for 1:30-2 […]
My musical tastes are kind of odd. I’ve been working through about 6 gigs of SXSW music off and on for a while, but I’m firmly rooted in a lot of corporate rock. Having spent a lot of time with ex-pat Brits/Scots in college, I became completely addicted to Oasis. Now that your revulsion has […]
Props to Darren Barefoot and Shelley Powers at Burningbird for finding the real problem with the criticisms of Microsoft with regard to their policy of censoring certain words on the Chinese verion of MSN Spaces. Ethan, we condemn Microsoft for making a monetary decision, but we’re not willing to examine our own buying habits, and […]