Mad Men, which just started its second season on AMC recently, is fantastic television. This is a show I wanted so much to dislike, but couldn’t. The characters are awful people; the men ogle the women, the women demur and scheme, the office is a cesspool of lies, sex, and politics. It’s great television, in […]
Curmudgeon mode, Engage! I’m a big gadget/Web/Internet/wasting time fan, but the latest waste of time just made me laugh today. It’s called firefly. Firefly (sorry, firef.ly; did no one learn from del.ici.ous, wait, deli.cio.us, damn it del.icio.us?) is a service that lets you add (sigh) live chat to your web site. Really. Live chat. You […]
This is satire. It’s also ham-fisted (thanks J–) and stupid for a cover, but satire nonetheless. If When you encounter someone who thinks it’s prescient or insightful or whatever, you have my permission to smack them upside their idiotic skull*. ‘Grats to the New Yorker for the best attention whoring of the election season so […]
Already more than halfway through this list; picked up Slaughterhouse 5 at a booksale this weekend for $.50. 32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read | How To Split An Atom
However, unlike any marriages on my list, the real, legal and actual same-sex marriages in California are in danger of being destroyed by people who aren’t actually in them. There is no initiative on the California November ballot to “protect” marriage from already-married Creed fans or Pepsi drinkers. There will be one to “protect” marriage […]
“I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11. And there’s a lot more. If someone, anyone, had […]
I just HAVE to make this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbd4waOSpok
Firefox 3 drops today and Mozilla is trying to set a world record for downloads in one day. I’ve been using the release candidates for about a month now and really like some of the new features like bookmark tagging and the download manager. Grab your copy today, but not yet (8am EDT) and get […]
Thanks Google, this is a very welcome addition to Reader.
I won’t even try to summarize this, just go read the BoingBoing post or the Talking Points Memo post. Yeah, that exactly the kind of crazy we need in the White House.