I have finally broke (broken?) down and bought a new computer. Yes, I bought. Frankly, I can’t build the machine for the price and, damn it, immediate gratification is so nice. Not that I haven’t been looking for a month now but it feels immediate. Anyway, I took the plunge and came up with an […]
Yes, LOLCATS is played out. Yes, they’re likely cliche at this point. But this made me chuckle and that’s good enough to post.
It’s unlikely this Congress will ever impeach George Bush because his people – some of who were close at hand during Watergate – didn’t make any Watergate-like tactical errors: no tapes, no smoking gun, no hard evidence of deliberate wrongdoing. That doesn’t make them any less guilty of what Theodore H. White described as the […]
Hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXfCGMtpDo
Today is a day of silence for Internet radio. Small broadcasters all the way up to Yahoo are shutting down in protest over the outrageous royalty rates approved by the Copyright Royalty Board. Who’s the CRB? Essentially, they are an arm of Congress, tasked with reviewing and setting royalty rates. How bad are the rates? […]
I’ve seen, at a minimum, four posts in the last week about people complaining about people not “conversing” on their blogs. As a member of the sub-M level of bloggers, let me posit this. It’s not that no one cares, it’s that they’re really not into conversing. The Internet is passive on its prima facie. […]
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a network technology that let’s you use public Internet resources to securely use private network resources (such as you work network from an open WiFi access point). When do we get something like this for social networking. Not my Top 8, not a bit-flip of friend or not a […]
121 – Where On Earth Was Middle-earth? « strange maps
Backstory: J– has decided to start a business. She’s not quitting her day job or anything, but tossing her spare time into a new venture; henna. For those not in the know, henna is the mostly-Indian (as in the sub-Saharan continent) practice of staining the skin with a natural paste. Some of the design are […]
I am shocked. Pleased, surprised, curious, but shocked. Delegates meeting at their annual synod voted Tuesday to remove the word “male” from the requirements for church office. This is a huge step for one of the most conservative Dutch Reformed organizations in the world. I’m absolutely certain this will cause a split in the church, […]