I just deleted a draft of a post because it was related to my job. Yes, this is my personnel space and yes, I should feel open to say what I want. But I didn’t. I had a long, well-linked post about a vendor related to my current work. It’s not the vendor we work […]
Synopsis: Researcher claims to have created a proof-of-concept worm for OS X. Posts this nugget to his anonymous blog. Apple zealots begin ad hominem attacks, insults, etc. Now, it seems, the blog has been receiving death threats, been hacked, and the hunt for the identity of the poster is in full swing. The best part? […]
Woot! Art Fair Bingo returns for the Ann Arbor Art Fair(s). ($DEITY forbid it be one, unified art fair.) Art Fair Bingo is a wonderful tradition wherein you, the discerning resident/exile/art-lover voluntarily go to Art Fair and photograph people or things on the bingo card. There are no prizes aside from the admiration of those […]
Amazing goal from Lionel Messi of Argentina against Mexico. The definition of “touch”.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmjDwoJlPzQ
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. […]