Clay Shirky pegs the issue with the graphically-awful, over-hyped, socially-devoid virtual life that is Second Life. Finally, the current mania is largely push-driven. Many of the articles concern “The first person/group/organization in Second Life to do X”, where X is something like have a meeting or open a store — it’s the kind of stuff […]
Image of Jesus appears on the ass of a dog. Link
Everyone, note the day that this post is being written: 4 Dec 2006. Coroner Frank Minyard told the City Council last month that the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans had never been searched for bodies since Katrina and should be investigated as soon as possible. Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005. That was […]
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and self-appointed censor of many bad words in others’ products, has been carrying a Nazi-logo’d T-shirt for months, now into Day 22 since they said the shirts would be removed. You can follow the whole saga at The Consumerist (warning, Gawker site; get your Adblock on.) Can’t have a Sheryl […]
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What’s that phrase about necessity and invention? Check out this nail (yes, a nail) that has twice the “uplift capacity” of standard nails. That means it can hold something down twice as well as a standard nail in, say, a storm. Link [via Neatorama]
“I mean, come on—we could have lined up in alphabetical order in the end zone dressed in nothing but helmets and socks and whacked off for 60 minutes, and the BCS would still send us to the Tostitos Championship Game,” Tressel told the assembled reporters. “Hell, you’d all still vote for [Buckeyes quarterback] Troy Smith […]
Galactica moves to Sunday night at 10pm? WTF? Sci-Fi Storm | Galactica jumps to Sunday night
If all you’ve done is stick a ring through your banana bunch and hung that banana bunch from a closet rod, you are not hacking. You are being clever. Hacking involves actually doing something to the bananas, like inserting a caller-ID unit into each banana to display incoming calls on multiple lines. You know, something […]
Washington D.C. is pretty cool. Not “I’d like to live there” cool, but “I need to go back for more than 2 hours of tourism” cool.