From Stupid Evil Bastard, we get an Easter egg in today’s Foxtrot strip. For the lazy, the binary in the strip is 01011001010011110101010101001110010001010101001001000100. Relavent tool here. I bow to Les’ geekiness on this one. And Bill Amend’s.
I missed Family Guy last night (damn you WoW). I did, however, manage to catch the new episode of Battlestar Galactica on Saturday. So, of course, due to my proclivity for having everything backwards, I can get that episode of BSG through iTunes the day after it airs but I can’t get Family Guy at […]
I would have posted this regardless of the last post, but, in another move that shows Yahoo “gets it”, they have acquired Webjay, a very cool social music playlist site (and excellent source of free, legal, MP3s). Expect much gnashing of teeth in the indie/emo/overly-committed music fan crowd (ala Flickr), and then, hopefully some cool […]
I needed the affirmation today. Apparently, I may have just won a contest, this one to be precise. The author of Yahoo! Hacks, Paul Bausch, asked “In what month/year did Yahoo! publicly launch their Search Web Services?”. Yahoo! dutifully searved up the answer via their Yahoo! Search blog as Feb 28, 2005. The prize is […]
I read this article twice looking for the joke, then realized there isn’t one. …IRS advisers specializing in the arcane field of barter income recently offered the opinion that any trade of one virtual item for another–gold pieces for thick leather, uber drops for plat–could very well constitute a taxable, income-generating exchange according to the […]
Buried in the announcement about Google Video content being available for sale (see the last sentence in this article) is the fact that Google either created its own DRM scheme to “protect” the videos. And the fanboys are suffering from some serious cognitive dissonance issues right now. This thread at Digg is hilarious as the […]
This may be a dangerous fusion of two, too-large, geeky aspects of my personality, but it made me laugh. Note: Large GIF file ahead, requires l33t and previous viewing of LoTR. If you don’t know what any of those acronyms mean, skip the link. Link [via Screenhead]
I almost neglected to put up The Christmas Post; my apologies. (And, my apologies for all the semi-colons tonight; that one was on purpose.) Christmas was wonderfully dull. After opening our gifts at home (and after smoked salmon and capers on cream-cheese-topped crackers), we got ready to head out. We were supposed to have the […]
I have also turned comments back on, with moderation. If it gets too bad, I may just switch back to WordPress; I’m hearing good things.
I am now in the league of happy surburbanites who have a) a house and b) an SUV. Tonight, we bought a 2003 Jeep Liberty. It’s the Sport edition, which is the low end, but it halved the milage on our primary vehicle and lowered the payment by almost $80 (I got shafted on my […]