Yet again, CBS has manufactured circumstances. In a murder story about Ryan Ferguson 48 Hours took the picture of Ferguson with an orange prison jumper off of the front page of the Columbia Daily Tribune and and replaced it with … Continue reading
South Dakota has made a move to end one of the most popular methods of birth control in this country, abortion. In a move that’s sure to anger all the pro-abortion zealots out there, South Dakota has passed a law … Continue reading
If any one of you doesn’t believe this happens in the corporate world, you don’t work in an office. [tags]dilbert, funny[/tags]
Everyone knows that domestic violence laws are skewed toward women, as if men cannot be abused by their wives. One case in California may change that. Domestic violence policies based on the woman good/man bad model kept David trapped in … Continue reading
To be the man you have to beat the man. If the man won’t let you use your favorite IM client at work, use something else. Like Meebo. The great part about Meebo is that it apparently works from within … Continue reading
AOL is raising the price of it’s utterly useless dialup service to match the price of its utterly useless broadband service: NEW YORK (AP) — America Online Inc., seeking to encourage its subscribers to sign up for high-speed connections, is … Continue reading
Most modern hard drives have something built in called S.M.A.R.T., which stands for Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology. With a certain degree of accuracy, it can predict failure in drives based on diagnostics. Panterasoft has a great little piece of … Continue reading
Flickr, for whatever reason, does not give its users the option of having new comments e-mailed to the poster. I have no idea why Flickr left that out of the featureset, but they did. A couple of clever users have … Continue reading
Jay Tea over at PowerlineWizbang had at it with a post about the oppressive nature of Shar’ia Law. * I believe any legal system that permits a man to complete a divorce by reciting “woman, I divorce you” three times, … Continue reading
Ricky Gervais, one of the most widely respected comics in the UK, and star of the UK version of The Office, has been running what any objective observer could call the funniest podcast that could possibly be made, and now … Continue reading
Yahoo! unbans Allah! Thank god for that! By John Oates Published Wednesday 22nd February 2006 15:47 GMT Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters “allah”. The Reg was contacted yesterday by a … Continue reading
Sirius has come roaring into the future by finally implementing two year old technology. Come this summer, they’ll actually have a portable unit that plays live satellite radio! Mel Karmazin just announced at the SIRIUS conference call that a live … Continue reading
So now we have to start looking inward at our priorities and the lectures and lip service many are giving to the idea of “family values.” It seems that a handful of states are trying to ram through laws that … Continue reading
Another story of “protect the muslims, screw the christians,” this time from Yahoo: Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names – even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed … Continue reading
Yet again, we find the moniker attached to some piece of vaporware coming down the pipe, this time in the form of a music store / player combo by online sales giant Amazon. FEBRUARY 16, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) – … Continue reading
Over the weekend, snowboarder Hannah Teter told her boyfriend that she planned to listen to his band’s song “Communicate” on her iPod during her Olympic halfpipe routine. This made him a bit nervous. “It’s a heartbreak song, basically,” said Eli … Continue reading
Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year. Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s, and it soon outdistanced Adobe’s PageMill and other popular low-cost … Continue reading
Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe: The vast majority of US media outlets have shied away from reproducing the drawings, but to my knowledge only the Phoenix has been honest enough to admit that it is capitulating to fear. Many … Continue reading
I love when people tell me how enlightened Europe is compared to the United States. How liberal they are. How open to free expression they are. Whenever they do say such things, it’s quite easy to disprove them. Witnesseth: VIENNA, … Continue reading