The right wing of the blogosphere was all a-twitter today with news that USA Today had retracted, mostly, an earlier piece about BellSouth and Verizon providing records to the NSA without a warrant. If you’ll remember, the story caused much turmoil as the left used the opportunity to push how far the President [...]
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Okay, so Slobokan tagged me. Now it’s my turn to play the game… 5 Things in My Refrigerator: Laughing Cow 5 Things in My Closet: Skeletons 5 Things in My Purse / Pockets: Thumbdrive 5 Things in My Car / Truck: XM Satellite Radio Via Toby, we find this culinary delight: What is that, you ask? Grill-fried burger served with a slice of cheddar and two strips of bacon. Oh, and the thing it’s on? A Krispy Kreme glazed donut that’s also fried on the griddle. My heart stopped just looking at it, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t [...] This is why the web is great. flickr is going to offer API Keys to competitors, but with a few conditions that make total sense. Re API keys for direct competitors: this is something that we’ve never had any set policy on and this thread has sparked a lot of internal debate on the team: [...] Sodapop has the greatest list on teh internets evar. It’s a list of why gay marriage will destroy society. My personal favorite? 07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children. The rest are just as good. Go. Read. Now. Technorati Tags: gay marriage, sodapop var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, [...] the show with zefrank Technorati Tags: zefrank, delta, funny, video var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; Lifehack.org has a great checklist you can use to develop an anti-procrastination plan. It’s really interesting. I think I’ll try it tomorrow. Technorati Tags: lifehack.org, lifehacking, procrastination var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; Just a note for all you fans and haters, Sunday’s New York Times will have a 1/3 page article in it about my AOL cancellation story. It’s going to be in the Digital Domain column, and will be written by Randall Stross who is an awesome guy, super nice, and who understands what it’s [...] I meant to blog this when it happened, but I was a bit busy at the time. One of the many media outlets that picked up my AOL cancellation story was the New York Times. It wasn’t just a historic day for Insignificant Thoughts, though. It was a historic day for Jason [...] Imagine installing Wordpress on your local Windows XP so you can change your design, tweak your code, etc., without affecting your actual live site. Now you can do it in less than five minutes. This is the most awesome tutorial ever, and the added benefit is that you get a fully functioning LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) [...] It’s 2003. The Beagle Mars probe crashes and is destroyed on the surface of Mars. The government lied. The last transmission of the probe was classified and kept hidden. It’s the only warning we would get. Now tell me that isn’t a great setup? Go watch the teaser trailer for Transformers the Movie, which is [...] Lifehacker has an interesting tip on testing whether or not your antivirus software is running: First, create a new text file and paste the following code into it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* Then save the text as a .COM file (any name will do, like eicar.com). To test that your antivirus is doing its job, you should try emailing the file [...] Oh, come on. Sure you have. The Senate is the body of hypocrites run by a bunch of Republicans and Democrats who sell their vote to the highest bidder. Don’t believe me? Well, consider this amazing example of hypocrisy from the elephants and the donkeys we have running the show in DC: After the [...] Interesting! Member Retention Consultant: AOL LLC Position Type Full-Time Employee NOW HIRING MEMBER RETENTION SPECIALISTS $14 per hour + Bonuses!!!! As a member retention consultant in our casual environment, you will be responsible for managing inbound calls from members who wish to cancel [...] A six-month pregnant Britney Spears has posed nude for the cover of the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine and an accompanying photo spread inside, much in the style of the famous 1991 Vanity Fair cover of a naked and heavily pregnant Demi Moore. On the Harper’s Bazaar cover, a dark-haired Spears covers her breasts [...] Hey everyone, Keith Olbermann is liberal. Now, I know this comes as a surprise to you, but apparently that was such an obscure fact that Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center had to do a statistical analysis study to find it out. Days after the report hit the internet and news wires (probably via the internet), [...] How to run up and over a wall. And just for the record, this is dangerous. If you try it and bust your ass, you’re stupid. Technorati Tags: acrobatics, parkour, wall jumping var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, twitter, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; Okay, once and for all, let’s have this out in the open. Some genius named Rob Zazueta (don’t worry, I’ve never heard of him either, I just found his post in Bloglines) has a problem with my AOL recording. So do a lot of folks. In fact, now that the story has pretty much [...] Jill Greenberg, the woman who thinks it’s artistic to make kids cry by torturing them and photographing it, is none too pleased with Thomas Hawk calling her out publicly for abusing children in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. So unpleased was Mrs. Greenberg that she contacted Thomas Hawk’s employer. I wish I were kidding. Despite the fact [...] If you’re not laughing, you didn’t own an original NES. 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