I think you should have to get a license to use a computer. I don’t know… I just reckon the idiots out there would disappear instantly if you did; or at least most of them would. Last year a vulnerability … Continue reading
No buying these red white and blue wingtips in stores: I know. You’re devastated. [tags]bush, shoes, red white and blue[/tags]
Tech Central Stationhas an interesting piece on a recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision: The Ninth Circuit might have upheld the school officials’ actions in a number of value-neutral ways. Free speech in public schools is not as broadly … Continue reading
Surprise! – Yahoo! News Dear Margo takes a true Jerry Springer-esque letter from a reader. (tags: dearmargo advice column) RestrictedFormats – Community Ubuntu Documentation A complete list of the formats Ubuntu does not support out of the box. (tags: audio … Continue reading
Population : One – One Person is One Pixel If people were pixels… (tags: population cool graphics visualization statistics science art pixel)
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Slice: Pizza Crust Made From Cheese Yes folks, a pizza crust made from cheese, discovered after a lawn mower incident. You can’t make this stuff up. (tags: pizza food restaurants cuisine italian strange) Download of the Day: RipIt4Me – Lifehacker … Continue reading
“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.” -Marquis de Vauvenargues
Kevin Smith is the man. Period. And Joel Siegel is an ass. Hear the exchange here. [tags]joel siegel, kevin smith, opie and anthony, o&a[/tags]
If you’re a Winders user (and really, who isn’t?) and you love the program Windirstat (again, who doesn’t?) but you’ve switched to the Mac and miss it terribly, have no fear… Disk Inventory X is here. In fact, not only … Continue reading
From YouTube’s TOS: [B]y submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the … Continue reading
If you’re fortunate enough to own a Mac (like me), then you’ve probably bumped up against the browser quandry. Safari is under-featured, but Firefox for the Mac just flat out sucks and isn’t actually written for Mac OS the way … Continue reading
It’s becoming an epidemic these days. Customer calls customer service. Customer service doesn’t listen to customer. Customer gets enraged. Customer service still talks around the issue but never addresses it. Here the recording here. At least in this case, the … Continue reading
If you own a Blackberry and a Macbook / Macbook Pro, you owe it to yourself to get in on this. Who knows… Maybe money might motivate the geniuses out there to come up with a solution. You really do … Continue reading
“At AOL, we have zero-tolerance for customer care incidents like this – which is deeply regrettable and also absolutely inexcusable. The employee in question violated our customer service guidelines and practices, and everything that AOL believes to be important in … Continue reading
Stop-motion RULES… Project Page via Boing Boing [tags]space invaders, cool, video, viral[/tags]
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We’ve Known & Loved (tags: tools searchengine history internet web) del.icio.us daily blog posting feature support? ¬´ WordPress Support A very good explanation (with an example) of how to get Del.icio.us to post to … Continue reading
Mark Russinovich announced on his blog today that his company, Sysinternals, has been acquired by Microsoft. You may know Mark as the guy who exposed the Sony rootkit DRM scheme. That’s right; that Mark. I don’t know how I feel … Continue reading
A classic list that I can imagine many of us who are in Corporate IT can relate to. Here’s the list in short form, but I highly recommend reading the whole article for details on each point. It really is … Continue reading
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Sony’s PSP, I’m not going to pronounce it dead. I am, however, going to pronounce it dying, and add that that death is a slow and painful one but one that hasn’t happened yet. … Continue reading