Monthly Archives: June 2007

First Manager Ever to Lead Team in Stolen Bases

Watch it here. I promise you’ve never seen anything like it… [tags]baseball, rampage[/tags]

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Paul Thurrott Is Certainly Right About This One…

Lifehacker has a list of the top 10 Ubuntu applications. Let’s run ‘em down… #10: Beryl: A slick desktop interface that offers desktop switching for virtual desktops a la Spaces (in the new version of OSX). It does offer some … Continue reading

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Someone Needs to Re-read Their Job Description

Dr ElBaradei said a nuclear-armed Iran would be terrible but the jury was still out as to whether the country even wanted nuclear weapons. But he said you could not “bomb knowledge”, and he was scathing towards those who still … Continue reading

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Information Salad Episode 45: The Angry White Men Edition

Slobokan and I got together last night and talked about all kinds of things. We hit on the ludicrously stupid immigration bill (aka: the Amnesty bill), various stupid people stories including the ever-idiotic Cory Doctorow, the Sonny Carson story and … Continue reading

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Nope. No war on terror. Nothing to see here… Move along…

Whether or not you think the mangler in chief is doing the right thing and fighting it the correct way, saying there’s no war on terrorism is as dumb as saying there’s no such thing as global warming. Anyone who … Continue reading

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links for 2007-06-02

The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog: Yes, you heard right…PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 IS ALMOST HERE! Wow… 3D, cross platform app loading… Jeez… This is gonna be a big upgrade… (tags: software parallels tech virtualization osx mac tools) Storage: Turn your staircase … Continue reading

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More Sonny Carson News

The fight to name a park after a racist anti-semite piece of shit continues. From Gothamist: In addition to heckling Council Speaker Quinn during the proceedings, Barron’s chief of staff Viola Plummer vowed retaliation on Leroy Comrie, a black councilmember … Continue reading

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Sonny Carson Park Renaming Shelved, Racists Cry

Sonny Carson won’t be getting a Park named after him. First, who is Sonny Carson? Since his death in 2002, many New Yorkers may have forgotten just who Sonny Carson was. But his record of hate dates back to the … Continue reading

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Here we go again… Experts still seeking relevance…

Yep… Hurricane season is upon us again… With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expectation for 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense. … Continue reading

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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tommorrow.

Can you imagine if the mangler in chief had a misspelling this prominent on a banner behind him? via Wizbang Technorati Tags: hillary clinton, goof, misspelling, uh oh  

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Can we stop calling him brilliant now?

Converting Unprotected AAC to MP3 For Dummies (Or Cory Doctorow) from vincenzof on Vimeo Cory Doctorow is upset that unprotected AAC files purchased from iTunes, for some reason, can’t be roundtripped by burning to a CD. Since he’s a moron, … Continue reading

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links for 2007-06-01

Windows Vista no more secure than XP: report From the “obvious story of the day” department… (tags: Windows microsoft software vista technology business article news Security xp) Programming: How to build a Firefox extension – Lifehacker (tags: firefox programming extension … Continue reading

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