Mark Cuban passes along some supposed inside knowledge about the whole Google / Youtube deal. It’s pretty interesting, if, well, if you find that kind of thing interesting. Some of what’s going on seems blatantly illegal to me. According to this, close to a third of that $1.6B went straight to the […]
lego drives
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Lego block external hard drives, from some guy in Japan.
If you were subscribed to the XML feed from this site’s previous incarnation, then this is the first post you’ve seen in quite some time. I finally got around to figuring out how to modify the .htaccess file to redirect requests for the file. Sooo… yeah. I changed to Wordpress a few […]
Amusing essay about how some conservatives are pissed that Battlestar Galactica has turned around and bit them in the ass:
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, who writes regularly about Galactica’s politics on NRO’s group blog, The Corner, also picked up on parallels between the show and the war on terror. Goldberg took particular glee in attacking Galactica’s […]
Wired magazine asked a bunch of science fiction writers and others to write 6-word stories. Some of them are pretty awesome.
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore
(post title by Steven Meretzky)
The good news: It’s legal in Washington state to have sex in a public restroom. The bad news: it’s illegal to enter a restroom of the opposite sex. Gay sex: OK. Straight sex: go to jail.
Obviously there is a war on heterosexual sex in this country, and it must stop. Here we […]
Ain’t It Cool News has a piece about the new 2-disc rerelease of the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas (coinciding with the release of the movie in 3-D, which as far as I can see isn’t playing in my area, dammit). It sounds like it might be worth picking up:
Marilyn Manson, along with […]
In the breakroom down the hall, the styrofoam cups come in 3-foot high stacks, which are too tall to be stable, so people break up the stacks into more manageable ones. And for some reason I could never explain, it bothers me when the closest stack is almost gone, while the back stacks have […]
You know what I really hate? I hate it when an article says something like the following: “Out of 1000 people polled, 20% said they had eaten a bratwurst at least once. Of those, only 10% knew what sausages were made from.” Now, the way I read it, and what it should […]
The other day a kid from my alma mater called asking for money for the alumni fund or whatever. I wish I had seen this so I could have told him why I wasn’t donating:
University Bans Humor Quotation From Student’s Door — 10/19/2006
(CNSNews.com) - Officials at Marquette University have ordered a Ph.D. student […]
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