Archive for July, 2006

That’s how this story showed up in CNN’s RSS feed today. When I first saw it, I thought it said “President sorry he said ‘tar baby’” and was prepared to do some serious WTFing — this would be a new low for him even after the crap he pulled at G8 — but relax, Dubya [...]

Ever wondered what all that legal gibberish really means? My cynicism may be showing here, but I was hardly surprised by any of it. I’m not even sure if I’m really surprised by this:
If the DRM Software’s security has been compromised, owners of Secure Content (”Secure Content Owners”) may request that Microsoft revoke the DRM [...]

Yep, it’s another Angry Aliens parody. I dunno, I don’t think it’s as good as some of the others I’ve seen. I like the one for Pulp Fiction, though.
The Star Wars one is pretty good too.

Last night FOX treated us to a sneak preview of House’s season 3 premiere:
You’ve seen him struggle. You’ve seen him suffer. You’ve seen him fight for his life. This September, see House do the unthinkable. Don’t miss the year’s most anticipated premiere. House premieres September 5th at its new earlier time, 8/7 central, on [...]

Ha! As soon as I heard about this, I knew that last night’s Daily Show wouldn’t disappoint! I’m just sorry that I missed the show about the pig dinner incident.
But you know what’s even worse than Our Glorious Leader evidently thinking Ms. Merkel looked a little tense? It’s some of the idiots back home (read [...]

I just saw a commercial for a product called “WebWatcher”, that, as far as I can tell, is a keylogger on steroids. It logs all emails sent, all IM conversations, all webpages viewed, et al, for parents to monitor at their leisure. Now, look, I know you can’t watch your kid 24/7. But, you know [...]

So, I was reading ubuntuforums and someone in the support forum asked what the Linux equivalents were for scandisk and defrag, and I realized I didn’t actually know how to “scandisk” a Linux hard drive, having never actually needed to do it.
I think this should be used as a selling point for Linux, like so:

Linux: [...]

So, Bridget Jones’ Diary is on cable TV tonight. I was really hoping they wouldn’t mutilate it too badly, and I guess it’s watchable, but some of the editing just drives me nuts.
Now, as Bridget says about her friend Shazzer, this movie uses the word “fuck”. A lot. That’s not allowed on TV, even cable, [...]

For those of you who didn’t see the Daily Show the other night — or even if you did and want to see it again — here’s a video of the segment where Jon Stewart pokes fun at Ted Stevens’ woeful lack of understanding of the way the internet works.
Remember, kids: Series of (apparently, easily [...]

Firefox 2.0 beta 1 was released today. NOW is the time to get your extensions and themes working in Firefox 2.0! I am begging you, please don’t wait until the final release to start working on it. The alpha and beta releases are intended in part for developers to get a head start so that [...]