Archive for November, 2006

Contributions of the World’s Religions — Buddhism

Only deity whose belly can be rubbed for luck.
Only deity who grants pie upon belly-rubbing.
Best hats. And most importantly…
“Not killing people” as religious observance.

Buddhism = teh WINNAR!

It’s that time of year again. Don Kroah of Townhall.com has spewed the following:
While Wal-Mart has apparently seen the error of its ways (or at least of its bad business judgment) and done an about-face from last year’s ban on employees’ use of the words Merry Christmas in greeting customers, the war on public celebration [...]

House gets a nemesis that isn’t a one-dimensional power-mad lunatic.
House gets his brains back. Where oh where has my competent, logical House gone?
House and Wilson’s lawyers pull their heads out of their asses and realize that Tritter has no legal right to do any of the things he’s doing.
Actually, you know what would be cool? [...]

U.S. mint pushes new $1 coin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Mint is hoping that Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore can do what Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea couldn’t - get Americans to use dollar coins.
The Mint on Monday revealed the design of the new U.S. $1 coin, which will be issued in a series [...]

So, it’s been a month since I switched to Dvorak, and I’m approaching my old qwerty speed just from the practice I get from my everyday typing. My qwerty skills have utterly tanked, but I don’t care. Practically everything about Dvorak makes a million times more sense than qwerty ever did! Vowels and commonly-used consonants [...]

I keep hearing people complain that “Grandma” or “Aunt Tilly” can’t use Linux because it’s a command-based OS (let’s just ignore the misconception that Linux has no GUI for the time being…) and they would have to learn a bunch of commands to do anything.
I like the command line, actually. It makes me feel l33t, [...]

From CNN via AP:
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A man in northern India will be publicly slapped 51 times as punishment after village elders found him guilty of raping a neighbor who is deaf and mute, a village chief said Friday.
The elders stepped in to review the case because local police had failed to arrest the [...]

Getting a Windows Refund in California Small Claims Court
Getting a Microsoft Windows refund from a manufacturer is seldom easy to do. In this article, I describe some techniques you can use to get your refund, including how to deal with the manufacturers (and all their excuses) and going to small claims court.
The first step to [...]

From some idiot on Facebook via Internet Infidels:
In a nutshell, if you’re an atheist, you have more faith than me - a follower of Christ. Here’s why:
Do you think that we have even one percent of all the knowledge in the universe? Probably not. The universe is so huge and so much is unknown, that [...]

Someone on UbuntuForums posted a link to this McAffee advertisement in which an IE user visits goggle.com and is totally wtfpwnd. Scores of Ubuntu users (including yours truly) naturally responded by visiting the site themselves in Firefox, and came away completely unscathed.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why friends don’t let friends use IE.