September 2007
How to Throw a Sangria Party →
Be a consumer for once in your life, you filthy commie
Take that, NBC →
Fake Steve delivers the OH SNAP!
August 2007
Michael ‘The Beer Hunter’ Jackson Dies
My wife bought me Jackson’s Great Beer Guide a few years ago; it’s the bible for beer lovers. Beers in his honor tonight. (Via Andre Torrez, who also points to Jackson’s entry at Wikipedia.)
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iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows →
Apple fires back in the PR war. “Dear NBC, Fuck you. Love, Apple”
NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract →
Way to go, morons. Go ahead and stop doing the one thing that is probably making you money on-line. Go on. Stop. Stop making money. Frigtards.
“Now you understand the other thing I do in the first 10 minutes of any standing...”
– Rands In Repose: The Laptop Herring
Every Day Is Exactly the Same →
The week has been crazy. That is all.
Surface Stations « Open Mind →
Lets look at those numbers again, Anthony.
Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9... →
Really?
Scientists warm up to Watts' work →
Watts is not seeing the whole board though.
Surface Stations →
Ah, statistical analysis of weather data…teh sexxy!
Social Networking License Agreement →
BRILLIANT!
Inside DCSNet, the FBI's Nationwide Eavesdropping... →
Okay, yeah…this totally not going to be abused. Nope.
EFF: RIAA v. the Students: An FAQ for... →
Lay Off Miss Teen S.C.
I don’t know if she’s dumb as a stone or if she just understandably had a bit of a brain fart. I’ve got a Ph.D and I probably had moments like that in public. Either way she’s just a young woman whose worst moment wasn’t appreciably worse than the regular outbursts of our commander in chief. It means nothing. Let it go. (via pberry’s shared items in Google...
“Also, my deepest apologies to the Scots who took offense at my depiction of them...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I stand corrected
What's Up?
The start of the fall term is upon us. Information Resources is busy putting out fire after fire.
Regarding Ubuntu
andrew: Ubuntu will run on that mac hardware, you know. :)
me: yes, but I like to actually get work done
Flash Player 9 installation fails on Macintosh →
Adobe continues their domination of the crappy installer market. Bravo, Adobe! Bravo!
Bush: "It's Sad" that Gonzales Resigned →
Is it? Is it really?
Bush ally Gonzales resigns post →
I guess the terrorists have finally won…
On Conservatism
I think I may have to punch the next person who says we need to sprinkle magic Privatization Pixie Dust™ on something to “fix” it.
Police seize a dozen neglected dogs at DMX's home →
what a bunch of <insert stream of profanity and other related insults here>.
Aston Villa 2 Fulham 1 →
Steven will be happy, Aston has been in the tank this year.
Zingg rallies faculty at convocation →
He also didn’t add that WEBD was the best new department on campus.
Microsoft's Open Source Trashware →
Certainly some fair criticism here, but it also implies that you can’t write open source software in Java.
“No matter what the disaster — hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack...”
– Schneier on Security: First Responders
“There’s something about the Java culture which just seems to encourage...”
– RussellBeattie.com - Java needs an overhaul
WatchGuess where my calf started to stiffen up and I had to walk the rest of the way.
“I rarely understand what you’re talking about.”
– Warren
“Your Internet experience today is not much different than it was 5 years ago.”
– Mark Cuban being all kinds of wrong.
“There’s nothing like driving to work with a thin sheen of caffeine induced...”
– Rands In Repose: Coffee and Design
“Republicans and Democrats have a harder time getting along than Sunnis and...”
– Rep. Christopher Shays - which is why you have daily partisan executions on The Hill. Oh…wait. Never mind.
Sun Changes Stock Symbol From ‘SUNW’ to ‘JAVA’
Apparently they couldn’t find a four-character symbol that stood for “shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic”. (SDCT?)
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Pete Rose and the Little League World Series
I tune into the Little League World Series every now and then, but mostly just for the tears.
- Nick (via pberry’s shared items in Google Reader)
