May 2009
Miss California to campaign against gay marriage →
Shared by pberry Gay people hate beauty queens…it’s a fact. The reigning Miss California has gone to Washington to help launch a campaign opposing same-sex marriage.
May 1st
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Souter to retire:... →
Shared by pberry He’s the liberal one, right? U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire, U.S. media reported on Thursday, a development that would give President Barack Obama his…
May 1st
CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS →
What a great idea: Ian Bogost commissioned computer science students to modify the Atari 2600 emulator Stella to simulate the visual display of an old CRT television. (Via Andy Baio.)  ★ 
May 1st
iPhone Dominates JD Power Consumer Smartphone... →
The only category it didn’t score well on was “battery aspects”.  ★ 
May 1st
April 2009
Reagan's Legacy →
Could someone please remind Broder and the rest of punditocracy that the President who signed the 1984 Conventions banning torture was named Ronald Reagan?
Apr 30th
The Detroit of Software →
Exactly right: The point isn’t MICROSOFT SUXXX0RS!!! AAPL ROOLZ!!!, though if you had to boil it down to four words those ones are much closer to true than to false. Rather, the problem is that …
Apr 30th
"There is no plausible scenario under which... →
Shared by pberry Well I’m sure she’ll be run out on a rail soon enough with talk like that…especially in the NYT! “There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority…
Apr 29th
Warner Music files DMCA request against Larry... →
Shared by pberry Seriously? How fucking dumb can you be? still unclear which one, but I’m not sure it matters; he’s the king of fair use
Apr 29th
single-bit HUD →
Shared by pberry This is the end. “The display has not yet been turned on while the rabbits are wearing the lenses,” he said. So far, the group has been able to light up and…
Apr 28th
How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate -... →
Shared by pberry It’s so nice to live in a time of complete and total moral failure by our leaders. Wait…no it isn’t. An official’s claim that waterboarding yielded quick results was widely…
Apr 28th
How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the Time 100... →
Paul Lamere breaks down the brute force hack, optimized to crank out 200 votes per minute  
Apr 28th
Supervillains →
The Villagers and the bedwetter crowd really bought into the alleged-terrorists-as-supervillains frame. It helped justify the extreme treatment they received. It’s pretty damn hard to keep…
Apr 28th
The extreme Google brain ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe... →
Shared by pberry Tell us how you really feel, Joe. My impression of “Googlers,” which I concede is based on little direct knowledge and is prejudicial on its face, is one of undersocialized,…
Apr 27th
Scratching vinyl with augmented reality →
also: spinning records on the iPhone  
Apr 27th
My Triumphant Return To El Reg →
I took a couple of weeks off after my daughter was born, but my column, Fail and You, is running again at The Register. Go read it now: Will Oracle kill MySQL?  Who cares?
Apr 27th
Disable The Annoying Thing In Ubuntu Jaunty →
Shared by pberry Ha! I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope today.  It was a positive experience until I opened Pidgin and Evolution and started using my computer.  Jaunty has this new…
Apr 26th
What's Next? Beavis and Butthead? →
Shared by pberry I guess they would rather have more fat Elvis stamps? I realize that postage stamps are not issued, these days, with the same serious intent as when they featured George…
Apr 26th
Apr 25th
look what i found →
Shared by pberry Nice! I found *the* original drawing. It was in a box in my car, where I keep all my most valuable things. The Smithsonian people should put this up somewhere, am I right?…
Apr 25th
Cheney Requests Release of 2 CIA Reports on... →
Shared by pberry It’s not torture, but it totally fucking works! We swear! Former vice president Richard B. Cheney is asking for the release of two CIA reports in his bid to marshal evidence that…
Apr 25th
Scientists find potential cure for honey bee... →
Shared by pberry The bad news is that you get to keep your cellphone. another human-made disaster averted [via] 
Apr 24th
Lots of unpatriotic Texans want out of the union →
Shared by pberry Sure Kos is being a prat here, but can you imagine Texas having to defend itself…from Mexico…again. With numbers like these, it’s obvious why Texas Gov. Rick Perry is talking…
Apr 24th
“Even teeth are bad for teeth.”
– Sports Drinks Bad for Teeth? - The Skeptical Hypchondriac
Apr 24th
Game Developers and Porn Stars →
though I suspect money’s more of an incentive for porn than in game development [via] 
Apr 23rd
Apple Second Quarter Results: ‘Best Non-Holiday... →
Shared by pberry Yes, but the WSJ told me that analysts said that people don’t like paying for Apple stuff! Who to believe…the facts or my lyin’ eyes? Apple: The Company posted revenue of…
Apr 23rd
Maureen Dowd's ridiculous interview with... →
Shared by pberry Come on, does anybody take MoDo seriously? they were funny and graceful under idiocy
Apr 23rd
Deep Thought From Newt Gingrich →
Please never stop. @JohnNess slurp is much more than a teabag. Slurp is proof of the phony accounting and long term debt of the geithner system.
Apr 22nd
Sarien's web-based multiplayer ports of... →
Shared by pberry Mostly for beej. every room is littered with corpses of dead players; here’s how it all works [via] 
Apr 21st
The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs -... →
Shared by pberry Hey, Specter…fuck you. Where the fuck have you been in all this? Oh, that’s right…enabling it in the name of bipartisanship. Again, fuck you. An article by Arlen Specter from…
Apr 21st
The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos - Bits... →
Apr 21st
BirdFeeder, prototype client for an open... →
Shared by pberry Speaking of CompuServe… don’t miss his presentation, explaining why Twitter is like CompuServe mail  
Apr 21st
Apr 21st
GameSpy: The Five Most Dangerous Game Peripherals... →
Because if there’s one thing everybody has always hoped to experience, it’s getting shot in the face.
Apr 21st
Obama mocks GOP criticism →
Shared by pberry The handshake of DOOM! Very nice. Conservative criticism of Obama’s foreign policy approach is so patently ridiculous, that he’s now openly mocking the wingers freaking out…
Apr 21st
Father: U.S. journalist holding up in Iranian... →
Shared by pberry So, beej…will the RedState view be that she’s a hero for spying on Iran or that she’s a complete failure because she got caught? Will the fact that she worked for NPR sway their…
Apr 19th
Inside the AT-AT →
Coudal linked to a cool t-shirt design featuring an internal shot of an AT-AT from the Imperial Veterinary Clinic. Reminds me of the the cartoon skeletons of Hyungkoo Lee.
Apr 19th
Media Matters - Weak tea →
But a lack of coherence or reasonable understanding of the concept of representative democracy among tea-party participants and their leaders at Fox News probably isn’t all that noteworthy.
Apr 18th
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate - Open... →
Shared by pberry So unfair, I’m sure all the teabaggers that were protesting in tax-funded public parks sent any and all relief funds back! Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate - Open…
Apr 18th
Covered, a blog with modern artists covering... →
I love the realistic Donald Duck, Richard Sala’s Batman, and Gustavo Deveze’s frenetic Action Comics 1 [via] 
Apr 18th
Nokia’s Net Profit Falls 90 Percent →
Shared by pberry Holy beejesus Marguerite Reardon, reporting for CNet: For the first quarter, which ended March 31, Nokia said that net profits fell to 122 million euros ($161.3 million). A…
Apr 16th
Giant Puppets →
Shared by pberry The protest was really about the fact that they were mad that Obama won. That’s it. That they feel they need an “issue” is just silly, in my opinion. Hitching your wagon to the…
Apr 16th
Kottke digs up The Wire's original pitch,... →
Shared by pberry Nice! a must-read for any fan of the show  
Apr 16th
Patriotism →
So glad it’s okay to hate America again.
Apr 16th
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Afternoon Open... →
You know what really irritates me about the tea parties? The basic fact that if right now, it were President John McCain and not President Obama, and nothing else had changed, these tea parties…
Apr 16th
Spokane to Detonate Squirrels Tearing Up Parks →
Sounds a lot like the plan Carl devised in Caddy Shack to deal with the gopher. (Via Steven Frank.)  ★ 
Apr 15th
#43. Ad Valorem →
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Apr 15th
PG&E beams power from spaaaaaaace →
Space Solar Power PG&E is seeking approval from state regulators for a power purchase agreement with Solaren Corp., a Southern California company that has contracted to deliver 200 megawatts…
Apr 15th
Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt... →
Shared by pberry WJW On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College…
Apr 14th
Apr 14th
Google Online Security Blog: Reducing XSS by way... →
Apr 14th