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The Kool-Aid Is Served
Final recording from Jonestown, November 18, 1978. 44 minutes of preaching and death. Yeesh.
Read MoreWhoever Wins, We Lose
Huxley vs. Orwell In some ways, they were both right.
Read MoreSeriously, Safeway?
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Read MoreOn Conservation
Pundit Derrick Jensen says: Conservation, recycling, and personal green technologies are useless. Interesting and very sad piece on why, as a race, we’re pretty much doomed. Favorite quotes: “Even if every person in the United States did everything [An Inconvenient Truth] suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that…
Read MoreI Miss All the Good Stuff
Keep on keepin’ it real, Houston!
Read MoreThe Big Time
News of the AMC Filmcritic.com acquisition has finally made the papers. Oddly, both (very short) stories about it have something incorrect in them. This one has the descriptions of the two sites bought reversed. This one has the suffixes (.com/.org) mixed up. Whoopsie.
Read MoreOscars Expanding Best Picture to 10 Nominees
Fairly ridiculous. When’s the last time there were even five truly worthy nominees in that race? Still, I guess it will make for a more unpredictable finish, which is fun.
Read MoreOn Fava Beans, Chianti
I’m getting so tired of this ridiculous Steve Jobs liver transplant story. The increasingly tiresome Jim Goldman “confirms” what was widely suspected: Jobs went to Tennessee so he could get a liver transplant. Yeah, we got it. But now comes the backlash: Did Jobs jump the transplant line so he could get a liver before…
Read MoreCrashed Kindle DX
Picked up my Kindle DX review unit and this is what I found: Broken screen? I guess. Rebooting hasn’t helped. Plastic is in perfect condition, and the unit wasn’t dropped or mistreated in any way.
Read MoreDeFnestration [definition]
DeFnestration: The complete removal of a misplaced “Fn” key from a laptop by the user, typically because it has been awkwardly located at the bottom left of the keyboard, where the Ctrl key is supposed to go.
Read MoreWhat Is It With This House and Leaks?
Now the water heater has sprung a leak. Thing is buggy as it is, but now there’s MORE water pooling in the garage. What a nightmare… New water heater arrives tomorrow. 50 gallons of fun.
Read MoreStupid Stupid Stupid
Left the garage door open for the umpteenth time last night (ironically for exactly the same reason — the stairs are being repaired and I am going in the house a different way). Thankfully nothing was stolen. Investing now in my third automatic garage door closer — the previous ones stopped working after a while…
Read MoreFunky Email Problem
Had this odd email problem and want to post about it here for posterity and hopefully to help other people if they experience it themselves. Here’s the gist: A few weeks ago I ran into a problem where, when I replied to two or more messages within a few seconds of each other to two…
Read MoreIn Case You Were Missing It…
People Falling Over is back, baby.
Read MoreThen They Came For Our Magazines…
A Miserable Three Months for the Magazine Business: Sales Down 20 Percent (At Least) | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD This is just a test, but it’s a good story, too.
Read MoreJames ‘Kibo’ Parry sends these fine photos of a Malaysian bootleg DVD cover in… Why he bought Superbabies on DVD I’ll never know, but… here we go: Note the line at the top… Whether it’s a language issue or refreshing ironic honesty on the part of the bootleggers, I’ll never know… but in any case,…
Read MoreI’m posting this here as a public service for the future of humanity and the Net. Fixing a stuck Alpine in-dash three-disc CD player/changer: Take a thin but stiff piece of plastic (a very thin ruler will work, or you can try a piece of thin cardboard) and slide it in between the bottom of…
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