February 2010
43 posts
pleasefireme:
Please fire me. When I asked my co-worker for scissors, he said I wasn’t ready for them.
Note to self: Do this next time someone asks for my scissors.
Jack, Jake, whoever. →
LMSD just a sign of things to come? →
Over the past few weeks, the Lower Merion School District has been in the news due to their use of school issued laptops to photograph, monitor, and otherwise invade the privacy of students that…
YEEEAAHHHHH!!! →
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Even More Mobile Operation Madness and being a... →
So, I’ve had questions regarding the safety of using one’s amateur radio while operating for a while; but, over the last week, in the words of my sister “this shit just got real.” The…
Surprise! Sprint loses more customers and money →
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Here’s hoping Verizon buys them and I get to carry on my existing contract with Verizon’s network…
You’ve got to feel a bit of pity for Sprint. They’ve improved their…
Black Hawk Safety Net down →
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Hot damn! That’s an awesome name! I should create a group named that now and when people Google it, they’ll get all kinds of bad-ass info.
China Daily has reported that Chinese law…
YouTube - Penn & Teller on the 2nd Amendment →
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Penn & Teller, brutal, direct, uncensored, and right as usual.
Headline Suggestion Fail →
Headline Suggestion Fail
I suppose we all have our comfort levels.
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R.I.P. Apache 1.x: Apache 1.3.42 marks of end life →
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Wow. End of an Era.
The latest version of Apache 1.3.42 is the last 1.3 version of Apache that will be released. I admit I’ve been running 1.3 for ages now due to it being rock solid…
A man’s got to know his limitations. Dirty Harry,... →
There has been a minor murmur in the TwitterSphere recently regarding th3j35t3r, a person who is launching Denial of Service attacks against websites that sympathize with or actively promote…
What if the T went to infinity and beyond? →
Its map might look something like this, drawn by a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Hat tip to Gin Dumcius.
Intuit Lobbying The Government To Make It More... →
A fascinating article points out that the government could make the process of filing your tax returns significantly easier by simply sending you pre-filled out forms of what they know (basically…
idiosyncratic-routine:
me: And what ever happened to Angelina Jolie? She used to be so awesome. him: She’s not awesome. What really good quality film has she *ever* been in? me: Um, hello? Hackers? him: me: Foxfire? Gia? Girl Interrupted? him: You just said “Hackers” was a great movie. I can’t take anything you say seriously anymore. me: Oh, please… It was a...
Hark, a Vagrant: Gorey Covers →
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“Everyone was like WHOAAA but then he wrote some poems!”
A Book By its Gorey Cover
I saw a collection of Edward Gorey book covers online and thought…
The Apple iPad, explained to geeks →
idiosyncratic-routine:
via SeattlePI
I predict that in this decade, we’ll see a split in computing, on the same scale as the microcomputer/mainframe schism of the 1970s.
On the one hand, we will have the smartphones and iPad-esque tablets, aimed at the average consumer. … They will be geared for what a consumer does: consume.
On the other hand, we’ll have a more traditional PC. It will be...