I’ve always been a fan of picking apart the flaws in literary works and movies.  The people at Howstuffworks, though, seem to be legends in the field.
They pick out factual inaccuracies in the first bits of the book (and likely, movie) without breaking a sweat.  This is before getting to the meat of the work, […]

Justice is blind, right?  It’s perpetrated on the citizens evenly, if not fairly, regardless of who does what.
Unless you’re Sony BMG.  In that case, you get a slap on the wrist for distributing computer software that hacks into your customers computers.  Ditto for the company that provided the
software for distribution.
By comparison you or I would […]

TTilley forwarded over some funny machinima from his current distraction, Final Fantasy XI. It’s a pretty clean cut of a couple of FF characters doing “Anything I can do you can do better”. Good stuff for a bleary eyed Monday morning!

For Christmas my boss Carol got me a couple of excellent green teas. One of them was a more common table tea, Bancha, and one a higher-end dessert green with a slightly airier flavor.
I’ve got to say, if you’re looking for a strong cup of green go with the Bancha. It’s a little […]

Looks like America isn’t the only country fighting a turf war over civil liberties. Over in the UK they’re passing a law to give authorities the ability to force the disclosure of encryption keys.
Two problems there. How do you prove someone has an encryption key? Because they’ve got encrypted data? Hardly a […]

One of my friends works up in New Hampshire and someone else up at FIRST (the robotics competition guys) got some good photos of the flooding up there. We’re not quite that bad yet, but my basements definately getting a few inches of water an hour.
Nasty, nasty weather. Can’t wait for it to stop. […]

Looks like AllofMP3 (popular, legal Russian music download site) suffered some downtime over the weekend.  It’s come back up now, but there’s rumors floating of a Russian crackdown on anything the IP markets don’t like.  Civilizing or somesuch, I’m sure.
At any rate, El Reg is covering the story and promises to update once they’ve got […]

Honestly, Cold War is one of the best Beta pieces of software I’ve ever been involved with.  The game’s a treat, and there aren’t all that many bugs in the software.
None of the bugs I have run into have affected gameplay about a third of the way through.  Kudos go to the folks at Linux […]

Tycho has culled some of the intereseting bits from the E3 expo’s first day for your perusal in his always succinct and witty writing style. I’m a bigger fan of the more technology focused conferences myself, leaving the gaming sort for those more bound to consoles and breathtaking displays of FPS.
That having been said […]

There is an outfit selling laptops on Ebay by the name of ClassicComputerRecovery. In one of their sales it states, and I quote, “We are not technical people here and do not have the knowledge, time or resources to repair this unit. This item should prove […]