Otakon, if you didn’t know, is a gathering of Anime fans down in Baltimore.
While I wouldn’t say I’m an “anime fan” or fanatic of any sort I’ve been known to appreciate the full length animated feature, usually Japanese, on occasion. On more occasions than a full length non-animated feature, in fact.
Which is what led […]

Looks like the folks of the US are finally wising up to fuel efficiency.
Of course, prices upwards of 3$/Gal. at the pump are probably a contributing factor.  Nothing hurts like an empty wallet.
At any rate, Toyota got the jump on Ford, bumping the Japanese based auto maker (that builds cars in America, go figure)  up […]

The States might finally be getting the morning after pill.  If this isn’t just another politic move, that is.
Funny how they’re stating that their “framework” for approving Plan B was “transparent, science-led process” when most of what they’re peddling as fact (people under the age of 18 somehow being more likely to have “risky sex” […]

Congress is once again limitting what you’re allowed to do.  This time it’s imposing laws on publicly funded institutions so that they can’t allow access to social networking websites.
Read that one again.  You got it.  Social networking websites.
Really… doesn’t that include the one you’re presently reading?  You can certainly post feedback on the open forum […]

The homeless apparently create unsafe parks by, and this one’s a bit tricky, eating in them.
So Orlando is now banning feeding the homeless. Much like we ban feeding Canadian Geese here in CT.
Oddly for much the same reason. Orlando is going to eliminate the “homeless threat” before the “homeless win”. Because once […]

A collegiate group doing an experiment with promoting FireFox (if I read that right) came up with two browsers. One sold on the idea that faith orientation (we’ll assume Christian.. there aren’t other faith’s, right? right?) while the other sold on the idea of sex.
Now, they don’t mean sex when they say that. […]

Some of use distribute GPL software.  I’ve actually distributed the odd change or patch myself (and sent up the RTL8150 patch to the kernel maintainers).  Most of this stuff is offered source-code available on the internet.  The license is very much intact.
Which is why it’s so appauling to see the BSA director making statments like […]

Juan Ponce de León should’ve accessorised.  Apparently all you need to achieve eternal youth is a bit of chromed bumper.
How did I come to this realization?
On the ride to work.  I’m following a we’re-too-cool-for-a-minivan Chevrolet Trail Blazer decked out with what looked to be either an inline 6 engine (?) or a Eddie Bower package […]

We don’t often get random metal detector shakedowns here in the states.  I think bringing commerce to a standstill is the bane of American living.  See the situation over on the ports.
But over in Britian they’re big on the whole metal-detector-runthrough thing.  Funny as that part of the article over at El Reg is, it’s […]

Wooo! Looks like Manray might be re-opening after a year-long absense from the Boston-Cambridge scene. Nothing concrete yet, bu they’ve got a “watch out for us this summer” notice up on the website.
Looks like I’ll be up in Boston more often in the near future. Hope to see ya’all out there!
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