A Word Of Advice For Potential Mac Pro Buyers
For those of you pondering a purchase of a Mac Pro workstation, heed my advice: make sure you upgrade the included video card to the ATI x1900. Do not, under any circumstances, buy a Mac with an nVidia video card. The problems described at The Inquirer, Apple Defects and Slashdot are real and [...]
Every Time White People Try To Do The "Thriller" Dance At A Wedding, A Little Piece Of Me Dies Inside
There are days that I'm ashamed to be of Caucasian extraction. Today is one of those days:
Holy lack of melanin, Batman!
'Course, it's hardly any better when Bollywood produces its own version:
'Scuse The Mess
I took the plunge and upgraded Literal Barrage to WordPress 2.1 on Thursday/Friday. I've been slowly picking away at the transition, re-enabling plugins, moving old artwork, etc. over. I know there are a bunch of things that still don't work correctly: contact form, archives and a lot of my old images among them. [...]
This Is What Passes For Political "Thought" In The Great City Of Philadelphia
John Street, political philosopher and student of history claimed last week that
the Iraq war is a contributing factor in the frustrating increase in gun violence and homicides on the streets of the city.
That's nice, John. It couldn't possibly be the fault of your own corrupt and inept administration, could it? No, that [...]
Unreal Tournament 2007 Renamed To UT3. W00tage To Commence Shortly.
Beyond Unreal has the details and impressions, I've got the video:
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var FO = { movie:"https://media.dreamhost.com/mediaplayer.swf",width:"480",height:"360",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#FFFFFF",
flashvars:"file=http://literalbarrage.org/unreal_12507_qtlowwide_480×360.flv&showdigits=true&autostart=false" };
UFO.create(FO,"unreal_12507_qtlowwide_480×360.flv");
Oh heck yeah.
(IGN has a higher quality version of the video available here.)
Dang Skippy.
I agree with WIRED: earth to Safety Nazis - life is "distracting"; get over it already!
Beyond Crypto Journalism: MySpace, digg And Trust Engines
I've had time to mull over the implications of my previous post on technological solutions to what ails journalism and have come to the conclusion that a solution based on high technology would ultimately fail for the same reason that PGP-based email encryption has failed to catch on in the world at large: it's simply [...]
