Huzzah! OSWD Returns
Many of you web design geeks out there were probably aware that Open Source Web Design (OSWD) had been down for a couple of months, due to some as-of-yet-unspecified reasons. I took the temporary loss of OSWD as a great…
Year 2005
This Just Gets Better And Better
Ahhhh, Sony BMG, how we love to hate thee! Not only have you been caught installing unauthorized rootkits on your customers’ PCs, but it’s been found that you’re illegally using LGPL’d software to do so. Tsk tsk. What’s the Japanese…
Now That’s Just Plain Idiotic
Bryan Williams needs to be smacked upside the head with a lead pipe for proposing Hurricane Katrina as Time‘s “Person of the Year”. I, just, wow, man. I mean, wow. Are we that unclear on the definition of “Person”? Yes,…
An Historical Comparison In Pictorial-Assisted Form
Mary Mapes, former CBS News/60 minutes producer responsible for greenlighting the bogus Bush National Guard Memos story, when asked during a Washington Post online chat “Who do you suppose actually forged this fake document?”: You are wrong to believe that…
Mac OS X Geekage Of The Day
In my experience, Mac OS X has largely been “UNIX Done Right™”, although there are quirks here and there, most of which one would never encounter in their day-to-day computer usage. One of those cases is changing a user’s shortname.…
Penny Arcade – (CSS) Rebooted
Congratulations to the Penny Arcade guys on their site “reboot“. The new layout looks to be a variation on the one first introduced over at the Child’s Play site and I must say, it’s a beauty. Good job on the…
An Alternative View On The Cancellation Of “Arrested Development”
Jeff Harrell over at The Shape of Days, recently-returned from a health-induced blogging hiatus, argues that it is a far better thing to have Arrested Development go out in its third season in top creative form instead of lingering on…
A Disturbing “Development”
Well crap. I have been studiously ignoring Arrested Development, as has apparently the rest of America. It was always one of those “get around to it shows” for me, and I felt no reason to sit down and dedicate any…
For Science!
Step 1: Construct servo-powered Airsoft robotic sentry gun (think Aliens…). Step 2: In a time-honored tradition, convince younger brother to volunteer for test run. Be sure to videotape the test. Step 3: Post video and design photos to Internet[s]. Step…
Sony – Doing Their Best To Drive Their Customers Away, One Rootkit At A Time
Let’s first posit that you’re a multinational corporation with vast and sundry interests in various industries, including the music business. Let’s then posit that you were caught installing highly dubious software on your customers’ PCs in order to prevent “piracy”.…
