Interesting Note
It appears that the number of back-and-forth emails that GMail will collect as a single “conversation” is 61. After that, it begins a new one. How do I know this? Simple: I recently installed Kitten’s Spaminator in order to combat…
Doug
Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...
Addition For This Geek’s Christmas List
While I don’t necessarily want everything on RedHat Magazine’s Geek Gift Giving Guide, they did have the foresight to add the Neuros Audio Player to their list. The thing is sweet – open sourced firmware and open spec hardware schematics…
It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Close To The Truth
The Onion: Nigeria Chosen To Host 2008 Genocides. Finally, the U.N. is embracing the only thing it seems to be good at – coddling corrupt and kleptocratic regimes and taking swipes at the U.S. and Israel. Let it never be…
*Droool*
Tom’s Hardware: Gigabyte creates first [nVidia] dual-GPU graphics card. Here’s the real dirt in the article: The card integrates two Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics processors and is the first 6600 GT card on the market to offer a total…
Firefox Ad To Appear In Print Versions Of NYT Today
The Mozilla Foundation was supposed to take out a two page ad in today’s New York Times advocating a switch to Firefox as your browser of choice (full PR here). The ad looks great and, although I haven’t yet been…
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
…Sometimes you just wish that a certain variety would just hurry up and go extinct, already! Oh, Fie! cruel and foul walnut, most accursed of all nuts! You besmircher of brownies, you foe of decent fudge, you profaner of Waldorf…
Just Peachy
Great. Just great. I have no idea why, but I woke up with the theme music from Zorro, the Gay Blade stuck in my head. Shouldn’t have had that double shot of Nyquil last night, I guess.
BBC Embed On The Fallujah Offensive
The BBC’s embedded reporter with the Marines caught some fairly dramatic footage on camera during the recent Fallujah offensive. It is, to my mind, one of the fairest and most even-handed press accounts I’ve yet seen on operations in Iraq.…
Those Invasive Sons Of Guns!
It looks like Google will be releasing their SoulRank search engine any day now. And you thought the Google Desktop Search was an invasion of privacy! (Have I mentioned Sean Gleeson’s site before? No? You really ought to be reading…
BREAKING NEWS: Japanese Consumers Buy Weird Crap
Remember when the Kameo Corporation started selling pillows shaped like half a man for lonely single Japanese women? No? Then you probably don’t read nearly as much inconsequential crap as I do… Ahem. Anyways, not to be outdone, it seems…
