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.…
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:
I took the plunge and upgraded Literal Barrage to WordPress 2.1 on Thursday 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…
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…
Beyond Unreal has the details and impressions, I’ve got the video: Get the Flash Player to see this player. Oh heck yeah. (IGN has a higher quality version of the video available here.)
I agree with WIRED: earth to Safety Nazis – life is “distracting”; get over it already!
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…
You’re just darn lucky he wasn’t a part of the ‘Gnomesville Massacre’ . Oh, the gnome-manity!
Presenting: Every Mythbusters Myth on one page, helpfully color- and letter-coded for your perusal. Note the vast number of “busteds” and the relatively small number of “confirmeds”. That ratio seems about right from my viewing of the show.
The recent spate of fake/unverifiable journalism (see: “Captain Jamil Hussein”, the Reuters fauxtography scandal, and the “fake-but-accurate” Bush TANG memos, among others) have gotten me thinking of how we, the average news consumers, can possibly trust the purveyors of information.…
