Friday, October 8th, 2010
Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]
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Saturday, September 25th, 2010
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
For at least 2-3 years, including on this blog, I have been pointing out the hypocrisy resulting from the commercialization of open-source software, including the FSF selling out to special interests, TPM in the Linux kernel, the NSA winning a “no-bid contract” of sort into the Linux kernel’s remote attestation features, remote attestation in Linux [...]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Burl Ives, better known as the snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, was also a children’s singer and actor whose quotes are repackaged in Ren & Stimpy’s “Happy Happy Joy Joy” under the name “Stinky Whizzleteats” This YouTube video, linked to by Ren & Stimpy creator John K’s blog, shows them side by side. [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
He taught our parents to question authority, he helped create the music we love, and before he died he predicted that computers would empower us and let us create our own reality. (Unfortunately it empowered the bad guys too.) And now his ashes orbit the earth. Here’s an awesome techno video made just before his [...]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Nerd Test 2.0: You Are Brutally Honest Hey, the truth hurts, but that’s not exactly your fault. You call things as you see them and pull no punches. You believe that you shouldn’t be punished for speaking your mind. It’s a lot better than being a liar. In fact, you [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
(I used screenshots in certain cases to more easily comply with standards) Big Five personality test (click the thumbnails below): (Big 5 is the only “professional” psychological test I’ve found which works for me. Others like the popular Myers-Briggs are always inaccurate.) Computer Geek Quiz You Are Teal Green You are a one [...]
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
(NOTE: My comments are based on From and Subject headers. I have not these opened these scam e-mails and neither should you, ever.) In my "Spam" folder, there are always fake Notice of Underreported Income forms, originally from a fake "IRS", but now from the British HM Revenue & Customs. Yet it still uses the [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
And I realized that I didn’t want it to happen at all. So now it’s just my blog and the blog of the Azz Pizz Institute. All the X-Cop Fly downloads are in the "Downloads & File Library" section. Additional X-Cop Fly Company calculator programs, if any, will be on that page. X-Cop Fly Company [...]
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Now you can if you look at this post! I wish the site (GameTracker.com) worked with OpenArena…
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