Hot: I realize that everyone’s probably already sick to death of hearing about Chrome, but I thought I’d chime in anyway. Here’s a memory usage shot of Chrome versus Opera. Click the image to see the big picture It’s not really a fair comparison, as the same things aren’t open, but I realized that with [...]
Hot: A clear and flagrant disrespect for all things was extruded from the two young men chatting back and forth on the mostly empty train car and left the air palpably unclean. Crisp suits, slick and greasy hair, shifty bright eyes, and utter animal stupidity were readily apparent upon a quick glance. Typical upper-class white [...]
Hot: Tales written for discerning young ladies with a keen admiration of the manliness of the male half of the species, this volume deals with heart-pounding tales of men performing stunning feats of self-surgery and suffering such injuries as would surely destroy men of lesser manliness. Yet never fear! For these manly men always get [...]
Hot: They overshot the number for maximum snarky humor by 222. The Daily Kos has provided a link to the list of committee members who will be dealing directly with this bill in their lengthy commentary. I have no idea why only the Democrats have outbound links. As with any law-related item, it is strongly [...]
Hot: I never thought I would be able to turn to a webcomic to astutely sum up the values of restraint and respecting others perspectives (regardless of what you may think of them. I just discovered WE THE ROBOTS, a thrice-weekly strip in ye old internet, a little earlier. While skimming through the backlog from [...]
Hot: I came across an article in The Register a little while ago about one mom’s fight to keep a 29 second video clip of her son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” up on YouTube. In summary: The PA resident, Stephanie Lenz, had placed a 29 second clip of her dancing baby boy up [...]
Hot: EDIT 06-29-2009: Please go here http://www.randomkitty.net/blog/2009/06/29/rackspace-outage-of-2009-06-29-2009/ if you arrived while searching for the most recent outage issue at rackspace. Thanks! Author’s Note: The information below is based upon reports which were handed to me during the incident through various sources. I am well aware that at this point there are inaccuracies. I intend to [...]
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Hot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah Chutzpah, as in: “He’s got an awful lot of chutzpah to get involved in a debate like that.”
Hot: http://www.churchhopping.com/ten-verses-never-preached-on/ Which only goes to show that historical* works are pretty fucked up. Or at least the bible certainly seems that way. My question though, is why not build a speech around verses like these? No matter how much of a messed-up fundie some folks might be these days, you have to figure that [...]
