An oldie but goodie from Bloom County, the finest comic strip ever penned. It’s funny to think of this strip in the context of a decade before the Internet. Maybe it only seems like our hypersensitivity to everything has increased because other people’s offenses are so much easier to find.
Some Wikipedia pages are useful. Some are interesting. And some are laden with awesome, like the entry on Predator. It’s full of awesome information like: The water and mud Schwarzenegger had to swim through was full of leeches. The Predator’s blood was made out of glow sticks and lube. (Yes, that kind of lube.) Peter [...]
Hulu is finally offering a much-rumored subscription service, and I am not impressed. For ten bucks a month you get a stunning backlog of streaming TV shows that are . . . already available on Netflix for two dollars less. Hulu Plus subscribers will be offered shows in dazzling 720p. Well, at least the paid [...]
Today is the primary election in California. As usual I procrastinated and am going to have to vote this evening after I’ve done a rush job researching candidates. However, I’ve encountered an interesting filter: website quality. This may not work for the bigger offices, as people like Meg Whitman can afford massive marketing teams. But [...]
I love my new cat Loki. I’ve only had him for three weeks and I already can’t remember what it was like not to have him. He’s a massive dork. He rolls over and falls off the bed. (Like me.) He chases after toys, leaps flailing into the air, and falls to the floor in [...]
Check out the hilariously ironic CAPTCHA phrase I had to type in to escape the clutches of Zuckerbergland:
New York Times – “To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options.” Consumerist – “It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Facebook won’t let a little thing like respect for its users get in the way of its quest for total internet domination.” Electronic Frontier [...]
