Linux Tip: Embed the terminal on the desktop - Lifehacker
Nice to remember if I ever go to Ubuntu.
(tags: ubuntu)
Apple blocking MySpace from store machines - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
“Apple is now blocking access to MySpace pages from computers in the Apple Store as a means of preventing cyber-loitering. Apparently some ‘customers’ have been hogging [...]
600 days to go before the Bastard-in-Chief doesn’t govern us any longer. It’s a long way to go … but it is coming.
How to Clean an Apartment Before Moving Out
(tags: reference useful)
Ask Metafilter occasionally turns up quite interesting questions, such as when someone thinks he has a missing muscle … and he apparently does.
(tags: interesting weird cool)
“With Thursday night comedies struggling against heavy-hitting dramas, [NBC] hopes to dump its decade-old “super-sized” promotions, where sitcoms are stretched to [...]
Good grief.
The conservative Polish government recently launched a probe to find out whether or not the children’s show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual agenda. Much like the late Jerry Falwell, government appointee Ewa Sowinska is concerned that the show may have a negative effect on the children of Poland. Her concerns began when she “noticed (Tinky [...]
As someone who is owned by a cat, I couldn’t help but chuckle at this cartoon.
(tags: cats funny images)
As always, Opus gets it right, poignantly.
(tags: powerful amazing insightful images)
Lovely little ‘Sinfest’ comic today …
(tags: funny images religion)
An excellent way to congratulate Star Wars fans and incur a lynching at the same time …
(tags: funny images)
Multiple Bookmark Toolbars - MozillaZine Forums
Add to userChrome.css: “#bookmarks-ptf {display:block}” and then on a newline “#bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator {display:inline}”.
(tags: reference firefox cool useful)
The 2007-08 Fall TV Schedule
Same ol’, same ol’.
(tags: tv reference)
TampaBay.Com: “A Dream Lay Dying,” by Bill Maxwell
(tags: interesting)
Microsoft Amnesty Bin for iPods
(tags: funny apple whaddafuck dumbfuck geekery music)
Pepsi Ice Cucumber soda (coming to Japan)
(tags: funny whaddafuck)
RIAA Goes After NIN Fans Over Leak Campaign
“These f***ing idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on.”
(tags: funny music copyleft corporatism)
NewsBreaker
Clever little Breakout game from [...]
National Security Presidential Directive #51, released May 9:
It defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function.”
This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, [...]
Bill Gates goes a little batfuck when asked about the “PC” guy in Apple’s Mac v. PC series of commercials:
AdAge.Com’s Bob Garfield: I want to ask you one more thing: Those Mac ads — how do you feel about the John Hodgman character?
GATES: I can’t comment on someone else’s ad.
GARFIELD: OK … but he’s you.
GATES: [...]
MTV Movies Blog » ‘Transformers’ To Feature Apple iPod Character?
“The 30 and 60-gigabyte models might seem big, but beware…your iPod is capable of a lot more than meets the eye, ‘Transformers’ star Josh Duhamel revealed exclusively to MTV News.”
(tags: cool funny music apple geekery movies)
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO: “The goal is to enable Google users [...]
What McDonald’s Serves in Other Countries: Spaghetti, Calzones, Chutney, And Much More
(tags: interesting)
The trailer to the “Sarah Connor Chronicles” is out on the Net, and it looks great.
Joss Whedon: “I got to see Summer [who played River Tam on Joss' "Firefly"] say ‘Come with me if you want to live.’ Squee. Re-engaging Dignity [...]
Heh. Even if you’re not a geek, this is still hilarious:
It appears my iMac has a LG Phillips LM171W02 screen, which isn’t “millions of colors,” but is 252,000 colors plus dithering. Ars Technica covers the story.
“[S]uddenly ‘rebels’ were freedom-loving fighters facing enormous odds against an evil empire, a role that Israel was all too easily pushed into. That may explain why so many ‘Star Wars’-loving American college students chose to embrace the Intifada.”
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
(tags: weird chicago whaddafuck movies scifi)
Audi lies to Toronto and asks for a film permit to film [...]
The ending of Star Trek: Nemesis — the last Next Generation film — always left me wanting, because although you got clues of where characters were heading off to, it didn’t feel right. Today, I stumbled across the extended ending to the film on YouTube, and I so very much wish I had originally [...]
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