The world just got a little brighter: “Dollhouse“, a television series starring ol’ Faith herself, Eliza Dushku, is coming to Fox. They’ve already given a seven-episode commitment.
The world may be goin’ to hell in a handbasket, but it’s going a slight bit slower now.
A great point about torture made by The Atlantic’s Matthew Yglesias whle reviewing the new film “Rendition”:
[N]ormal people find the idea of torturing another human being distasteful. And everyone understands that. A normal person isn’t going to have the stomach for the torturing job. So, consequently, once you adopt routine torture as a matter of [...]
NBC/Universal CEO Whines: “[Apple] did not want to share in what they were making off the hardware or allow us to adjust pricing.”
Hey, just because Microsoft was enough of a dumbass to fall for your arguments about you deserving a piece of their Zune profits … what entitles you to get a share of iPod [...]
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Graphictruth: The Constitution now OFFICIALLY “Ron Paul Spam.”
“Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else [...] you cannot pimp Ron Paul.”
(tags: politics hysterical neocon [...]
Hacking RTM’s “Quick Add” Form
A blog entry I wrote about how to hack Remember the Milk’s “Quick Add” form in order to customize it for your particular tagging system and preferences.
(tags: geekery interesting)
Update: See bottom of post.
For a while, I’ve been meaning to document a “hack” I made to Remember the Milk’s “Quick Add” form which proved quite useful for me. I haven’t seen it reproduced anywhere else, so my hope is that I might have the rare occasion to offer up a idea that’s new [...]
Featured Download: Save a Slow System with Damn Small Linux
“Damn Small Linux” is a variant of the operating system that runs in about eight megabytes of memory. Perfect for ancient computers, small drives, etc., etc.
(tags: interesting cool geekery linux)
Household: Plump Flattened Cushions in the Sun
“Put them outside in the sun for a few hours, [...]
“‘defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES’ Should change the dock to the new look.”
(tags: reference apple leopard)
Panic’s Application Compatability with Leopard
(tags: leopard apple geekery)
Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman’s Journal: the flowers of romance
This is one of Neil’s more particularly interesting entries: Amazon’s Catalog Department refuses to update an entry of his, insisting they’re right; Neil [...]
I think the most incredibly foolish thing that the Democratic Party could do for 2008 would be what it looks like it is intending on doing … nominating Hillary Clinton as their Presidential candidate.
The reasons why such a move are well-iterated in this Reason article. First, there’s the fact that she is an extremely [...]
“Famous Italian anti-government campaigner and blogger Beppe Grillo describes a proposed new Italian law which would force all bloggers to register, pay tax and be regulated by a government body.”
Well, THAT’s rather fucked up.
(tags: politics whaddafuck fascist)
“According to sources, around 800 Apple employees took advantage of the $100 for the iPhone that they received for [...]
“Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as ‘one of the most important developments in the history of science’.”
“Parallel universi don’t really exist, according to a mathematical discoverie by Oxnord scientists.”
(tags: science cool scifi)
Stop Big Media - Take Action: Tell Congress to Stop Big Media
“Kevin [...]
If you use an iPhone, it should be about 2000% easier to look at the site now; I’m using this plugin/theme to autoformat the site for you when you visit, and looking at it in iPhoney it looks fairly good.
Also, Tumblr seems to have repaired the problem with tumblelogs’ RSS feeds, so my tumblelog’s RSS [...]
Good grief. Jon Stewart has been dissing Cheney forever and a day.
And then Cheney’s wife comes on his show.
Good television.
JK Rowling says wizard Dumbledore is gay - washingtonpost.com
“Rowling said she had read through a script for … ‘Half-Blood Prince’ and corrected a passage in which Dumbledore was reminiscing about past loves by crossing it out and scrawling ‘Dumbledore is gay’ over it.”
(tags: interesting admirable books)
“Thompson’s tendency to look down and read his remarks provided [...]
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