October 2008
16 posts
Techdirt: Missing Teen Leads To Misplaced Video... →
“Teenagers have a long history of running away after getting into arguments with their family, but throw in the fact that the argument was over a video game and suddenly you’ve got a big press story in which the press can slam video games as being evil.”
The New Yorker: David Sedaris on undecided voters... →
“The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?’ To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”
gladwell on the rise of the SUV →
“…internal industry market research concluded that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills.”
Robocop on a Unicorn →
That’s really all you need to know.
Consumerist: 10 Things That Are Going Right For... →
“7. Technology is awesome and cheap. You can buy a big TV and use it to keep you from crying all the time, apparently.”
for those who love to panic
In the IT office at work we have a dry-erase marker that smells like an electrical fire. On the scale of things that give me chest pains it’s right up there with the printers that beep like a failing UPS when they want us to PC Load Letter.
Tudor Costache is CBC Radio 3 famous! →
Radio 3’s website chooses a new background photo each day, and this is Tudor’s turn. Shame they didn’t delve into his more risque work.
Ars Technica: Expectations and technology don't... →
“Here, professors themselves are their harshest critics; only the IT staff views them as more technologically incompetent than they view themselves, while students seem to think they’re doing pretty well. Meanwhile, students and faculty both think that classroom access to tech is limited; the IT staff, not surprisingly, thinks everything is fine.”
How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions,... →
“So, this was my retail experience: Instead of buying the exciting new products I wanted, I was hurled into a mass of people scamming one another — and all because of stupid, perverse commission systems that seemed like good ideas to the M.B.A.’s back at corporate.”
NDP and Greens push for an open Internet |... →
things that are neat, part three: definately...
Intrepid Ibex Beta: I admit, I’m impressed with the beta version of Ubuntu’s upcoming 8.10 release. I installed it on genuine, non-virtual hardware, unlike most previewers who fire it up in a virtual machine. [Disclaimer: Don’t run the beta on important hardware. I did it cause the machine in question just steals music and movies from the internet and makes them available to the...
Default Username and Password for Routers - All... →
Diet Ubuntu: Put your installation on a weight... →