Top 5 Ways the Universe Could Wipe Out Humankind by @BadAstronmer
ZDNet: “Windows 7 is the Anti-Vista”
According to this allergy recall, one company makes store-brand knockoffs of Airborne for a whole lot of different chains.
According to this allergy recall, one company makes store-brand knockoffs of Airborne for a whole lot of different chains.
Clicked on StumbleUpon and landed on my desktop wallpaper. Good call, if a bit unnerving.
Clicked on StumbleUpon and landed on my desktop wallpaper. Good call, if a bit unnerving.
Taking a break from the server room so I can let my hands thaw out.
Taking a break from the server room so I can let my hands thaw out.
Adorably deadly Mini Cannon returns (set to O Fortuna, no less)
Adorably deadly Mini Cannon returns (set to O Fortuna, no less) https://boingboing.net/2010/08/08/adorably-deadly-tiny.html
Prop 8 “fails to advance any rational basis…”
Republican-appointed judge overturns government restriction on personal freedom. Shouldn’t conservatives be happier about this?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/prop8-gay-marriage.html
I like this quote from the judge, saying that Prop 8 “fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. … Because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.”
–FB
Wow. Email addresses really do stay on spam lists forever. Postmaster just picked up lost mail for a server that’s been offline for 7 YEARS.
Wow. Email addresses really do stay on spam lists forever. Postmaster just picked up lost mail for a server that’s been offline for 7 YEARS.
Then and now: World War II photos blended with how the locations look today.
Then and now: World War II photos blended with how the locations look today. https://mymodernmet.com/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis/
Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties?
Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties? (Yes, I'm catching up on webcomics. Can you tell?)
Truth in a Venn diagram.
The “moon hoax” hoax debunked in comic-book form.
http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/07/moon-hoax.html
The “moon hoax” hoax debunked in comic-book form.
Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Unexpected cool moment of the night: watching a deep orange half-moon setting into the distant Downtown Los Angeles skyline.
Unexpected cool moment of the night: watching a deep orange half-moon setting into the distant Downtown Los Angeles skyline.
I woke up to the steady drip-drip of water leaking from the kitchen light fixture….
I woke up to the steady drip-drip of water leaking from the kitchen light fixture. Such fun. It turned out to be a broken hose in the upstairs apartment's kitchen sink. Fortunately it's all linoleum, the light cover channeled the water onto the floor, and it was slow enough (and caught soon enough) not to spread to any furniture or walls, so we aren't out anything but a few paper towels.
How appropriate: “Big Yellow Taxi” is playing in the parking lot.
How appropriate: “Big Yellow Taxi” is playing in the parking lot.
Ah, computer nostalgia! If you have a Gmail account and have been using computers long…
Ah, computer nostalgia! If you have a Gmail account and have been using computers long enough to remember monochrome monitors, go to Settings and then Themes, and check out the Terminal theme. It's almost perfect: Green on black, fixed-width font, even fake ASCII art for the borders and Gmail logo! The “High Score” theme has areal old-school Nintendo feel to it as well.
Is this Orange County, CA, or Orange County, FL? Bright sunshine, 90 degrees…and rain. in
Is this Orange County, CA, or Orange County, FL? Bright sunshine, 90 degrees…and rain. in July.
Want to see what LA traffic looks like on a typical Friday evening? You…
Want to see what LA traffic looks like on a typical Friday evening? You can. A co-worker just pointed out that you can view statistical traffic on Google Maps in addition to live traffic. Enable Traffic, then look at the map key and hit “change,” and you can choose the day of the week and time.
If I’d known there would be psychic cephalopods involved…
If I'd known there would be psychic cephalopods involved, I would have paid a little more attention to the World Cup. It sounds like a great topic for a SyFy Original Movie.
Update: there is in fact a 2012 film, though it’s a documentary.