The companies that manufacture printers, such as HP, embed technology that prints coded messages in tiny, nigh-invisible dots on EVERY PRINTED PAGE your printer produces ( Read more... )

Aah.  For the past 3 days I've been steeping in a sauna of code.  A week ago I started questing for a good PHP MVC framework and found that, lo and behold, CakePHP is fundamentally MVC!  They have hojillions of labor-saving utiltiies.  It's like, robots that work for robots.  That's nested labor savings right there.  So, I've been ingesting the ( Read more... )

Here 'tis - the Internet unveiling of our 2008 Halloween prop - singing pumpkin choir!  Check it out.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3711837/10207174

If you like it, perhaps link to it?  We want to get something viral going.  :D

Happy Halloween!

I've been sifting through numerous articles covering the (apparently widespread) character assassination of Senator Obama.  A frighteningly large and uninformed segment of the American populace believes a range of things about the man that vary from unambiguously but unemotionally false to morally reprehensible.  Such as, for example, that he is ( Read more... )

On the left side, we see the all-consuming, destructive consequences of irresponsible lending.
On the right side, JIGGY JIGGY DANCING ADVERT!  RATES WERE CUT!  WOO!  GO BUY ANOTHER HOUSE!


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Worth investigating!  This is MY contribution to the government buyout of worthless drek:

http://www.buymyshitpile.com/node/563

Maybe not me, but these kids are:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/17/

Is it just me, or are those golden words of hilarity?

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So!  Anyone watch the RNC last night?

No kidding, folks.  I almost threw up in my mouth.  Sarah Palin had nothing but platitudes and emotionally charged "me-too" rhetoric that I swore at times was on the brink of "four legs good, two legs bad."  I watched to the very end because I wanted to see anything about actual policy plans or concrete evidence ( Read more... )