This is not a terribly interesting post in my opinion, just as a warning. I'll be rambling at length about the (ahem) "old days" of the internet (which for me is 8+ years ago) and saying nothing insightful ( Read more... )

I love and fear Google ( Read more... )

Beijing Approves Official Olympic CheerIt seems like this is representative of some aspect of Chinese government and society that the Chinese Olympic organizers feel the need to design and proscribe an official cheer for its citizens to use when supporting Team China, complete with cheering squads to instruct fans and training sessions in public ( Read more... )

( A script of dialogue, by jonathansfox )

Been playing GTA IV for the last few days, since literally buying it at midnight (second in line when the doors opened) on the release date. Was an interesting experience doing the whole wait in line for hours to get your copy first thing, but not one I'm too excited about repeating. In my case it wasn't that I needed to play it that badly, but ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton's campaign began this month with $9 million in cash on hand that was usable for the primary campaign, and $10 million in debt.

Barack Obama's campaign began this month with $42 million in cash on hand that was usable for the primary campaign, and less than $1 million in debt.

I have two suggestions for how the movie V for Vendetta could have been improved.

1) No love story between the two leads. There's not enough time to develop it. It doesn't work. Let them have a connection and leave it at that, let the fans read into it if they want.

2) Cast V as a woman.

Listen. Chances are I'm voting Democrat this year. I'm a big Obama fan. But this has to be said ( Read more... )

My low posting frequency may create an illusion that I've not been paying close attention to the primaries, but don't be deceived; that's not the case. I just have a low post frequency.

This is very interesting indeed. It's a poll of Puerto Rico about the Democratic Primary, giving Clinton a 13% lead. I've been wondering about getting a poll of ( Read more... )

I don't mind, but it sure stands out as odd that every time I go to CNN.com there's a completely new unrelated front page story about autism. Literally, for the last day or two, there's been like six different top autism headlines. Is it some kind of autism awareness day or something?