For Americans born more than a decade or so before me, a defining moment in their lives was the assassination of President Kennedy, immortalized in pop culture by the question "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Location, time, age and other details of November 22, 1963, are forever etched in their memory ( Read more... )

Ya know, I have low expectations for Microsoft and administration of their products, but I want to have some faith in Apple. However, at every turn it seems like Apple is set on proving that they think too small ( Read more... )

Having read all but the conclusion of This paper (it's a PDF), I would like to note that, in my opinion, the "researcher" is looking for fire where there's no smoke. Perhaps I am reading way more into than she intends, but using loaded words like "hyperwhite" certainly seems to indicate that she categorizes "nerds" as bigots as a result of their ( Read more... )

Well, I suppose if you can't just outright ban firearms, you might as well do it with onerous requirements for ownership.

House Bill 760 calls for every gun in the state (with the exception of antiques) to be registered with the state police, and that registration must be renewed annually. The cost would be $10 per gun, per year. The bill also ( Read more... )

I really wish I could find a better source for this, but it looks as if an ammendment has been added to S.1 in the U.S. Senate, creating Section 220, which could require registration for bloggers. Aimed at grassroots organizations, but including bloggers who discuss policy and have more than 500 readers, it would require registration and quarterly ( Read more... )

Migrating services from OSX to linux is special enough without such helpful documentation:

evilOSXbox% man opendirectorypdbconfig ( Read more... )

The immediate question might, of course, be "what will he hunt?," but does it really matter in the big picture? In the short term, he might be hunting for sustenance, or a mate, or possibly even a new den. Once the goal is met, he'll be back out on the prowl again. Beyond instant gratification, what is his motivation for hunting? Tomorrow he'll ( Read more... )

Only 3 days since I mentioned the stupid names of MLS teams, and here I thought it couldn't get much worse. Proven wrong again. Apparently the New York/New Jersey MetroStars have been sold and will now be "Red Bull New York". I suppose it was just a matter of time before the corporate names move from the names of venues to the teams themselves ( Read more... )

Only recently did I learn of the efforts to destroy healthcare in California by one of the, presumably unhinged, members of the Californian Senate from the La-La-Land region. It seems that Sheila Kuehl (D-23), in Feb 2005, introduced SB 840 (last ammended 07/12/2005), titled "Single-Payer Health Care Coverage". It's already been through commitee ( Read more... )

With the move of the San Jose franchise to Houston, the owners renamed the Earthquakes to Houston 1836. The name honors the founding of the city of Houston 170 years ago, as well as making a nod to a similar tradition in the Bundesliga (eg, Hanover 96). When the team name was announced, I was a bit annoyed. After all, it would be nice if MLS ( Read more... )