So I get home last night to find a mysterious package in my mailbox. Inside is... The Beatles Rock Band, apparently from an Amazon reseller. And... nothing else.

So until I can track down who exactly sent this, and why (slightly belated Christmas gift?)... Um, thanks, anonymous donor! Cool! This is the best kind of surprise.

So if executing criminals is in fact the behavior of a civilized society, why do we bother with the injection cocktails and the private closed-to-media viewings and all this pussyfooting around the idea of the state ending an adult human's life? I say bring back the public hangings and good ol' decapitations for everyone to enjoy. It all comes to ( Read more... )

Via adamcadre, a time zone deviance map, showing how close the time in your locality actually conforms to the position of the sun.

Happy Fall-Back Day!

What I wanted to say: "I believe you honked at us because you thought we dangerously and irresponsibly merged into your lane during our turn when you had the right-of-way, but actually there is only one turn lane, and you made an illegal left turn from the next lane over and we had no way of knowing you were there, but it's OK, it happens, just be ( Read more... )

APE APE APE, woooooooo, webcomics nerd-out!

Totally saw Kate Beaton (awesome), bought her book for a second time (which even she thought was crazy)! I probably should have gotten one of her Fat Pony buttons too, maybe next time! Also took a picture of some really very good clay model of the Mystery-Solving Teens that a fan made for her ( Read more... )

So once again Australians are paying the price for not securing that whole "freedom of speech" business back in 1900, as yet another video game (Valve's zombie-horror shooter Left 4 Dead 2) has been "refused classification", at least in its original form, by the state Classification Board (which used to be under the Office of Film and Literature ( Read more... )

A coworker just pointed me to this: A visit to the mysterious "Ogori Cafe" in Kashiwa just outside of Tokyo. The core concept is so awesome that I won't spoil it here, but I will say that this idea would feel right at home in SF or Berkeley. Someone ought to try it!

Intended filename: 未監修テキスト資料 mikanshuu tekisuto shiryou, "text assets not yet reviewed [by the licensor]"

Japanese IME kanji suggestion: みかん集テキスト資料 mikan-shuu tekisuto shiryou, "text assets for anthology of mandarin oranges"

I think Windows is hungry!

You know what's weird?

Finding out from Google Street View that your parents finally took out the deck in the backyard.

Or Maybe Imaginary Adults Who Look Like Children To U.S. Customs Officials, Who Cares, Lock Him Up

This happened a week ago, but I just found out: the Handley case is ending with a guilty plea, meaning that there won't be a challenge to the PROTECT Act, and thus unless another challenge surfaces it will still be permissible to turn off the First ( Read more... )