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What goes around, comes around
Bin Laden son says sea burial demeans his family
A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden denounced the al Qaeda leader's killing as "criminal" and said his burial at sea had humiliated the family, an online monitoring service said.The thousands of 9/11 deaths were "criminal", and grieved and humiliated thousands of families ( Read more... ) -
And I thought American bureaucracy was slow!
I was doing some research about travel documents required for travel between Canada and the US, and found out something interesting about obtaining a Certificate of Canadian Citizenship. It takes ten months! Five for them to verify your payment, and another five for them to review your application. And add another 3-4 months if you submit an ( Read more... ) -
Unplug the internet, or go to jail.
Read it, and weep (unless your name is Kafka, then you're familiar with the concept): http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081128005538214
An amicus curiae brief submitted by the EFF is here: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/US_v_Drew/Drew_Amicus.pdfThe basic gist of the situation it his ( Read more... ) -
LJ Annoyance
Just recently, I have noticed an annoying feature on LJ that I remember seeing some time back: when your mouse hovers over certain external links, something "thoughtfully" pre-fetches that page for you, and displays it in a popup directly under your mouse (which makes certain things like "right-click/open in new window" annoyingly difficult). It ( Read more... ) -
For coffee drinkers everywhere
A friend sent me this: http://englishrussia.com/?p=1516It appears to be a simple but clever product idea (followed by several photoshopped alterations to it ( Read more... ) -
Poking the Tarbaby
(Update: the trolls involved have linked this page from their article. So, to visitors from EncyclopediaDramatica: Welcome to my journal. Judge for yourselves if I'm over-reacting. And feel free to add your two cents worth, as long as you show your face (as the article authors have cowardly refused to do in several other related threads in other ( Read more... ) -
Fruity Communications
With all the media (and LJ) frenzy about Apple's iPhone, let me interject an alternative fruit phone (also on Wikipedia). -
More tales from Bizarro World
(See original Ars Technica article)
The intellectual property magnates once again show their true colors.
From the article:
"NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead. 'Our law ( Read more... ) -
Moving at the Speed of Me
I was just reading messages before going to bed, and saw one comment by furtummy. When I saw his profile page, I misread the journal title, which is "Mumbling at the Speed of Sound " (subtitled "the world revolves around me") as "Moving at the Speed of Me", which struck me as enigmatic and intriguing - so much so that I decided it was an appropriate title ( Read more... ) -
Mesmerizing!
Yesterday, a friend of mine sent me a link to this flash animation. It shows a picture that you can zoom into, which shows that the colored pixels in the picture are in fact made up of other smaller pictures. These, in turn, are made up of other pictures. You can navigate around ad infinitum ( Read more... )