Went to the Amon Amarth show at the Showbox last night and I have to say it was one of the best live shows I have seen. It was on the same level as Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason tour and Iron Maiden's Powerslave tour and yet unlike those shows this one was not at an arena. I think part of it is that they (Amon Amarth) are great showmen in ( Read more... )

Ran across this article while waiting for a phone interview…joy. This may explain why despite having literally exactly the skill set and experience a job rec is asking for I am not getting offers even when I know I have “nailed” the interview ( Read more... )

Though they took down the tweet once they realized just how badly they screwed up, here is the proof preserved for posterity.

What is all this about you ask? PS3 jailbreak codes…yeah they screwed up that bad…Oh Sony in what way can’t you undermine yourself in a massively public and hilarious fashion?

You can read the full story here.

Exactly 10 years ago, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued a report projecting that, in 2010, the federal government would run a $796 billion surplus. In reality, 2010 produced a $1.3 trillion deficit ( Read more... )

I just got done watching one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, Unthinkable ( Read more... )

It seems that the “momma grizzly” has taken umbrage to the suggestion that rhetoric filled with what could be seen as violent images and or references, like the “surveyor’s symbols” on her election map and her slogan of “Don’t retreat, reload!”, might be a contributing factor to the types of violence we saw directed at the congresswoman from ( Read more... )

The name of the article pretty much says it all. You can read the details at wired magazine’s web page.

Thanks Patriot Act I love how you’ve stripped our former civil liberties away. Not.

I miss you Magna Carta, R.I.P. 1225-2001, you were one of my favorites.

A question raised by the title of this article in by Time (also posed by the AP/Yahoo hereI find it dubious that Police forces around the country are trying to claim this violates wiretap laws, in which a conversation would have to be considered “private” in order to qualify, when the Supreme Court has found that people detained by the police ( Read more... )

Dropped some people who I haven’t seen a post or comment from in one or more years…I figure if it has been that long it probably isn’t going to happen…so what’s the point in waiting.

Happy Sunday to ya’.

Though the news we get about it here has been somewhat muted and sterilized the basic facts remain, in an attempt to enforce their three year blockade of Gaza Israeli forces have attacked, boarded and killed at least nine passengers of a unarmed relief mission in international waters (Some are reporting that a small number of the activists had ( Read more... )