Mawwiage
There are a number of issues here. One, of course, is the theat which IdiotSavant refers to; bullshit scaremongering by the celebrant mafia. The other is, more generally, how the business of providing...
View ArticleBarbie Girl in a CS World
See this? Different (and longer) perspective on what I was getting at here.
View ArticleIt's Mac vs PC All Over Again (I Hope)
I’ve been thinking that iPhone vs Andoid has more than a whiff of Mac vs PC all over again about it, and Apple going after HTC as a proxy for Google just bakes that impression in; I’m not the only one...
View ArticleNews, Racist Crap, Grar
I don’t watch that much TV any more, although we’ve been getting into the habit of sitting down in front of Country Calendar after dinner on a Saturday; tonight I flicked on the news and was reminded...
View ArticleNot Chattels
One of the more annoying arguments that I have noticed creeping into the arguments of vaccine deniers, as their arguments based on the fraudulent junk science produced by a shill for a law firm are...
View ArticleDisplacement
Of all the Pythons, John Cleese depresses me the most. His wholehearted embrace of Americanisms—therapies, marriages up the wazoo, self-help, management videos, you name it—seems in some way the second...
View ArticleSubsidies
When people say, “Avatar had $50 million in subsidies” it conjures up a particular image: Joe Taxpayer ladling $50 million to a bunch of film moguls. It’s understandable, not least because it’s how...
View ArticleDated By Words
“I’ll dial in when I get home from work.”My first encounter with a modem was an old acoustic coupler my Dad would bring home in the early 80s as part of a briefcase-sized, wood-enclosed apparatus...
View ArticleOff the Piss
The better part of a decade back I was chatting to a bike mechanic about the way Yamaha and Subaru’s use of security dot systems—which spray scannable microdots into the undercoats that cover almost...
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