This morning I got up and mowed the lawn. It really needed it, and the push mower was having all it could do to make it through the damp morning dew-covered grass. But, the sun was shining, Five-Finger Death Punch and Iron Thrones were on the Sansa, and I plowed …
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Internet Explorer users and mass media prove they're all dumb
Recently there was a "study" published that claimed that Internet Explorer users were dumber than users of other browsers. It was a wild claim at best, but of course the media ran with it. Even the normally stoic BBC got caught in the hullabaloo. It was an outrageous claim, but …
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You'll be free, hackers. You'll be free.
(Based off of Jono Bacon's "Free Software Song", written using LMMS and Audacity)
read moreThe 8 stages of e-mail threads
The 8 stages of an e-mail thread (from IRC):- Semi-plausible claim
- Several pokes, one of which might be right
- Several more semi-plausible claims
- Someone who knows from whence they speak weighs in
- Several "That's counter-intuitive" statements
- Pissing contest over what's correct vs what's intuitive
- Personal attacks
- Hitler
Greg also mentioned …read more