Neither rain, nor shine, nor start of school year, nor first University of Michigan football game could deter our intrepid band of Ubuntu Michigan Loco-folk from braving their way through the crowded streets of Ann Arbor on first-game-day. While Michigan Stadium swelled to contain the football faithful, we hunkered down …

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Those of you who know me know that I have an amazing fetish for music, most notably for compact discs. I love to discover new music, and browsing through used CD stores is my idea of a great way to kill an afternoon (and, notably, also a …

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 …

1. Semi-plausible claim
2. Several pokes, one of which might be right
3. Several more semi-plausible claims
4. Someone who knows from whence they speak weighs in
5. Several "That's counter-intuitive" statements
6. Pissing contest over what's correct vs what's intuitive
7. Personal attacks
8. Hitler

To say that the upgrade on my machine from Lucid to Natty wasn't smooth would be a considerable understatement. I believe the better term for the upgrade would be "nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure".

Let me preface this by saying that I've done stupid …