…because they are all dead. I know this because I just scanned the exhaustive list of dead recording artists at RockandRollBadBoy.
I was shocked at how young some of them were when they died or how I had completely missed, or forgot, when others (like Wendy O. Williams who killed herself in 98) did their […]

Who said sexist was out of style?

… does qsol.com really want their geek target audience associating their product with “yeah, I took out that hottie, shelled out a lot of cash, and got nothing!” Qsol = frustrating waste of time and money?

Shouldn’t qsol want sysadmins to think that their servers, um, perform?

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Perhaps it’s a message […]

From the Guardian
Here’s one you might like. New blog Biologists Helping Bookstores - spotted via Jason Kottke - features a crusading scientist called Ste who tries reorganizing bookshop shelves to prevent pseudoscience featuring in the science categories.
Take this recent entry, where the target was work by individuals like intelligent design “pioneer” Michael Behe:
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According to the Los Angeles Times,
… at least nine of the city’s 18 elected leaders used higher than average amounts of water — sometimes a little, other times a lot — over the last two years.
So, um, nine of the eighteen is half … so half were above the average … and half were […]

In response to measures currently being considered in the US Senate, which would allow US companies to apply for anti-dumping penalties against Chinese companies unless China allows the Yaun to rise against the US dollar, China has threatened to begin dumping it’s foriegn currency reserves triggering a crash of the US dollar.
The Chinese government has […]

August 7, 2007 — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned.
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While other online publications were abandoning subscriptions, the Times took the opposite approach in 2005 and began charging for access to well-known writers, including Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich […]

Maybe I am naive but isn’t the “discount window” what got us into the sub-prime mess in the first place?
Jim Cramer, Money, Federal Reserve

“Whadda ya’ mean y’use didn ‘t Digg my post?”
A group of highly-naive bloggers have discussed forming a union for bloggers. On the surface this is a painfully dumb idea. But maybe we should take a second look at it. Some possible benefits…

1. People leaving angry comments on union blogs will receive Teamster visit.
2. Work rules […]

Guess what she was arrested for?
This is a perfect for The Onion, but it actually came from ABC Denver.
41-year old Amanda Lynn Bailey isn’t the smartest woman in the world and that was abundantly clear this week when she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence wearing a t-shirt saying “I’m not […]

Apparently the committee responsible for determining whether or not he should be reappointed is having doubts about his judgment. Go figure.
By the middle of next week, Roy Pearson, the D.C. administrative law judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners for $54 million and lost, will receive a letter that starts the process […]

Antonio is always, always watching Mirthala’s back!
You have to give credit to the upper management at Telemundo. They needed to do something about the incredible ethical lapses at their station but they had a problem. The lapse involved their popular and rising star reporter and the most popular Latino politician in the state. Furthermore, said […]

In the early 90s I worked at a major media company and one of the guys brought in the above tape saying that it was filmed by friends of his. We laughed so hard and kept bringing new people in to see it. Thanks to the Internet it can now be shared with all of […]