At some point in time last summer, maybe early last fall, someone from Flickr sent me a message, asking to use one of my milkweed bug photos for a book. The name of the publisher was vaguely familiar, so I googled it, and they publish educational nonfiction books (not text books), primarily aimed toward kids […]
“Rampage!” (featuring Road, Weather and Tornado “Rampages!” and yes, those are sarcastic quotes), Wreckreation Nation (I am not making that name up), Destroyed In Seconds and the whole slew of crap reality shows, the newest of which I believe is called Cougar, and features an “older woman”; the attentions of whom are sought my a […]
I don’t think it’s any secret that I hate advertising. I block nearly all of them with AdBlock+ and NoScript (whitelisting few sites, temporarily allowing only scripts critical to viewing content I want), and if the occasional animated GIF slips through on some random site that I rarely visit, then I’ll just “quick-nuke” it with […]
I didn’t see these AT&T ads because not only did I not live here in 1993, but I didn’t have cable, and indeed, my TV wasn’t plugged in for a couple of years (unplugged it to move it once, forgot to plug it back in and just never bothered after that because I didn’t care), […]
I had to “liberate” this clip from LiveLeak because it was just made of awesome. The soldiers are Canadian; in Brussels for a service to commemorate the D-day landings in 1944. The little boy is Belgian, and is dressed in a replica of a Canadian Highlanders uniform (don’t know which regiment). He’s waiting for them […]
Telenor said it saw “no legal basis” for the demand for ISPs to control or assess the content that users download. “At the same time, Telenor does not condone pirating of material and illegal file sharing,” Telenor said in the statement. “We comply with all relevant laws and regulations and can see no legal basis […]
Since it’s a slang word, there really isn’t an “official” definition of a guido. Generally, though, they’re young men from New Jersey or New York who either have or claim to have an Italian background, and behave in a manner that they believe is suave, sophisticated and quintessentially “Italian”. The problem is that their version […]
I don’t mind mobile Safari much; I’d like a button to stop a page loading (like if I’ve fat-fingered a link and end up loading slow-ass Flickr or something), and I don’t like not being able to delete/re-order *all* of the bookmarks and folders, but overall, it’s okay. What I don’t like is that when […]
This is part of a screencap taken from some local news site. An unfortunate side effect of computer technology is that now any dumbass can tap out a bunch of words on a keyboard, run it through spellcheck and think it’s good. An editor–a real, live professional editor–would have picked up on the word “propel” […]
Is everyone in Finland slightly loony? I found this on a Finnish site along with some animation about fungus that featured singing cartoon worms on an alien planet, and the music for this one (I believe the genre is called “symphonic metal”) is Nightwish, “Ghost Love Score.” I am not entirely sure in which sense […]