I used to have a Mad magazine that would advertise “Completetly useless hand grenades for sale, missing firing pins” right next to “hand grade firing pins for sale” on the back cover. I checked my RSS feeds today and saw these two items right on top of each other: 2 suicide bombers kill 93 in …
Category Archive: Ramblings
Mar
06
Mar
06
Libby Takes the Fall
This should have been the Watergate of the Bush administration. Instead this schmuck Libby takes the fall and Bush and Cheney walk away without a scracth. Does anyone believe that this guy leaks info to reporters on ANYTHING without the express consent of his boss? Come on. I’m happy that what’s his name that was …
Jan
10
iSick of the iPhone hype
My friend Ian is a Macolyte. When he forwarded me this Time article about the iPhone I figured it was just another fluff piece. At a base price of $499 and available only on Cingular, should other handset manufacturers really be worried. Well, yes, of course they should, but what I liked about this article …
Jan
03
Saddam Executed
I was walking through a WHSmith’s in Scotland on Dec 30 when I saw the front page headline of one of the tabloids there: “Saddam Hangs Today”. I was mildly annoyed that my New Years thoughts were being interrupted by this spectacle. I was all for the execution of such an abominably evil human, and …
Jan
03
Second Life Founder Interview
A video interview with Joe Miller, the founder of Second Life. For my buddy Ian, who first showed me Second Life. And for Mark Lorenc, who first got me into immersive online experiences by introducing me to City of Heroes. I love this stuff. So “sci-fi-comes-to-life”. The stuff of all those paperbacks with the colorful …
Jan
03
French and Germans Can’t Fight Google
According to InfoWorld the French/German marriage initially conceived to fight Google’s book digitization dominance has broken up. I thought this was a cute news item when it first came to prominence almost two years ago. The curator of the French National Library apparently convinced Chirac that it was imperative that a “European” answer to the …
Jan
03
Dutch Ban Segways
This news item made me want to laugh and cry at the same time. I was just speaking with Lynn’s son Jamie this New Year about the fact that while technology has advanced and created new opportunities, our laws have failed to keep pace. (As a worker in an industry which relies on copyright for …
Dec
20
Ann Shopping in London
This is great. I love this stuff. This just goes to show what fantastic value can be delivered by the combination of video and broadband Internet connection. A few weeks ago Ann and Anja went on a Christmas shopping trip to London, after which Ann wrote about it on her blog. I read it, and …
Oct
12
Free Video
This clip is seriously one of the funniest things I have ever seen. You just have to love sites like YouTube, GoogleVideo, and this one, VidiLife for the shit that you can find for free on the Internet. God bless the Internet and the normal distribution curve of natural selection for granting us such abundance …
Oct
09
You Know You’re a Dork When…
My friend Mark introduced me to the world of massively multi-player online role playing games (MMORPGs). As a former comic book collector, I simply had to give City of Heroes a try as my first MMORPG. I have to admit, for a few months I did little else in my spare time other than complete …