Staring at the C

In case you needed another fatuous reason for supporting Obama, here it is: Obama’s Top Ten tunes versus McCain’s.

Ticketline, my favourite less-evil-than-Ticketmaster online ticket agency, have finally got added some RSS feeds.

Almost makes flying civilised.

In addition to Gerardis, who produced “I, Robot,” Jeff Vintar, who penned the screenplay to that film, was attached to pen the “Foundation” screenplay.

The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to “gay marriage,” is that it marks the end of democracy in America.

As part of my work on Least Privilege for xVM, I worked on implementing direct file mounts.

Sikh girl wins bangle law battle I’m sure there’s some legal argument that makes banning all jewelry, religious or not, “discrimination”, but I doubt it’s a sensible one.

This one for the doubters (you know who you are): Likelihood of me being MALE is 100%

What are people’s approaches to writing Python correctly?

It’s somewhat disappoint that Mercurial is still corrupting repositories when you interrupt MQ operations.

After some searching and asking around I didn’t find any good explanation of the simplest way to implement plugins in Python.

Best cake ever.

An amusing prank.

Reading through this bug is seriously depressing to read (until Michael Matz steps in).

My favourite quote from I Am Neurotic: “Everyday, at 7:47 am or pm, I always say Boeing, after the Airplane, and I don’t know why.

It’s already extremely difficult to watch US TV, with adverts every 7 minutes, and massive animated station idents taking up half the screen, but this is particularly obnoxious: It’s as if they want you not to watch.

This T-shirt: yes, or no?

I only got most of the videos in this music video: but it’s still good.

Is CHRISTIAN electronic music the new underground?

I’m getting more than a little bit tired of Nintendo playing its bloody games.

America, how could you?

This is a weird story already, but that illustrative photo, and especially its caption, are just plain bizarre.

This finally annoyed me enough to find a solution.

Another request for sanity please.

I really don’t understand why, but AMD’s current problems are upsetting me.

For reasons beyond my ken, blogs.sun.com doesn't actually list an RSS feed anywhere I can find, but it's at http://blogs.sun.com/main/feed/entries/rss.

If you had the ability to cleanse 25,000 infected zombie home computers, would you?

Google have released rietveld, inspired by their internal code-review tool.

“That’s stupid!

They’re both at JavaOne.

Awwww:

The big three consoles, scaled according to how much hardware oomph they pack: And now in terms of 2007 sales: Yays for Nintendo.

This guy is an urban hero.

Awesomely bad from Microsoft: If that’s really supposed to be Bruce Springsteen … well … no.

That Haddaway is making a comeback.

zaitcev: I know you’re not entirely serious, but I don’t know why Ted’s post has put the dampers on anything.

No, Facebook, I’m not going to use Facebook Chat.

Compare and contrast: versus: Time Warner Delivers Modem Cockroaches.

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to point and laugh at religious people again.

An occasional series wherein I'll describe a part of the xVM implementation.

The Most Unwanted Song.

Via Bruce Schnier’s blog: Says it all I think.

Towards a Practical Theology of Peer Review it’s good to finally see some rigour in theology.

Via davej: “There are no managers at Centaur.

Dear Threadless, isn’t it really, really stupid that it’s impossible to see the designs in your T-shirt lists?

What I find most surprising about this guy: is not that he spent 6 months of his life listening in on the Diana inquest with stuff scrawled over his face, but that he’s not a Diana conspiracist!

etbe: I’m confused by your comments in that opinion article - were you misquoted?

Three-Armed Beyonce Is Not Amused.

OK, maybe scum is a little over the top, but I really do hate how lazy advertisers are.

Probably the best short programme there is: Dear Television.