Attention all evil geniuses and wannabe super villains, I am guessing Villain Source is just for you! Ever wonder where the super evil go to scheme and plot? It could be here. Look at some of the wonderful advice that you can find: THEY’LL KNOW. NEVER BLUFF WITH SUPERWEAPONS. If you’re going to freeze London, […]
Sometimes I think that all wit and humor has been driven from public discourse through poltical correctness and mindless subjugation to political and social “causes”. Then I wander into something like this (From a source I usually don’t think highly of). From The San Francisco Chronicle – A reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim at Columbia […]
Seems that in Scotland, sightings of the Loch Ness monster are down, way down! This is causing a bit of concern amongst the locals that a shy Nessie will result in fewer tourists coming to the Loch to try and catch a glimpse of the world’s most famous mythological beastie. From MSNBC: Loch Ness monster […]
The technology we use to drive mashup / content based integration sites like Hardtack is based around RSS and enterprise content syndication. As such I spend a lot of time tinkering with RSS and syndication tools others have built. One fun example is Feedster, which lets you search through RSS feeds for specific topics (although […]
I will confess I am a lucky man. I was fortunate enough to marry a woman who is in many ways as nerdy as I am, which makes so many aspects of a technical life a lot easier. Thanks to her, we now know of LiveScience.com’s top 10 ways to destroy the Earth! 10. Total […]
It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! And here, courtesy of Language Log (one of my favorite blogs), is an handy instructional video: Yo ho! ..bruce..
UPDATED: Here’s a comic to check out. OK, this is the funniest idea I’ve run across since “Talk like a Pirate” day (which comes up just next week, by the way): You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a […]
First, some background via Wikipedia: A Gary Smith-Dwight Hemion Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television, The Star Wars Holiday Special was produced with a budget of a little over a million dollars. At the time, it was considered one of the most expensive TV endeavors of its kind. Taping began in October and […]
This great posting over at American Digest (one of the best-written blogs on the web) is worth taking the time to read: 1. Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1957 – Vice principal comes over to look at Jack’s shotgun. He goes to his […]
Ten Postulates of Political Correctness
Baron Bodissey [nice pen name, since I happen to know where it comes from] does an excellent job of laying out what he calls the Ten Postulates of Political Correctness: 1. America is uniquely evil. 2. America is never justified in defending itself. 3. Illiterate people from poor societies are superior to Americans. 4. The […]
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