White People Recycle, The Rest: Be Afraid
This is just sad and pathetic: Culture of Fear: Poetry Professor Becomes Terror Suspect
Because of my recycling, the bomb squad came, then the state police. Because of my recycling, buildings were evacuated, classes were canceled, the campus was closed. No. Not because of my recycling. Because of my dark body. No. Not even that. Because […]
The Rise of the DVD Player
A few weeks ago my faithful DVD player died . This weekend I got a new one, the Philips DVP5960/37 (the name is much more impressive than the machine, I assure you). I chose this one for three reasons:
It was recommended by a friend and I’m lazy enough and don’t care enough about TV image […]
How To Trash A Mac In One Easy Step
I’m not going to ruin Matthew Bookspan’s article And They Said the Mac Was Intuitive since the punchline’s pretty good - you ought’a head over and read it before continuing with this.
He has the graces to concede that the fault was his (strangely while seeming to blame Apple at the same time). But I don’t […]
Kaspersky iPod Virus FUD
FUD: Fear, uncertainty, doubt.
Kaspersky Labs is reporting that they’ve “discovered” the first iPod virus. They then qualify their “discovery” with an absurd amount of conditionals, including:
Only works on iPods reformatted and running Linux
The user has to install the “virus” themselves
The user has to manually launch the “virus”
The “virus” cannot spread, cannot make it off the […]
Bruce Schneier knows kung-fu
When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no remainders. Ever.
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Bruce Schneier once counted an infinite set. Backwards.
- Bruce Schneier Facts