BoingBoing has a very interesting article: Prescription for consumers challenging academic textbook cartels that begins to address the issues surrounding over-priced college text books that students are being forced to pay for if they adhere to the “required text” portions of their class schedule. I recall from the mid-1980s that many texts were reasonably priced […]
Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk Fede Alvarez tells a little about how he made the short film: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=822329&highlight=big+robots They look like Mechforce Marauders to me… but perhaps I played a little too much of Ralph Reed’s excellent Amiga game in the early 1990s…
I am more and more glad I started avoiding high fructose corn syrup because it tastes icky years ago… Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener (London Times) This has disturbing ramifications for most American children, really disturbing. Hat tip to Waldo Jaquith for the link.
There are many false rumors in the world, and I cannot address very many of them, but I have direct experience with two devices that people have all sorts of false conceptions about; and I can share my experience with each… iPhone 3G: mine is over a year old now (September or October 2008) and […]
Three Edged Sword, a fan fiction audio drama based on Babylon 5, has been making my daily commute seem much shorter. If you like Babylon 5 and enjoy a decent audio drama, it is available free as a podcast from Voices of Babylon.
Erci and I continued to have a lot of fun on our recent vacation to Seattle, Portland, and Cupertino. Portland details after the jump…
Erci and I had a lot of fun on our recent vacation to Seattle, Portland, and Cupertino. Seattle details after the jump…
Now, do something fun with your loved ones, like visit a park, museum, or just stay home and talk to each other.
Sorry Apple, I am disgusted that a device I bought and paid for forces upgrades that I do not want. This is the third time an upgrade has been applied automatically before I allowed it, before I was ready, and before the software that I added has been ready for the new version. I paid […]
According to the Verifiable Voting Coalition of Virginia, Virginia law requires that all new voting machines be optical scan tabulators that provide a voter-verified paper audit trail. So why did I have to vote on an unverifiable paperless electronic voting machines, known as DRE? Because our lame legislators have allowed for a very long, gradual […]
