flamewars are the fountainhead of human creativity
Note: This is a post highly similar to this one, but since our audience is completely different and I’d rather post it here than have people not follow the link, I hope Darius will forgive me. So… Darius over at TinySubversions has a much more entertaining and detailed account of this little gaming fracas (go...
you know…
Spammers really need to try harder. I just learned that I’ve won 4 million dollars… and an iPod phone (whatever that is). By Nokia. Amateurs.
a short review of a book i haven’t read
I’ve been mildly interested in the book Wikinomics recently, because it’s one of the sexy recent non-fictions to appear on my radar, and I’m obsessed with Wikipedia (well, who isn’t). But mildly interested means I haven’t really yet bothered to find out what it’s about. But this morning I saw an interview with the author,...
another guilty pleasure
It’s time I owned up to this. I’ve been reading Questionable Content since its very beginning, haven’t missed a single one, haven’t told a single soul. Check it out. (I highly recommend reading it from the beginning, it’s very rewarding).
firefox frustrations
I’m no fan of Microsoft, but IE has always worked for me. Still, wanting to increase my system’s security and shamed into feeling like a member of the unenlightened stone-age masses, I gave in and installed Firefox early this week. I made it my default browser and removed all the desktop shortcuts to IE, determined...
gee, you shouldn’t have
Another cutie from the inbox: “Cher #FirstName #LastName, Nous vous écrivons en tant que client privilégié d’Air Canada”
woohoo, yahoo!
Before going on the trip, I cleaned out my inbox as much as possible, lest it get full and messages start bouncing. In the end, during the trip it never went above 40% of its capacity. Then on Tuesday morning, I logged in first thing in the morning, as usual, and found out that for...
the end is near
Here’s a fun one: the Zombie Infection Simulator. The pink dots are humans. The gray dots are zombies. The bright pink dots moving fast are panicking humans. Press g to turn the zombies green, it’s funnier that way. Watch the invasion here. (Thanks Chuck)

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