Ah, sweet, sweet schadenfreude. My only regret is that Ken Lay died before he got what was coming to him: CEOs in the Slammer

Lesser known editing marks: Geist: Comix (via India, Ink)

A big-screen plasma TV would look pretty sweet hanging on your living room wall, wouldn’t it? But unless you want to start drilling holes and pulling cable, you’re going to have an unsightly additional feature: A black HDMI cable snaking down from the flat-panel to your HD-DVD, Blu-Ray player, or set-top box. Starting in late [...]

On the political compass, I fall in the “lefty libertarian” quadrant — not far from the Dalai Lama. In AD&D terms, I think that means “chaotic good.” Economic Left/Right: -3.25 Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian: -6.15 Political Compass Questionnaire

I may be way off base here, but isn’t Ms. Dewey uncannily similar to Microsoft’s earlier pathetic attempt at humanizing the computer, Clippy? Sure, one is a babe, and the other is a cartoon paperclip. But work with me here: They both have a pretentious, officious manner. They both rap on the glass to get [...]

I’m Emperor Norton, it seems. Rum and Monkey: The Historical Lunatic Test

A small but growing collection of short, useful how-to videos from PC Magazine: PCMagCast Video

The solution to global warming? Nuclear winter! Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war

“The glorious thing about the Internet is that it allows us to aggregate the combined stupidity of literally millions of people:” Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)