Category: asides
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if the tallest had a website instead of an intergalactic armada of impending doom
this came to my attention today. there is a website that reviews…wait for it… snacks. apparently there are over 4,500 snacks reviewed for your, um, snacking pleasure with information on where to get them. from pizza balls to octopus-flavored chips, and everything in between. so. i’m thinking…if the Almighty Tallest (pictured above) from Invader Zim had…
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Is Piracy Really Killing The Music Industry? No!
Is Piracy Really Killing The Music Industry? No! | TorrentFreak. via @isohunt blah blah blah…still more evidence to support the idea that declining music sales and music piracy are not related. and more of the same RIAA whining about how they are, despite all data to the contrary. when can we just be done with…
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all part of my elaborate plan…
extra extra update on the twitter fireball scam i wrote about yesterday. apparently twitter fireball was just an elaborate april fool’s day joke. riiiiiiight. it’s really too bad i only took a partial screenshot of the site and didn’t get the PayPal button at the bottom of the page. alas, it’s too late now as…
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Microsoft wants to remember it for you wholesale
An intelligent personalized agent (e.g., guardian angel) monitors and evaluates a user’s environment to assist in decision-making processes on behalf of the user. The guardian angel can… take automated action on behalf of the user for various purposes (e.g., to compensate for memory loss, to remind a user to take medicine, to assist in social…
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joss whedon on faith and spirituality
joss whedon speaks about what he doesn’t have against christianity (or anything else, specifically) and addresses some of his themes of faith belief systems in his shows. via SciFi Wire
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f*** you, clown. f*** you
it kind of makes me belligerently angry when people try to make money at someone else’s expense. it could be argued that this describes all commerce, but it’s a different thing when the methods used to make said money involve deception, fake product reviews and false advertising. (you could say that microsoft is guilty of all…
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Work actual miracles with Photoshop CS5 and “Content Aware” features
omfg this is effing amazing. seriously.