It’s all fun and games until someone loses 2,800 eyes

If you’ve read the authors’ book — Our Kampf — or if you think it’s extreme dickishness to forbid you from reading a site without first reading the book [raises hand] — maybe read the article Bush’s ‘Peace In Our Time’.  It’s bitter.  Excerpt: Israel’s “policy” (if that’s the word) is clear: Peace with Syria; [...] Read more »

Faster than a speeding Moore’s Law

Once, there were desktop computers.  These were so unwieldy that they redefined — upwards — the acceptable size of a desk.  Many people just put them on the floor and stumbled over them. Then came laptops.  These were just about the right size for a the top of a desk. Then notebook computers.  These were [...] Read more »

And it’s worth it, why, exactly?

No!  No no no!  Fuck cultural relativism.  Asia: you are fucking wrong.  Stop eating our turtles. Aargh.  These magnificent, gentle, ancient creatures, gobbled up because of bronze-age superstitions that people can’t seem to grow out of. Read more »

WorldCat

UmYeahWow.  WorldCat is awesome: “Search for books, music, videos, articles and more in libraries near you.” Read more »

Redefining “unstable” network setups

I don’t think this is too techie for most site readers.  Egads.  It’s not 1 April, so I’m taking it at face value. Like the article at that site (with which I’m unaffiliated)?  Not to belabor anything, but if you do, click some of the ads. Read more »

Affiliate payouts

Amazon pays out affiliates every time their account tops $10.  This is about the normal range for such programs. Google Adsense, on the other hand, doesn’t pay out until the user has accumulated $100.  This means that there are potentially millions of dollars in the accounts of content generators with $99.99 or below in their [...] Read more »

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