Archive for August, 2005

cbc unplugged

August 28th, 2005

Great source of CBC blogs and podcasts.

Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief

August 27th, 2005

Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief

Moral of the story - even if you’re enough of a cunt to steal from a charity raffle, don’t be fucktarded enough to steal a phone from a community of phone experts.

copyright, explained

August 24th, 2005

The kind folks at Bromberg & Sunstein LLP - Intellectual Property, Business, Litigation have a nice flowchart showing just how easy copyright law is.

programming explained

August 18th, 2005

Code the Code:

Q. What’s the difference betweeen an implementor and a maintainer?
A. One writes code, and the other rights code.

joey’s PSA

August 10th, 2005

Republicans want beer money back

August 8th, 2005

headline of the day: S.C. Republicans want beer money back.

worst fiction winners

August 8th, 2005

The 2005 results from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are in.

In considering the wisdom of entering upon an affair of the heart with the redoubtable Miss Ffiona Sensuosa, MacFadden Perfidy weighed the undeniable erotic advantages of such a confluence of physiologically coinciding characteristics against the demonstrably unfortunate fact of her exhibiting pronounced advantages over him in terms of wealth, intelligence and personality, and concluded that their union could possibly be inadvisable.

don’t fuck with cole valley

August 3rd, 2005

derek strikes back at hit-and-run driver:

My mind raced. I could leave an angry note! No, better, I could etch a few choice words on the side of the car with my keys! No, better! I could go to the store, buy yellow spraypaint, and write HIT AND RUN on the side of the car. But I did none of those things. Instead, I took a photo.

Later in the day, I called the police and reported the license plate number and what I’d seen. Then I took the photo, added personal note to the people involved, made a poster, and put it up in several places on my street with enough tape to make it a huge challenge to remove.