I, Cringely: What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version — OS 10.4 — on every new iPod in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through …
Author Archives: paulschreiber
fox screws up, innocent family hurt
Sensationalist “journalism” at FOX misidentifies family as terrorists: The LA Times reports that featured Fox News contributor John Loftus incorrectly identified a La Habra, CA, home as that of a terrorist. The family of five who lives there has been harrassed ever since. … Loftus, whose “Inside Scoop with John Loftus” is a feature of …
cbc unplugged
Great source of CBC blogs and podcasts.
Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief
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
The kind folks at Bromberg & Sunstein LLP – Intellectual Property, Business, Litigation have a nice flowchart showing just how easy copyright law is.
programming explained
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
Republicans want beer money back
headline of the day: S.C. Republicans want beer money back.
worst fiction winners
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 …
don’t fuck with cole valley
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. …