Blog – Page 64 – Paul Schreiber

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.
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Loftus, whose “Inside Scoop with John Loftus” is a feature of Fox Network News television every Sunday at 11:20 AM, gave the family’s address on the air, saying that a terrorist connected with the July 7 London bombings lived at the address. Directions and satellite photos were briefly available on-line until police intervened and had them taken down.

cbc unplugged

Great source of CBC blogs and podcasts.

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 in terms of wealth, intelligence and personality, and concluded that their union could possibly be inadvisable.

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. 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.

radio sucks because sony pays to make it suck

Sony BMG settles NY radio probe for $10 million:

“Instead of airing music based on the quality, artistic competition, aesthetic judgments or other judgments, radio stations are airing music because they are paid to do so in a way that hasn’t been disclosed to the public,” Spitzer said at a press briefing.