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Posted in General on Sep 3rd, 2008
There is very little difference between Google’s new Chrome browser and Apple’s Safari. Both are based on the fantastically beautiful and fast and open source KHTML browser foundation, and each has simply been optimized for its own particular niche. I have to admit that based on only one day of testing, I like Chrome better [...]
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China Games ‘a broadcast record’
The Chinese Olympic games are now history, and the viewership of these games was stellar because there were so many Chinese watching the games and because the games were so magnificent. Whether the human and environmental costs of the games were greater than the $40 billion (hey, [...]
Posted in General on Aug 24th, 2008
On a lazy Sunday about a month ago, I spotted these Major League Baseball shower gels at the 99 Cent Store on Main Street in Ventura, and I captured the event with my trusty iPhone.
Why is this a big deal? Well, we finally know how much that Major League Baseball smell is worth. $0.99.
I wonder [...]
Posted in General on Aug 5th, 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Papers rue Max Mosley judgement
It is absolutely impossible to quibble with the entirely just verdict handed down in the Mosley case. It is indisputable that the scion of British fascism is entitled to privacy, and it is true that the tabloids went too far in order to expose Mr. Mosley’s [...]
Bennigan’s, Steak & Ale Close, File for Bankruptcy Protection | WSJ.com
It is indeed difficult to mourn the demise of two lousy restaurant chains that marketed lousy food and pathetic atmosphere as a good time.Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the demise of TGI Friday’s, Applebee’s, Chilli’s and the like. Could this effect an improvement in [...]
BBC NEWS | Americas | Drug stash found in US police car
We are led to believe that the huge stash of cocaine found in this undercover Dallas police officer’s car was an accidental discovery. The car in question was an asset seized from a drug operation, and the police claim that drug traffickers have become [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Women deny Mosley ‘Nazi theme’
Our wealthy hero must have struck a very resonant cord today in court when he managed to get one of his sadism and masochism partners to confess in court that calling the proceedings “Nazi” constitutes overreaching. After all, one of the lovely maidens tending to Mr. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 7th, 2008
BBC NEWS | Also in the news | Porn appears on rugby programme
The digital media infrastructure is still undergoing much debugging. This is how hardcore pornography interrupted the feast of violence known as the game of rugby. Rugby fans in New Zealand had their feast of violence interrupted by four minutes of hardcore pornography that [...]
Posted in General on Jul 7th, 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Mosley denies ‘Nazi-themed orgy’
Life imitating art. In this instance Max Mosley, head of Formula One Racing, got himself into some hot water for what he did with five prostitutes. His situation imitates a sick joke by the legendary blue comedian, Robert Schimmel. (His Wikipedia entry.) The joke goes something like [...]
I still use Safari and Omniweb as my primary browsers, but Firefox is far too cool a browser to be forgotten. After all, it is the most feature rich browser on the planet by virtue of its add-ons.
So, strike a blow against inferior browsers and help to set a new internet record for the most [...]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2008
Bloomberg.com: Warren Buffett Sees More Opportunities in Europe
Perhaps only Warren Buffett can declare the American economy dead, stick a fork in it and pronounce it dead. All the Americans who still consider Europe “socialistic” ought to heed the great oracle’s declaration that Europe is his prime target for business acquisitions.
Note that he is looking for [...]
nicworks :: downloads :: brokeback mountain icons set
Customized, clean, artistic and professionally rendered icons are one of the many nice things that the Macintosh developer community offers the Macintosh user community. An icon set based on Brokeback Mountain, however, is a mystifying contribution from this incredibly generous developer community. The offering of the icon set [...]
Posted in General on Dec 16th, 2007
World Clock
What is the perfect accompaniment to a beautifully rendered world clock you may ask? Why, all the statistics about death that you could ever want or desire.
Posted in General, Primordial Soup on Dec 5th, 2007
Moran Atias | Moran Atias Nude
One of the blogs that I maintain has been inundated with Spam from the site above. According to the site, this woman is a “Palestinian model” and television presenter. I have no idea what either means. I am struck with a tinge of pity, however, that there are models who [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2007
2 Florida Deputies Killed in Car Chase | New York Times
Statistics on car chases are unequivocal: they cause far more havoc and damage than serve justice. In fact, they don’t serve justice at all. Suspects, who are clearly not bright people, are easily traced through records and apprehended at home. It will be interesting to [...]
