Twitter's two-factor authentication simply sucks. Most of the times I attempt to use it, it fails; it doesn't text the authentication code to my mobile phone, even after multiple attempts. It's not the phone, as it still receives text messages, and it's not the number, as eventually I will receive a code after a large number of attempts, so it ( Read more... )

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Stupidity, a one-hour documentary about, well... what it says on the tin, really. NSFW for swears, occasional glimpses of nudity, and, uh, well, really stupid behaviour.

-- Steve agrees that the field really does need better study.

On this absurdly early holiday weekend morning *yawn* I took the opportunity to read the Opinion section of the newspaper and stumbled upon an absolutely dire op-ed piece by Sun QMI's Monte Solberg, on how modern city living has robbed us of our connection to nature and youth today et tedious cetera. Yup, it was so dire that the London Free Press ( Read more... )

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An Italian restaurant in Philadelphia is offering a 9-course dinner for four for $26 000. I call it a Happy Meal because there's a toy inside; an $11 000 watch.

-- Steve thinks it should be called "truffles a la Marie Antoinette." This kind of thing causes revolutions, and not the culinary kind.

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Floridian priest and Koran-burning anti-Muslim activist Terry Jones has been denied permission to enter Canada. The (highly-technical term follows) asshole was en route to a debate with an imam in Toronto on whether the film Jones produced, "The Innocence of Muslims", should be considered hate literature but was turned back at the border by ( Read more... )

From the Globe and Mail: All shooting victims outside Empire State Building were hit by police gunfire.It's looking like this wasn't a mass shooting, but rather a workplace shooting with a side-order of suicide-by-cop. (And it's sad that there these sort of categories, no?) Only the first vicitm was slain by the gunman. Most of the casualties ( Read more... )

In a surprise move, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) released a heart-felt apology and clarification of his earlier statement about the consequences of rape directly to the website of America's Finest News Source. Recommended reading.

-- Steve was deeply moved.*

* in the sense that I was laughing so hard I nearly crapped myself

CBC's morning show "The Current" had a piece on folks calling for a boycott of the upcoming Euro 2012 Football (aka soccer) tournament because the host countries, Poland and the Ukraine, have groups of racists and neo-Nazis regularly attending matches ( Read more... )

When you are at a stop light or stop sign, you are supposed to stop. That means that the brake (the wide pedal in the middle) needs to be pressed to the floor, and the vehicle has to be STOPPED which means NOT MOVING ( Read more... )