Why I'll never be a Mac fangirl, #664: I have to install a separate application just to be able to turn off the stupid startup fanfare sound. This is ridiculous. This is more ridiculous than a cross between a poodle and a cockatoo. That, right there, is me laughing in the face of Mac evangelists the world over. Ridiculous.

UK of GB and NI, we need ( Read more... )

You thought Doctor Who's Gridlock was an exaggerated piece of fiction? Think again.

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A sad and enraging day for all of us, mates:

Digg link to original ThePirateBay article
BBC article

I say "Arrr! Daft and cowardly are ye who set a shameful precedent!"

My family has a proverb, "mai binele e dusmanul binelui" ("better is the enemy of good"); it's probably best translated through "if it ain't broke don't fix it", and it has served us well for many years ( Read more... )

It begins here, in the 65th page of comments, below the Russian Pepsi macro, when a vigilant Russian speaker discovers this absolute gem of an interview:

www.izbrannoe.info/30184.html (copy-paste etc.; because of well-founded paranoia - remember, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!)

Now, I don't know Russian ( ( Read more... )

Dude, I turn my back to LJ for, like, two minutes and the SUPocalypse comes!

This comment made me LOL so hard, exactly what I needed to create the reputation of an insane cackler that's already consolidated in the other office ( Read more... )

Couple of things that have boggled me here ( Read more... )

Oh, come on! They're canceling TV shows before I even have the chance to get into them now?!

Oh, wait, that's actually a good thing.

What were you doing, Phoxx, trying to pimp a new young show to me? After Traveler got canceled, lilalo and I took a sort of unofficial vow to not fall prey to new shows before they get at least a two seasons run. ( Read more... )

(Sorry, but there's just no other word for it.)

I spoke too soon, lilalo. The workers hadn't abandoned their work. They went to get another bulldozer. And a jackhammer. In the middle of the night.

*screams*

*scream gets lost in the joyous hammering of road workers*

You know that feeling when you think you glimpse something out of the corner of the eye and it gives you a big scare, because it looks like something is moving autonomously where there shouldn't be movement and the brain processes it as a bug though it's just a clump of dust, but you can't ignore it because one time out of thirteen it is a bug ( Read more... )