America's worst charities: "organizations that took in more than $1 billion over the past 10 years, and gave almost all of that money to their own staffs and professional solicitors."

The first things ever posted at famous websites: includes links to the first YouTube upload, the first tweet, and the first LJ post ( Read more... )

I read this AV club interview with Bryan Cranston and the main thing that leapt out at me* was the phrase "Len Wiseman's upcoming remake of Total Recall ( Read more... )

The idea for poll #2 reminded me that I forgot about this poll I ran in November 2005. We predicted a mean of $2.40 and a median of $2.35. The actual price on Jan. 1, 2007, according to the criteria I set out was $2.33 ("U.S. Regular All Formulations Retail Gasoline Prices"). Wow.

So, here's evwhore long-term poll #2, prompted by "Obama ( Read more... )

This entry and prock's comment caused me to dig up an operating systems class assignment I did sophomore year in college. As an aside, I was a bit disappointed with the class -- in previous years they'd written a tiny-but-functional OS from scratch. This year they'd gotten ahold of some educational product which provided template source files where ( Read more... )