https://www.inc.com/magazine/19970615/1416.html - farmers' barbed wire fencing pulling double-duty as telephone wire in the 1920s. Frontier ingenuity at its finest. Makes me think of that Warren Ellis quote from Crécy, his woefully under-read comic/history text/treatise- ( Read more... )

I'm helping a comparatively less tech-savvy friend acclimatize to his Zune and I have to say - jeezus christ, you people suck. By "you people" I mean not just the Microsoft employees that put this piece of shit together but everyone that allowed so much DRM, OS bloat and other nonsense to creep into the larger mp3 culture.

Can someone, anyone, ( Read more... )