So, for those of you not aware... LJ found a new way to make money off of you. Specifically, they seem to have signed up with a third party to redirect links to about 150 major e-commerce sites, and add "affiliate IDs" to them. Basically, this means that they'll get revenue for links posted by users and followed by anyone (including paid "never see ( Read more... )

So, apparently, researchers have invented a method for transferring data at an increased rate using what they refer to as a "time-domain telescope", a way of focusing optical pulses to make them "shorter in time" to transmit data at an increased rate. Unfortunately, no article I have found seems to be able to use unambiguous language to describe ( Read more... )

Putting the "Close this fucking annoying video rollover advert that blocks the content you actually want to read" button in the fucking position normally occupied by the non-rollover version is fucking evil, and I hope you die of some form of genital-based cancer. You know what you do after clicking that fucking button in the upper left corner? You ( Read more... )

"Religion was not supposed to provide explanations that lay within the competence of reason but to help us live creatively with realities for which there are no easy solutions and find an interior haven of peace; today, however, many have opted for unsustainable certainty instead. But can we respond religiously to evolutionary theory? Can we use it ( Read more... )

You know what's worse than making information you want on your website available only in .pdf form in this day and age?

Making it available only as a .pdf wrapped in a static-height-and-width iframe that ends up smaller than the fucking .pdf to be displayed..pdfs lead to plug-ins. Plug-ins lead to interior chrome. Interior chrome leads to ugly, ( Read more... )

... as he spoke to a joint session of Congress, in an historic event that occurs at momentous times in our national history - the wake of the September 11th attacks, after President Kennedy was shot - and you were, like myself, flabbergasted to hear a member of the United States Congress heckling the President of the United States in a speech on ( Read more... )

OK, seriously. Maybe I'm just really dense, or something. I must need to RTFM, RTFAQ, JFGI, or CUWANAITTRHMSRO 1. But seriously, when I discover a blog, and want to look at the archives, why do you insist on showing the several-year-old entries Last-In-First-Out on every page? Why is there not a "read this like a human being would" option on any ( Read more... )

Thou is nominative. Thee is objective. English has only three cases really - nominative, objective, and possessive. I know you would hardly notice it today except for our vestigial full set of pronouns, but it's not that hard. I'm well aware it's now impossible to get people to treat thou and thee as the informal second person pronouns these days, ( Read more... )

Because sometimes my brain latches onto an idea, and won't let go until it's executed, and because I've banged my head into some Baby's First Discussion of Privilegetm situations, I present to you a cathartic musical interlude, based upon an exotic, generations-old WASPish rhythm of the far-flung Occident...

( Appropriated from Gilbert & Sullivan )

So, today I discovered that I've most likely been "doing it wrong" when it comes to crocheting in the round. It's possible I've been doing it wrong for two decades. Most likely, I learned how to do it right when I first learned from my dad's mother, and forgot ( Read more... )