Puget Sound Energy has dropped the power ball for either the eighth or ninth time this year, I've lost track. The Bandcamp site is still up, of course ( http://crimeandtheforcesofevil.com/bandcamp/com ) but nothing else is. Invest in diesel generators, I guess? Because ( Read more... )

Anti-Gay GOP Congressman Pete Sessions: Pulse Wasn't a Gay Club
Florida Governor Rick Scott refuses on CNN to acknowledge gay people were targeted at Orlando nightclub
Owen Jones walks off Sky News interview as Sky News refuses to admit LGBT people were targeted in Orlando.
eta: Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R), too (h/t lj: rmdI wonder ( Read more... )

"SALISBURY, N.C. -- A North Carolina school system has adopted a policy allowing high school students to carry pepper spray this fall, a policy one board member said may be useful for students who encounter transgender classmates in the bathroom ( Read more... )

I’ve been thinking more about Google/YouTube’s new music streaming service terms - the ones that require your whole library, that require 320bps source, that require five year terms, and so on. I wrote about it last week, talking about how Google is letting the old labels dictate away crowdfunding rewards and the like.

But I’ve been doing more ( Read more... )

OS X has started heading towards that point I hit in Windows where I switched architectures - specifically, where all sorts of WOW ISN'T THIS GREAT LET ME FORCE IT UPON YOU architectural changes make me rageface and want to throw the machine out the window ( Read more... )

The 4chan Strangler who murdered a woman and posted pictures (and participated in discussion) on 4chan after the killing is still on the loose. THIS IS A REAL STORY, NOT A JOKE. It is believed the suspect's name is David Kalac. The car he is believed to have stolen was last seen in Portland, Oregon.

BE WARNED THAT IN RESPONSE TO MOD DELETIONS, ( Read more... )

So, yeah. “The Caretaker.”

I’m getting pretty close to “ring me up when Moffat is gone from Doctor Who.” And I’m not that entirely sure I’m going to turn on my phone’s ringer. Because right now, there is so very little to like and so very much not to, and I am out of patience with Mr. Moffat.

I don’t like - to paraphrase James Nicoll - that at the ( Read more... )

I have triumphed over the Open Sources and have made the nvidia GT520 driver work. I am now running a new kernel along the way, but hey. I also discovered bugs in Xorg -configure, as well as the nvidia configuration tool, and it only took 11 hours.

I can also now build the latest 3.2 Linux core, but that’s just kind of a side effect.

And this is ( Read more... )

James Nicoll pointed to this post on Scripting News, wherein the author tells a story about a guy he hired who didn’t do any work, had to be fired, then sued on the basis of discrimination, all back in 1985. The author lays out this gem:

[E]very time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn’t there to ( Read more... )

I have seen a fair number of Kickstarter burnouts and explosions, but I have never seen one like this.
( I've been told that this may be a little triggery for some people, so here's a cut. I'm taking it as a huge ragequit combined with performance art, because the artist in question has a history of that. But to be safe, I'm putting it under a fold. Click to expand. )