Jessica was shouting at her computer this morning because a web-form kept changing the keyboard focus right when she was about to press backspace, resulting in leaving the page and having to start the form again.

So I made a chrome extension. https://goo.gl/6aMIHP

Susan was accused of a crime she didn't commit, and constantly hounded to confess. In despair, she went out and solved the crime herself, to get the police off her back.

Now the police accuse Susan of committing every crime they can't solve.

Get the body you've always wanted, with seasonal flu! Our patented loss of appetite will take pounds of fat off your waist, while the coughing spasms sculpt your abs and hard-to-target diaphragm muscles like nothing else!

I'm interested, but I already had a flu vaccine!Never fear, the flu vaccine is only effective against a flu from years ago that ( Read more... )

Damn it Humble Bundles, this is not a description of a game. "The undersea world has undergone a transformation from tranquil environment to a place of unspeakable violence, graphic murder and horrific danger. It is now the 27th century and mercenaries such as 'Emerald' Dead Eye Flint ply their deadly trade among the warring forces of man and ( Read more... )

Recently there was this thing purporting to measure relative sexism in Dr Who, between writers.

It struck me that the Bechdel test actually does a pretty lame job of measuring anything meaningful, because it simply assumes that men are strongly represented. As a simple flip-switch (as it was originally written) it's fair enough, but you can't ( Read more... )

Yesterday a kid came to our door "not selling magazine subscriptions or anything, just a few minutes of your time", so I gave him a few minutes during which he told his sob story (he's a foster kid, the government is paying his way through college and all his necessities, but if he earns any money during that time the government takes it), leading ( Read more... )

I've just learned a valuable lesson about running a business; always be two businesses. Then when people phone to try to sort something out because you've screwed them, put them on hold for two hours with intolerable music and then say "oh we can't help you with that, you need (other business that is really the same business), here's their number ( Read more... )

Someone asked the other day about top ten favorite movies, and I've been slowly coming up with answers since. In no particular order, mine settled on something like:

• Virtual Nightmare
• Fallen
• Falling Down
• The Game
• Shaolin Soccer

Real-world economics in action! Goozex, a video game trading service that's now pretty much defunct, ran like this: a game has a value in 'points'. You can offer a game for its point value, or you can request a game for its point value. When there is both an offer and a request, the two are matched up, the points change hands, and the requester is ( Read more... )

I just noticed a really obviously stupid thing about operating system design, mostly Windows but partly true in others as well. There's the concept of the "administrator account", that enables installing software, to prevent things from secretly installing malicious software. But here's the problem - every time we intentionally install something, ( Read more... )