It is repugnant how restaurants know they can rape you on Valentine's Day. They offer a special prix fixe menu for twice their normal price. Fuckers.

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As if Tom Petty wasn't a shitty enough choice for the Super Bowl halftime show, now they are in talks with Paula Abdul to perform one of her new songs during the show. WTF?

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Can Apple do anything but fail today? The specs for the MacBook Air are terrible. And who do they think will be buying this? Not the average user. Not for $1799. They should be ashamed for so blatantly attempting to rape your wallet with this crap.

Apple just announced that Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather are all coming to the iPod touch. New touch owners get 'em all for free, but all of you early adopters will have to cough up: the bundle is going to set you back a whopping $20.

$20?? That should be free! I chose not to jailbreak the Touch because the new features were coming out and ( Read more... )

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Why the fuck should I give a damn about what Iowa has to say?? It's not even a primary. They don't actually vote! It's quite a shitty system for being the "first in the nation." Turn out is almost invariably less than a primary, so under 25% of the population is represented.

When voters cast their ballots in the Iowa Caucus, they won't be ( Read more... )

I can't sleep and there's nothing good on TV at 3am. I put up Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! today. It's in 2 panels, as the original (not together as in the picture below). Makes for a nice effect when the missle appears to shoot across the wall.


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As of tomorrow, the minimum wage in Washington goes up $0.14 to $8.07. That amounts to just under an additional $300 per year for someone working full time, up to a whopping ~$16,500!