I've been trying to get Gallery 2 to work on Halifax for the last few days. I want to give my mom ad-free image hosting on my server, and while I enjoyed writing my little hackish gallery scripts (they are a bit ugly in the code, and there is the occasional interesting feature such as if you specify that it should start displaying images starting ( Read more... )

There exists a game whose gameplay is poorly explained.

Okay, who out there has been buying music from Sony? Because you might want to, you know, not do that anymore. Why? Well, because Sony figures that it has the right to install deceptive, underhanded, and, according to Mark Russinovich, sloppily-written potentially computer-crippling software on your computer if you're honest enough to buy your ( Read more... )

I just watched an episode of Law and Order: SVU that borrowed heavily from the case of John/Joan, a case in which a gender identity different from biology was forcibly assigned to one of a pair of twins. Having read about that case fairly recently online, I could see the major "plot twist" for the episode coming a mile away (the sister confessed to ( Read more... )

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