amphichon

Remember Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM (digital rights management) technology?
Well, it doesn’t play for sure on the new Microsoft Zune.
Word is (though I can’t find a link right now) that Microsoft spokesbots are actually recommending that Zune users break Microsoft’s own DRM (and by extension, violate the DMCA) in order to use PlaysForSure media with [...]

(Okay, well, I was mostly responsible for this one.)
[Insert random discussion of Sam Jackson in Snakes on a Plane here.]
J: Motherfuckin’ snakes on a motherfuckin’ plane!
T: Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson… you know I always get him mixed up with Morgan Freeman.
M: Well you know how to tell those guys apart, right? [...]

By the way – if you really want some television coverage to help you remember and understand and appreciate the reality of the terrorist attacks five years ago, you can’t do much better than Jon Stewart’s comments in his show of September 20, 2001.
If we had more folks like Jon Stewart, and fewer folks like [...]

Most of the 9/11 rememberance stuff has come and gone by now, and every year it seems that the attacks of 9/11 get spun and twisted and distorted a little more. 9/11 and the War on Terror continues to be a rallying cry for the Bush administration, and yet the gap between the true [...]

Keith Olbermann on 9/11
Excerpt:

History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government, by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation’s wounds, but to take political [...]

brushing my teeth, honest…
(Seriously, cats in strange places are never ever not funny.)

Mom: It’s quiet, but it’s only a few minutes from town. Dad: We’re only five minutes away from Wal-Mart! Mom: Oh yes! We’re very close!

Especially when someone else lives there.
(Edit: it’s gone now.)

Steve Irwin, Crocodie Hunter, is dead at 44, apparently from having taken a stingray barb to the heart while filming a documentary off the Great Barrier Reef.
And so it goes.
Is this what life is like? One by one the people we know and the people we know of, the names and faces who’ve populated [...]

Like many people, I often dream vividly of strange situations. But while some people’s dreams are populated with the images or sights or sounds of those situations, and sometimes mine are too, the most common features of my dreams are extended conversations. Often the conversations are incidental to the other events, but [...]