Monthly Archives: September 2009

WaPo Editorial Cartoon Satire on Family Guy Stewie and Brian in a Tom Toles world.

The problem, he says, is that stress hormones actually make it less likely that someone subject to abuse can accurately recall information, so that such abuse ends up “destroying the very memories they’re supposed to recover.” And it can even … Continue reading →

Comment from Grant Buckler on “Is transparency the new objectivity? 2 visions of journos on social media” If objectivity means journalists not having opinions, it’s obviously neither possible nor desirable. If it means not twisting the facts to support those … Continue reading →

Over at True/Slant, Rolling Stone political reporter Matt Taibbi not only defends Zero Hedge but gives what I think is an excellent argument as to why journalists should, by and large, be assholes, at least from the perspective of those … Continue reading →

Move over, Garage Band! Aviary has added to its stable of frankly awesome digital image editing Web apps. But Myna‘s a music machine, and more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Search through a library of intros, loops and endings, … Continue reading →

The “Nigerian” is in quotes because I have no idea where the person who sent this message to my church board’s e-mail address and I hate to paint the entire people of Nigeria with the broad brush of asshattery on … Continue reading →

I have an IKEA desk, laptop stand, couch and other items. For one, you don't even have to buy anything to have a good time wandering around the store looking at all the stuff. Plus, there's a restaurant in it … Continue reading →

A couple of Google programmers in Chicago have formed the Google Data Liberation Front (nice Monty Python reference!), says Lifehacker. As an acknowledged Google fanboy, I have to say I like this. Even though I can’t imagine wanting to free … Continue reading →

One of the things I read (obsessively) over the holidays was Twenty Sided’s DM of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings movies told as an epic Dungeons & Dragons game was, at least for me, comedy gold. And while … Continue reading →

Super-productivity blog unveiled a new (to me, at least) type of feature with Five Features We Want to see in Ubuntu, tagged as a Lifehacker Wishlist. The five they chose are certainly on my list for the free operating system.An … Continue reading →