Sammy the Stem Cell
Month: June 2006
Star Trek vs. Star Wars
Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw
(No Fix for Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw) Microsoft has encountered a critical vulnerability in Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Me that it simply cannot fix, the company acknowledged Friday. The flaw affects Windows Explorer and after investigating the issue, Microsoft said it would need to reengineer a significant amount of the operating system. … Continue reading “Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw”
Windows ‘Fun’
(via wincustomize.com) Here’s how to do it: Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break” Save the file to your hard drive. Close Notepad Open the saved file by double clicking it. One has to wonder how many more of … Continue reading “Windows ‘Fun’”
Mmmm, Monkey Chow
The next fad diet?Check out: The Monkey Chow Diaries
Spammers should all experience a slow and painful death
Since January 16, 2006, over 14,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since May 30, 2006.
Ruby dooby doooo….
I’ve recently started learning Ruby. One could ask “why learn yet another scripting language, especially since Perl has served so well these past several years?” The only reason is the object oriented features of Perl seem tacked on as an afterthought, while Ruby is a is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL (object … Continue reading “Ruby dooby doooo….”
The Way a Stripper Works the Pole
(via Peripetia) [Ann Coulter] works the talkshow and lecture circuit the way a stripper works the pole, as a ritualized form of exhibitionism, going through the moves she knows will get the desired response.— James Wolcott
Friday Quasi-Random Ten
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | I. Overture | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 2. | II. About To Crash | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 3. | III. War Inside My Head | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 4. | IV. The Test That Stumped Them All | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 5. | V. Goodnight Kiss | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 6. | VI. Solitary Shell | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 7. | VII. About To Crash (Reprise) | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 8. | VIII. Losing Time / Grand Finale | Dream Theater | Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Disc 2) | Metal |
| 9. | The Gates Of Delirium | Yes | Relayer | Rock |
| 10. | The End | The Doors | The Doors | Rock |
An Apology
(via email & Salon) Having been called names, one looks back at one’s own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as “hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, … Continue reading “An Apology”