I finally saw District 9, courtesy of Netflix’s awesome live streaming feature. Many of my friends had talked a lot about when it first came out, so I already knew that it was a pretty obvious allegory for apartheid. heck, it’s even set in South Africa! Now first of all, real South African apartheid was [...]
On an article about a privacy flaw in the HTC Droid Incredible, some genius decided to post this brilliant series of comments: And 13 people have fanned this guy. Wow.
I’m a big fan of WordPress. It’s lightweight, super-flexible, and it has an awesome community that churns out plugins and themes to make setting up a website a cinch. This site itself is based on WordPress and I couldn’t be happier with it. The WordPress people also let you have a blog as a subdomain [...]
My friend over at ChameleonInsurrection has posted an extremely enlightening missive on the subject of Games Workshop stores (Games Workshop makes Warhammer 40K, for those not in the know). I’ve always felt weirded out in those stores, as if I were terribly out of place despite my earnest desire to purchase the offered products and [...]
Back in college, I once discovered the BlueHippo company. They’re a firm that sells laptops to poor people with the enticing prospect of no-credit-check financing. But under the hood, they’re an incredibly sleazy, predatory company that makes their money based on their target market’s financial ignorance. Take, for example, the following ad from back in [...]
Next up on the gravy-train of ridiculous comes an actual thing that actually happened and was actually brought about by actual people: baseball bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger has just lost a lawsuit brought by the mother of a boy who was killed in a tragic baseball accident. Their crime? Manufacturing aluminum baseball bats, which the [...]
I am literally speechless. The racism in this decision is patently shocking to me. To claim that blacks will not know who to vote for unless Democrats are identified by party strikes me as being about as racist as saying that blacks needed slavery, because they wouldn’t be able to take care of themselves otherwise. [...]