CNNYes, I mean that movie with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Sure, anyone who has lived in the real world this past decade knows that we’ve long since developed the technology to do all the fancy things shown in the film. What you may not know, though, is that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
For anyone wondering why the US Armed Forces went ape shit over removable media last year, the secret is out: apparently, some jackass thought that Chinese official handing out free thumb drives in Afghanistan was legit. The Washington Post: Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a [...]
Ever wonder what happened to that mainstay of cheesy Saturday morning adventure shows? So did Daniel Engber over at Slate… The fourth-graders were unanimous: Quicksand doesn’t scare them, not one bit. If you’re a 9- or 10-year-old at the P.S. 29 elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., you’ve got more pressing concerns: Dragons. Monsters. Big waves [...]
People constantly ask me why I’m not playing Star Trek: Online, being that I’m possibly the most rabid Star Trek fan alive today. Well, the guy(s) over at Aggrogate have summed it up pretty well: Star Trek Online is a textbook example of a decent game that simply doesn’t do justice to its source material. [...]
Notice how screwed up our little corner of democracy is lately? We go from a dictatorial President bent on concentrating power in the executive branch and a congress too timid to stop him, to a President that embodies the spirit of bipartisanship and a congress unwilling to work with him. There is a word for [...]
Ever date somebody who could simply do no wrong? I mean one of those bat-shit crazy people who honestly believe that nothing can be their fault — textbook narcissism. Once upon a time, I had the misfortune of being involved with such an individual. Well, to be honest, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of dating [...]
So… Obama received the Nobel peace prize today. That’s special, I guess. I don’t really follow the process, so I have little knowledge of the qualifications involved, etc. I hear from some of my right-leaning friends that he’s grossly under-qualified. Something about not actually having accomplished anything in his nine months in office. Personally, I [...]
Well, we’re just a few days away from the launch of the Kepler Mission, designed to search out terrestrial and larger planets in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of stars. Until now, we’ve only been able to detect Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant stars by measuring the star’s “wobble”, as the gravity [...]
If you follow the news, you’ve probably seen this image plastered all over creation. Gods know… that media whore Al Sharpton certainly has. Now, I’m no fan of Mr. Sharpton — his less than pure motives are about as subtle as a freight train rumbling through at 2 a.m. That said, ignoring for the moment [...]
I’ve decided to start a blog, and use it as a CMS for The Celtic Syndicate, which has traditionally hosted only a private forum. Construction is ongoing, so quite a bit of stuff is broken at the moment. Considering that the URL isn’t even public yet, I don’t guess any of that really matters…. I [...]
