For some reason, one theme I always associated with the gay ‘movement’ was, “Lighten up.” A notion that their being homosexual isn’t as big a deal as some make it out to be. I always thought much of the flamboyance on display in most gay pride parades was a sort of tongue-in-cheek backlash against those [...]

… you might be a racist embarrassment to your country. Wonkette
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About a year ago, I was sitting at a bar talking to some strangers about this year’s presidential election. That’s right, talking politics at the bar. I said it, wanna fight about it? We talked about who we thought would win both races, and we were mostly right: We thought McCain would carry the GOP [...]

I have a small, tiny, infinitesimal ‘thing’ about something called Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is the un-lubed finger slipped past the sphincters of unsuspecting consumer primarily by the music and movie industries. Officially, DRM allows copyright holders to fight unauthorized copying of their digital content. Before this was an issue, copyright holders had some [...]

Not long ago someone noticed Deutsche Telekom AG, parent company of T-Mobile, claimed it owned the patent on the color magenta in the trademark statement on its website. Other, more heavily trafficked sites picked up on the story, and Engadget (one of my daily reads) went so far as to speak to a copyright attorney [...]

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Just make sure that when you get that check, you spend it immediately so the housing market, and overall economy will do a 180 and everything will be all better again right before W leaves office so we can all remember him as the [...]

When Palm Pilots first came out, I didn’t get it. I had my trusty day planner that I carried everywhere. It wasn’t until my second job out of college that my suprvisor decided everyone on his team needed Handspring Visors. Handspring was founded by the folks who invented the first Palm Pilot, The Visor was [...]

I can’t believe I stumbled on this today. It’s not a joke or Photoshop job, no Oklahoma has gone off the deep end with its blind patriotism. Never mind the fact that it’s not longer called the “War on Terror“, the Okies are too patriotic to call it anything else! One problem, where’s the damn [...]

The iPhone arrived! It’s either a sign of the apocalypse or the second coming, take your pick. I don’t know why but I’m just not all up in a bunch over the thing. As far as I can tell, there are four things it can do that my really old Treo can’t: visual voicemail, multi-touch [...]

Pardon the BASEketball quote, but that really sums up my last 5 days. Awhile back, I was told I needed to find a place of my own. My roommate decided he wanted to live on his own which neatly coincided with my own wishes to live roommate-free. On Craigslist, I found a great place in [...]