Why is this even an issue? Are we now so desperate to cram religion down people’s throats that we need to use the law to force schools to teach religious theory to school children? Can we please get on with the program? Editorial cartoon by Cox & Forkum

From the dogs in history photoshop contest: Photoshopped by Kidney Stone

Got this dumbass nigerian scam email, couldn’t resist complying: Phonebooks of the World.com CHINA METROLOGICAL IMPORT & EXPORT COMPANY(CMIEC) 338 YINGZE AVENUE, YINGZE, TAIYUAN,SHANXI, CHINA Dear Sir/Madam, I am MR.LEE CHENG, We are a group of business men who deal on import and export of raw materials into the Canada/America and Europe. We are searching [...]

FOX gets me hooked on House, M.D. Then for the second season they piggyback Bones, a kickass show. Hooked on that too. Then they tell me “oopsie, you won’t see this show again until November because of the baseball end-of-season.” God damn them.

One of our #asp (Undernet) regulars has written a very comprehensive guide to GPG. This is a no brainer for us nerds, but for the normal Joe out there sometimes it is a bit hard to understand why communications security is a serious issue. Notice I said communications security instead of privacy, since privacy itself [...]

In my still not published novel, Shining Star (available here under a Creative Commons license) I took the liberty to use a real life criminal as a bullshit plot device. Two years have passed since this, and now it seems the FBI actually caught him. It gets better: all this mess happened on September 23, [...]

I don’t get it. In MySQL I am expected to do it all by hand. Want indexes? It won’t do them for me, I have to do them. Want backups? Learn how to CRON. And so it goes. In SQL Server, on the other hand, you are expected to run thru a million menus to [...]

Slashdot, now with 1999 Web Technology Originally uploaded by pvera. Slashdot, now that they have completely thrown the towel, they have plenty of time to mess with a layout that has always been ugly and will remain ugly forever. I wonder if the W3C block on the validator happened today or it was there already [...]

Pain in the ass Originally uploaded by pvera. A little experiment to see how sharp I could shoot the back of an iPod with my Sony DSC-T1.

Am I the only one stuck with dead remote controls for most of my electronics? The controls for both TVs are both busted and MIA. I have to replace the remotes for the cable boxes around once per month (Comcrap usually replaces them for free), and that is if I can find them. We replaced [...]