October 2008
87 posts
Kevin Smith on cursing, children and making... →
Talks also about how he convinced MPAA to change the rating from NC-17 to R, and the appeals process.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | David Tennant quits as... →
UCLA Law Review on the history of religious... →
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, ,... →
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font…
Analysis of a Toxic Death | Cancer | DISCOVER... →
A year ago two dozen emergency room staff were mysteriously felled by fumes emanating from a dying young woman. Investigations turned up nothing—until a team of chemists from a nuclear weapons lab…
Fable 2 Development : Need Pub Games? Get them... →
If you forgot to pre-order Fable II you didn’t get any codes to download the Fable II Pub Games for free.
GameTrailer's Fallout retrospective is easier,... →
We’re hours away from the release of Bethesda Softworks’ highly-anticipated Fallout 3, the first “now-gen” installment of a beloved series. If by this point you haven’t played the original Fallout or…
Irish Mum's Brown Bread Recipe - 101 Cookbooks →
Fuck the South →
Giz Explains: How to Buy an HDTV Like a Pro →
If you’ve got the extra scratch, this is probably the best holiday season ever to buy an HDTV, since retailers don’t want a pile of them going obsolete in their warehouse. But what should you look…
best of craigslist : "Dear Red States..." A Letter... →
Zogby Poll: John Zogby Coolest Dude In America |... →
WASHINGTONâIn a poll taken by Zogby International, 100 percent of respondents agreed that American pollster John Zogby is the coolest dude in the United States of America, including Puerto Rico,…
Why humans are so quick to take offense, and what... →
Dollar Bill On Floor Sends Wall Street Into Frenzy... →
However, some financial advisers are warning against the rampant speculation the dollar has caused on Wall Street. Many have cautioned investors not to make rash decisions, such as liquidating all…
Cook: Metrics add up for Obama - National Journal-... →
As things are going now, this election would appear to be on a track to match Bill Clinton’s 1992 5.6 percent margin over President George H.W. Bush, the question is whether it gets to Bush’s 1988…
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 'No God'... →
Bendy-buses with the slogan “There’s probably no God” could soon be running on the streets of London. The atheist posters are the idea of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and have been…
How to Replace a Ceiling Light Socket - wikiHow →
Just stop paying your mortgage | The San Diego... →
After supposedly bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street, no politician wants to be accused of evicting struggling families. Once you understand this, all of your anxiety should melt away. Why pay…
cbs3.com - Report: NJ Voting Machines Easily... →
The electronic voting machines used in 18 of New Jersey’s 21 counties can be hacked into in as little as seven minutes and manipulated to alter votes or fix elections, a new report by a Princeton…
DVICE: Election Map →
The voting machine you’ll encounter on Nov. 4 takes the most important right in a democracy â your right to vote â and makes it real. And just like the people who make and use them, machines…
World's first dog lived 31,700 years ago, ate big... →
PySmell v0.6 released : orestis.gr →
PySmell is a python IDE completion helper. It tries to statically analyze Python source code, without executing it, and generates information about a projectâs structure that IDE tools can use.
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 IKEA Furniture Mods →
The Things He Carried - The Atlantic (November... →
Airport security in America is a shamââsecurity theaterâ designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and…
{End Bracket}: Scheme Is Love →
For the past few years, it has become fashionable to embrace a dynamic language such as Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby. While I’ll admit to having a short but pleasurable tryst with Ruby, I believe I…
Apple: How To Sync Your iPhone to Mutiple... →
The iPhone syncs great with one computer, but what if you use two? Say you listen to music and watch movies on a home computer while managing all of your important business contacts on your work…
Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and F---- You - News... →
How Your Beer Bought John McCain's $500 Loafers:... →
ISPs pressed to become child porn cops - Security-... →
“The Department of Justice and all 50 attorneys general are sitting on a mountain of evidence leading straight to the doors of child pornography traffickers,” Weeks said. “We could rescue hundreds of…
Terror trial blown away - and it's all George... →
The Brits, after their experience in Northern Ireland, are starting to believe that the key is to treat this not as a titanic ideological struggle, but rather as a law enforcement issue. This…
Thomas Jefferson Quotes | United Liberty | Free... →
In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com →
In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz’s 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, “Let’s Go…
New-Yorker vs. XKCD Cartoon-off →
Last night I was out shopping for groceries at my local grocery store when I ran into none other than Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic XKCD (and, it might be noted, the guy in the grocery…
Scotsman.com News - Gaelic →
The Scotsman’s Gaelic section- a mix of English language articles about Gaeilc, and articles written in Gaelic.
Are H-1B Workers Getting Bilked? →
A few years ago, Vishal Goel had high hopes of moving from his native India to the U.S. to work as a computer programmer. He approached Patni Computer Systems, a Mumbai company that provides tech…
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done... →
CASCADING FROM DESERT TO SEA, Oregon is simultaneously extremely liberal and extremely conservative, with a fair number of independents thrown in the mix for good measure. As much as any state, its…
Pack Light for Geek Travel - Wired How-To Wiki →
It used to be that packing light was something only backpackers had to worry about. You know, the hard-core types who, like John Muir, set off with just the clothes on their back, a few tea leaves…
Growing Scotch Bonnet Pepper →
