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Self-fulfilling prophecy

local men are stupid

Yes, I am irrelevant now.

I could live with the fact that someone mistook me for a professor when I walked into a classroom the other day; let’s face it, I’m almost 20 years older than incoming freshmen.
But being considered past the target demographic for science fiction publishers? WTF! I have disposable income for books, you jerks!

Vote early, vote often

Texas Legislation
I’d love to believe this is isolated to Texas…

Some things never change, which is too bad.

This youtube clip of a 1986 Crossfire episode demonstrates a number of facts.

Crossfire has always sucked.
John Lofton has always sucked.
Frank Zappa was one of our gifts and his loss is still felt.
People have been whining about an inability to control what their kids consume for a long time.

It’s worth watching, if a bit cringe-inducing, and [...]

Hash tables. All of them.

For some reason I cannot entirely understand, my friend Jason has decided to set up a web application that generates the hash values for anything asked of it. The front page randomizes but you could go straight to the value for the word pointless or perhaps the phrase of questionable utility if you so desired.
His [...]

More excellent short web fiction

FuTube by Warren Ellis.
A quick and enjoyable read.

Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript

Radiant Core: Blog: Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript
This is a nifty little article walking through the steps that Facebook’s “beacon” app went through in order to share information from one site to another without engaging in cross-site scripting. Only of interest if you ever have to deal with javascript in a browser, but if you are [...]

Hey, Starbuck

Try not to frak anyone on your way to the flight deck.

Oh hells yeah

Best first dance ever.

10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers

10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers? More than that, but who can blame him for being unable to stop at 10. With a little thought you could probably hit 100.