I remember reading something in the spring about Circuit City firing anyone making 51 cents or more above an arbitrary maximum average. Because we all know how generic sales people are, I’d much rather have the “I don’t know what that is” high school kid helping me than the guy who’s been doing it for […]

Ok, I really need to get back to “real life” work, but one of my colleagues here at BBD mentioned some ill defined moral unease about bringing up the suggestion the world might be better off, environmentally speaking of course, by lettings babies die. Yeesh, even writing that gives me the fucking creeps – but […]

I am reminded almost daily why I love the internet (yes, in that way) by sites like this one. http://www.weirdasianews.com/

This guy is calling out all the environmentally oriented purchasers out there. A good piece on the economics of green purchasing. The “killing babies” part comes from the calculation of keeping third world babies alive per month versus the added cost of green technologies. Although that does bring up the point that saving babies rarely […]

Nothing says “Holiday Spirit” like a killer loose in your town. I know I’d love a little holiday mayhem to liven things up a bit, and if that means Santa jamming an icicle through someones eye then so be it.I don’t care if it’s Bill Goldberg, or Santa Bot from Futurama, I love it when […]

I finally caught up with my Freakonomics Blog reading. I found the Q&A session with security guru Bruce Schneier to be the most interesting of the last 2 weeks. He answered a ton of questions, and gave very detailed responses, with lots of supplementary links. This is definitely not dry, techie/hacker security talk – Bruce […]

The site CommitteeCaller.com was blogged recently at Boing Boing: CommitteeCaller: phone an entire Congressional committee with one click. I’m already making notes to check out the open source PBX system, Asterix PBX mentioned in the post. Beyond my general hacker’s interest in the technology, the application is very interesting. How long will something like this […]

In my constant effort to support the wackier elements of the internet I bring you “A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME“.I figure I could take on an even dozen before I get too tired and they swarm me

I was watching Daily Planet on the Discovery Chanel last night, and there was a brief segment on the new Audi R8. Well, relatively new to North America, at least. What is new with regards to cars, anyways? It was new to me, anyways. Back off! I know many people more interested in Automobiles then […]

IKE ‘BEATS’ TINA TO DEATH Thank you New York Post!R.I.P. Ike Turner