Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
I put up my Software Wars Map way back in January, and it pretty much just sat there. In late May, for some reason, I suddenly started getting a several thousand hits per day from StumbleUpon, which is pretty amazing considering my site previously was getting only about 30-50 hits per day, mainly to my […]
I had subscribed to the feeds of both Media Matters and News Busters for a while. These sites purported to document mainstream media bias, from a conservative or liberal angle, respectively. I’ve dropped them both. Why? At the very least, they cancel each other out. But recent posts on each site illustrated the impossibility of […]
It doesn’t mean what you think it means, but it sure is fun to say.
All together now:
But-First-I-Fi-Ca-Tion.
Butfirstification.
Let’s use it in a sentence:
ButFirstification can be explicitly disabled.
SOURCE: Acme::ButFirst
One more time:
ButFirstification
News & Observer has a story about a budget surpus in state coffers. I just thought the headline needed correcting.
State has big budget surplus
Much likely to go to urgent concerns
North Carolina has seen an “explosion” in tax collections, giving the state its healthiest budget surplus in years, a report released Thursday says.
The state will bring […]
Another item forwarded to me:
TODAYS TAXES
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Capital Gains Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Court Fines (indirect taxes)
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest Expense (tax on the money THEY paid tax on […]
This is a video clip of some demoing the “new” features of Windows Vista, except that some clever person has kept the audio of someone revealing how “groundbreaking” the new features are, but has replaced the video with someone demoing the described features on a Mac OSX installation — available right now.
This must be pretty […]
McDonald’s is testing remote call-center operations for fast-food drive-through order taking. The pilot program has call-centers that take drive-through orders from various MacDonald’s locations hundreds of miles a way. The person in the car placing the order usually has no idea of the new technology being tested. If the call center can be hundreds of […]
I guess I’m behind the times. I just got around to reading The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams. It’s a satirical book on dysfunctional corporate culture that’s eerily accurate, and explores the following principle:
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage — Management.
When I saw […]
Ayn Rand described the environmental movement as mankind-hating death-worship.
Michael S. Berliner summarizes this objectivist point of view in his article “If Environmentalism Succeeds, It Will Make Human Life Impossible“:
The fundamental goal of environmentalism is not clean air and clean water; rather, it is the demolition of technological/industrial civilization. […]
I don’t watch Fox News, but somehow I doubt Bill O’Reilly will be covering this story:
Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.
I did search on the Fox News […]
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