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Somebody showed Thomas Dolby himself a strip from Wapsi Square which quoted his most famous song. Cool. Maybe he’ll become a fan. Wapsi’s one of my favorite webcomics, though now it’s on a brief hiatus (with a guest strip up) because of some medical problems in the creator’s family demanding his attention.

Dolby uses the same blog software as I do! Cool.

cbs5.com – Oakland Police Search Home Of Missing Woman’s Ex

I’m just going to quote this cause I can’t summarize it.  It was linked on reddit.com, where posters could not restrain themselves from irreverent and hopelessly nerdy jokes….

“I don’t think you’re going to be able to prove crap against the man who implemented atomic transactions in Reiser4.”

“Actually, it would be quite easy. He writes everything down in his journal before doing it.”

So, um, yeah, I’ll quote the whole article after this break.

Continue reading “Hans “ReiserFS” Reiser, Linux filesystem developer, Cadaver Dogs and Death Yoga”

Is it wrong that when I see a mass hand-to-hand battle filmed/videoed from afar (link courtesy digg), it just makes me think of Lord of the Rings?

News From The Associated Press – York Daily Record/Sunday News

Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV’s famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: “Where were you? Why aren’t you telling us where you were that day?”

A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy.

Not in the least surprising. Nancy Grace has never really understood all that “innocent until proven guilty” stuff. As far as I can tell, she thinks it’s metaphysically impossible to be a defendant in the courtroom and still be innocent. Her book is quoted with comments on wikipedia:

“I’m on a search for the truth,” she says during a recent visit to the District to promote her new book, “Objection!,” in which the former prosecutor calls defense attorneys “dangerous” and compares them to pigs. The way Grace sees it, prosecutors want to do what’s right, whereas defense attorneys are unethical and just want to win. She’d never cross over to what she calls the “dark side” because “I don’t really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.”

Ya ever start to think that America is just broken?

Kalamazoo Satanism (Kalamazoo, MI) – Meetup.com

I’m sorry, I can’t keep from laughing at the phrase “Kalamazoo Satanists.”  It sounds like “Downers Grove, IL Militia” or “Gangs of Pella, Iowa.”