Monthly Archives: September 2006

While the “long tail” econ­omy promises some­thing for con­sumers, pro­duc­ers don’t seem to be get­ting the same ben­e­fit. Either that, or it’s some kind of alien plot to con­quer mankind. Tags: Long Tail econ­omy Ama​zon​.com

Hey, don’t call it a “do noth­ing” Con­gress! While they were busy piss­ing on the Geneva Con­ven­tion they were also doing the same to the Con­sti­tu­tion. Tags: wire­tap war­rants Constitution

Even more good news. Pro­gram­mers need to stop writ­ing code since any­one can assem­ble an appli­ca­tion from com­po­nents. Back in the early 80s there were adver­tise­ments for some­thing called The Last One, which was a pro­gram that sup­pos­edly wrote Basic … Read More →

Here’s an idea. Let’s say you’re a lawyer who defends sub­hu­man pieces of shit. You can do any­thing to defend them, includ­ing pre­vent­ing them from reveal­ing why they bru­tally mur­dered some­one. But if you lose, you serve the same pun­ish­ment … Read More →

Photo_092806_001 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. There’s some­thing sad about this art piece stand­ing there in the rain. Tags: Rochester down­town photo Treo art

God help any of our troops that get cap­tured, now that Con­gress is vot­ing to aban­don the Geneva Con­ven­tion. We man­aged to fight and win WWII with­out tor­tur­ing Ger­man and Japan­ese POWs yet Dubya and his syco­phants in Con­gress seem … Read More →