Quick question. Who’s more likely to burn in Hell, gays or this fetid pile of shit masquerading as Christians?

Tags: hypocrisy, disrespect, false Christians

As much as we’d like to put a face on the problem, calling for the ouster of the head of CPSC isn’t going to solve anything. Besides, the problem isn’t the CPSC, it’s industry that has abandoned US factories and US workers in order to wholeheartedly embrace Chinese manufacturing. The low wages, thanks to near-slave [...]

Tags: CPSC, China, lead

South Carolina blogger Philip Smith won an important ruling in favor of bloggers’ rights when a court dismissed a defamation suit against him. Smith had posted critically about a company, BidZirk, which then took him to court and harassed him for over a year. While the ruling does not strictly equate bloggers with journalists, it [...]

Tags: blogger, journalist, defamation, harassment

Looks like it may be time for less thinkin’ and more doin’!

Tags: Rochester, Insider, comic

Fup, the bookstore cat at Powell’s technical bookstore has passed on at age 19. The Powell’s newsletter always had a Fup section at the end, it just won’t be the same without it.

Tags: Fup Store Cat, Powell\'s, bookstore

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My office is opposite the wall where the vending machines are. Whenever someone’s snack fails to get out of the stack, I know it because I can hear and feel them [...]

Tags: Rochester, downtown, Treo, photo

Eric Almly, the ‘Khaki Bandit’, stole 130 corporate laptops, often by just walking into companies like he was an employee, before being caught after stealing laptops from Outback Steakhouse in Tampa. They caught him with security software that transmits a stolen computer’s physical location the moment a thief accesses the Internet with it. Once they [...]

Tags: corporate, security, laptop, theft

NBC just can’t stop whining about Apple’s iTunes. Apple didn’t ‘destroy’ pricing, it found a price level that customers were willing to pay. This is what a free market does. What NBC wants is called price fixing, which is generally considered illegal.

Tags: NBC, whine, whine, whine

Stanford University has made VectorMagic, tool for turning bitmapped graphics into vector images. Vector images can be re-sized without distortion and print at native printer resolution. I have a couple of tools for doing this but ImageMagic is both faster and does a better job overall. It depends on your original image, of course, so [...]

Tags: VectorMagic, EPS, SVG, graphic

What we consider “empty space” is pretty much anything but. It’s really a very hostile environment, as the recent work on the space station has revealed. Along with signs of damage to the solar panel mechanism there have also been cuts to astronaut gloves as a result of sharp edges. Finding the root causes behind [...]

Tags: ISS, solar panel, damage

After trying to force license bureaus to issue NY driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, Governor Spitzer has now backed off. Now he’s supporting a type of tiered system where illegal immigrants will get some type of Federal ID.
I don’t understand why immigrant activist groups expend so much effort to support people who are in this [...]

Tags: illegal immigrants, NY, Spitzer

A Rochester judge has held that the RIAA had no evidence in a default judgment case, including no proof of any downloading or transmission as well as failing to show that the defendant in the case was the person named in the suit.
I believe that I know the defendant, although not well. I can’t [...]

Tags: RIAA, suit, Rochester