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So I’m searching Google for pictures of Doctor Octopus to show my kid.
I found this. Too funny.

I stole the title right from Bruce Schneier’s blog post of the same name. Go read it, it tells you exactly why IE sucks.
Then, if you’re actually reading this on Internet Explorer, download Firefox now!

Canada blames the United Sates for gun violence. Like the article states, it’s not an increase in gang violence or another issue, but the United States exporting gun violence to Canada.
Uh huh. First, the firearms in the shooting mentioned in the article were illegal. Then they were illegally transported across the border. Given those facts, [...]

Can’t let a Christmas go by without playing “Ding Fries Are Done!” at least once.

10 proofs that Santa Claus is actually a systems administrator:
1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal.
3. Santa seldom answers your mail.
4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he’s got, he says, “Elves make it for [...]

I decided to take the Gada.Be “mega search” engine for a spin today. I selected Pictures in the drop-down and entered “hamster” for the search term. As expected, I was presented with a slew of pics from various photo sites around the web. This is pretty much what a meta search engine does: pulls results [...]

This article from The Scotsman (found via Boing Boing, of course) discusses Stalin’s attempt to create supersoldiers by cross-breeding men and monkeys.
That rocks. And of course, in true Communist style, the scientist was jailed and then exiled after he failed to make the impossible happen.
Hey ladies, can you imagine being one of the conscripts to [...]

Once again we can be thankful criminals are idiots.
A twenty-year-old German man turned himself in after receiving a variant of the Sober worm which claims to be from the FBI, CIA, or other government entity and accuses the recipient of having illegal materials on their computer. The police searched his computer, and sure enough, he [...]

This Boing Boing post summarizes a couple links about San Francisco’s KRON television station handing cameras and laptops to their journalists and turning them into solo journalists to cover news stories. This really intrigues the former journalist* in me.
It looks like, for the moment, these VJ’s are catching flak because some of them are being [...]

First a heads up: this one’s intended for my geek readers.
I finally bit the bullet and decided to take Gentoo Linux for a test drive. I downloaded the installer CD and fired it up on the laptop (yes, the one that went BZZZRRRTT! the other night — more on that in a minute).
The one-line review: [...]