2 month ago
deusx : Right Wing Watch: The Dangers of Auto-Replace - "automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard"
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2 month ago
deusx : The Chemistry Set » How I Lost My S#?! at the Apple Store - Guy can't read a manual; can't find a Torx driver; can't Google for it; freaks when the Apple Genius Bar charges a $30 stupidity tax; and is amazed that things come from Taiwan. It's somehow Apple's fault, and worth drawing a comic to bitch about it.
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - Manchester Evening News - Apparently, the consumers of lottery scratch cards in the UK aren't particularly good at maths. Whodvethunkit? "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." [via] #
deusx : 'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News - "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."
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14 month ago
deusx : Video - Airbag puts an end to this moron's family tree - ToxicJunction.com - "This gentleman does the world some good by putting an end to his gene pool."
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16 month ago
Andy Baio : Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella - unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here
deusx : stereogum: Coachella: Rage Fans Didn't Like Crowded House - "would any of these kids respond, even in passing recognition of the tune? And they responded alright. With a water bottle straight to Neil Finn's head!"
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16 month ago
deusx : LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US :: News :: thetyee.ca - "Now I am being seen as one of those drug users, perhaps an addict, perhaps a dealer, one can't be sure. In the matter of a second, I became powerless, whatever I said wasn't going to be taken seriously. I was labeled, sorted and disposed of. Dismiss
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17 month ago
deusx : US teen jailed for school's daylight-saving cock-up | The Register - "In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which continued to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to spot that the bomb threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an hour after Webb's innocent cal
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17 month ago
deusx : Mooninites coming to Hub: Theaters ‘toon’ out Tom’s plea - Local & Regional - BostonHerald.com - "If it was banned in Boston it would get bigger numbers nationally because it would be front-page news."
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - that Matthew Baldwin guy is versatile
jimray : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - "Enjoy the porn!"
Rod Begbie : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - CAPTCHAs to keep the internet looser(sic)-free. I would fully support this project. [via] #
deusx : Internet Access CAPTCHAs - "I'd also like to see certain people on the Internet prevented from doing certain things. You know, like: logging onto the Internet."
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18 month ago
deusx : Dems abandon war authority provision - Yahoo! News - "Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. "
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18 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Is Everything a Bomb these Days? - From a comment: "Ignore then, laugh at them, try to understand them, but for gods sake do not give them a victory."
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19 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston - "Refuse to be terrorized, people!"
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19 month ago
deusx : Thomas Menino is an incompetent coward - August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com - "There is no excuse for blaming Turner Networks, Adult Swim, and especially a single 27-year-old, for the overzealousness of Boston's government and the news media."
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19 month ago
deusx : Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare - Yahoo! News - "Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert. "
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19 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston - "Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."
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deusx : YouTube - Banana suit fire - "this guy puts rubbing alcohol and lights himself on fire"
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deusx : Wired News: The Day the Music Died - Ha-ha, in the comments: "Seriously, I thought Wired had hip, knowledgeable writers. When did they start an open exchange policy with Reader's Digest?"
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23 month ago
Andy Baio : Sony shuts down Lik-Sang - the most popular distributor of grey market and import gaming wares
deusx : Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits - This makes me sad: "Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony"
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23 month ago
deusx : Great Falls Tribune - Lawmaker fires back at governor‘s comments on age of Earth - "A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmaker‘s belief that the planet is not millions of years old."
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23 month ago
deusx : Need to Know - PostGlobal - "the Bush administration sees diplomacy as something to be engaged in with another country as a reward for that country's good behavior. They seem not to see diplomacy as a tool to be used with antagonistic countries or parties"
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23 month ago
deusx : Web site says liberals beat student GOP leader; police say no - "Police: Student picked fight with friends at party, got punched"
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23 month ago
deusx : Static Electricity Gas = Bad - "This is why you should never get back in your car while pumping gas. Could have been much worse."
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24 month ago
deusx : Den of the Biting Beaver: Morality clauses, EC, and broken condoms - "I live in rural Ohio and I have been denied EC. "
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24 month ago
wearehugh : Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die - "only a couple femtometers more dignified than being traded to another inmate for a couple packs of cigarettes"
deusx : Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die - "Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes."
Nelson Minar : Amazon Unbox DRM - More anti-consumer products
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24 month ago
deusx : IR // News // Burns urges Schweitzer to take steps already taken - “Sen. Burns has a lot of important things (he’s) doing in Washington, D.C.,†he said. “So maybe the things we’ve already been doing on the fires for the last 45 days, well, it just slipped by him.â€
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