14 month ago
deusx : New Michigan Tax On Services Impacts Many Businesses and Consumers at a r b o r l a w - "The creative and intellectual property service industries in Michigan (software developers, graphic designers, technical artists and writers, dance and music teachers) may be particularly hit hard."
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16 month ago
deusx : Neurophilosophy : The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy - "After reading this post all I can say is: I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
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18 month ago
deusx : CRINGE: Google brings light unto Michigan - Valleywag - "Ann Arbor is to be home to Google's Adwords sales, one of the lowest status groups at the Googleplex. Those jobs, about as exciting as selling classifieds, are unlikely to persuade too many University of Michigan graduates to stay in the Rustbelt.&q
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19 month ago
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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19 month ago
deusx : Digg Surrenders to Mob - "To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement."
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19 month ago
deusx : Calif. interchange collapses after fire - Yahoo! News - "A section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire beneath it, authorities said."
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19 month ago
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Xss with utf-7 - "The resulting page doesn't have any explicit declaration of its character set, so depending on your browser settings, the browser may try to auto-detect the character set, and seeing the distinctive UTF-7 byte sequences, will choose UTF-7. In UTF-7,
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19 month ago
factoryjoe : Corner.js - Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers and Internet E
Rod Begbie : Corner.js - Add nice corners and shadows to your images with just a smidge of JavaScript. [via] #
deusx : Corner.js - Can we have LensFlare.js next please? "Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean."
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19 month ago
deusx : People don't stop killers. People with guns do - Opinions - NY Daily News - Yup, there's an article about how the Virginia Tech tragedy was all about gun control.
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29 month ago
deusx : George W. Bush Is Dead To Me / Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end - "Bush can in no way risk alienating the ultra-right-wing bonk-job contingent that put him in office ... and hence all policy and all agenda items from here on out will be even more vicious and desperate in an attempt to shore up the base. "
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Crushing Competition - tax preparers lobby to make California taxes more difficult to prepare [via]
deusx : Wired 14.05: Posts - "If figuring out your taxes were easy, why would anyone bother to hire H&R Block?"
Rod Begbie : Wired 14.05: Crushing Competition - Tax preparation companies in California are lobbying against simple tax forms. Unbe-fucking-lievable. [via] #
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35 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Business | Coke ditches three flavours in US - Vanilla Coke was really the only flavor of Coke for which I had any semblance of craving on a regular basis. Black cherry vanilla? Sounds like a mixing accident...
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