not sure what you can possibly say about a site like Dear Elena, except that you should all go read it.

With AACS going on the new HD-DVD and Blu-Ray and the terms of the new AACS agreement, it seems that the object of this is simply to completely and utterly obliterate the idea of fair use. Fair use is a very simple concept, I buy a CD from the local store, it’s “fair use” for […]

Someone on Survivor Sucks asked an interesting question:

Pretend you are the casting director for Survivor 13. They have already narrowed the field down to 182 contestants. Those 182 are the people who have already been on the show. However - lets pretend that they have not yet played the game. Which 18 would you cast […]

If you are stopped by the police are you required to answer questions, provide identification, even give them your name? The answer to all of those questions is no (in some states, the answer to the last question is possibly yes, however if giving your name could be a violation of the 5th Ammendment then, […]

You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5). The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn’t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you’ll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. […]

I put together a KML file of Survivor POI’s based off Dan Bollinger’s maps. The overlays of all 11 maps are included as well as a few points from All-Stars. Download it here.
Includes POIs from all twelve seasons, the most detailed is Africa, there are points for virtually every immunity and reward challenge this is, […]

First, a word about the Adobe Blogs. Adobe has really set the bar for corporate blogging. They have people evangalizing their tech, while simultaniously having a very free, personable posting style that absolutely never feels corporate. Kudos to Adobe for adopting such a great policy surrounding their blogs. But, on to more important matters:
Last night […]

I really like debian. Mostly because the system is stable, no, not in the it never crashes sense, but in the sense that things are well taken care of and the system can run autonomously for a long time with little or no attention. Install a debian system, do what you need with it, and […]

Yes, the headline is one from back when Apple bought NeXT for 400m dollars. It was said that, in reality, NeXT had bought Apple for -400m dollars because, since the NeXT acquisition the technologies that NeXT brought to Apple revolutionzied Apple’s core buisness and have, in fact, returned Apple to be a global player in […]

If all you really want is anonymous usage statistics why not just go get them yourself? See, this is why we don’t believe you when you say “anonymous”. We hear anonymous and we think: they are going to follow up this request with a request to divulge the identies of users who searched for individual […]