Monthly Archives: July 2007

Goodnight, Burbank

A product of Evil Global Corp. “Goodnight Burbank” is a snarky view of the world of local news. The entire show takes place while the newscasters wait to get their few seconds of airtime.

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Go See The Simpsons Movie!

The Simspons Movie IMDB Year: 2007 Rating from MPAA: PG-13 Rating: 5 out of 5 After nearly five years of production, The Simpsons Movie has been released. This movie is everything I ever hoped it could be. It’s basically a … Continue reading

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Down with Neckties; Up with Miniskirts!

Ah, gotta love the Simpsons (referring to an apocryphal Mad magazine quote). Anyways Google’s chief of privacy says neckties suck and shouldn’t be worn. Speaking as someone who hates ties and dressing uncomfortably for work (and who was in part … Continue reading

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Java + Dates + Localization = Headaches!

Recently at work I’ve been diving into development with the Spring framework in the Java language. It’s a nice way to work for the most part but it’s been a while since I did any rigorous Java development (okay, okay, … Continue reading

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Phishing Quiz

Phishing attacks are some of my most favorite security subjects to discuss. Today I took a simple quiz to see how well I can discern the real from the fake (if it’s a little slow, thank the Digg effect). On … Continue reading

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Potentially Huge

Corning announces breakthrough in flexible fiber-optic cable. What this translates into is better, faster, potentially cheaper communications lines for everyone. This could be what cable was to TV: a much larger pipe through which many more options can flow and … Continue reading

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iPhone bummer

Disclaimer: I do not own an iPhone (nor do I want one so long as it has a cellular phone involved with it). According to iPhone Central reports that iPhone does not grok creator codes which is a bummer for … Continue reading

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Setback for Due Process, Privacy

Well, the NSA scored a point over the ACLU this week. The appeals court threw out the decision about unwarranted wiretaps for a really stupid reason: the defendants couldn’t prove they had been spyed upon. Now, isn’t that a catch-22? … Continue reading

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Credit Checks Shouldn’t Require SSN!

Apparently the entire internet seems to be fawning over the iPhone. As usual, there is a certain amount of noise from the EFF and others about credit checks, privacy, and product activation. I can’t blame ‘em. (‘em being the EFF … Continue reading

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Poor Mr. Carrot

A seriously odd little comic featuring fruits and vegetables as characters.

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