09 Jun 06 Net Crap (6/9)

• Cory Doctorow Visits a Radio Shack
  (tags: geekery funny)
• Evidently, it’s going to be EVER so easy to delete a shortcut in Windows Vista. *snicker* *snort* *guffaw*
  (tags: dumbass hysterical microsoft)
• A bridge over a river that itself is a river. Hard to describe, but amazing to look at.
  (tags: photos cool)
• “My name is Ed. I just bought your hard drive for $25 at a flea market in Chicago.”
  (tags: holy_shit amazing chicago)
• Wired News: Crashing the Wiretapper’s Ball
  “You’re not listening. The NSA is using this stuff. The DEA, the Secret Service, the CIA. Are you kidding me? They don’t answer to you. They do whatever the hell they want with it. Are you really that naive?”
  (tags: terrorism horrifying fascinating censorship creepy)
• On the tenth anniversary of TImothy Leary’s death, some amazing reflections on the man and on the day of his death.
  (tags: food4thought powerful)
• Canada’s new copyright-protection superhero is evidently one huge big rip-off of various comic book superheroes.
  “Captain Copyright [...] is clearly lifted from the famous Superman pose. Also, ironic that most of the elements of his costume are borrowed from elsewhere: Shazam’s arm protector thingees, the Sentry’s belt, and the Spectre’s color scheme.”
  (tags: dumbass corporatism copyleft ironic)
• “Buffy: the Vampire Slayer” made reference to Homestar Runner?
  (tags: funny tv video)
• Wall Street Journal asks Yahoo chief if, in light of helping China send dissidents to jail, he would have helped Nazi Germany.
  His response? “I don’t know how I would have felt then.” Oh, that’s good.
  (tags: geekery dumbass)
• How Not to Steal a Sidekick
  Funny, but long, and in somewhat “u know what im talking bout, rite?”-speak. Not awful, but somewhat.
  (tags: enjoyable funny)
• The Blog | Philip Slater: THE GREAT FUNDAMENTALIST HOAX | The Huffington Post
  “Thoughtful Americans have long wondered how it is that fundamentalist Christians–followers of someone who preached pacifism and tolerance–became the poster boy for hate speech, touting “moral values” indistinguishable from those of the Taliban.”
  (tags: powerful religion neocon politics)
• Misconception: Renting is for Suckers on InvestorGeeks
  “For every $100 you spend in rent a month, you’d be better off buying up to $12,500 in property instead.”
  (tags: reference)
• The Rapture Index
  (tags: hysterical neocon religion whaddafuck)
• Bill Moyers | The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal
  “What we need is what the ancient Israelites called ‘hocma’ - the science of the heart, the capacity to see, to feel and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.”
  (tags: religion politics powerful neocon)
• The best ‘looking for a job’ advertisement ever.
  (tags: funny)
• And you can play with this rotating cube by gesturing at your webcam. Cool!
  (tags: cool webtoy)
• If you have a webcam … ahhhhhhh! You’re on fire!!!!!!!!
  (tags: reference webtoy funny)
• chi_thirdrail: Murder One
  A humorous sidebar about someone complaining loudly about jury service … and what they happened to be wearing.
  (tags: government hypocritical funny)
• Roger Ebert is undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his salivary gland.
  Damn it. The man is perhaps the best movie critic in America today — even if I always don’t agree with the man’s viewpoints or reviews (and often I do), his smarts always very clearly shine through every review, as well as his humor and writing skill.
  (tags: horrible awful movies)
• “With Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, Disk Utility can verify your computer’s startup disk (volume) without requiring you to start up from another volume.”
  Useful!
  (tags: macintosh reference)
• A little-bitty-witty kitten has officially endorsed Apple’s Front Row software. POUNCE! POUNCE!
  (tags: macintosh cute cats video)
• Take Your Table and Shove It
  A great story of a sinister maitre’d and why a Michael Corleone voice doesn’t work if you’re not Michael Corleone.
  (tags: dumbass funny)
• Photographs of people who got stuck in the brand-spanking-new fancy-dancy Apple NYC elevator.
  (tags: macintosh funny photos)