Elect us or you'll all die
Head on over to Gotham City 13 and check out the White House Kool-Aid gang. "You will obey." Brought to you via Blunted.
I went down to the cinema to see Monster this weekend. I'm not sure what possessed me but I did. If you are, like myself, a fan of lesbian kiss scenes, do not go see this movie. Seriously.
I love a little lesbo action, but damn, Charlize Theron was straight skanky in this flick. If I wanted to see a rotten-toothed chickenhead french kiss Wednesday Adams, I'm sure I could have found it on the internet for free and saved myself the disgust of seeing this in the theater. I will say that Theron was convincing as the homicidal man-killer, but that wasn't enough to redeem the movie. Convincingly in need of dental work, not washing the random John's cum out of your mouth, and lip locking with Pugsley's sister is not entertainment—it's convincing but revolting.
Trackbacks at LAB-Y are back, after being disabled since December. I've been very slowly working on rewriting trackback support since then, and it is finally in a state to test out. So somebody please hit me up with a trackback to help test my support!
The tb url for this post is http://dast.freeshell.org/tb/20040321160615 (not linked so Google doesn't follow it). Fire one off in my direction.
Soon, comments will also be hosted here locally at LAB-Y instead of with Squatbox. Soon... Anyone have a script for extracting old comments from the squawk?
Comments are now hosted locally here at LAB-Y on a trial basis. I don't have comments converted over from squatbox yet, as it is a major PITA. I may get around to doing it someday.
If you have any problems with submitting comments or trackbacks, please email me. My email address is (obfuscated) in the footer of every page.
Comments have now been moved over from squatbox. Many validation errors have been fixed too.
Just took the Book Quiz and the results are pretty darn funny.
You're Jurassic Park!
by Michael Crichton
You combine all the elements of a mad scientist, a brash philosopher, a humble researcher, and a money-hungry attracter [sic] of tourists. With all these features, you could build something monumental or get chased around by your own demons. Probably both, in fact. A movie based on your life would make millions, and spawn at least two sequels that wouldn't be very good. Be very careful around islands.
I think it was that "aren't dinosaurs cool?" that ultimately determined my book. Ha!
(Via Kirsten.)
I just read over at peerfeer.org that the US patent office has finally got a clue and has reversed the phony browser patent plugin held by Eolas Technologies. In case you missed this debacle, Eolas pulled one over on the patent office to claim ownership of the "technology" for using browser plugins, in violation of Title 35, Chapter 10, Section 103, paragraph (a) of US patent law.
A patent may not be obtained the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.
There was plenty of prior art for browser plugins, and it was arguably an obvious solution to the problem of having to pack every kind of file viewer into the browser. Eolas used their counterfeit patent to try to muscle Microsoft out of distributing their browser, which I wouldn't have missed anyway. However, the patent had dangerous ramifications for all web browsers everywhere. So have a beer tonight in honor of the overturned patent. The web is a better place without fictitious claims to "intellectual property".
Those crazy guys at NASA are reporting today that they have found strong evidence that water once "drenched" parts of Mars. And you know what that means, kiddies! There once might have been life on the red planet. Good news all around.
LAB-Y has been down for a little while, due to some technical difficulties here at Freeshell. I don't want to get into the details of the problem, but for now, it has forced me to disable PHP sessions. Let's hope it clears up soon. Much love to the admin of freeshell for his hard work.