Frivolous Lawsuits
I like to read the Overlawered blog – a listing of frivolous lawsuits. But this one today just makes me shake my head. A woman is being sued by her downst...
Category: Misc
Cool watchmaker site
I love watches and mechanical movements. Here is a master watchmaker named Ron DeCorte and his notebook.
1939 Article about the Times Square Sign
Very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a ligh...
Chocolate Roulette
Russian Roulette game – with chocolate bullets! This is a game with twelve chocolate bullets. Eleven have a nice creamy center. The twelfth has a hot chil...
The RIAA is at it again
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use Fuck you RIAA! Time to write your congress-critters again. Sigh. Can we just drop a nuke on the RIAA headquar...
Underwater Photography
Zena Holloway is a photographer who takes photos underwater. “So what?” you might ask? Well, she takes artistic photos, not photos of fish. These ar...
A classic chestnut
TOP 12 THINGS LIKELY TO BE OVERHEARD IF YOU HAD A KLINGON PROGRAMMER 12. “Specifications are for the weak and timid!” 11. “This machine is a p...
The Extended Edition of Dune?
What are they thinking? The original version was more than two hours of suckage. Roger Ebert gave it one star and says: “It’s like a dream,” m...
World War II Poster Reprints!
The Minneapolis Public Library is selling scanned and reprinted WWII posters! Very nice stuff, and it’s a nice online collection to browse through. See it...
Those Wacky Japanese
There is a large thread on JWZ’s Live Journal about weird Japanese TV shows… “If reducing Teenagers to tears on TV isn’t a worthwhile na...