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April 14, 2006
"Always... never... forget to check your references."
Jack Abramoff and the Tale of the Red Scorpion: via
But for Abramoff, the pivotal moment in Jamba came when he was approached by someone trying to secure funding for a documentary about Savimbi. Abramoff scoffed. Rambo: First Blood Part II had just been released in theaters three weeks earlier, becoming the first film to open on more than 2,000 screens. "Why would you want to make a documentary? Nobody watches documentaries," he told me. "I said to the guy, 'You should make an action film.'"
Virtue is an extremely pretty and supremely quick virtual desktop manager for OS X. Kicks CodeTek's VirtualDesktopPro's ass, and it's still in alpha.
Why Windows is less secure than Linux, pictorially. via
The Catholic League on South Park's "Cartoon Wars" two-parter: via
"The ultimate hypocrite is not Comedy Central _ that's their decision not to show the image of Muhammad or not _ it's Parker and Stone," he said. "Like little whores, they'll sit there and grab the bucks. They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus. That's their stock in trade."
Joss Whedon comments on what Firefly would be like on the Country Western channel:
3) People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
The only person who wasn’t bothered at all by it was Alan, who was hilarious. He kept saying, “Um, my script ends at page 105. Everybody else’s seems longer.”
“No, that’s the end – you land the ship, the credits roll.”
“Oh, OK. It just seems like everyone else has more pages.”
“No! It’s an optical illusion.”
“Oh, OK. And every time I go in the cockpit I get this funny feeling in my chest. It itches, I don’t know why…”
BoxOver makes efficient JavaScript tooltips. via
In the real system, where the secret vectors have forty entries, not four, it takes a conspiracy of about forty devices, with known private vectors, to break HDCP completely. But that is eminently doable, and it’s only a matter of time before someone does it. I’ll talk next time about the implications of that fact.
Is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's obscure Sherlock Holmes stories Masonic allegory? via
The Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle is most familiar to us today as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, but a lesser known fact about him is that he was also a Scottish Rite Freemason. He was unarguably a highly intelligent man, who later in his life turned to mysticism and the occult and relished the writings of Crowley and Madame Blavatsky. He was also a known cocaine addict, which drug was legal and socially acceptable during his the time, and had been described as causing one to make strange mental leaps.
Posted by Jon Rubin at April 14, 2006 08:41 PM
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