Wow. Was just recalling how a mirror on the passenger seat of my grandparents’ car burned a hole in the dashboard on a sunny day when I was a kid. Was a reminder to not leave mirrors attached …

Very cool news about a fuzzer + ms debugger extension to not only do fuzz testing of software, but help weed out false positives. Will be interested in trying this out and reading more about it. …

Looks like at least one attempt at a new strategy for teaching shit as if it was science (creationism) is to get an education degree program accredited so that the Institute for Creation Research can …

A new 231 page report outlines 12 key policy decisions that led to the current economic crisis. Let’s hope that some facts start to do a couple of things: 1. Stop the stupid right-wing chain …

quot- Oh, got another stupid retread of a retread of a chain email that I had to debunk. Posting to the inter-tubes for the benefit of others. It seems that when you google shit like this the results …

I think that right now it is sleeting in Seattle. Freezing Rain: supercooled raindrops that freeze instantly when they hit the ground or other objects Hail: snow and rain in the upper atmosphere mix …

It was only a matter of time that this would be broken. If you have one of these laptops that uses this software, you should disable it. My guess would be that just a simple webcam is not going to be …

This is an excellent guide to the kinds of things that you may or may not be familiar with as possible sources of embarrassment on Facebook, or even just if you want to have more control over people …

After sending out the umpteenth rebuttal of a demonstrably untrue email this week, I thought of at least two things that are negatively correlated with the truthfulness of the contents: A claim by the …

This is a very very cool site that allows searching by font names and even allows you to see a specific unicode font rendered in a variety of fonts local to your computer. …