There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/report/901818/hbo-harry-potter-jk-rowling-transphobia
J.K. Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she will continue using her fortune to harm transgender people.
DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/
Here’s a dude who barely had any time to confront the world before failing into an infinite money glitch in the form of Ruby on Rails, Jeff Bezos throwing him crazy money, Apple bundling his software as a highlighted feature, becoming a “new work” celebrity and Silicon Valley “Guru”. Is it any surprise that such a person later would find the most minuscule kind of opposition as an all-out attack on his self-image?
Trump Executive Order Declares NASA Is Now a Spy Agency
https://futurism.com/trump-executive-order-nasa-intelligence?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_content=FuckOff
The Trump administration issued an executive order late last month, quietly declaring that NASA will operate as a national intelligence and security agency going forward.
The order stipulates that the agency will now "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work."
It's a major departure for the agency, which has historically focused on space exploration, as well as space and Earth sciences over its 67-year lifespan.
Carmen Sandiego Will Be the Next Thing Jennifer Lopez Ruins for Everyone - Giant Bomb
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/carmen-sandiego-will-be-the-next-thing-jennifer-lopez-ruins-for-everyone/3791
Jennifer Lopez + Carmen Sandiego = DO NOT WANT.
The 'Cheesy Bacon Bowl' Is KFC's Latest Culinary Abomination [Video]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/BDGq588amJQ/the-cheesy-bacon-bowl-is-kfcs-latest-culinary-abomination
Oh god, they're probably making a Farmville movie
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/08/oh-god-theyre-probably-making-a-farmville-movie
New Michigan Tax On Services Impacts Many Businesses and Consumers at a r b o r l a w
http://arborlaw.com/blog/2007/10/01/new-michigan-tax-on-services
"The creative and intellectual property service industries in Michigan (software developers, graphic designers, technical artists and writers, dance and music teachers) may be particularly hit hard."
Neurophilosophy : The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/inventing_the_lobotomy.php
"After reading this post all I can say is: I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
CRINGE: Google brings light unto Michigan - Valleywag
http://valleywag.com/tech/cringe/google-brings-light-unto-michigan-261434.php
"Ann Arbor is to be home to Google's Adwords sales, one of the lowest status groups at the Googleplex. Those jobs, about as exciting as selling classifieds, are unlikely to persuade too many University of Michigan graduates to stay in the Rustbelt."
Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html
"Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
Digg Surrenders to Mob
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/digg-surrenders-to-mob
"To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement."
Calif. interchange collapses after fire - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_re_us/highway_collapse
"A section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire beneath it, authorities said."
Ned Batchelder: Xss with utf-7
http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/20070421T080434.html
"The resulting page doesn't have any explicit declaration of its character set, so depending on your browser settings, the browser may try to auto-detect the character set, and seeing the distinctive UTF-7 byte sequences, will choose UTF-7. In UTF-7, the
Corner.js
http://www.netzgesta.de/corner
Can we have LensFlare.js next please? "Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean."
People don't stop killers. People with guns do - Opinions - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/04/18/2007-04-18_people_dont_stop_killers_people_with_gun.html
Yup, there's an article about how the Virginia Tech tragedy was all about gun control.
George W. Bush Is Dead To Me / Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/07/07/notes070706.DTL
"Bush can in no way risk alienating the ultra-right-wing bonk-job contingent that put him in office ... and hence all policy and all agenda items from here on out will be even more vicious and desperate in an attempt to shore up the base. "
Wired 14.05: Posts
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/posts.html?pg=7
"If figuring out your taxes were easy, why would anyone bother to hire H&R Block?"
BBC NEWS | Business | Coke ditches three flavours in US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4408914.stm
Vanilla Coke was really the only flavor of Coke for which I had any semblance of craving on a regular basis. Black cherry vanilla? Sounds like a mixing accident...