The blurb will get a non-technical user confused by the 16th word, if not 15th...

"HTTP GET? What the hell is that? TCP? Aaaa...!!!!"

You're free to try to promote P2P and BT in my world, but if you talk nerdy, no one but nerds will listen to you.

While counting the words, I noticed the 12th word is a typo. FAIL.

Interesting blog. But, if like me you hate the anti-chronological order in the archives, forcing you to scroll down to the bottom of the page, scrolling up to find the title, reading the post, and then scrolling back up again to find the n-1th post, here's a Bookmarklet that reverses the order of posts in a page: http://pastebin.com/fae1eed3

Get a job in the US instead of the EU? With the US pesos, the economy, the politics, the healthcare, the lack of holidays, and what ever else? Yeah right, get real!

I live in Germany, and I heard once that now US students who want to get a residence permit (to study) here need to prove to the German equivalent of the INS that they have enough money to support themselves and aren't coming to Germany to work illegally. I could believe it when they do so for people from third world countries, I found it surprising that they were treating Americans the same... surprising, but it makes sense when you think how times have changed.

3 cheers for George W. Bush!

Fast forward 5 minutes to get to the "action"...

I agree with the protest idea, but the video seems like a self-congratulatory 7 minutes of "wow, we are so great, look at what we are doing!".

And why is China represented with those farmers' hats anyway, it doesn't strike me as steroetyping and not very creative.

I say, we should start tagging such pics with something like "the terrorists are winning".

Or "bomb target" or something.

Here's yet another logo to use, CC: http://lookingftrouble.googlepages.com/

Quite amusing to see the 5 handcuffs being used in a real prime time news a few days ago here in Germany.

U S A! U S A!

The sheer retardacy is unbelievable. Idiocracy got 2 things wrong:
a) The people depicted in it still showed some intelligence
b) It was set too far in the future

You gotta admit, that's a pretty creative and original idea they had. Next time, find an open hotspot, or go to an internet cafe...

Aw, I was expecting the parallel universe to be a miniature version of the room that contains itself.. Still pretty neat.

Anyone for recursion?

Microsoft was there first!

In the debate about euthanasia in Australia a decade ago, the TV news showed what the suicide machine in the hospital looked like: you stick yourself with a needle, and a program that controls what goes into your veins says, "30 seconds after you click yes, you will be given a fatal injection. Are you sure?", with 2 big buttons, predictably "Yes", and "No". What was the program written in? MS-Access!

I suppose a warning label "Danger, high voltage!" should be sufficient...

Or rewiring the system so that warning label becomes a truthful one...

"Finish Work job tools not"? FAIL!

The window even says "ToolLinkForm".. yay for Visual Basic!

You should read her blog entry, translated here: http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/ .. it was probably a really harrowing experience for her. It's probably sexist to say, but why the hell did those TSA Gestapo felt like they had to harrass a pretty Icelandic girl? What sort of threat do they expect to see from her?

The other I was just thinking about a Win 3.1 game involving a mouse, blocks and cats that turn to cheese if you trap them: Rodent's Revenge

Long live Windows 3.11!

Neat idea, but you wouldn't want to bring that to the airport along with your RFID-passport... the KGB-TSA would send your ass to Abu Ghraib for having an "Improvised Electronic Device".

"Improvised Electronic Device".. what a bullshit term anyway.

Can somebody say, "thoughtcrime"?

Argh, it's aggriavating to see the US becoming more and more Soviet. At least (I think) the Soviet government weren't dumb and incompetent.