0.1% of the people on Earth play World of Warcraft

Holy mother of god. That is a terrifying statistic.

Boobs...in...spaaaaaace!

It seems somehow fitting that one of our first exports to space was porn. :)

(marginally NSFW)

*twitch*

Some days I am proud to be a Seattle resident. This is not one of them.

(Warning: this WILL raise your blood pressure)

"Flaccid with rage"

Only Stephen Colbert can come up with ingenious phrases like "flaccid with rage."

Your daily douchebag (1/12/07)

Today's Daily Douchebag is a bit of a surprise: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

"A Democrat?! Surely not." Turns out that just because you aren't a Republican doesn't mean you can't be a jackass politician. His crime? Fighting tooth and nail against an earmarking reform amendment. Not only that, the earmarking amendment just so happens to be exactly the same as the one proposed by Pelosi in the House since a clever Mr. Jim DeMint from South Carolina (a Republican! Maybe they do remember what "fiscal conservative" actually means...) took the House language and plopped it verbatim into the Senate amendment.

So, well done Mr. Reid. Thank god we have someone fighting against meaningful reform.

Chemistry is cool

Think an aluminum boat can't float on air? Think again.

Your daily douchebag (1/11/07)

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new Daily Douchebag!

Meet Representative Kingston. You'll remember he was the one complaining about having to actually work 5 days a week in Congress? Yes, well, apparently he came to the realization recently that people are poor because they don't work enough (and aren't married, apparently).

We admire the profound depth of your douchebaggery, sir. Truly, we do.

The fair mistress porn favors HD-DVD

It is a long-standing truth that where go-eth porn, there follow the tech industry. DVD succeeded where LaserDisc failed largely because porn producers made content for DVD.

So when I see a that porn companies are shunning Blu-ray, that's pretty much a death knell for Blu-ray. Whether HD-DVD succeeds remains to be seen, but Sony is fucking retarded if they are going out of their way to prevent porn from being put on Blu-ray.

Mr. Beckham goes to Los Angeles

Holy shit. This is like Michael Jordan announcing he's going to Croatia.

The beginning of a life of disappointment

Poor, misguided baby...I will let your picture speak for itself.

Tivo's horse shit!

I was excited about the announcement of TivoToGo for mac (fucking finally)...until I read that it's only available as part of Roxio Toast Premium. What the fuck?! You're going to make me pay for the same service that Windows users get for free?? Fuck. You. This after the whole "Here! Have reduced functionality for $800!" Tivo3 debacle is really making me question my Tivo affection...

How much of a gamer are you?

Me? 72%, apparently.

RIP Ramen King

A moment of silence, please, for the Ramen King?

From the "truth is stranger than fiction" files

Read his and then tell me you think an alien coming millions of light years to hover briefly over O'Hare International Airport is more likely than a weird weather phenomenon.

Cool stuff

I don't know how else to describe it. It's just random materials that are cool.

That crazy Bush

Whoever said Bush doesn't have a sense of humor?

Silly Bush...you wouldn't know a balanced budget if it were handed to you on a silver platter at the beginning of your presiden...oh, wait...

(douchebag.)

Hep C drug patent workaround

Jesus Christ...what a fantastic example of just how fucked our intellectual property system is.

Yet another "Google isn't a benevolent dictator?!" story

For fuck's sake. When are people going to stop being surprised that Google is behaving more and more like a normal, self-interested corporation???

Numbers stations

Huh. I had never heard of the so-called "Numbers Stations," stations that broadcast random strings of letters and numbers and are thought to be coded spy agency transmissions.

I have a suspicion that most of the transmissions are garbage so that it's not obvious _when_ a transmission actually occurs.

European view of America