PC vs. Mac: endgame

WOO HOO!!! 1000th post!!! Kegger at my house!!!

I am a mere 854,656,728 seconds old!

Yay useless birthday facts!

Other interesting facts:
I share a birthday with Jude Law and Charles Goodyear (I did not know this).
My life path number of 4 (yay stupid meaningless numerology facts!).

"You do not use the mouth"

Oh, I am thinking you are very screwed...and don't blame her periodical.

(I'm pretty sure they're actors, but it's still funny)

11?!

11?! Fucking 11?!

Goddammit I need a new flux capacitor!!!

Seriously, how can you _not_ list the flux capacitor as a replacement part for a Delorean?

I almost feel bad for the little guy

But not too bad.

(with props to Q)

Iguana getting winky wacked

Some stories are so weird they leave you utterly speechless.

Roddick

Roddick...angry!!! Ball leave stadium now!

Signs you need to get out more include

I'll leave it to you to figure out whether I'm referring to the authors or the readership.

The life lessons of famous scientists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5164417-111414,00.html

What's remarkable to me is the stunning similarity of many of them.

Federer

You know what? Watching Federer has gotten boring at this point. There is simply no one that can beat the man. Yes, Nadal can occasionally pull a game out of his ass, but otherwise Federer is just a fucking juggernaut. Has the man done _anything_ with his life other than play tennis?

On top of that, I'm watching him make Robredo run around the court like a 6-year-old with ADHD.

When hi-def is too hi-def

With Blu-ray you can see even the most minute imperfection on a porn actress's body! Umm...yay?

There is a fundamental question here

...and that, of course, is: Does this count as a successful suicide attempt?

Iron Hymen

Yes. You heard me right.

"I understand that abstaining from sex protects me from:

Forcing my wonderful parents to use "tough love" and kick me out of the house for embarrassing them by being such a little whore.

Having adoption-hungry homosexuals circle my pregnant belly like vultures, hell-bent on corrupting my unwanted bastard child with their sicko "love."

You...EEEEEEEEdiot!

These guys are in serious contention for dumbest criminals ever.

Stealing GPS receivers? Really? Really?? Tell me something: if you saw a box labeled "Acme Homing Beacons," would you consider those a good theft opportunity as well?

Another fox guarding the henhouse

Not that anyone should be surprised, but in case you haven't read anything that makes you livid at the Bush administration in the past, oh, 15 minutes...

DRM vs. watermarking

You know, I've read and talked with people about digital watermarking before, but I haven't really thought about it as a means to deter piracy. But as I do so now, it's actually not such a bad idea. I don't know that we've come up with a mechanism resilient to fairly simple attacks, but if we did hae an ideal watermarking scheme, it might be a nice compromise for digital rights. The problem, as Butler Lampson has now famously stated, is not so much security (preventing people from copying) as it is accountability (knowing who copied what). If you can track down exactly who gave a copy of a movie to everyone, that's a big reason for them not to do it in the first place.

So, with watermarking, you would still be able to hold people accountable for illegal copying, but at the same time, you wouldn't need all the draconian, infuriating constraints that prevent people from doing obvious, perfectly legal things like copying a piece of music from one device to another.

10 1-on-1 fight scenes

I don't know about ten best, but they are definitely ten badass fight scenes.

Point of trivia: the South Park "cripple fight" is taken nearly verbatim from the "Nada vs. Frank" fight scene.

Also, why is Luke v. Vader not in there?

Man, humor, legislature

It's probably the fact that it's 4 in the morning, but I really liked this quote:

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

-- Samual Butler

Today in Seattle

1. It snowed.
2. The expansion pack for World of Warcraft came out.

I'm pretty sure no one actually did any work today. Oh, they might have _been_ at work, but they certainly weren't doing any...