“If your love life requires close air support, something has gone very wrong.”

— Bubbles, out of her comfort zone

The Trouble Consultant Workout


WWWAerobics

(not that I needed an excuse, but Wonderduck provided one…)

Western food is destroying Japan


No, really:

So much for 'peanut butter jelly time'

Building a modern Ghostbuster...


University of Maryland announces portable particle accelerators. No word yet on crossing the streams.

A better world...


You know the one thing that’s really, truly gotten better about system administration? Now, when you’re sitting in the computer room poking at a sick server and checking the status of hours-long processes with lsof, strace, and tcpdump, you can watch Doctor Who on your phone.

"Wake up, sheeple!"


Actual caption to this picture at The Seattle Times, of a group protesting Amazon’s “corporate greed”:

Protesters gather at Westlake Park on Guy Fawkes Day. All three masks were purchased from Amazon for $6 each using the Amazon Prime account of gold mask’s mom. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
Occupy Mom's Basement

Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,


Yes:

Ayumi Ishida nekomimi and more

No:

Yuu Kikkawa nekomimi madness

Media bias, or simple stupidity?


revealing headline

It’s a pretty pathetic headline writer who fails to read the first paragraph and the pull quote. But then, we already knew that J-school is not for Our Best And Brightest.

"Snowden recommends"


Does it strike anyone else odd to see recommendations on how to secure your privacy from someone whose only accomplishment in life was stealing confidential data? It’s a bit like asking a cat how to store tuna; his motives and expertise are not aligned with your interests.

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”