Category Archive for 'General'

Afghanistan in the 1960s

Friday, June 4th, 2010

What could’ve Afghanistan become without decades of war?

Sorry Jerks, Intimidation Won’t Change the Web

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Shameful law firm Jones Day sued real estate news site BlockShopper claiming “trademark infringement” over the way the site used link text, but really because the firm didn’t like how the site reported the home purchases of their partners (which is public record). The case should’ve been thrown out, but the judge allowed it, and, [...]

Lying in your job description? You may be our Drug Czar.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The deeper you dig into the history of the Drug War the more craziness you uncover. You’d think an office in charge of drug policy on a national level would monitor science and policy outcomes and work to refine those policies over time, or in the very least not break laws spreading misinformation about drugs.
You’d [...]

Avoiding the replay bug in EA Skate 1

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Depending on how you navigate through the menus to get to the video replays, the game (and entire Xbox360) will tend to lock up in the waiting screens, requiring a manual reset on the console. Usually this is before you can view even 3 or 4 replays.
Now that I’m capturing a ton of replays on [...]

‘Phlox’ Menace Could Abet Future Enemies

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

The latest example of law enforcement solutions to reducing drug use.
Police raided the home of a couple in the hunt for a drug factory because a [moss phlox] plant in their garden smelled like cannabis. … the couple, both in their late 70s, returned home to find that the drugs squad had battered down their [...]

Chili enzyme for .htaccess

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Here’s a chili (javascript syntax highlighter) enzyme for highlighting .htaccess code snippets. This is for the 1.x series (I’m using 1.8b here) so this will likely not work for the latest 2.0 release without some modification. Also the highlighting is pretty basic, but at least you get comments and the first directive on a line.
place [...]

Awesome Holiday boredom

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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I got: A, ABBR, ACRONYM, APPLET, AREA, B, BASE, BASEFONT, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BR, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, DD, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, FRAMESET, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, HEAD, HR, HTML, I, IFRAME, INPUT, INS, ISINDEX, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LINK, MAP, MENU, [...]