Archive for the ‘Near Misses’ Category
Friday, July 18th, 2008
The blogosphere was abuzz over the past 2 weeks with discussions on comedy, satire, racism and stupidity all thanks to a single video skit about a supposed lack of Black bloggers on the Internet titled "TechNigga", and Verizon's decision to dump the media content provider from their service as a ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Imagine logging on to your Internet account and checking your email. You reply to a few messages and then decide to visit YouTube and watch that funny video your cousin emailed you a link for... but when you get there you find that the video is playing choppy, like Satellite ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
This Week's Dolt! Award goes to... Oregon (and there was much rejoicing)
In the most recent of a long list of bone-headed ideas put forward by government officials, the state of Oregon has been sending Cease & Desist letters to informational resource web sites (such as Justia.com) who publish exact copies ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Stingrays determined to eliminate mankind
We people have always accepted certain risks when entering the Oceans. It's not our turf and some marine inhabitants have taken exceptions with our intrusive tourism over the years. However, for the most part we've had a fairly safe, albeit delicate, relationship with them of don't ...
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
A Public Service Announcement about Social Services
Over and over I've heard some people ranting about entitlement (formerly known as 'social' but that sounded too much like something pleasant--you know, like a "social gathering"--so they changed the name) programs. When I sat down to write this my goal was to argue, ...
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