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Welcome to My Bong Runs Linux, a weblog and intermittent radio program dedicated to exploring, exposing, and pissing on technology and the world.

- by Creon, Rhino, and an assorted peanut gallery

 

5.28.2000

List of Known Spyware Infested Software, otherwise known as software to avoid like the plague. In a related note, RealNetworks is *for the third time* caught snooping on it's users. Folks, we have to stop these no-ethics marketing fucks.
posted by creon

5.27.2000

to prove that the swedish can do more than look perty and sound funny, i give you the Immersive Space Laboratory. there are all sorts of cool little bits coming out of this project, not the least of which is a 3D window manager for X. sure, it'll have the memory footprint to rival that of windows2000, and will steal all those clock cycles from seti@home, but dammit, it will looking fucking cool.
posted by rhino

posted by creon

5.26.2000

And now, for the worst non-death penalty death I've read this year ... ouch. Well, gotta admit, that's hella good teamwork there.
posted by creon

If code is free, why not me? I don't know what it is yet, but there's something *really* funny about this article.
posted by creon

5.24.2000

Chuck D & Lars go head to head on PBS (Charlie Rose). BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ulrich you whoring white LA bitch. Between this Danish 'tard and Dr. Dre, I'm thinking SoCal needs a new pair of cement shoes. "When LA falls and is flushed away, all that will be left is Arizona Bay."
posted by creon

5.22.2000

Banned by Napster for liking shitty metal(lica)? Try this fix, but don't blame us when it breaks your machine.

Oh, And I thought *we* hated Micro$oft.

posted by creon

Sure, it's a turn-of-the-millenium link, but dammit, it's from the Onion. "Holy mother of fuck, I'm on the surface of the fucking moon."

And while I'm at it, from The Modern Humorist -- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Pirated MP3s, and Corrections Scientologists Made Us Run.

posted by creon

5.20.2000

look through this site and ask yourself: how long before someone hax0rs linux onto one of these things?
these things are cute, if misguided. they have a pc-slot for an ethernet card, but in this day, it should be built-in or wireless, dammit. plus, it runs winCE on a RISC processor. when will people learn: winCE is for toothless vietnamese hookers with no thumbs. if you're serious about mobile computing, at least use PalmOS, if not Mobile Linux on a Crusoe
posted by rhino

5.19.2000

We've had it. We're movin' to Canada. We're sick of this crazy country, thrown over the edge by the farce of an election, Battlefield Earth, the Drudge Report, Windows 2000 and, well, BC Bud. Listen in.
posted by creon

5.17.2000

what's your Wu-Tang name?
posted by rhino

no link here. i just wanted to state that i like the idea of public and private waffles. this actually comes from a paper my friend Knuckles is writing on critical theory and the post-penoptic state in which perfect surveillance exists. i dont care if we can assume no privacy, it's all about waffles, DAMMIT.

ok so maybe i'll post a link.

posted by rhino

5.16.2000

ok, i usually read christian movie reviews for a good laugh, but i actually agree with their review of my new favorite movie.
posted by rhino

5.15.2000

we mentioned this guy in episode 4. he appears to think he's the reincarnation of Richard Roundtree in the body of the Bee Gees.
posted by rhino

5.13.2000

if there was any doubt that Battlefield Earth is the worst movie ever to wrest itself from the slimy, shitstained underbelly of hollywood, Rotten Tomatoes has provided us with a summary of all the crappy reviews that this truly horrendous movie has received.
posted by rhino

5.11.2000

Wanna know exactly why the ILOVEYOU virus worked? Read - "Who's to blame for the "ILOVEYOU" virus? Who else?"
posted by creon

ok, more microslop bullshit here. it's nothing we havent heard before, but i'd like to point out a trend that i've noticed in recent weeks: since when is the guy's name "william h gates?" did he think that people were not taking "bill" seriously? this only adds to my distrust of the man. people who change their names are either lying to themselves or trying to manipulate you, thus my problems with Jackée.
posted by rhino

5.10.2000

Big Rick, the gay Quake mod. Check out the black leath chaps, tres chic.
posted by creon

5.9.2000

We're fucked. (yeah right).
posted by creon

Like I said on the radio show, Michael from Australia ... ? Point is, don't use Microsoft, and you won't get so many viruses.
posted by creon

posted by creon

The Filthy Critic ... read his review of Mission to Mars, quoted in Episode 4.
posted by creon

5.7.2000

Sneak preview of a project our friend at analog2digital is writing, entitled Case Studies of Hacker Resistance. Be sure to tell us of your favorite ways hackers like RMS, Gnullsoft, and the DeCSS crew are making people "get it," and we'll talk about your dope hacks next episode.
posted by creon

Addendum to Rhino's post on May 4th:
Check out the latest installment of Geeks in Space and count the number of topics we mentioned earlier, and the topics we presented in more detail in our last two shows. Turn it into a drinking game. Or better yet, a smoking game.
posted by creon

take a look at the quote in big red letters on the left side of this article. i dont know about you, but i think it's damned funny. microsoft is bitching because the DOJ wants them to make windows a proper operating system. oh, god for-fucking-bid! if there was ever an os that could use a little scaling back and optimization, it's windows. i mean damn, get the low level shit working before you start rendering html so you can browse your porn collection.
posted by rhino

5.5.2000

In an age of 350Kb shockwave movies and gargantuan media files, this brings a tear of joy to my eye. An inspiration to anybody who calls themselves a "web designer" (of which there are few, anymore, since anyone who calls themselves a "web designer" obviously just started ... you know who you are).
posted by creon

5.4.2000

i would just like to point out that we are two steps ahead of slashdot today, and we are just two guys, not 10 admins and 70000 readers.
posted by rhino

Losing their religion, Tom Cruise and his beard^H^H^H^H^H wife Nicole Kidman have tossed aside the shackles of sci-fi theology ... see battlefield earth below.
posted by creon

this week in the Voice there is a nice article about DeCSS and the coming legal battle between the little guy and the MAN. highlights here include this gem from some drone at the MPAA: "[W]e don't have broadband access today, so we don't have many [pirated] movies on the Internet today." we don't?!
posted by rhino

5.3.2000

i was poking around the Battlefield Earth website. i thought there might be some digging to do, but it's so fucking ridiculous, making derogatory comments would be redundant. they claim that it was voted to be the third greatest book of the century. yup, just below Ulysses and Gatsby. and then there is the fact that in all the info about L.Ron, there is not one mention of scientology . . . probably a good idea, cause no one wants to see a movie written by the Nutty Messiah.
posted by rhino

i like perl, but dont write an operating system in it.
posted by rhino

Gnutella, a better Napster than napster. Fuck The Man.
posted by creon

More stories of the Red Sca... I mean, Salem Witc... I'm sorry, I meant preventing school violence. Don't trust anyone who's not a vacant-eyed conformist WASP.
posted by creon

5.2.2000

Elian's raft is for sale!!! Anybody got $10 million lying around to beat the bids on eBay?
posted by creon