Oh Messy Life To live in a country where it's past Thanksgiving and no one really cares that we don't know who's prez. fuck. i don't care anymore. i'm burnt on this election crap. go look at this guy's site, wish you could come up with a design that sweet, and then call Rush Limbaugh and say "BABABOOEY!"

Lie Test: Bush 57, Gore 23 They're both liars, but Bush is worse ... oh farkin' great. I hate the state this country's in. Fuck 'em both with a stolen dildo.

i dont care what socio-political beef you have with the place, all i care about it that their site is a GOD AWFUL NASTY PIECE OF CRAP

Software to Track E-Mail Raises Privacy Concerns: ok, this is a couple of days old at this point, but time has lost all meaning to me, so it might as well have happened today. the thing is, what they talk about isnt even 'software,' it's just an exploit of html-enabled email clients; an exploit which is basically unstoppable and undetectable, unless you're running some sort of scanner which would strip the img tags. but odds are, your average luser wouldnt. or, you could just use pine.

How to be L33T. Because I know you've all been wondering.

boredom + flash + righteous indignation = georgewbush2001.com

yes, we have been neglecting our beautiful blog, yes, we are still going to record a new show, and yes, we felt that this was a nearly universal headline.

Scour is dead, and since Napster sold out, there's no good choice but Gnutella ... or iMesh. What, never heard of it? Check it out now.

If you didn't know by know, Netscape 6 was released. If you've been using Netscape 4.x (or IE) up until now, you should really try Netscape 6. Because it's the corporate browser, you'll have to flip some preference switches to get rid of Net2Phone, AIM, Netcenter links, etc. if you don't need them, and use the classic theme to double the speed. But at the same time, explore all the features; because of it's Mozilla heritage, it's deep in features to explore and rediscover. It's whorish, but better than IE.

And check out the phat-ass themes.

Us, committed to excellence? Well, yes, we recorded a show yesterday, but it was just us ranting at the utter hypocrisies and incongruities of the world, and not very funny, so we're scrapping it and recording another. No, we're not releasing this one because we want to cover the same topics again (I mean, Jews voting for Buchanan in Florida? Could we pray for material this good?), but watch soon for an episode early this week.

OJR Commentary: Doubting Florida Voting Data via MeFi

Insofar as statistical analysis can be "proof," here's analysis of the recount in Florida by an Annenberg expert statistician, saying "In fact, imagine a decimal with 133 zeros followed by a 1: The actual probability that the Florida count was fair is, in fact, even less than that number." HA! If Bush wins, is was a COUP!!

in all the hootinanny going back and forth in this never-ending election, there is one guy who is being completely overlooked . . . which is kinda scary, seeing as he is the most powerful man involved, now that Brere Jeb has taken himself out of the loop as far as confirming the recount goes (yeah, there is one woman involved, but the Bush Boys dont strike me as the types to trust one of them lady girls with a man's work). i aint no Woodward or Bernstein, but there are a few things i have dug up: his name is Clay Roberts, he's from East Texas, looks like a linebacker, went to FSU lawschool and Westpoint <shudder>, was appointed director of the florida division of elections by the Jebster, and plays a mean game of darts on a team with a terrifying mascot. you might call me paranoid, but if Bush wins and this guy ends up with a cabinet post, i'll be laughing all the way to Canada.

screw the real thing and forget that other thing, here is the true Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Orlando Sentinel - The ballot in question "Senior citizens can't read" and "Florida has terrible graphic designers" should have been the headlines; as heard on Howard Stern, Imus, Larry King, etc. etc., some 1500 Palm Beach, FL residents may have mistakenly voted for Buchanan instead of Gore because of this ballot, enough people to make the difference of the entire national election.

Details, people, details.

looks like Triumph's troubles are over. i dont know about you, but pets.com has been on my hit list for a long time. you know you've got problems when your greatest corporate asset is a fucking sock.

from the same people who made the PC friendly with BOB, comes MSN Explorer: the first program that lets you get around the Net without those pesky word-things. the tour (click the screenshot) is full of little gems of MS Wisdum such as "[with favorites] now you can EASILY return to your favorite Web sites;" as if previously it involved a recompile or some sort of blood sacrifice. neither Creon nor i can decide whether the copy was written by or for 12 year old girls, though it appears that the demo installation belongs to everyone's favorite heroin addict.

figured i'd get in one last political dig before the apocalypse. too bad the alternatives (no the real alternatives) arent getting as fair a shake as the "legitimate candidates." oh well, there's always anarchy to fall back on.

Latest tracking poll shows Gore edging toward Bush If we didn't live in a fake democracy, neither of these guys could get elected without 51% of the vote, which, from the polls of the last month, it seems they won't. In a real democracy, there would be multiple parties, the general election would allow for a true plurality of choices, and if no one got a majority (fucking electoral college) there would be a runoff *popular vote* between the top two.

Instead, we get fucked by Gore/Lieberman or fucked harder by Bush/Dick, and Nader isn't allowed to be within 100 yards of a debate. Thanks, Amerika.

Archived Shows Coming Soon!
We've gotten mail form lots of people who want to listen to our previous shows, so we're going to be making them available in several different ways - available for download here this weekend (after I finish my server upgrade to Mandrake 7.2), available as streaming Icecast channels (real soon now), and a surprise third, er, "distribution method," to be announced ... *evil grin*

Ah, the labors of love.

Blair Witch 2, only slightly better than Battlefield Earth. Now that's pathetic.

Microsoft Bows to Pressure from Germany and uninstalls Disk Defragmenter from Win2000 because, get this, the software company they outsourced it too has a scientologist CEO. OK, I think the Germans are right on Scientology, and I hate M$, but this is just a little too damn bizarre.

O'Reilly and Associates Ate My Balls! Well that just gives me warm fuzzies all over.

Kaliber 10,000: it's back and . . . well it's not better than ever, it's kinda the same as it always was, except for that period of a month when all they were serving was an apology for having no site up . . . so i guess it's back and better than it was when it looked like every shitty "under (fucking) construction" site out there

Are they ripping us off? Is it just me, or is this Canadian tech radio show that never had a design or logo to speak of now choosing Tux smoking a huge blunt and drinking and little suspiciously influenced by our logo?

Or maybe it's sketchy that the links and topics magically grew more angry, pornographic and issue-oriented, as opposed to their old "bitch about being in tech support" format that we dissed in the first 5 minutes of Episode 1, after they linked to us and mentioned our show?

If you think there's some there there, let them know.

Sorry to post a story I saw on /., but this only deserves one word:
CRA-ZEE.

E-Village People (washingtonpost.com) I'd actually theorized what this paper says before, and heard it from other sources, but the gist is this: the number one sociological factor that correlates with a region's high-tech success is the concentration of gay people living there.

Nader Control Panel
via MeFi