I highly recommend “Y Tu
I highly recommend “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, reviewed here by the NY Times. It is both quietly devastating and a lot of fun.
{ Daily Archives }
June 10th, 2002
Bad geek humor #1: “To
Bad geek humor #1: “To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” #2: “There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
Rob Walker of Slate waxes
Rob Walker of Slate waxes philosophical on the Xbox ad (8 MB Quicktime) that was banned from British television:
Not only is our time on Earth an ephemeral flare, an awful trajectory along which we are blasted, naked and screaming all the while; not only is its climax sudden and meaningless — but there’s nothing you can do about it! Listen up, kids, there’s no escape from the cruel joke of your own mortality, so stop trying and play some video games, all right?
I’ve had a crush on
I’ve had a crush on Nonie since Reality Bites, which it does for her right now.
Suing spammers with state laws
Suing spammers with state laws is a great start to ending the scourge. Remember, you get the behavior you tolerate and the behavior you incentivize for. Here’s the same author comparing anti-spam tools.
Larry Wall redefines regexes for
Larry Wall redefines regexes for Perl 6 in Apocalypse 5. “We’re frogs who are getting boiled in a pot full of single-character morphemes, and we don’t notice.” Obscure stuff.
Few knowledgeable people would argue
Few knowledgeable people would argue that secure software a la DeCSS can ever meaningfully protect content. It’s time to learn that the term secure hardware is an oxymoron: Slashdot | Keeping Secrets in Hardware: Xbox Case Study. I discuss why in Steal This Essay 2: Why Encryption Doesn’t Help.
David Brooks, author of the
David Brooks, author of the extraordinary book Bobos in Paradise, adds a clever new chapter with Why the U.S. Will Always Be Rich.