No no no no no no no! We don't want no steeking console game abomination!!!! We want honest to <diety/> StarCraft 2, and right damned quick!!! Arrrrgh!

Warning! Cheesecake alert! Girls, girls, girls!!!!!

Sun Microsystems now has their own alternative to Struts: JATO. Having deployed a few commercial Struts apps, I'm feeling pretty comfortable in this space. I'll try to build something using JATO instead, and report back later on how good/awful it really is.

By the way, there is now an actual standard and early access release for JavaServer Faces, a standard for UI components in thin-client applications (such as Struts and JATO). Hooray for standardization! Now if only I could get CSS into my head ....

|<3wl ... surely if we can make transparent aluminum, then the rest of the Star Trek universe can't be far behind, can it?

Well, well, well. You learn something every day. There are even HOWTOs on videotape.

I'm sorry, but what the fuck? What the fucking fuck?

How in the world did I miss this? On September 19th, please join the Full of Hate Brothers in celebrating "Talk Like A Pirate Day."

BWA-hahahahaha! Diet Coke almost came out my nose. Ho ho ho.

Yet more on the brouhaha. "What brouhaha" you ask? Step a little closer ... closer ... closer.<thwack/>

I must admit I was mostly prepared to go LART the lackwit who called in the false accusation. It turns out, however, that it was the mass media that made it worse. Teevee news should be required to have an online comments section and should further be required to read the damned things. Bastards.

H.L. Mencken is, I opine, one of America's finest products. Ever. Here, in a posting from Al Barger, is a quick rundown of things H.L. believed in. I'll have some of that, thank you.

From my mostly-insane brother-in-law:

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his crotch. The bartender says, "You know you have a steering wheel attached to your crotch?" "Arrgh," says the pirate, "It's driving me nuts!"