Arrrgh!

I just walked through the living room where the teevee was on, and that minimal exposure to the D-bag Congresscritter from Missouri expounding on how the Big 3 automakers deserve huge piles of my money so that they don't reap the full benefit of their sh*tty decision- and car-making and go f*cking bankrupt was enough to make my head explodiate.

And now I am dead, with an explodiated head. Jebus farking christ on a stick.

I voted

Did you? It's important.

World of Warcraft: Zombie Edition

The zombie invasion has started. I had begun putting together a post about being a zombie and starting your own invasion, but after Blogger ate it, I found this thread on the official forums instead. It isn't a complete overlap, but there's lots of good info there.

It could be worse

I just finished reading Zoe's Tale. As I was sitting in two airports plus a short plane ride in between reading, and sniffling, and wiping my eyes to the point that a passer-by asked me if I was okay and I lied something stupid about an allergy, I took small comfort in knowing that no matter how girly my crying was, Scalzi is even more of a girl for having written it in the first place.

Anyway ... go get it and read for yourself. Most excellent.

DIY Wi-Fi Antenna

How did I miss this? The Ez-12 parabolic reflector antenna design, suitably simple to construct for kindergarten drop-outs such as m'self, is claimed to show up to 11dB gain in some cases. I'll have to try this out tonight and see how it works.

WANT! WANT! WANT

Well, to be honest, I don’t know that I want one $250 worth, but still … who wouldn’t want a 50 mph anti-gravity racecar?

WTF Is Up With England, Again?

I seriously do not understand what happened to these people. They used to be the forces of civilization, who carried the rule of law everywhere they carried their flag. Now, though, they sold their legacy for a mess of pottage.

I’m seriously disappointed. This is not the England that I knew.

Now That’s Novel

Blizzard got an injuction against MDY last week about MDY’s Glider bot. They have now followed that up with a request for an injunction preventing MDY from open-sourcing Glider, which is certainly a novel request.

On the one hand, I see Blizzard’s point. Once the bot source is out there and available for use, they will be unable (mostly) to detect all of the different ways that people could modify the core bot play. Sure, each person that used the bot would then be violating the terms of service, but Blizzard wouldn’t have much luck in identifying them all. And without identifying them, Blizzard can’t ban them from the game. And without banning them from the game, there’s almost no way to ensure that they don’t fix up the “super PvP” mode that Glider’s devs claim to be close to, which disrupts my game play.

On the other hand, I don’t think the courts should be able to prevent a person or company from open sourcing their software assets. MDY built their own product, and if they want to open source it, I think they have the right to do so.

SYTYCD: WTF again

There is no farking way that Courtney belongs in the finals. No way. She is teh suX0r. You people need to develop some judging ability and taste, for f*#$'s sake.

And another thing

This is quite old, I know, but I was reminded of it by the STOP sign video link I just posted. So as not to have to go spelunking for it again the next time I think about it: National Flags of the World, with client's comments.

What If ...

What would it look like if the stop sign hadn't been invented by the gummint, but had been outsourced to a private marketing firm? Let's imagine, shall we?

WTF Is Up With England, Part 2

Fox News is reporting more details about Christian Bale's arrest. He apparently is charged with a class 5 verbal assault, which, as far as I can tell, translates as "raised his voice in a surly or disrespectful manner." He's lucky he didn't "intend to cause alarm", because that would be a class 4 verbal assault, you see, and holy farking christ on a pogo stick we don't want to go there.

I Love Dr.Horrible

Kathy and I bought a season pass on iTunes last week and downloaded all three episodes, but we didn't get around to watching them until tonight. Holy crap, that was amazing. Get some.

Neil Patrick Harris was perfect. He made me laugh, and cry, and really feel what Dr.Horrible was going through. Also, Nathan Fillion was high-larious. Go watch it again.

WTF is England's Problem?

Taking a photograph of a collection of hoodlums disturbing the peace outside your apartment results in a warning to the photographer and might lead to his arrest on assult charges. I've long wanted to visit the U.K. but crap like this makes me wonder if maybe that isn't such a hot idea.

You Did What?

He might be the only movie reviewer that the average man-on-the-street could name, but ABC doesn't much care if he doesn't work for them any more: Ebert and Roper are both leaving "Ebert & Roeper".

Ewww!

Wow. I sux0r at Photoshop, and even so I'm pretty sure I could beat this lame effort.

Tattoos Are Forever

I'm really impressed by people who go to all the trouble to get themselves inked up but manage (somehow) to screw it up. Case in point: The 10 Greatest Misspelled Tattoos according to "The L Magazine." Also, I'm not entirely sure about "greatest ever", but they're still pretty funny.

That's Just Wrong

There's no way that Jaime and Rayven should have been eliminated last night. Who the (*@($* are these people voting for Gev and whatshername that did the disco routine? They were lame lame lame. Lame.

Geez, people. Think before you start dialing. I haven't forgiven your idiocy last season in not giving Danny the crown he so richly earned.

I Might Have to Change My Mind

I've never been a big fan of Weezer. Until now. This is super-dee-duper meme-alicious:


Pork and Beans by Weezer

And if you missed any of the pop culture references, Valleywag gathered them all together for you.

Cheese Levels Are Dangerously High

We watched the American Idol final performance last night, and we commented to each other how amazingly atrocious the songs from the "write a sappy song" contest were. I blame the producers; if they hadn't picked such saccharine dreck the first time, we wouldn't be drowning in the hyper-focused syrupy twaddle three years later.

Anyway, Defamer summarized it thusly: David Archuleta Stops Weep-Giggling Long Enough to Pound David Cook into a Fine, Grungemo Pulp which is technically wrong but oh-so-right anyway. I thought David Cook took it in a walk, and DialIdol seems to agree with me.