At a birthday dinner for a friend last night I was told I was neglecting my duties here by not posting up some things I thought had already received wide internet play. Normally if things are turning up on a bunch of sites I skip posting it, but I was reminded that that are some [...]

Jaguar photographed in the US. They are coming for us.
Actually this is really cool and not summer of feary at all, just thought it was neat.

I have strong feelings that the government of the United States is being corrupted at a very basic level. The organization Change Congress has recently been formed to try to fight this. I don’t agree with absolutely everything in this presentation, but I believe that this effort is an important one and despite my differences [...]

After killing Steve Irwin in 2006 the Stingray apparently liked its moment in the killer animal spotlight and struck today killing a woman in Florida. Apparently it didn’t use its stinger, it just knocked the woman over and she hit her head on the boat. The woman’s death is an unfortunate tragedy, but I have [...]

Buying music online used to be easy. Either you bought from Itunes, who had the biggest catalog or EMusic who were the only major selling mp3s. The frontier is changing now and I thought I would put up some thoughts and tips for shopping online for music. For the purposes of this I will be [...]

This article by Paul Ford is great. He reviews every single song from the SXSW torrent* in exactly six words for each song and provides a link to each one on the side of the review, you can’t ask for more, the man is a god. I love the reviews, Like a dog fucking a [...]

To those who come here searching for “the rise & fall of ruby woo” torrents. You can sample most of the music on the album at their website and mySpace page. I understand wanting to listen to an artist before you buy and support that, but if you are just looking to steal their music [...]

This is the best reply that could possibly be written to the hateful bigot Sally Kerns. Stay strong Tucker. Her original tirade can be found here.

Remember to celebrate go out and have some Pie on Pi day. Happy Pi Day!

Ok, I do have some sympathy for the descendants of Admiral Byng, but not much really. They have put a petition to Parliment to ‘restore his honor’, but not pardon him. They say
It has been a long time … but if we were moved by the families of World War One, which was a long [...]