Category: Geek

Don't send spam, m-kay? 7

Don't send spam, m-kay?

Some map company in Arizona thought it would be funny to send me some spam the other day. Tonight, I did a little research and then responded.

Anonymous Cowards and Blogs 5

Anonymous Cowards and Blogs

Since as far back as I can remember, Slashdot has allowed people to post anonymous comments on any entry. The catch is that they had their posts automatically knocked down a level and they were referred to as "Anonymous Coward"....

Nintendo Poised to pwnz0r Microsoft, Sony 3

Nintendo Poised to pwnz0r Microsoft, Sony

Have any of you actually seen the prices on an XBox 360 or the constantly-delayed Playstation 3? Charging $600 for a game console seems to be taking excess to brand new heights. The real lunacy is that even at those...

MySpace: The Internet's Largest Cesspool 7

MySpace: The Internet's Largest Cesspool

The more I use MySpace, the more I end up hating it. I'm sure all of you are familiar with the world's largest social networking site. Most of you probably have a profile on there as well. (Someone is creating...

Website Update: Subscribe Without an Account 0

Website Update: Subscribe Without an Account

I've figured out how to make it so that you can subscribe to e-mail updates without having to register an account on the site. Use the Subscribe link either at the top of the page or on the right under...

Weird Al Proves Just How Funny He Is 3

Weird Al Proves Just How Funny He Is

In anticipation of the release of the new Straight Outta Lynwood album on September 26th, Weird Al has given us a sneak peak by releasing one of his songs over the Internet. The song, you might ask? Don't Download This...

Website Update: Internet Explorer Works Again 1

Website Update: Internet Explorer Works Again

I figured out what was breaking Internet Explorer, and it's fixed now. It apparently doesn't handle an empty list very gracefully, choosing instead to just break everything. I still recommend Firefox.

Website Updates: The Photo Gallery, E-mail Notifications, Condensed Posts 1

Website Updates: The Photo Gallery, E-mail Notifications, Condensed Posts

I've made a few changes to the website to bring up some features we want and make things a little easier to use. The most noticable is that long posts (of which I write quite a few) are now showing...

Why do phone companies have to stink? 0

Why do phone companies have to stink?

There must be an unwritten rule somewhere that if you're a phone company, one or more aspects of your company must be lousy. Some companies go for pricing, others for service, a couple for reliability, and yet a few go...

Study on Video Game Addiction Produces World's Loudest "Duh" 3

Study on Video Game Addiction Produces World's Loudest "Duh"

Some researcher has figured out what the rest of us already know: around half of the people playing World of Warcraft are hopeless addicts. Yep, she figures about 40% of the people playing that game have clinical signs of addiction,...