Apr 23, 2010

News: Judge OKs inmate's request for death by firing squad

News: Truro, MA incorrectly calculates two-thirds vote

136 to 70. That doesn't pass with a two-thirds majority. A two thirds majority would be 137.3333 repeating forever. This means that you need 138 votes for the measure for a two-thirds majority. Found a hilarious comment though: 'This is maybe third or fourth grade level math here people, and it's kinda sad that there is even any confusion about it. .66 is not 2/3, it's a little less than 2/3 and it does not count if the law says 2/3. You know good and well these #$%holes were the kids who used to ask ''Why will I ever need to know this stuff in real life?'' when they were kids. Well, you stupid #$%es, this is why.'

Apr 22, 2010

News: Best Buy suing Ultimate Electronics over ads

News: Louisiana oil rig explodes, sinks

Craziness. 11 still missing.

News: Google in talks to buy ITA Software

My go-to airfare search tool might be bought out by teh Google. Not sure what I think about that. Nothing against Google...except that it's truly aiming for world domination. Just worries me a bit. Not that I don't love their services (GOOG-411, Google Reader, etc.)

Apr 20, 2010

News: PA webcam spying school admits 56K images taken

Holy...crap... 56000 images? And no one in a position of authority knew? Really?

Apr 15, 2010

Apr 13, 2010

News: Google may open source VP8 (high-quality video) codec

Very very good for everyone. The main obstacle between dumping flash (with all it's problems and downloads and updating) and moving to HTML5 is getting everyone to agree on a good codec. Some like the high quality of H.264, but it's proprietary. Mozilla likes Ogg Theora because it's open source, but not too good of quality. Google bought the VP8 codec...open sourcing it will be the best of both...if only Microsoft's IE and Apple's Safari jump on board....which is a pretty big if.

Apr 12, 2010

News: Conan to TBS, before Lopez Tonight

Interesting development. Coco confirms.