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So I’m reading The Onion today, and I click through to one of their stories and have to endure an interstitial ad that asks “Are you a loser?” I skip it, of course, but after I read the story, I…

Just in case you were wondering: yes, Donald Duck appears to be of Scottish descent. Though there is also some weird inter-species shit going on to the far right of that tree. Ewww. This guy has diagrammed family trees for…

You know, I’ve been using the del.icio.us online bookmarking service for a while. And while it’s been slow sometimes, it’s never spewed system errors like I started seeing this week: System errorerror: Can’t call method “prepare” on an undefined value…

I have to maintain documentation on wikis as part of my work, and I hate it. And earlier today, as I was spitting expletives at my computer screen, I realized why I hate editing wikis so much: for the same…

“The undead female is pretty hot[.]”— On The Feminine Form In Gaming

And Overstock.com wonders why they’re not selling more of these: “Sleek and compact design,” says the product description. Uh, yeah, I suppose you could call it that.

I’m done. After attempting nanowrimo twice before, I’ve finally won. I’ve written over 52,000 words and pounded out what can– generously, perhaps, but still– be called a novel. My first draft of my first novel. Oh, it’s still got a…

Didn’t I tell you that this would happen? Although it features an almost entirely Asian cast, Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha has evoked anger and calls for a boycott among some of those who have seen advance screenings of…

We are, of course, all familiar with this classic epigram from The Simpsons: “It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen!”— Homer Simpson Indeed, this pithy aphorism has been quoted in such publications as the…

Today’s nominee for Dumbest. Idea. Ever: ‘A new reality TV show is aiming to pull off the biggest hoax in TV history – by persuading a group of Britons that they have been blasted into space… ‘Nine people will be…