Infopackets has an interesting article that argues that piracy actually helps Microsoft make money. It points out that due to piracy MS products become dominant in emerging markets, then once those economies pick up businesses and individuals start buying legitimate copies, boosting Microsoft’s profits. Even Microsoft sees the wisdom of this observation, as […]

Earlier this week I posted about Democratic operative Morton Brilliant being busted for malicious Wikipedia editing. Now LA Times writer Michael Hiltzik’s was caught using a sock puppet on his official Times blog, and other places.

This Tuesday I was quite excited when I looked at the IMDB list of new video releases and saw Final Fantasy: Advent Children listed. Ever since I first heard about it I’ve been excited, I’m a big computer animation buff. But I am quite disappointed with the film’s distributors. After I got […]

Sound Politics has a story about former Gregoire operative Morton Brilliant being forced to resign his current job due to dirty political tricks. Not only did he slander his current political opponents, but for some reason he also slandered Dino Rossi after he left the Gregoire campaign.

Mexico proposes decriminalising pot and cocaine - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Owning marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Congress.

Horrified family seeks return of mom’s head - MONTREAL—The family of a dead Montreal woman is making an unusual public plea to solve a macabre mystery: they want to know who decapitated their relative’s corpse and what they did with the head.

Nintendo just announced that the system that to this point has been known as the Revolution has been renamed ‘Wii’. It’s pronounced ‘we’. My gut reaction is that I don’t like the name change. Revolution would have been a very appropriate name; the system will be quite revolutionary. Although I’m not trilled […]

Nintendo just announced that the system that to this point has been known as the Revolution has been renamed ‘Wii’. It’s pronounced ‘we’. My gut reaction is that I don’t like the name change. Revolution would have been a very appropriate name; the system will be quite revolutionary. Although I’m not trilled […]

Back during the 2004 election I posted link to a news story on my Democrats gone wild page about someone slashing the tires of more than 20 RNC get-out-the-vote vans. No one should be surprised that four Democrats were just convicted. One thing that is surprising is that these weren’t just ordinary run-of-the-mill […]

Is it too nerdy to review movies based on the fonts they used?  Maybe so, but this article is actually kind of interesting.