Apr 112012
 
This is a recently remastered version of Todd Graham's original 1987 VCR-made remix that appropr
Apr 112012
 
My usual state of mind after I read the top stories on Yahoo news.
Mar 172012
 

The Tomarchin-Moko Story »

In the South Pacific, near Pitcairn Island of Mutiny on The Bounty fame, lies Henderson Island, which "was the site of a modern castaway story in 1957 – one of the marooned seamen was a chimpanzee!"

This is one of my all-time favourite stories and greatest finds on the Interwebs! ;-)

/for +Mz Maau ;-)

Pitcairn Islands Study Center contains the world's largest collection of materials relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh, H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. The museum-…
Mar 122012
 

When political hacks subpoena online hackers, look out for :-( »

There's something almost charmingly innocent about the parliamentarians' indignation about Anonymous's “flagrant disregard of our traditions.” Yes, it is just dreadful when someone is mean on the Internet, but I'm not sure who it is the Speaker imagines is going to arrive to testify at the committee. …

There's something almost charmingly innocent about the parliamentarians' indignation about Anonymous's ‘flagrant disregard of our traditions,’ writes Tabatha Southey
Mar 022012
 

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! »
You’re wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn’t rejoice
If you’re calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice.

"A little rhyme that a collaborator of Dr. Seuss made up on how to pronouce Dr. Seuss's name. You're doing it wrong! XD" — +Kimberly Hart

By Margaret Bristol for Bookish Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, wrote more than 60 children’s books, many of which became must-haves for every kid’s library before his death in 1991.
Dec 162011
 

I was shocked when I arrived home last night to see system crash messages on a black console screen having just fsck’d another system following I/O errors after a power outage last night during which I discovered my UPS batteries have depleted. This, after having migrating from the safety net of RAID10 mirroring to the performance of RAID0 striping across my hard drives and installinging/customizing a whole new desktop environment (KDE -> Xfce), was not a pleasant sight. Fortunately, it was just a screensaver. ;-)