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This is priceless! My reaction to this cartoon was: ROFLCOPTER! :P Shamelessly stolen from the good folks at User Friendly. Tags: humor, commics, user friendly, webcomic, dmca, copyright, copyfight

It appears that Hollywood managed to strike a deal with hardware makers. They will now be required to down-convert analog output for all the next-gen media such as BluRay. [A]nalog signal must be “down-converted” from the full 1920×1080 lines of … Continue reading →

Thanks to a great tip from consistencies.net. Thanks dude! The problem is that KDE does not like ubuntu’s no-root policy. I don’t like it either, and I feel retarded without a fully fledged root account on the system – so … Continue reading →

Personally I think that the Firefox link ping concept is one of the stupidest things I have seen in browser development lately. Who is going to use it? Let’s face it – it is very unlikely that equivalent feature will … Continue reading →

Today I visited the newly opened University Hall for the first time. Holly crap, that building is huge. The entrance hallway is so big, you almost feel agrophobic walking around in there. Crazy stuff! The only thing I could think … Continue reading →

MPAA Report a Pirate Site Source This is possibly the funniest thing I have seen in a while. Please look closely at the attached screenshot. This is the source I have grabbed from the web form MPAA set up to … Continue reading →

Nicolas Petreley the Editor in Chief of the Linux Journal wrote an interesting editorial rant in the February 06 issue titled “Skim Cream not Scum”. I agree with his point for the most part, but I think some of his … Continue reading →

I have been watching the MyBittorent.com saga unfold in the last few days. As you might or might not know, GoDaddy took down the aforementioned website on Jan 12th. The story immediately hit digg and became the hot topic of … Continue reading →

Glowing Pigs? Pigoons! When I saw the blurbs about the Glowing Pigs from Taiwan, all I could think of were the pigoons from Margaret Artwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. If you haven’t read that book, go get it now. It’s … Continue reading →

Ladies, and gentlemen, it seems that we are in deep dodo. Microsoft now holds a patent for the FAT system. What does it mean for an average consumer? For one, According to Eben Moglen as quoted in EETimes, you can … Continue reading →

Coolest Umbrella EVAR! I found this when browsing Gizmodo – an umbrella with Sting like properties. According to the article, the handle glows blue if the weather forecast suggest that it is going to rain. Wohoo! I want it! Seriously, … Continue reading →

Jack “The Gamer Hater” Tompson (photo courtesy of wikipedia) It seems that Jack Thompson can’t keep his story straight. He was just interviewed by NetJak and he once again seems to have changed his stance on his A Modest Game … Continue reading →

This is not necessarily new anymore but I wanted to comment on this. It seems that we might finally get that patent reform we were asking for. An open patent review program would set up a system on the patent … Continue reading →

Will the other Bill become the new CEO of Microsoft? According to unconfirmed rumors on the interwebs, BigMac may possibly (or may not) be the next CEO of a much despised, evil software company based in Redmond. I think this … Continue reading →

Google has officially strayed of the path of doing no evil. I never been this disappointed in them. Up until now I welcomed every new thing coming from Google with open arms. But DRM is where I draw the line. … Continue reading →

This must be the funniest use of Facebook EVAR! The campus security force got wind of a party by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, then shut it … Continue reading →

Ark as Dargo, originally uploaded by maciakl. This is what happens when you combine boredom and silly putty. Ark and me were screwing around with the stuff and all of a sudden he slapped some of it on his nose … Continue reading →

Terminally Incoherent in Braille It seems that Google decided to spell out it’s logo in braille alphabet to commemorate the birthday of Luis Braille. I found it an interesting idea. Hell, now I know how to read the letters g,o,l … Continue reading →

Google Blog Search Server Crash Earlier I mentioned about the really weird Google Blog Search Error when searching for kmail crashing. I went and reported it to Google via their feedback and support page. Just in case they don’t read … Continue reading →

Fable Fun! I must say that this game sucked me in completely. Over the past few days I did little else than play Fable. One could say that it is one of the more addictive games I have played in … Continue reading →

OMG! I Crashed Google! What the hell happened to my Kmail? This is beyond bizarre! I got to work today, and I pulled up kontact to check the pile of annoying email that doubtlessly accumulated over the long weekend. The … Continue reading →

Happy New Year everyone! Or perhaps I should say Happy Hangover Day seeing how it is the 1st already :P Yesterday morning I got totally unexpected delivery. My new graphics card finally came. I did not expect to get it … Continue reading →

Tracking Numbers in Gmail I got a shipment notification about some ebay order today and my gmail was smart enough to recognize the UPS tracking number, and provide a clickable link to UPS tracking website on the sidebar. Awesome! I … Continue reading →

Old School to the Core Still Life 2 is yet another game I procured lately. School is out so I’m living it up, so to speak :P I don’t have that much time to play during the school year. I’m … Continue reading →

Squad Based Combad in BIA Ark got me Brothers in Arms for Christmas. Unfortunately the game has a little tag saying GeForce MX not supported. :( So until my new graphics card arrives I can’t really play it. Of course … Continue reading →