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The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid - Instapaper Blog
The FBI seized a blade server installation that included servers for prominent services like Instapaper and Pinboard.
security  lawenforcement  stupid  Web20 
june 2011 by McChris
TorrentFreak: Crazy Video Game DRM Prism, 1980’s Style
A 1980s video-game DRM system required users to view a scrambled code with a prism, and then enter the code in order to continue playing the game.
history  DRM  gaming  stupid 
june 2008 by McChris
QSR Magazine: Taco Bell Helps Oklahoma City Get Fit
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett has announced a partnership with Taco Bell promoting its "fresco menu" for the "Mayor's Challenge" program, which encourages OKC residents to pursue healthy lifestyles.
OKC  stupid  health 
may 2008 by McChris
Syndicate Product Covert HQ: A troublesome bird.
AJ relates how Philadelphia cops harassed her for taking a photo in the Suburban Station concourse – where photography is permitted – and reflects on a beating death that took place at SEPTA headquarters days before.
photography  lawenforcement  Philadelphia  stupid 
march 2008 by McChris
Project Steev: Why Bail Out Those Using Stupid Tactics?
After protesters were arrested blocking a Florida energy plant, Steev notes, "The bond, to bail out 27 white gringos from jail, was $13,500. That could feed about 22 Bolivian families for a year"
activism  stupid  protest  whiteness 
february 2008 by McChris
Harper's: "The Illustrated President" by Scott Horton
President Bush believes his favorite painting shows the struggles of a Methodist evangelical, but Horton digs up its original context and reveals the artist's intent.
magazine  publishing  stupid  evangelical 
january 2008 by McChris
Rolling Stone: How America Lost the War on Drugs
stupid  drugs  lawenforcement  to:read 
december 2007 by McChris
Cinematical: Director Mike Figgis Detained for Threatening to "Shoot a Pilot"
I think it's worth posting this story from the weekend, but I suspect the TSA agent wasn't so stupid as he or she wanted to be a jerk. It was LAX after all.
stupid  homelandsecurity  TV  surveillance 
may 2007 by McChris
Calif. Web site outsources reporting
It's worth pointing out the difference between "outsourcing" and "offshoring" here. Newspapers are outsourcing when they hire a stringer to cover the city council meeting; they're offshoring when they hire writers in India to watch them online.
stupid  globalization  India  journalism  offshoring 
may 2007 by McChris
LAPD attacked journalists and protesters at immigration rallly
It appears the LAPD failed to give the largely Spanish-speaking crowd orders to disperse in Spanish before shooting rubber bullets into a crowd with children present.
immigration  stupid  journalism  lawenforcement 
may 2007 by McChris
Duct Tape Wallet Kits
I guess this twenty-dollar kit is for people who have a hard time sourcing the materials.
stupid  DIY  shopping 
april 2007 by McChris
TechDirt: While The Rest Of You Celebrate Earth Day...
Dell is honoring Earth Day by planting energy-sucking virtual trees in Second Life.
stupid  Dell  environmentalism  SecondLife 
april 2007 by McChris
Edelman's Steve Rubel: Twittiot?
PR maven Steve Rubel admitted on Twitter that his free copies of PC Magazine go right in the trash, leading to a PR brouhaha.
stupid  magazine  publicrelations  Twitter 
april 2007 by McChris
MPAA’s Anti-Piracy Dogs, Great Publicity but Nothing Special
This TorrentFreak post discusses how the MPAA's dogs supposedly trained to sniff out pirated DVDs are in practice useless because many common objects are made of the same polycarbonate plastic.
stupid  surveillance  MPAA  intellectualproperty  DVD 
april 2007 by McChris
500 Reasons I'm Glad I Don't Work in Arizona
Jason MIttell describes the implications of bill that would punish professors from expressing an opinion in the classroom.
education  power  politics  stupid 
february 2007 by McChris
Schneier on Security: Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston
The terrorists have already won.
advertising  streetart  lawenforcement  stupid 
february 2007 by McChris
Man held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare
This story is all over the news media, but I want to chime in and say that to me it's more a case of incompetent law enforcement than any "hoax."
stupid  lawenforcement  advertising  streetart  animation 
february 2007 by McChris
Federal Agency Cleans Up Its Own Wikipedia Entry
What is the National Institute on Drug Abuse smoking? Don't they know people can identify their IP addresses?
wikipedia  drugs  stupid 
january 2007 by McChris
Katrina frozen embryo is a boy named Noah
Oh dear, a team of law-enforcement personnel rescued frozen embryos during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thaw adults suffered and died.
neworleans  disaster  lawenforcement  politics  stupid 
january 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Bush Administration bans estimates of Grand Canyon's age
Thanks to pressure from creationists, administrative rules prevent park personnel from answering questions about the formation of the Canyon or its age.
religion  politics  stupid 
january 2007 by McChris
Daily Show: Lauer-Certified Civil War
The Bush administration waged a semantic battle after NBC News decided to term the conflict in Iraq a "civil war" yesterday.
war  stupid  politics  language 
november 2006 by McChris
AP: Gamers line up for coveted PlayStation 3
"Nine months pregnant, Julie Mosley said she tried to ignore her contractions for the chance to score machines for her family, her daughter's father and her younger brother."
stupid  gaming  hype 
november 2006 by McChris
Joystiq: Girl in Austin not sure about PS3, waits in line for fun
This video is so Austin on so many levels. First, only in Austin do people stand in line just because something seems cool and, secondly, bundle up for 60-degree weather.
austin  stupid  gaming  video 
november 2006 by McChris
Gainesville Sun: Library volunteers just say no to drug testing
A library volunteer says, "This is just a common-sense issue - why are we spending tax money to test 75-year-old grandmothers for marijuana? We should be using that money to buy more books and computers."
stupid  drugs  library  publicpolicy 
november 2006 by McChris
Statesman.com: Austinites wed in middle of Oaxaca rebellion
I had more to say about this stupid article about two Austinites who "tied the knot Tuesday night in Oaxaca city in the midst of an anti-government rebellion." Thanks for the local angle and little information, Statesman!
Oaxaca  Mexico  journalism  stupid 
november 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Weed Makes You Listen to Indie Rock
A new PSA from the ONDCP and the Partnership for Drug-Free America suggests that using marijuana turns kids into wannabe indie fans.
stupid  drugs  indierock  advertising  music 
october 2006 by McChris
Cinematical: Time for Mike Judge to Go Indie
Jette discusses the local success of Mike Judge's film Idiocracy after its distribution was quashed by FOX.
film  business  distribution  stupid 
october 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Two Gallants Speak Out About Houston Incident
Pitchfork posts a follow-up on the police riot friday.
texas  lawenforcement  indierock  stupid 
october 2006 by McChris
HoustonSoReal: Even Rock and Rollers Get the Tazer Treatment in My Hood
On Friday Houston police officers responded to a noise complaint at the indie rock venue Walter's on Washington by charging the stage and tasering members of the band Two Gallant, destroying a vintage upright bass in the process.
stupid  texas  indierock  lawenforcement 
october 2006 by McChris
Professor Teaches Children to Vote Drunkenly
Edward Felten reveals that the memory cards used in Diebold's electronic voting machines can be opened with a standard key often used for hotel mini-bars.
elections  stupid 
september 2006 by McChris
27B Stroke 6: When Hippies Turn to Cyber Terror
In a recent Department of Homeland Security cyberterror simulation, one of the antagonist groups was dubbed "Freedom not Bombs," which sounds suspiciously close to the watch-listed group Food Not Bombs, which distributes vegan food to the hungry.
lawenforcement  security  homelandsecurity  FoodNotBombs  stupid 
august 2006 by McChris
Crooked Timber: PowerPoint Corrupts the Point Absolutely
In lieu of clear written orders, military commanders on the ground are receiving instructions in the form of complex PowerPoint slides. You've got to click through to see this gem.
PowerPoint  war  stupid 
august 2006 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Homeland Security hoopty
David Caruso's Horatio Caine needs to roll in one of these on the next season of "CSI:Miami."
stupid  lawenforcement  transportation  pork  redonkulous 
august 2006 by McChris
Vegas outlaws feeding homeless in parks
Gee, this sure seems like a positive step to take in a desert city with a housing shortage. I guess the homeless are supposed to make money the old-fashioned way, holding up signs along the freeway.
cruel  law  homeless  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
RockStrap
These hip holsters for wireless microphones retail for $199 at Muscian's Friend. I hope I never see an act that uses one.
stupid  music  cheese 
july 2006 by McChris
Personals - Wikia
A wiki-based dating site seems like a phenomenally bad idea. Can a disgruntled ex edit your profile? Will the talk pages be filled with NPOV and source debates?
wiki  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
TechCrunch party list starts mayhem!
A Wiki is probably not the best way to manage a guest list for the hottest nerd party of the year.
wiki  geek  contest  business  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
Israelis Bomb Beirut, Baalbak Again Tank Incursion...
More Juan Cole commentary on Israel's disgusting bombing of civilian targets in Lebanon. He says, "this is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing of the Shiites of southern Lebanon, an assault on an entire civilian population's way of life."
war  islam  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
Global Protests at Indiscriminate Israeli Bombings...
Juan Cole's rundown of news about Israel's attacks on Lebanon.
stupid  war 
july 2006 by McChris
Wired News: MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song
power  myspace  copyright  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
27B Stroke 6: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the Internet
This has been posted everywhere, but if you haven't read it yet, you must. I don't fault senior-citizen senators for not being up on technology developments, but they are responsible for hiring staffers that understand the issues.
networkneutrality  news  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
LiveJournal tells lactating mums to put 'em away | The Register
Lactivists are in an uproar over LJ's banning of breastfeeding icons.
feminism  blog  stupid 
june 2006 by McChris
Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
DeLay's legal fund features a clip of Colbert's interview with Robert Greenwald on its site. Can they really be this dumb?
stupid  satire  TV  texas  politics 
may 2006 by McChris
Laugh Trackers
Excerpt from a recently declassified FBI memo concerning the 1960s skit comedy show "Laugh-In." Frankly, I would be more worried about the Smothers Brothers.
stupid  lawenforcement  TV  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Buzzplant: none more crass
Matt Haughey reveals the lame efforts to get bloggers to promote Flight 93, a movie about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
stupid  business  advertising  film 
april 2006 by McChris
Burnt Orange Nation :: Moderately Disturbing Picture Of The Day
A photo of heerleaders posing with a Bevo fursuit incites indignation from football fans. The commenters clearly have wilder imaginations than I.
austin  utexas  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
UT officials warn students against touching bats
Don't touch the bats!!!
stupid  wildlife  austin  utexas 
april 2006 by McChris
ToiletPaperWorld Store: ToiletPaperWorld
Selling dog food on the Internet wasn't a viable business model, but apparently toilet paper brings in the dot-dinero.
business  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
The Stranger: Bitter Pill
Anti-choice pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for antibiotics because they come from clinics that perform abortions.
stupid  cruel  privacy  power  feminism 
april 2006 by McChris
Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches
Juan Cole debunks the hype around Iran's announcement of making rich uranium. Suggests Bush's saber-rattling is far more dangerous than a potential Iranian bomb.
stupid  war  politics 
april 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: Coffee (TM)
Starbucks has threatened to sue DoubleShot Coffee in my hometown of Tulsa for using the phrase "double shot," which refers to two shots of espresso. Jerks.
starbucks  coffee  power  intellectualproperty  tulsa  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
we've really got a live one on the line
summary of Howard Kaloogian's photographic truthiness.
thereal  politics  lies  war  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
J.C. Penney targets anorexics, bulimics
Stay Free! notes that J.C. Penney's new line "Ana" is slang for "anorexia."
business  clothing  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
'Sandal and ponytail set' cramping Linux adoption?
I don't doubt that the business world is so shallow to make technology decisions based on administrator sartorial style, but don't you want your geeks to be thinking about computers and not their appearance? What does this say about our culture?
opensource  geek  clothing  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
Ticketed for wearing earphones on a bus
Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't move to Orange County. I don't think I saw a bus the whole time I was there.
lawenforcement  stupid  surveillance  power  music 
march 2006 by McChris
Wiki attacks join political warfare - OrlandoSentinel.com
Stupid non-news article revealing that Wikipedia articles on politicians are often sites of edit wars. Is Wikipedia doing a bad job of letting readers know it's an open-content project? Why do these lame stories keep coming out?
wikipedia  wiki  stupid  journalism 
march 2006 by McChris
The FEMA Coloring Book - Wonkette
The graphics look like they could have been made on an Apple ][
FEMA  disaster  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers
AT&T bars soldiers in Iraq from using cheaper prepaid phone cards and engaging in other shenanigans, according to this blog post. Way to support the troops, Ma Bell.
telecom  telephony  war  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
Indymedia, Food Not Bombs on “Terrorist Watch List”
Austin Indymedia reports on a talk given by an FBI officer at UT Law School. I'm not sure how giving food to hungry people is a terrorist act.
power  surveillance  indymedia  lawenforcement  anti-war  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
jill/txt » censorship of research
US academic journals are forbidden to publish research by Iranian nationals, even if they're working in Norway.
academic  power  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris

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