Crus de Agnus Dei con quilon menthae

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:17:31 GMT

A brief lesson on rhetoric.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:59:34 GMT

Batshit crazy person Bill Donohue:

"Just as African Americans would not tolerate the burning of a cross, and Jews would not tolerate the display of swastikas, Catholics will not tolerate the desecration of the Eucharist."

Pop quiz, for the audience: Which one of these is not like the others? Which one of these does not belong?

Oh, that's right, the desecration of the Eucharist is the one the doesn't fit. And do you know why?

Because Catholics *really did* burn crosses to intimidate blacks, and Catholics *really did* wear swastikas while exterminating Jews - but Catholics *invented* the crime of desecration of the Eucharist in the thirteenth century and *lied* about Jews doing it, as an excuse to exterminate Jews.

Hint to Bill Donohue: when listing crimes to make a point, try not to bring up two ones committed *by you* and one *fake one* that you invented as an excuse for genocide.

Next!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:42 GMT

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:57:42 GMT

Some people have WAY too much time on their hands.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:33:41 GMT

Tetris, as a sed script.

Friday Tradition!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:51:21 GMT

I'm a sucker for foreign-language versions of songs. Anyone who's heard me singing along to "Sie Liebt Dich" knows that.

And so, today, I give you State Of The Union doing VNV Nation.

(9MB MP3)

Abdominal brain!

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:25:48 GMT

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:02:04 GMT

Because poop comics are funny, and language comics are funny.

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:28:01 GMT

Poop plus language = TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER.

Wait, I think that came out wrong.

Much like my poop!

Geek pop quiz: Your favourite web hosting company!

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:19:29 GMT

Okay, everyone, it'a Audience Participation time! I've got some propects in mind, but I want to know who *you* use.

Who do you get your web hosting from, and why should I switch to them?

What I have:
A single domain. Email for about 50 users. A website.

What I require:
POP mailboxes for those users.
Webmail access to the pop boxes for those users.
Unlimited web-configurable-by-me email aliases.
Unlimited web-configurable mailing lists.
Apache/MySQL/PHP support on the web side.
For legal reasons, the email hosting *must* be in either Canada or the USA.
Absolute, 100%, perfect reliability. Forever. In all circumstances. If an asteroid hits the primary datacenter, their backup better switch over before I notice.

What would be nice:
Autoreply addresses.
User-configurable Out Of Office.
CFM support on the web side.
SSL for POP and SMTP
SMTP on a port other than 25.
Real, actual penalties in the contract for not meeting said 100% uptime guarantee. Which will never come into effect, because we will have 100% uptime.
Reasonable prices

What I do not require:
Massive web space or traffic limits. This is a small site - space on a shared cluster is totally okay. It just needs to be *up*, and receiving web traffic and sending and receiving email, all the time.

So. Hook me up with your favourite *perfect reliability* web and email hosting company.

EDIT: Yes, I know "perfect" is impossible. What I really want is "no downtime for stupid reasons". I'd like email to not be DELIBERATELY trashed for nonsensical reasons. I'd like changes to the web server to be done outside of prime business hours, and I'd like them to test them, and I'd like them to revert them if the tests fail.

Internet, find me music!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:48:18 GMT

I want more music that sounds like this. (Das Ich's "Re Animat", for the MP3phobic)

Hook me up?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:07:08 GMT

It makes things so much more clear when you cartoonise it.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:53:39 GMT

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:08:03 GMT

Kliuchevskoi Volcano, Russia.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:56:24 GMT

The Court Jester is one of the world's all-time great films.

It is completely awesome

I would never suggest that you steal a copy, but instead I think that any person who likes adventure movies, swashbuckling movies, funny movies OR musicals should buy a copy immediately.

It Came From The Photobucket Archive!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:59:14 GMT

geekweevil does art!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:48:22 GMT

This picture makes me so happy.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:05:06 GMT

From foto_arxiv.

Everything is better with a ham sandwich.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:38:49 GMT

Discuss!

Wherein I link videos.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:56:40 GMT

McCain warns of hard struggle to come on Iraq/Pakistan border.

In other news, McCain is apparently unaware that Iraq and Pakistan *do not share a border*.

Further, he elaborated on his plan to build a fence along the USA's border with Australia, and chided the Japanese for not agreeing to do the same.

(PS: McCain still doesn't know what the difference is between Sunni and Shia, or which one Iran is. And THAT, I'm not joking about.)

Related,
In an example of homeschooling at its finest, Faux Noose is unable to spell "education".

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:20:08 GMT

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:20:12 GMT

Anyone interested in free ebooks and wallpaper art?

Of the ones available there, I'd highly recommend "Old Man's War" and "Spin". I haven't read any of the others, yet.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:21 GMT

Guess the State!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:02:54 GMT

Cop fired for threatening a Starbucks: Either he gets free coffee, or they get a much slower reponse time to police calls.

West-side, yo!

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:35:09 GMT