The bozos who are claiming credit for the DDoS attack on World of Warcraft right now are also claiming in one tweet to be behind the takedown of Wikipedia, which it feels like they would have led with.

Given that Heinlein’s other late-period obsession was writing stories that explained why old writers should be allowed to have sex with a lot of young women he wasn’t married to, the focusing on the interconnections between his works was a welcome respite.

Only “Job” from his final books in the 1980s was worth reading,…

Attacking NOAA’s independence and credibility is par for the course. See the treatment of the intelligence community, the federal reserve, and a thousand other examples.

This isn’t a guy capable of understanding that what’s good for the country is different — and more important — than what’s good for his ego.

Are there people who didn’t like the colorful iMacs? I was a Windows person at that time, but even I respected the swagger in rolling out something that looked so different than the stupid beige boxes that predominated the home computer world at the time.

And a see through iPhone, which would be hard to imagine, given…

No, the patch they’re using for Classic, 1.12, is after they pulled the original fast mounts in favor of the “better” ones. (I’m still very bitter that I’ll never be able to get the original black ram, as I just didn’t have the gold at the time.)

Murky, the exclusive pet from Blizzcon 2005, is not in the game.

(Somewhat hilariously, these sky-high turnover rates that have analysts predicting automation madness to solve the fast food industry’s retention problem—it’s expensive to constantly recruit and train workers—can alternatively be combatted with relatively simple means: offering your employees a modicum of dignity, a…

OK, everyone, you now know King’s water preferences. Please fill the pitchers at his table at public appearances accordingly.

Get back to me when it’s movie-accurate and contains 38,000 starship crew mini-figs.

Alternately, disable notifications from every app that doesn’t have potential life and death situations.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc., will be there when you have time, but nothing they’re flagging you down for matters. Suddenly, you find your phone a lot less compelling, because you’re not stuck in a feedback…

Appears to be desktop only. Works on Firefox and Chrome.

Spoiling Moon, ignoring Ripley and the other working class stiffs fighting off xenomorphs in the Alien movies.

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They would have resolved the River storyline at some point. (Judging by how Charisma Carpenter’s pregnancy was handled on Angel, probably not well.) And then they would have come up with something new to drive things.

For instance, maybe Mal gets deep in debt, has to take out a big loan from a scary mobster, gets…

The premise could have gone forever, but I don’t know there’s an audience for 100 episodes of “What if Han Solo had a bigger crew? And also, ignore any awkward Confederacy analogs.”

That said, it’s better than Cowboy Bebop, which is treated even more as being a nearly perfect thing when it’s mostly OK.

Hey, is a discounted shower caddy a sandwich?

If “American Splendor” contains enough material for a successful biopic, Richard Montañez’s story does too.

Hey, is a hot dog a sandwich?

Also, let me conduct a 1,000-word interview about how a comedian hates some song from high school.

But did you get the cardboard pirate hat? Honestly, you left out the most important part of the story for some of us.

I was just coming here to post something similar, from the Rancho Cucamonga newspaper. It’s a genuinely great story with the surprising twist that a multinational corporation did the completely right thing by him.

I look forward to an Atkins crow showing up and insisting that the real problem is the cheeseburger’s buns.