End of Silence

I guess it’s time to move away from phpNuke or at least make sure that I don’t get too far behind on the versions. Some of you may have noticed the banner this morning, but I got hacked last night.
The pinhead who did it got admin access to the phpNuke system, but I don’t think [...]

What’s with Bush and falling off shit? Maybe he needs training wheels.

Amen (via Pandagon).

EDIT: And a dose of reasonable advice and insight from Wes Clark.

For those locals who missed him last night, I just saw that Bruce Sterling will be on TechTV’s The Screen Savers tonight. He flew to San Francisco early this morning after doing the book signing here last night. It airs locally on channel 239 at 6pm, 11pm and again tomorrow morning at 7am.

A: Internet.
(via GasBuddy)
P.S. They’ve even got a little graphic that you can add to your web site. It’s over there somewhere on the left.

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the first day that same-sex marriages were legal in Massachussetts. I hate to resort to clichés, but this picture will save me 1,000 words.

I went to Bruce Sterling’s reading for The Zenith Angle last night at Bookpeople. I haven’t been to very many book signings, but it was a modest turnout, definitely smaller than the Neal Stephenson signing last October. Sterling is in the middle of his largest book tour ever and seemed relieved to be back [...]

It’s a good thing there are college students out there with plenty of time to find and point out cool stuff. The latest is an LA Times article (registration required) which points to a particular section of GW’s website. Do yourself a favor and open each of these in a separate browser window and Alt-Tab [...]

We lost another hackberry tree limb this week during one of the storms. It was a fairly large one the narrowly missed the house. This was, of course, only a week after having branches from the very same tree trimmed back off of the roof. The Wife thinks it was the tree having revenge on [...]

Check out the latest installment of Toddler Chaos. This one is my favorite. The expression is classic LaLa. Woe to all current and future boyfriends, she’s going to be a tough nut to crack.