Big Media not only wants to protect their existing rights under copyright law, but they’re constantly pushing to get even more legal protection.  Although they won’t directly admit to it, they’re trying to undermine fair use rights.  Because of the rapid advancement of technology for publishing and communication, copyright law affects the average citizen far [...]

I’ve been receiving 419 (advance fee fraud) email from Nigeria and other countries since 1998, and anyone with the slightest bit of common sense recognizes these emails as scams.  Normally I don’t give them a second thought, but today I was surprised to receive one from someone claiming to be a North Korean citizen who [...]

Maybe she just didn’t think being an astronaut got her enough fame.  If so, she’s got her fifteen minutes now.

My roommate’s girlfriend Claire called, and asked if he was around.  I said that I’d go get him, and she said not to bother as she would drop by in a few minutes.  When she arrived, she asked me to help carrying something in from her car, but it was a pretense to talk privately [...]

Get your children some Kellogg’s Lego Fruit Flavored Snacks.
It must have seemed like a good idea to someone.  Perhaps Baron Bomburst works for Kellogg’s, or vice versa?

I’ve been practicing sleeping for over forty years now, and I thought I’d gotten fairly proficient at it, but last night suggested otherwise.  Here’s the suboptimal way to get a good night’s sleep:

get exhausted during the day
drink way too much water with dinner (but not to this extreme)
go to bed two hours earlier than usual
fall [...]

People do crazy things for love, and apparently NASA astronauts are no exception. On a mailing list, a friend wrote “We’ll never get to Mars at this rate.”
Actually I think we can fund the Mars mission(s) via advertising by making it a “reality” TV show, as well as by government-run gambling.

Phase 1: Lottery [...]

When a few people started calling for the death penalty for spammers, my intial reaction was that it seemed extreme. But the more I’ve had to deal with spam, the more I’ve come around to that point of view. Spammers may not kill any one person, but considering the lost time they cost [...]

On the way to work I saw a car carrier loaded with brand new police cars — black sedans with white doors and roofs. They had the automaker’s window stickers, but no police insignias and no light bars.