The AACS LA doesn’t want you to have the number 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2.  They can bite my computer’s shiny metal ass.  [h/t Boing Boing]

Originally a spoonerism I inadvertently used in a business meeting.  Someone proposed a kludgy solution to a problem, and I meant to say that we should use a better, more general approach rather than an ad hoc fix.
od hac /ˈoʊˈdi hæk/, adjective,  improvised for one specific purpose, in a kludgy manner (as an undesirable hack)
Note [...]

Around 1992, I started using the term “reverse defenestration.” I no longer remember whether I’d heard anyone else use that term previously. Example usage: “I reverse defenestrated that PC, and now it is faster and more reliable.” Such an upgrade is most commonly from Windows to Linux or BSD.
reverse defenestration /rɪˈvɜrs [...]

At the D5 conference, Senator John McCain said that the government should not impose net neutrality regulations, but rather let the market solve the problem:
Sen. McCain suggests that there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. Walt notes that the telecom industry is re-aggregating back into “one unified AT&T.”
Sen. McCain says we [...]

The Disgrace of Memorial Day, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll [h/t DoF]

The little red needle is pointing to “E”, and while that always stood for “Excellent” in my book, I think it means we’re out of gas!
— Firesign Theatre: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
I stopped at a gas station. Since it was after 9 PM, the attendant had locked the door [...]

It appears that a retailer has spilled the beans on a soon-to-be-introduced HP 35s calculator. HP had said to expect a new model to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the HP-35, the world’s first handheld scientific calculator. Apparently the 35s and a new 10s will be introduced tomorrow in Monaco.
Compared [...]

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull [...]

A few weeks ago in Sunnyvale, I was stopped at a traffic light on Lawrence Expressway, and slightly ahead of me in the next lane to the right was a small yellow car. It had a giant wind-up key sticking up out of the trunk, which was actually spinning, and the trunk was marked [...]

A few people reported problems caused by the “.d” dependency files created by the dependency analysis hack in the Makefile, so I’ve updated lcdtest to use SCons instead of make.  I’ve also now made RPMs for Fedora Core 6 available (both i386 and x86_64), and submitted a review request to try to get them into [...]