Bill Gates. Teen Beat Magazine. ‘nough said. (via BoingBoing) Turns out, the photos were real, but the attibution was wrong. According to Snopes, they were publicity photos for the release of Microsoft Windows 1.0. The original subject was “Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of […]

Q: How many RIAA lawyers does it take to screw in a light blub? A: We at the RIAA think we will never really know, as we are fairly sure that each lightbulb changed by a home internet user represents a lost lightbulb installation fee, which in turn affects not just the RIAA lawyers but […]

Sarah and I spent our Saturday weeding our book collection. Instead of taking them to the library, or (God forbid) throwing them in the trash, we’ve set up a Bookcrossing account, and we’re now releasing all of our unwanted books into the wild. Here’s how it works: We register our books at bookcrossing.com. When a […]

My wife gave me an early Christmas present, since she thought it would approprite for some of the conversations I’ve been recently been participating online. I’ve been wanted Doug Wilson’s “A Serrated Edge” since Canon Press published it, partly because I’m interested in seeing a defense of humor, and especially irony, but more because my […]

I upgraded our blogging software, and didn’t realize that it broke the ability for y’all to comment. I found out from a reader, and I’ve got the comments working again.

salguod just posted a scan of his register receipt from his local video store. Apparently, in signing the receipt, he agreed to “surrender [his] soul for all eternity to the clerks” at the video store. (via Boing Boing.)

Lawrence Lessig has invited Geoffrey Stone to guest blog until Saturday while he’s away in Italy working on Creative Commons stuff. Geoff is a professor of law at the University of Chicago, and author of “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism“. So far, Geoff […]

“The truth of the gospel leads inexorably to laughter. Those who want to glower as they cling to truth want something that can never be. Whatever it is they have in their hands, it must not be the truth, unless it is perhaps just a fragment of it. The dour Calvinist, the cranky sabbatarian, and […]

While I’ve received over a hundred of the Nigeran Scam emails, today marked a turning point, as I have received my first email in German. I assume it’s one of them, since the format is the same as all the others, and it says “Dollar $9 Million” in the text. I suppose I got on […]

I forgot to mention this! I stopped by the surgeons last week for a followup check to my recent surgery, and I got a clean bill of health. Praise God, the great Healer!

I found out that Cryptome.org has a detailed chart of American soldiers dead in Iraq (when, where, and how). There’s been a lot of talk about removing embedded cameramen from Iraq since Kevin Sites reported and filmed the marine who shot the apparently wounded, unarmed Iraqi. I’ve never heard so much whining about how we […]

Q. Why does a chicken coop have two doors? A. Because if it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.

Sigh… power went out this morning right after we left for church. Didn’t get back home until this evening, which means the system was down for over 12 hours. I reconfigured my server to remember that the system is powered on when it loses power, meaning when the power comes back on, the server will […]