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Dang. I missed "National Go Topless Day"? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
"National Go Topless Day" was yesterday. Funny, nobody at the office went topless. Given the guys here, that's maybe not a bad thing. But I blame the Patriarchy for the lack of solidarity. Free th...
So tell me about the Surveillance State 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
You don't have anything to worry about if you don't have anything to hide. Right? Wrong. Windy Wilson leaves a very on-point comment to (ahem) a very on-point post here: Katerina Witt, the East Ge...
Earworm 27 Aug 2013 | 05:28 am
Someone in the office was watching a Corporate™ Training™ Video™ today, and someone remarked that the music reminded them of a 1970s porn vid. Me, it reminded me of this, and suddenly I was back in c...
Now that's a CEO who really knows how to move the stock price 27 Aug 2013 | 03:31 am
Steve Ballmer announces resignation as Microsoft's CEO, Microsoft stock price jumps 10%: Note the gap in the Thursday trading record when NASDAQ crashed. No word as to whether this was due to a Blue...
Someone in the German Government seems to be using security as an election issue 26 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
There's an election in Germany next month, and we're suddenly seeing a bunch of stories in the press about American privacy violations. Last week say the German BSI (Federal Security Office) say that...
Do want 26 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Andrew emails this piece of awesome. Man, I so want these. This is pretty cool, too. It's what happens when men decorate.
Damn 26 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
The NSA seems to have enlisted all the secret squirrel types for their surveillance.
J.R.R. Tolkien's children on him and his work 26 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
Via Isegoria comes this: If Gandalf had taken the ring, he would have been worse that Sauron. He would have been righteous. And self-righteous. If you're a Tolkien nut, you should watch this.
"Smart" diplomacy 26 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am
Smart: (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations' New York headquarters, Germany's Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further st...
Meh 25 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. Just not feeling it. There's global warming news, but it's the same old thing. There's a bunch I've been meaning to post about keeping anonymous when you're on...
