Month: January 2004

  • Proclamation Cold

    It’s cold enough to call it start making the usual proclamations. Why the hell did I move here?! I’m never going outside again! Jesus-God it’s frigging cold! Dammit!

  • Superpower Syndrome

    You really can’t kill very large numbers of people except with a claim to virtue. Robert Jay Lifton on Democracy Now plugging his new book Superpower Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation With The World. Also featured in The Nation.

  • John Stauber from PRWatch.org

    Can I just register the glee that John Stauber must be feeling right now. Years ago he wrote Mad Cow USA which warned of the weak regulations in the beef industry. The book was met with minimal fanfare. But now that his book of revelations has come true he is all over the news. If […]

  • Hoojum's Cubit P4

    Hoojum’s Cubit P4 is the ultimate small form factor computer, finished in gleaming mirror chrome. It has all the functionality of the fastest, most powerful tower PCs, in a sleek, unique and solidly built unit. Warning: You may feel the urge to polish this computer on Sundays. I want one!

  • Mini-Itx PC in an Ammo Box

    A winter project Ron and I are toying with is building a computer together. I think that this is the coolest one – building a PC inside an old Army ammo box. That or a Batman lunchbox.

  • Happy New Year

    It’s Saturday, January 3 [this is a retro-post] in the brand spanking new year. I’m watching that classic holiday favorite Fight Club. Nothing like a little nihilism to put everything into perpective. Thi is one of those films you can just leave on all the time because you’ll always notice something new each time you […]