January 2012
1 post
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Internet Day of Darkness 1/18/12
Join Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, Twitpic and others in protesting against SOPA/PIPA Internet blacklist bills by staying offline all day tomorrow.
December 2011
2 posts
Protesters Gear Up as SOPA Nears House Debate →
Major companies, websites and everyday protesters are continuing to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as the bill nears its day for debate in the House. Tumblr has joined the fight by creating Fight For the Future, a site which breaks down what it believes to be the three major threats …
I Work For The Internet →
Upload your name and photo of a list of people who love the Internet and don’t want it to be controlled by government or corporations.
November 2011
2 posts
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is...”
– Jay Griffiths (via cultureofresistance)
October 2011
8 posts
Crippled phones
Time to break out the tinfoil hat again. I believe the move toward phones without microSD storage such as the Samsung Nexus S is to push us to store and access all our files on the cloud. This works for the phone manufacturers and the providers, who have eliminated unlimited data and switched to tiered. Now if we have to always use the cloud, we will incur data charges and drain our batteries,...
Flash Player 11 is defective
For some unknown reason, all Flash related content stopped working on my Firefox, which insisted I had an outdated version and needed a newer one. I downloaded and installed version 11, but this did nothing, Firefox still insisting that I had an outdated version. I finally uninstalled 11, rebooted, downloaded and installed 10.3 and now it’s working again.
My warning to users is that...
Keyboard phones getting the shaft?
I’ve noticed, at least with Android, that all the best phones with the high end CPUs, maximum amounts of RAM and best displays, never have a keyboard. The only Androids that are made with keyboards nowadays are made with slow, single-core CPUs, low RAM and low rez, pen tile displays.
This leads me to wonder if the phone manufacturers are trying to steer people away from wanting keyboard...
“The worst kind of tyrant is not the who says, “Heil Hitler” or who...”
– Can’t remember.
An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran...
What’s gone wrong is corporate personhoodÂ. Starting with Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific Railroad in 1896, our nation has gone down a dangerous path that can only end in ruin for We the People. It’s time for all middle class working Americans to take note and demand an end to corporate personhood and lobbyist donations to politicianÂs. We need to get back to the concept of one...
Dolphin Browser
I had to paste in the URL of a shortened URL that forgot its http://. As soon as I pasted it, Dolphin loaded the site it pointed to.
September 2011
19 posts
1 tag
Washington Post →
You may have heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests, now entering their 10th day in New York. Several hundred activists have taken over Zuccotti Park near Wall Street since Sept. 17, and this past Saturday they were joined by over a thousand more.
Learn from the Past
I really wish people would take a little time to glean all the facts. The rumor circulating that Facebook will become a paid site unless members forward the rumor goes back at least a decade to the repeated rumors that Yahoo and AIM would become paid services unless members forwarded the news to all their contacts, or gave their passwords to the senders of the rumor.
It seems like what goes...
Google Speaks Lies With a Forked Tongue
On one hand they talk about the openness of the Android OS and how anyone can make kernels and ROMs based on it. On the other, YouTube actively strips out the sound of any video that happens to have a few seconds of copyrighted audio in it and are always changing their site code to prevent people from downloading videos to their computers!
Ghost Boxes
I’ve watched a lot of YouTube videos of EVPs and ghost boxes. Some of the EVPs recorded on tape or digital recorders sound quite believable; others not so much. The ones made with ghost boxes though, sound like matrixing to me.
A ghost box works by scanning continuously up and down the radio waves and supposedly spirits communicate by using the white noise between the radio stations to...
Fuck you, Iran!
Now that the last two hikers are out of Iran, they have nothing left to use as a bargaining chip against us. We should help the people of Iran overthrow that dirty government and gain their freedom. #fuckiran
Change of Subject: I Spy -- One dad's warning to... →
How to alienate your teenagers
ology.com →
On Saturday September 17, around 1,000 people converged in the financial district in New York City to stage a nationwide “Day of Rage” or rather “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration to protest capitalism and the influence of money on US politics.
Go fuck off and die, Twitter!
What’s the idea going offline and having problems? Problems, outages and imperfections aren’t allowed?
Bottle Bans in Sports Arenas
Why do so many sports arenas nowadays ban bags and water bottles? How can they justify such strict and intrusive measures?
GB update
Installed GB OTA update and rooted. Am now reinstalling all my apps and redoing settings.
OTA Gingerbread update
Just SBFed Droid 2 back to stock Froyo and am now updating the OTA Gingerbread update. After that, must root, then redo accounts and reinstall all apps.
New Tumblr app
Why doesn’t it support landscape mode?
August 2011
31 posts
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My First Map
I just made my first playable UT2004 map in UE. It’s nothing great, but it works. Now maybe I’ll try making something more bold, like a map with two rooms or even a staircase!
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Terra Nova
That looks like a promising show. I hope the dinosaurs are believable looking. I also hope the show is allowed to flourish and not canceled because it’s too expensive to produce.
Z4Root is not a virus
Dear Microsoft Security Essentials:
Z4Root is an APK file, not a virus. Pleaes stop removing it from my computer.
Thank you.
Silver Fang
