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[via BoingBoing] Pirates and Emperors is a funny video in the style of Schoolhouse Rock
that covers the US’ government’s tendencies to cozy up to dictators (including the reason my family left the Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos) and other nasties. |
I was walking back from the Warehouse Grill with Scott Murff when he mentioned the voice-over-IP company Vonage. He used the French pronunciation, “voh-nahzh” instead of the English “vonidge”.
“Dude,” I said. “Vonage a trois!“
“Whoa.”
“We could even get ‘Lawrence’ from Office Space
to be the spokesman. ‘What would I do with internet telephony?
Tell you what I’d do, man…phone two chicks at the same time, man.'”
Just as I’m going to trade in bachelorhood for the married life, there’s a guy on Craigslist who’s ready to do some moving on of his own [Warning: Picture with butt-cheeks — might not be safe for work].
I’m this busy:
…but I’ll post later this evening.
[via UFies.org] Well, I’m sort of American. I’m the direct descendant of an American (my great-grandfather is James O’Hara,
who left Dayton, Ohio for the Philippines after the end of the
Spanish-American War). Therefore, I’m entitled to take the How
F**king American Are You quiz.
Here’s my result: Happy and Horny American.
Wendy could’ve told you that.
For those of you who are into programming, don’t forget that there’s a blog I’m paid to write: The Farm: The Tucows Developers’ Hangout!
[via Eldon Brown] Daniel Handler (whom most of us know by his nom de plume, Lemony Snicket, author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books) has used an accordion as a prop during his reading to comment on America’s actions abroad:
“I think if you’re writing books on an evil, shadowy conspiracy
surrounding innocent people, sooner or later you get to talking about
politics,” he quips.
At a reading the next evening on the Upper West Side packed with
hundreds of screaming kids and their parents, Handler’s politics will
flare obliquely again when he straps on an accordion and says
instructively, “The accordion has been around for hundreds of years,
and hated by thousands of people. Why do we hate things? Sometimes
because of a cruel and inhuman foreign policy.”