My first EVAR blog post using my Wii. It’s rather slow-going, and not for regular use. But it goddamned works, which is pretty great. And the autocomplete in Operawii (Wiipera?) sort of sucks.

So I’ve been using Mighty Mice for maybe a year now, on my Macs. First a corded one, and then of course the Bluetooth one when that came out. And I’ve come to a conclusion. They sort of suck. I liked them at first, but let’s be honest, I liked them because they were new [...]

“I am ready to die,” said Osama Abdi Rahim, dressed head to toe in camouflage and marching around with a loaded rifle. He is 7 years old. This article in the New York Times is about how Somalia and Ethiopia are about to duke it out. The full panoply of tragedy is all there: a [...]

More to make anti-evolutionists cry in their sacramental wine: New insights into the origin of life on Earth from PhysOrg.com In an advance toward understanding the origin of life on Earth, scientists have shown that parts of the Krebs cycle can run in reverse, producing biomolecules that could jump-start life with only sunlight and a [...]

Another anti-homosexual Colorado mega-church pastor comes out of the closet. While he sounds like he has genuinely struggled with his feelings, but jeez, why don’t people take a look at the clue stick as it comes ’round for another whack? Gays are born, are naturally what they are, and it is not a sin. But [...]

Jason at kottke.org is having a Celebrity Mii Contest: make a Mii of some famous celebrity, Miis being the little avatars you can make on your Nintendo Wii, and submit them for judging, limit two per person. So I couldn’t help myself, although I doubt these are terribly original: Celebrity #1 Celebrity #2 Still, I [...]

It’s distressing, being a Mariners fan right now. Ichiro is not happy, so extending his contract may be tough. They just traded away Rafael Soriano, one of the best arms in the league, for The Wrong Ramirez, Horacio: essentially Jarrod Washburn, only younger and more fragile. They got Jose Guillen, which is not bad, as [...]

So once upon a time I made a post declaring that the name “Wii” was a disaster of a name for Nintendo to choose. And I was wrong. I was sort of operating under the assumption that the Wii would be, on the whole, as successful as the Gamecube – that is to say, not [...]

Ya gotta watch this.

Money makes more money. It is known to be true, and yet, people who instinctively understand it don’t appear to realize that it’s a positive feedback loop that results in the richest 10% of the world population owning 85% of the wealth. The richest two percent own half the wealth. 50% of the world population [...]