Trick or Treat?

I woke up this morning with the vague recollection that someone had mentioned we could possibly have some snow flurries last night, and sure enough, a quick glimpse of the back deck confirmed, that indeed we were having such flurries.  Upon getting to work this morning, I was happy to see that despite it being [...]

Asshat of the Week: Ashley Todd

UPDATE: I’ve been trumped up in content by the sheer poignancy of Wonkette’s musings (and photo) on this matter concerning the former Paultard.  What does this Wonkette think it is, a a collection of professional bloggers or something?! ;-) Also, it looks like this Todd creature has a history of pulling these shenanigans, too.
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Appalachian: an MIT Firefox Extension

The MIT SIMILE Project has developed an interestingly named Firefox extension for managing multiple OpenID nicknames. Appalachian leverages the OpenID authentication solution, and features one-click sign-in, management of multiple nicknamed OpenIDs, and protection against phising attacks.
If you’re using Firefox, you can download the Appalachian extension, and easily get started. There are numerous project resources available, [...]

Well Done: The Republican Test

“Produced for madatoms by USR Content and written and directed by Nathan Bloch, this darkly hilarious video promotes madatoms.com’s edgy, creative and bitingly honest editorial perspective…”
This video was well produced, and has an ending with a creepy twist evocative of 1984 or the interrogation scene in the movie Brazil. My favorite line after the one [...]

The Evil Empire loves Drupal, too!

From the big old What The Fuck department: It seems according to Dries and others, that those repugnant bastiges in Redmond just might be the single largest source of distribution for Drupal now! It’s true- don’t laugh!
Microsoft is now shipping a Web Application Installer, including its filthy IIS web server that apparently bundles several open [...]

Yay! I’ve been invited to…

Got this in my email this evening before packing it in.  The suspense is killing me! What exactly am I (and hundreds of other staff people) invited to do? If anyone has figured out the attachment, secret code, or point of this email, do clue me in!
Perhaps I’ve been invited to stare at the listserv [...]

Django + Google = Jaiku?

Or: “Google is Buying and Hiring All of the Good Python People and Stuff!”
UPDATE: Mr. Holovaty himself weighed in on the entry here - it’s based on misinformation, and he ain’t talking to Google no way, no how, not now, etc. etc. Curse you Valleywag, and your gossiping ways- that’ll be the last time I [...]