What the hell is going on with Sony?
2011-05-05 17:34:08
by Andrew A. Gill

Is anyone else as confused as I am with what's happening with the Sony Playstation network hack?

Raw Democracy : Yesterday Edition
2011-03-13 22:58:00
by Dr. Lola T'Pola

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton railed about crappy news yesterday at a congressional hearing. "Don't you know that Al Jazeera has the best real news anywhere?" (she forgot to mention the Daily Show, maybe because it's technically not news, even though it is, just like the Onion can be about the real-est news if you can reverse-engineer the stories adequately). She pointed out many flaws in American news media: talking heads, no real news, unbelievable, useless, crazy shit. She did not comment on what should be done about it.

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Starky's Machine
5 Least Impressive Claims
2011-03-11 13:37:45
by Thom 'Starky' Stark

Running your mouth without engaging the clutch to your brain may result in laughter and finger-pointing ...

Laughable Technology
IE6 Down for the Count
2011-03-04 17:33:54
by Baron Earl

Microsoft finally admits it: Internet Explorer 6 is a shitty, shitty browser. According to the new Microsoft web site The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown: "Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer 6. And neither should acquaintances. Educate others about moving off of Internet Explorer 6." By educate they mean "move to IE9", but why not give these poor IE6 users a real helping hand, and help move them to Firefox or Chrome?

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Bat Boy -- The Musical
2006-11-06 10:55:06
by Reverend CyberSatan

The mountains are a horrible place to raise cows. No doubt about it. When people try, strange things happen. Like Bat Boy.

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Freaking Out the Normals with Nambla the Clown
2003-06-13 16:55:12
by El Snatcher, Liquor Pig, Mr. Bad & Frankenstein Jones

Raconteur, clown, queer icon and all around weird dude-about-town Ggreg Taylor dropped by the shack to talk about his latest project.

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UK Ministry of Defense redacts classified info by changing background color to black
Reported 2011-04-18 11:40:26
by Baron Earl

The UK Ministry of Defence released classified documents about its nuclear submarines. The documents were requested under the British Freedom of Information Act. Any still-classified information in the documents was supposed to be redacted, except that the government official in charge of releasing the documents didn't grasp that changing the background color to black does not actually remove any of the redacted text. (More...)

Meat Cocktails
Reported 2011-04-08 09:50:50
by Baron Earl

From the Smoked Tomato Martini to the Bacon Mezcal Margarita, bars across Southern California are combining meat and alcohol in the same glass, giving birth to a beautifully bloated abomination, the meat cocktail. (More...)

San Francisco Uber Alles
Reported 2011-04-07 17:58:50
by Baron Earl

On April 12th the San Francisco Entertainment Commission will be considering new rules proposed by the San Francisco Police Department for any event in the city where 100 or more people are expected to gather. Some of proposed rules include mandatory scanning of all patrons by metal detectors, scanning, recording, and storing the personal data from every patron's drivers license, providing that data to local law enforcement upon request (no warrant or crime required), and hiring private security guards for every event (preferably off-duty SFPD officers). (More...)

General Electric: Corporation with Benefits
Reported 2011-03-31 09:45:21
by Baron Earl

GE reported global profits of $14.2 billion with $5.1 billion of the total from U.S. operations. Its American tax bill? LESS THAN ZERO. Based on tax laws which G.E. lobbyists helped to write, G.E. managed to claim a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. (More...)

SF Chronicle finds a new way to keep subscribers
Reported 2011-03-27 18:22:22
by Baron Earl

The San Francisco Chronicle has found a new way to keep their newspaper subscribers from canceling their subscriptions -- they don't provide a "Cancel Subscription" option on the Subscriber Services page. (More...)

Perverted Sex in Marvel Comics?
Reported 2011-03-21 10:19:01
by El Destino

Choice one: unite with earth's Mightiest Heroes to fight the evil-est super villains. Choice two: lurk in a shower to peep on Ms. Marvel as she's soaping up her luscious naked superhero body. (More...)

Oh Hey... LOOK, We Have Comments
Reported 2011-03-18 21:12:01
by JRoyale

Wow... we have comments... I mean the PDJ now allows you, our shithead readers to leave us comments. (More...)

The Bacon Rocket
Reported 2011-03-17 13:08:14
by JRoyale

These blokes attempt to answer the age old question... can you make a rocket out of bacon? (More...)

WWE SMACK DOWN - From the Schoolyard
Reported 2011-03-15 15:13:54
by JRoyale

So I'm generally against all types of violence... but sometimes they just cross the line. And admittedly, I don't have the complete back story here, but honestly, you really don't need more than this video to figure out who's right and who's wrong and who deserved to eat concrete. (More...)

UFO over Brazil causes cameraman to take shaky, out-of-focus pictures
Reported 2011-03-02 22:16:23
by Baron Earl

The damn ay-leens are at it again, using their mind-rays to cause a cameraman to forget everything he knows about operating a video camera -- how to focus, how to hold the camera steady, how to frame his subject. (More...)