February, 2009

  1. Last.Fm: TechCrunch Are Full of Shit

    Wasn’t it just other day that Michael Arrington was whining about how unfair and mean people were to him? And yet that didn’t stop Erick Schonfeld from running a long story on TechCrunch about a completely baseless rumor that Last.Fm was sharing user data with the RIAA in order to track down people who had…

  2. JLA Trophy Room Green Lantern Rings Prop

    Normally I pass on these DC Direct prop replicas because, despite how cool they are, the prices just don’t justify it for me. This JLA Trophy Room: Green Lantern Rings Prop Replica will definitely be an exception. According to the description at DC Direct, An age-old prophecy foretold the coming of the Blackest Night, and…

  3. David Attenborough on Creationist Critics

    Nice David Attenborough response in The Guardian to the creationists who apparently send him hate mail, Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give “credit” to God, Attenborough added: “They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa…

  4. CFI on Baylor Study of Religiosity in America

    The Center for Inquiry has a press release announcing a new report criticizing the methodology of Baylor University’s ongoing look at levels of religiosity in America, recently published in book form as What Americans Really Believe. The CFI report, available as a PDF download here, makes a fairly persuasive case that the Baylor reports are…

  5. Another Adobe Reader Security Problem

    Adobe notifies the world of a buffer overflow problem affecting all Adobe Reader versions beginning with v7 and on all platforms. But hey, no worries — they’ll get around to fixing it in a few weeks, Adobe is planning to release updates to Adobe Reader and Acrobat to resolve the relevant security issue. Adobe expects…