Baby, it’s St Urho’s Day! I need all you Midwestern types to dress up as grasshoppers and start drinking right now! “Grasshopper, grasshopper, go from hence to heck!”

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer dictator. Turns out that Basher al-Assad and his wife got their private email hacked by the Supreme Council of the Revolution, Syria’s chief opposition group.  The hack was exposed when Anonymous launched an attack on Syrian government sites and inadvertently exposed the Supreme Council’s back door.  (Big oops, there, […]

Since I got broadband, six or seven years ago, I’ve had it through the local cable monopoly, Comcast.  No one loves Comcast— they’re too big, too slow, too expensive, and have infamously bad customer service (which, however, seems to be improving— when I had trouble last year, they really did their best, for all that […]

Netflix suggested that I would like the anime series Rin, the subtitle of which is Daughters of Mnemosyne.  Very brave of anyone, let alone Japanese, to put a word like “Mnemosyne” in the title. Rin is an immortal who is also a private detective, sharing an office with her girlfriend Mimi, who is also immortal.  […]