Borepatch

Sometimes what would be over the top can fit a particular moment.  I would usually write about what the moment meant, but I just did .  The ...

It was early June, 1990, and we were vacationing in Normandy.  We used our base at Bayeaux to go all over the D-Day sites; somewhere I have ...

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day.  Remember the men who waded ashore through machine gun fire to assault the Atlantic Wall. Today...

It's been a year since the Snowden revelations of pervasive NSA monitoring.  The Free Software Foundation is recognizing this anniversar...

He was a bit of an odd bird, as the first 45 seconds or so will show.  But he cooks it.

Even a Sith Lord Emperor can't keep a job. Man, those HR Departments are picky ...

Reviewed with relish : So for those fascinated by Tolkien the artist, the commentary is sheer delight. It also (and perhaps most importan...

Yeah, I know - shocking to find politics in Washington D.C.  But the Democrats used to stick up for the First Amendment; now they're try...

Last Kiss keeps delivering.

It's been a long time since I've made any real changes to this blog, other than minor tweaks around the edges.  However, it's se...

Peter finds a real humdinger of a security post: why is software security so broken? Libpurple was written by people who wanted their ope...

She kills on the piano, too.

Via Chris Lynch , this is pretty interesting.  For example : 13. The owners of the country club were not happy about the explosions on th...

It's why we can't have nice things on the 'Net : This unpatchable hell is a problem with many fathers, from recalcitrant vend...

The baby burned by a flash bang grenade in a 2:00 AM no knock raid raid by the Habersham County Sherrif's department is getting worse, a...

Because you end up with a bunch of dumb-ass laws enforced by, well, by Melba. All the Cool Kids watch Graham Norton, because he does stu...

OK, then : A new opt-in audio recognition program listens to what mobile users are hearing — via TV, radio, etc. — and suggests a status ...

Disabled Americans for Firearms Rights . The only word that describes those who would disarm someone in a wheelchair is, well, evil .  I...

An advert from when I was 6 or 7. The past is another country, foreign in its strangeness.  This is from the same era: This is what ...

They're monitoring the galaxy : To keep us safe from Galactic terrorists, no doubt.