Borepatch

Low mileage.  Serious inquiries only. Extra bonus points if you install a WiFi router and set the SSID to "NSA Surveillance Van 117...

The Hurricane stayed to the west out in the gulf and blew past us.  Lots of rain and wind but nothing more.  A neighbor threw a hurricane pa...

Ah, Florida.  It's been a quiet hurricane season so far but September is traditionally the biggest month.  But now we're getting the...

This film is iconic in so many ways - derived from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai , sporting perhaps the greatest cast of any western (without...

Die by the cloud : CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the lar...

What did one DNA strand say to the other DNA strand?  Do these genes make my butt look big?

The CMP is still doing good work.  Here is some news, some of which comes with deadlines. 1911 sales are about to close - they need postmar...

The Catholic Church has more compassion for suicide victims than Science Fiction fandom does .  Guess why this is.  Really, there is Church ...

Why couldn't the string quartet find their conductor?  He was Haydn.

It's said that a song only needs three chords and the truth to be great.    Oliver Anthony has exactly that - along with multiple millio...

At least so far : Despite the hype around criminals using ChatGPT and various other large language models to ease the chore of writing malwa...

Their new Terms Of Service say that they have the right to listen in on your calls and use them to train their AI .  Their execs say that th...

Where do you learn to make ice cream?  At Sundae School. (I actually wonder how many kids would understand this joke today)

The Queen Of The World found this on Facebook.  Posted without comment.  

The Queen Of The World heard this on the radio and liked it.  It's not Country-Pop or Bro-Country of the other nonsense that mostly fill...

Dwight is in Las Vegas for the conference and has the scoop .  I've posted about a couple of these (the Tesla hack and hacking police ra...

Why can't you use "fortnight" as a password? It's two week.  (It's also in every password cracking dictionary ever use...

First a digression: Divemedic has a good post up about how a vulnerability in Tesla cars lets users turn on for-pay features that they have...

This sums up the problem: The reason is that there were no printing presses in ancient and medieval times, so books had to be copied by hand...

Tomorrow is my 65th birthday.  This is somewhat surprising, even if not unexpected - I like to say that 30 was the best 30 years of my life....