So, I was reviewing access logs for a server I maintain, and I noticed some incoming links to some of my images from a site I wasn’t familiar with. I did a little investigating and it turned out someone was hotlinking to some of my images.
The image is a simple VMware diagram that is available on the VMware website, but they felt the need to not only rip it from my site, but to link directly to it on my site, costing me additional bandwidth and server load.
So this is …

Fireworks in a microwave, what could possibly go wrong!?

Happy 4th of July!

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via engadget:
We’ve alway known of Apple’s hopes to wean the masses off of their Windows peecees through the elegance of the iPod, but we’re afraid they’ve taken things a bit too far this time. According to Apple, less than one percent of their 5.5G iPod shipments made after September 12th have a little present in the form of the RavMonE.exe virus, which propagates via mass storage devices, and purportedly had infected a PC at the manufacturer where the iPods were produced. Apple has received 25 or so reports of …

This should probably come as no surprise (Hattip consumerist):
The rate of lost or mishandled baggage spiked by nearly 25 percent in August as airlines struggled to handle a surge in checked luggage after authorities banned most liquids and gels from passenger cabins, according to a government report released yesterday.
The airlines had some trouble keeping up before, now with the layoffs and the increased load it can only get worse. I’m thinking they could learn something from UPS and FedEx, they seem to handle a few more packages a day and …

I know it’s not news, but Cracked put together a reenactment on YouTube that’s both funny and deeply disturbing.

And of course, as a friend and I predicted a day or so ago. Mark Foley now claims his perverted IMs are the result of his molestation by a clergyman 40 years ago. Of course Foley won’t elaborate as to the identity of the clergyman or the church but Foley is supposedly Roman Catholic, yay for us… Remember, in this day and age nothing is your fault, there is always someone or …

A horrible scene unfolded today as a Burger King customer was not only refused a proper Western Bacon Cheeseburger, but was also denied service by the Sheriff’s Office to enforce said burger. What is the world coming too??? Burger King 911 Call
911 Operator: What exactly is it you want us to do for you?
Complainant: Send an officer down here, I want them to make my…
911 Operator: Ma’am, we’re not going to go down there and enforce your western bacon cheese burger…
Complainant: What am I supposed to do?
911 Operator: This is …

Instapundit.com:
SELF-DEFENSE IS NOT A RIGHT, according to a U.N. Report. David Hardy has some thoughts. “As might be expected from the source, the concept of ‘right’ is rather ineptly socialist: rights are what you may ask the government to do for you.”

Wait a second, Franklin Roosevelt action figure dressed as Benjamin Franklin??? Clearly the people over at Target are communists, that explains their red logos. I especially love this line from the description:
Talking Action Figure has a 4 min. audio chip allowing it to speak 25 different phrases in the Presidents own Voice!
Wondering how they did that with Benjamin Franklin since audio recording wasn’t invented until the late 1800s… Maybe they went back in time with Bill and Ted, who knows. Not to mention Benjamin Franklin wasn’t a President, I …

Okay, the only way this is going to work is if you create some sort of James Bond villan inspired trap, where you are strapped to a table and the saw cuts you by some force other than your own hand. Stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of… The “meat” of the story:
Deputies say the unidentified man — who recently moved here from out of state and has been dealing with “mental issues” — stumbled into a Mobil station at Northcliffe and Mariner Boulevard at 3:49 a.m.
His left hand was mangled …

A&E has ruined a good thing. The new “cast” of flip-this house is a crew of gangster wannabes.