Sony’s Rootkit scandal

Two scientists, Aaron Perzanowski and Deirdre Mulligan, have created an extensive report on the Sony-BMG rootkit scandal in 2005. Interesting, [...]

In the section of totally gruesome stuff…

you find this story: Minn. Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill [Associated Press]. I’ve been thinking of eating less meat for a time now – maybe today is the day I make true of my thoughts…
“The working theory from two Mayo Clinic neurologists treating the workers: Exposure to pig brain tissue scattered by the compressed air triggered [...]

Religion is almost always funny

Check out the 9 most badass verses in the bible. Hilariously funny stuff. [via Boing Boing]
(Ok, religion isn’t always funny, having bomb-strapped people running around your kids isn’t very funny. Then again, I would argue it has almost nothing to do with religion…)

carbon dioxide emissions & the people walking to the dead end

I’d hate to be on the board of Daimler-Chrysler right now. They haven’t got much going for them it seems – or, as Treehugger puts it << Nothing says “I don’t care” as a shiny new Mercedes >>…
Check out the graphs at Economist.com [via Treehugger]

Proof: Mac users are more stupid

This has to be definitive proof. The fact that Apple has this supportpage up is surely positive proof….
Apple Support

Really, really bizarre

A poem that appeared in Pakistani children’s english class books had a weird stanza. All the lines’ first letters spelled out “President George W Bush”. We’ll probably never hear exactly how that poem ended up there, but it sure would be interesting…
Talk about screwed
Pakistan deletes ‘pro-Bush’ poem [BBC News]

why do conservatives deny global warming?

A US post, and to some extent valid mostly in the US. However, whenever I meet “denialists” elsewhere, they tend to be die-hard conservatives (ergo, there must be something to it, right?)
Daily Kos (A democrat/liberal blog, quite readable but also very polarized – as the rest of the US political system )

Why DRM sucks

This is the point most DRM opponents are trying to make. Case in point – Major League Baseball.
MLB rips off fans who bought DRMed videos
It’ stories like this that make piratebay so “successful”…