• Outsourcing America

    Just came across this stunning video at sourcewatch.org.  It really drives the point home how America is being fucked by the sick fucks in power.  This is just one other aspect of what is happening.  Also read a good article at prwatch.org about why Walmart’s selling organics is totally fucking up organic agriculture for small…

  • Interesting small vacuum cleaners

        Am leaning towards getting an Oreck XL (such as pictured above).  Important features for me: 1) is small and portable (for my studio apt.); 2) has a shoulder strap; 3) has multiple extensions.

  • The successor to the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200

    I had a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200. This was before tablets. Smartphones were still primitive, and people still used Palm Pilots. I remember when color displays in PDA’s were a big thing. But then smartphones came along and PDA’s were all but forgotten. The Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200 was really cool. But it was also a PITA.…

  • Setting up a personal VPN with a Debian Linux server and a Windows (7 or 8) client

    I want to set up my own VPN. As I’ve been on the road a lot I don’t like the fact that web traffic on hotel wifi networks can be viewed by anyone. One can also pay to use a VPN service, but since I already have a high-speed Internet connection at my home and…

  • Experimenting with Canon Image Gateway

    I’ve been eyeing getting a new compact camera since I have a cheapo phone (nice because I don’t care if it gets damaged or lost – let’s face it, a phone is a device that almost by definition gets a lot of wear and tear) and sometimes when I’m traveling I would like to be…

  • Its so creepy

    One part of the Snowden revelations has been totally ignored. Think about this for a minute: What if Edward Snowden had not performed such a remarkable, deeply heroic act? Let’s just conjecture for a minute about the alternate reality in which he had not made the revelations he has made. Here is this guy living…

  • This is waaay too complicated

    I’m fairly technologically literate and so when it comes to something involved, like setting up some complex thing, I can usually piece my way through the process, and have enough troubleshooting skills such that, if something unexpected happens, I can usually diagnose and deal with it. But I’m also very aware that this is not…

  • Days like this, I’m proud of my country

    2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners http://www.pulitzer.org/node/8501 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners – Public Service For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, including the use of stories, editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or other visual material, a gold medal.…

  • The tip of the iceberg

    The US government has admitted to creating a fake company in order to stir political unrest in Cuba. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Much of our society is fake. AT&T and probably other major telecom companies are NSA or CIA fronts. I’m sure a lot of other tech companies are. What if…

  • Sad things I notice in the world

    Last week it was in the news that some people have set up a petition for people to pledge not to donate to Wikipedia because: Wikipedia is widely used and trusted. Unfortunately, much of the information related to holistic approaches to healing is biased, misleading, out-of-date, or just plain wrong. For five years, repeated efforts…

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