Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

We Need the Onion

I very much agree with this piece in Wired - I don't think it's a stretch to say, we need The Onion now. The Onion is that "news" site that never claims full factual status for their stories. Their stories work best when they are just a…

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Geek Trigger Warning

Here we go - this will make the coding nerd that you are, or want to be, drool uncontrollably and live on nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew for the next week. You have been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg The soundtrack is the real stroke of genius,…

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Thoughts & Prayers

Some thoughts on prayers This came out after Fukushima, but it continues to be right time after time... I totally want a t-shirt that says, "Prayer! It's almost like doing something." And the prayers after Pulse are especially offensive: Congressional "prayers" go out on cue,…

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn

LinkedIn Image (c) Asif Islam/Shutterstock//Microsoft Image (c) Pabkov/Shutterstock $26B - about a 50% premium to LinkedIn's market value. Talk about a pre-emptive bid! LinkedIn is basically the Facebook of the business world. And now it will be the property of the default provider of mediocre…

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David F

Pulse

Another hate crime. LGBTQ? Religious? Just vanilla insanity? Does it matter? Enabled by assault weapons, to set a new record. USA! USA! USA! Watch now: politicians from all over the spectrum will distract us from the military-grade weaponry we allow to be marketed to every…

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