As you may realize by now, the “Library of Quotations” that used to appear on this site is no more. It had gotten unwieldy and impossible to maintain without a lot more custom programming, which, frankly, is not high on my list of priorities. So, if you’re looking for Dicky Fox, Dickie Fox, Forrest Gump, [...]

Subject: “Aliens Abducted By Michael Jackson” Sometimes, I admit, spammers actually amuse me. (In case you’re wondering, though, the body of the message was incoherent gibberish.)

Details here: Heller gets his gun permit. More coverage: SFGate SCOTUSBlog

I love a good lawsuit connected with history and religion as much as the next person, but I have to say that when the Knights Templar sue the Pope perhaps we’re digging a bit far into religious history for a current complaint. In any case, this one is too far up my alley not to [...]

Ha. You’ll have to click here to see the image. Source: American Elephant.

WordPress now account for 57% of weblog posts, according to the Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown.

Ever send an email without the attachment? You go on and on about what’s in it, then never send the file. I’ve done that. No more; now there’s the Outlook attachment reminder macro. Easy to install, and I just verified it works. Hat tip: lifehacker.

The makers of Airborne, the popular cold remedy, are going to be on the hook for as much as $30 million, after an FTC settlement for another $6.5 million in addition to the $23.5 million settlement of a class action claim earlier in the year. Some people swear by Airborne. Personally, I think it may [...]

The number of Russian-language spams (or at least Cyrillic font) I get has risen dramatically, lately. For a while, I got a lot of Chinese and Korean spams, but now, the Russian stuff reigns supreme, at a bit over 5% of the total. I’m not sure what this signifies. On the one hand, obviously, a [...]

Ouch. Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw has the bad news, thanks to Bob Carroll