I can only imagine how many FORTRAN shared memory fields were abused to make this happen.

"What If" and "Frozen (Two-Disc Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)". Makes sense. I guess. They are both.... I mean the connection is..... Nope. I got nothing.

Project Bar-B-Q gathers an interesting cast of characters from the interactive audio world every year. The annual reports are full of interesting results from their brainstorming. Which working group report coming out of Bar-B-Q are you the most proud of, and which do you wish had received more attention from the industry?

It's the "Trans PACIFIC Partnership". European politicians are not involved, unless Europe has recently moved.

I just re-serve the CAPTCHAs on my own popular website. Crowdsourcing for the win.

4 years ago, Slashdot ran this exact same story http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/02/0242224/recovering-data-from-noise about Wired running this exact same story: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/all/1

Nearly as cool as Gopherpedia http://gopherpedia.com/gopherpedia.com/

Shouldn't the headline read "... bans all technology made after 1986 from their home."? At first read, I thought they were banning ALL technology from their 28 year old home.

Similarly, the smell of newsprint and the act of folding and unfolding each section is very much tied up in my overall experience of reading the paper. I don't think that any e-reader, no matter the spiffy features, could replace all that.

That's exactly why I hate newspapers - they're so fucking inconvenient. Granted, I grew up with free news online, which beat the hell out of the Philadelphia Inquirer (here is just one extremely bullshitty long-form piece I found on their website in about 2.4 seconds, after wading through the four stories about solid precipitation falling from the sky).

On the other hand, I'd be willing to bet that I read more newspaper articles than you. It's amazing how much you miss by only reading one media source. Efficiency and breadth are much more compelling factors for me.

Microsoft's day is coming (see: decline of the desktop computer, where Windows dominates, and Apple's increasing share of the laptop market), and I agree with you that Microsoft should have fallen earlier, but it wasn't because of a lack of antitrust regulations and government bureaucrats poring over code to make sure it's up to their standards. Face it: if you're going to give people monopolies on their intellectual output (i.e., copyrights and patents), the market will coalesce into a monopoly.

I love the h1'd "My brother is getting married" part. Also, this guy's a terrible HTML coder - he vacillates between using quotes and not, doesn't keep a consistent case in his tags, missed the body end tag, etc., etc.