This weekend, don’t forget to keep boycotting Talleys.
When most comedians want to be respected as actors, they’ll usually do a dramedy like The Majestic or Punch Drunk Love. Maybe they’ll even do a full drama like One Hour Photo. Jerry Lewis went all out and did a movie about a circus clown who delivers children to the Nazis. It is one of the most infamous unreleased movies in the history of Hollywood.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Absurdly, many publishers ended up producing six different versions of their editorial product: a print publication, a conventional digital replica for Web browsers and proprietary software, a digital replica for landscape viewing on tablets, something that was not quite a digital replica for portrait viewing on tablets, a kind of hack for smart phones, and ordinary HTML pages for their websites. Software development of apps was much harder than publishers had anticipated, because they had hired Web developers who knew technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Publishers were astonished to learn that iPad apps were real, if small, applications, mostly written in a language called Objective C, which no one in their WebDev departments knew. Publishers reacted by outsourcing app development, which was expensive, time-consuming, and unbudgeted.
Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps - Technology Review Interesting article about how publishers bought into the iPad hype and are now backing out again.
But what did concern us was Nikolic’s next action, informing us that `if we didn’t remove the offending story by 5pm Sunday, he would write to the employers of all the individuals who had ‘‘liked’’ the story.’ He continued to list the names, and employers of some 17 people who had dared tick the `like’ button on Facebook.
Tasmanian Times - Looks like Andrew Nikolic doesn’t understand the Streisand Effect.
IF YOU SEE anyone in your neighborhood engaging in any of these suspicious activities, call your local office of the Department of Homeland Security at once […]
Photographing historic buildings. Terrorists often use photographs of historic buildings to blackmail historic figures.
She sent me a gift certificate. […] “I don’t like gift certificates. It’s like you’re giving me an errand to run.
He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home…But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink.
DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego
Trust the police, kids.
Soon he’ll grow a giant moustache and get a good job with the railroad, shooting Chinamen.
Stupid Comics - Archie timetravels back to the “Good Old Days”. The comic is shit, but the commentary on it made me laugh.
Secretive Millionaire MP […] Uppal and his friends want to turn the city centre into a BID: Business Improvement District. […] Of course BIDs are sinister, Orwellian organisations. They take public space, get the law changed and turn it into private space.
It took ten plagues’ worth of divine intervention, but eventually the Israelites did leave Egypt and head back to Palestine—a trip that should have taken them about two weeks, but instead took them forty years, because they refused to stop and ask for directions.
These have been forensically examined by an independent technical expert and no inappropriate imagery has been found,” he said. “However an additional laptop, which was located in the sacristy, was stolen in the period following the 26 March meeting with parents.
BBC News - Father Martin McVeigh in ‘indecent images’ row issues statement
God moves evidence in mysterious ways.
The controversy about a husband having sex with his dead wife came about after a Moroccan cleric spoke about the issue in May 2011. Zamzami Abdul Bari said that marriage remains valid even after death adding that a woman also too had the same right to engage in sex with her dead husband.
Egypt’s women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws: report
Just when I thought I understood religious extremists, they start arguing FOR necrophilia.