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“There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.”
— Ed Howdershelt

I couldn’t agree more.
(Via dive into mark)

I’m on a huge Daring Fireball kick recently, it seems. Gruber’s just got me goin’! This time he quotes an article from USA Today reporting on “minimum 50” grading policies:
Their argument: Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from 60 to 100, but there is a […]

Me: We can drink beers!
Amber: Beer goggles don’t work that way. It won’t make the baseball more interesting.

Found by way of Jenna over at vom dot com, quoting Dan Savage:
When two dudes marry, the marriage-is-between-one-man-and-one-woman brigades crap their collective pants, vomit up ten thousand press releases, and run in circles screaming about all the hurricanes and earthquakes and unattractive haircuts that Our Loving Father™ is gonna rain down on our heads if we […]

Burger King is never a good idea

A: Why do I sometimes think that Burger King is a good idea?
B: Burger King is never a good idea
A: Well, it has now become a part of me.
A: That’s right: they were filming one of their commercials, and the King raped me.

(Via A Prolific Squalor)

A: Oh no! You’re computer’s possessed!
B: What?!
A: Oh wait, no, sorry. That’s a feature.
[In reference to Leopard’s Spaces feature]

Seriously, science says first-borns are smarter:
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 12 (UPI) — First-born children usually are smarter than their siblings, a Dutch study indicates.
A study of 1,000 children whose IQs were monitored from the time they were adolescents until they were 18, suggests that siblings’ IQs are influenced by the order they are born, The Times of London reported.
The study, which […]

Seems that Warner didn’t do too well money-wise this fiscal year. According to an article at Mashable!, it seems they did $5 million in profit out of $869 million in revenue. Seems they’re finally feeling the pinch from going to war against their consumers. As quoted in the article:
The RIAA and the lesser known but similar […]

Universities to Enforce Copyright Protection or Else:

The US House of Representatives has gone a step further in helping the helpless RIAA and MPAA in defending themselves from the monstrous and looming threat of college students with P2P clients. For a while there, I was worried that mom and pop entertainment companies would no longer be able […]

It seems I’m merely relaying some other blog posts, but damn, this one is just too funny. Ihnatko’s humor is spot-on, and I like his analysis of how Leopard is about all the little things bundled together, as opposed to one single “killer app.”
Andy Ihnatko: What’s Leopard Really Worth?
I think the way to sum up the correct […]