Lethal Injection's humaneness is a joke.

What is the theme music to NBC's The Office?

I think it would make an excellent ring tone...

The reason we work is to have the money to buy into advanced nipponese culture.

Washlets and Denki Poto and having several thousand and a plumber to spare, oh my!

Rock.

Freaking Awesome:

The next time the NY State Legislature takes forever to do something (which will be next time), consider this: The Idaho Legislature has passed a resolution commending the vision of indie sleeper film Napoleon Dynamite and what it stands for. Seriously. See the resolution here, but here are some highlights of the reasons:

- WHEREAS, the friendship between Napoleon and Pedro has furthered multiethnic relationships

- WHEREAS, Rico and Kip's Tupperware sales and Deb's keychains and glamour shots promote entrepreneurism and self-sufficiency in Idaho's small towns

- WHEREAS, Kip's relationship with LaFawnduh is a tribute to e-commerce and Idaho's technology-driven industry

- WHEREAS, Napoleon's tetherball dexterity emphasizes the importance of physical education in Idaho public schools

- WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote 'Nay' on this concurrent resolution are 'FREAKIN' IDIOTS!' and run the risk of having the 'Worst Day of Their Lives!'

Gothamist wonders if the children of the various legislative members lobbied their parents to put this bill into action. Anyway, Napoleon Dynamite is on DVD. Jon Heder, aka Napoleon (unrecognizable in real life with his fashionably shaggy haircut), was Punk'd - can no one stop Ashton? And while Idaho is great, NYC was voted the best city for indie filmmaking.

[Via waxy and Dan Dickinson

(Via Gothamist.)

We had Fuse on in the background, and noticed a band that sounded a lot like New Order called The Killers.

So after downloading the album Hot Fuss, we looked to see when they were playing around us.

Ticketmistress gave us no information aside from a link to a concert in Scotland this summer.

Of course, it is sold out.

The lineup is most excellent.

Rick James is running for City Council.

Hilarity Ensuing.

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Funniest joke I don't understand today:

Pinky: Was machen wir heute abend?

Brain: Was wir jeden abend machen, wir übernehmen die Weltherrschaft. Aber heute installieren wir nebenbei IBM Workplace!

From the comments here.

Notes on OS X Tiger for geeks:

HFS+ aware rsync, cp & mv commands, so no more mangled resource forks... maybe.

Access Control List (ACL) support - which should be interesting to look at and compare with the acl implementations on xfs, ext3, ntfs & afs. The linux ext3 acl implementation is known to be slow due to the way that acls are stored on the filesystem. The Server page seems to indicate that NTFS acls are supported, which would be quite nice.

The Tiger Server sub pages have not been updated yet, but here are the notable features promised:

Portable Home Directories (dropped from OS X Panther) - which should be equivalent to the Windows Server offline files feature (when it works) that is used for syncing My Documents with a server. Question: Is Apple going to pass this off as a backup mechanism? Will this use rsync?

Postfix mail server with spamassassin & ClamAV (open source antivirus solution) built in. I've already configured several clients with this already using instructions widely available, but there is always the worry of an upcoming apple update screwing it all up. A built in solution should be easier to administer.

The new version of Directory Services supports "NT Domain Services". If this means domain groups are finally going to be supported, this would be a good thing. This along with the NT Migration tool should make it quite easy to migrate clients with NT 4 PDCs to OS X.

Built in Jabber server. Yay! Jabber chat throughout your organization. More importantly, iChat now supports connecting to Jabber servers.

Built in Blog server. I'm not sure which one they are using, maybe wordpress. Regardless, this is a good thing, as hosting your own blog decentralizes the whole blogger/livejournal hosting centralization mess.

Come on people, how about snapshot capabilities in OS X? I want to implement Volume Shadow Copies for backups on Macs...

popemon.

I Hate PalmOS on the Treo650.

It is about as stable as OS 8.5.

It really is that bad. Crashes left and right. Data Corruption.

If palm hadn't implemented backups, I would be quite incensed right now.

Somebody give me a linux treo.

Please.

Also, Caitlin visited last night.

I need more Sake.

Echoes of Science Fiction:

Subvocal Speech Recognition is here.

Harlan Ellison's screenplay for I, Robot, which I reread this evening, mentions the use of miniaturized radios with headphones to play rock music by brazilian aborigines - doubtlessly echoes of a future iTunes advertisement.

For the Record (again) , Dulles Sucks. Getting to the Independence Air terminal is pretty bad, with the strange giant elevated buses between terminals, but the United Express commuter plane terminal takes the cake as nothing more (or is that less) than a converted warehouse, with what passes for concourses as open air hallways of corrugated metal, very chic in a retro third world circa 1970 yet not quite socialist realism somebody please shoot the designer sort of way.