Church Of The Geek

I finally made one. I’ve spent enough time laughing at other lolcats already online it was bound to happen sooner or later.

That’s my wife’s favorite cat, Conan, hanging out in an Optimus Prime box.

written by Jay \\ tags: cats, conan, lolcats, transformers

Best thing I’ve seen all day, and yeah it’s still morning:

via BoingBoing

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This post at the loose wire blog showed up in my RSS feeds today, and one quick read was enough to make me consider pulling the plug on my facebook account.

Two major points: Your data and your friends’ data can be used by the third parties that made the facebook apps you install. I’ve done some support for some of the people who develop these applications and that thought doesn’t exactly thrill me.

Here’s the second major item that really bothered me, regarding the handling of private data (and more importantly your friends’ data):

Our data is vulnerable to the weakest link in the chain, which will be a friend we’ve given full access to who installs every third party app there is.

We all know plenty of those…

I’ve never really put out a call for comments on anything before, but I know there’s a fair amount of you who read this site that also use facebook. Please read through it and let me know what you think.

written by Jay \\ tags: facebook, security

CoreComm closing East Lansing call center - Lansing State Journal

Is anyone surprised?

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Missile Command Widget

Anèmona
Screen saver based on the liquidmac app.

Enabling HD Trailers in Front Row
(make sure Front Row has been opened at least once before running the command)

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Warning: If you want to avoid the kind of bowel clearing magnitude one normally finds in South American prisons I highly suggest you avoid eating pizza from the Saginaw/Oakland Little Caesars in Lansing.

Jen, Seth and I are all experiencing… unpleasantness today.

We’ll just leave it at that.

written by Jay

Jason and I have been talking about taking up golf…but I didn’t know he had already…

Click and scroll to number 156

written by Seth

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Read this…since you probably haven’t yet…

Think about what the backlash would have been like if someone white had said those words.

written by Seth

…The simple face of the matter is…people will just use this computer for porn too…thereby creating a new meaning for ‘table dance’…

written by Seth