01/30/08 04:39 - Fail: Antivirus This antivirus fails my "stupid" test by managing match some of the least intuitive and least user-friendly software on the planet. There are a few things wrong in this picture, we'll go down the list. I've highlighted part of it for emphasis. The Real-Time scanner did not stop scanning while the manual scan took place (see background of picture). This means that the real-time scanner found [more]

10/10/07 01:48 - Geek Squad Child Porn No, this isn't what the title suggests (you prevs). As some of you know, I work in the computer repair industry. An interesting article got dugg recently (I'll refer you to the digg article, cause the comments are way more interesting than the article). Look! I managed to integrate both issues into one picture!! Anyhow, apparently the Geek Squad found some child pornography on a customer's [more]

10/09/07 09:30 - Radiohead Sticks It to the Man A pretty big move for such a big-league artist: Radiohead is releasing their next album "In Rainbows" without a record label. That's right. They're releasing it themselves! On October 10th (that's tomorrow at the time of writing this), their album will be available for purchase as either a discbox, or as a download. A huge occasion for the recording industry, as this experiment will hopefully [more]

10/05/07 01:50 - MPAA is at it again! As per usual, the MPAA is doing what they, and the RIAA, do best: Suing people. This time, the head on the chopping block is TorrentSpy, a website that doesn't host, but does link to torrents that include pirated games, music, and - you guessed it- movies! Ironically, part of the case the MPAA is presenting is based on email data that was *stolen* from torrentspy and sold to the MPAA for $15,000! [more]

10/04/07 02:05 - Exciter! Depeche Mode Out Just days ago, Depeche Mode rereleased a remastered version of their latest album, "Exciter." (Along with a few rereleases of other older stuff) Along with the remastered versions of the songs (I'm a fan, but I'm not such a big fan that I can instantly tell any differences), comes an additional DVD of content including bonus tracks, Live versions (ugh, who cares?), but more interestingly, 5.1 [more]

10/04/07 12:39 - Slightly Interesting Launching today - a new column about Things and Stuff! which is aptly titled "Things and Stuff!" Our plan with this new column is to keep you up to date with neato stuff and interesting tidbits without going into too terribly much detail - so that there's always something cool to read. In order not to dilute the rest of the site with this crap, Our standard main page articles will remain on [more]