Archive for September, 2008

Barack Obama is My New Anti-Christ

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Apparently, there is an e-mail circulating speculating that Barack Obama may be the Anti-Christ. Thank you, Oh Lord. After years of suffering their sanctimony, I finally agree with the Spiritually Correct on one thing…
We’re both going to vote Obama!

Barack Obama will hasten your rapture

Hypocrisy thy name is Libertarian

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

“Hours of interviews in Manassas Park turned up exactly one resident in favor of the bailout, a fellow in a Harvard T-shirt in a big house near the golf course. Richard Bejtlich, 36, who works in computer security for General Electric—its stock jumped dramatically Friday when the government banned short-selling of financial securities—says he’s a [...]

Presentation-Fu (Making Frameworks Suck Less Part 1)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

People ask me all the time how I make such awesome conference talks, so I decided to give you the gory step-by-step. Along the way I’ll even include my top-sekret speaker notes which I never share! It’ll give you an idea of the intense mental preparation it takes to be a top conference speaker in [...]

I CAN HAS BOOKZ?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I got a mysterious package and opened it. No, it wasn’t a unabomb, but some megalulz instead:

I Can Haz Cheezburger?:A LOLcat Colleckshun will be released October 7, but I got a copy in the mail today.

The book is from lulzftw, and is a best-of collection of lolcats—slightly disappointed that there are no lolgeeks.
Mai [...]

Enough games

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Last month, when Obama was way ahead in the polls, a friend asked me if I thought the election would be close this year.
“Of course it’ll be close,” I replied.
“How is that possible that someone like John McCain might win?” He asked incredulously.
“Here is a little history lesson: Thirty years ago news divisions on television [...]

You’ve been hacked!

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Well, Yahoo! Open Hackday has come and gone, and I’m still avoiding telling my Dave Filo story, so I suppose it won’t hurt to mention a fun pre-hackday hack I saw last August.
When the hackday registration page went up, it looked like this:

Notice the sample fields in grey? The one for the URL reads http://jrandomhacker.com/coolproject. [...]