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…because if you go just by Wikipedia, Lyndon LaRouche is a serious politician.

Bruce Sterling lays down the funk. 95% of the net is machine generated robbery and gibberish. Spam. Imagine if every time you turned on your TV someone tried to rob you. Or you go to the cinema and all the people are pickpockets.

(Regarding the post below: OK, *usually*. And just to be perfectly clear, this isn’t a 4/1 joke, really.) Blizzard usually does some pretty amusing April Fools’ Jokes, from independently driven two headed ogres, to Pandaren Express shopping carts. This year they posted several joke pages, including an insanely

Not that I ever post much on weekends anyway (gotta have SOME time away from the PC) but I usually avoid posting anything on 4/1. As always, take everything you read today with a hunk of salt. Trivia: my wedding anniversary is on 4/2. And yes, we seriously

Just when you thought the continuing crisis in Washington was being spearheaded by random people named Scott Jennings, things get even weirder: MacDonald confirmed that she also sent the Delta Smelt document [the Delta smelt fish is an endangered species] to an on-line game friend through his father’s e-mail

New Hearts of Iron 2 booster pack that I alluded to earlier is out now. New features (most of which weren’t advertised): * “Stop Sending Me Expeditionary Forces Dammit” button (fixes one of HOI2 Doomsday’s most irksome “features”) * Two fantasy scenarios (eh, I suspect Kaiserreich is probably still better)

Apparently having a pedophile with my name in the news wasn’t good enough, now it turns out that I also have a namesake who works for the Prince of Darkness. In this clip, Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) grills her on a PowerPoint presentation (pdf) given by Karl Rove’s