Is anybody else getting really tired of TV shows that start out with some confusing disaster scene, then jump back with a "X hours ago" (or days, or whatever)? The technique was old and busted when Homer used it, can we please come up with something else?

Clarke-Hanlon-Godwin: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence will inevitably be compared to Nazism (inspired by the latest App Store shenanigans).

Tor announces The Gathering Storm, book one of A Memory of Light.

<sigh>....

Earth Hour is this Saturday, so remember everyone, turn everything in your house on! If we all work together, we should be able to "offset" (see what I did there?) whatever the idiots who organized this thing manage to "achieve". (I should be able to equal at least half a dozen CFL weenies' non-output all on my own, what with four computers, two TVs, and an ancient 17-inch CRT monitor just waiting to be switched on.

Remember what "the lights are going out" used to mean? Stand up and be proud of your civilization, and burn that power!

Here's my reworking of the poster:

Amused by the thought of a really bad pun involving arity, I googled "the man who shot liberty valence" to see if it had occurred to anyone before. Imaging my surprise to discover Google's inclusion, without so much as a "Did you mean", of results for the correct spelling! Sticking a + in front of either the phrase or the name made no difference. I infer that Google is now statistically spell-checking phrase searches and refuses to allow users to choose otherwise. Does anyone know different?

Experts say children are a vulnerable group affected by economic crisis. Is it just me or is this possibly the most vacuous headline in the history of journalism?

That's not a hologram, it's a cute chroma key trick.

Peeve of the Day: GMail's "window/tab to front" JavaScript. I hate having my current window changed arbitrarily by apps, especially since it almost always happens while I'm in the middle of something else.