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http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1579720.html It seems that Hormel (makers of a fine luncheon meat) lost a trademark battle with a company using “Spam” in their name. Hormel has always been good humored about the use of spam vs. Spam vs. SPAM, including the Monty Python skit, and it’s sad to see stupid companies (like spamarrest, which is also […]

From a Photoshop contest on Fark: Credit goes to farker itsdan.

A lot of people ask me where I get my cables; the answer is almost always Monoprice, unless they don’t happen to have it.

After migrating the home directories on Windows and Mac to network mounts at $dayjob, Word for Mac started behaving badly when someone tried to save a file, giving vague errors about incorrect permissions or file naming. It turns out that Word wants to write temporary data in a folder called “/.TemporaryItems” for each user, and […]

I found this little trick to split a string in bash, so I’m sharing. Maybe it’s obvious to some people, but I don’t do a lot of shell scripting, so it was helpful to me. BASH: Split a string without ‘cut’ or ‘awk’

I just came across this today; it’s great to see someone finally made a GPL PV driver for Windows on Xen. Although it’s highly alpha as of this writing, hopefully the community will rally around it and start patching it into something that’s production quality. I’m using Windows on Xen at $dayjob, and it would […]

I normally don’t post stuff like this online, but this made me really sad, especially since I have a soft spot for cats: “According to veterinarian Patrick Proctor, the PETA people told North Carolina shelters they would try to find the dogs and cats homes. He handed over two adoptable kittens and their mother, only […]