Ya’ll have a great weekend, and don’t forget to keep your light saber sheathed!

It’s my wife Alison’s birthday today, and to celebrate, she posted her “First Sale” (which wasn’t, but you’ll have to read more to find out why) over at DearAuthor.com [DearAuthor]
Alison tapped me to provide a rip of her appearance on the CBS show “48 Hours” back before they stuck with doing “Crime TV” as a [...]

THE POWER OF 10 is a game show that apparently surveys America and asks contestants to guess what Americans think.
This week, according to a CBS press release, host Drew Carey revealed that:
WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT AMERICANS THIS WEEK ON THE CBS PRIMETIME GAME SHOW “POWER OF 10″
The following was revealed on the POWER OF 10 [...]

Just in case you wanted to own a card that has been in a closet for a long time…

You’ll forgive the yellow line through the image, as it’s part of the image protection for the auction. The actual card is free from blemishes and bathroom stall dirt… we think.
[via Wonkette]

I realize that only several dozen folk read this blog, and it’s not like I’m all “Cutting Edge” tech or anything, but I did manage to post the video I found of the Intelligent Image Resizing (that’s what I called it) a week ago in this post, and lo and behold, it was announced yesterday [...]

It’s been a while since I did a catch up post of links, so here goes:
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This past weekend I attended an “unconference” in Houston called BarCampHouston2 but found I was a bit put off by some of the presenters and the general format. There wasn’t much “there” there. Perhaps others [...]

There are some things that are thought crimes, and there are somethings that might seem to be victimless crimes, such as prostitution.
The laws against these crimes are put in place for the benefit to society. You can argue them, taking either the conservative or the libertarian approach, so having a police officer sit in [...]