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Just an observation from the front lines: Cory Doctorow is an alien who has come to devour us and level our buildings with his eye beams.

Check out this press release from Ustream.TV:
For the First Time, Interact with the Real Santa Claus LIVE from The North Pole on Ustream.TV
LOS ALTOS, Calif.–(Business Wire)–For the first time, using the power of LIVE VIDEO broadcasting on the Web, Santa Claus will be interacting LIVE with children and grown-ups around the globe - every night […]

A lot of guys - especially geeks - tend to get frustrated when they try to make women laugh. We (guys, I mean) are usually frustrated by the simple “polite laugh” that women use to brush us off when they see us as uninteresting (something especially true for geeks). Sure, there’s a ton of advice […]

David, a fan of Chris Pirillo Live wrote in asking which one was better: the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. Well …
In order to choose between the two consoles you’ll need to answer a couple of questions.
Gaming Library or Features?
If you’re looking for features over games, then the Playstation 3 is your console - the […]

My father is a manager at a theater on Broadway. He usually goes to work Tuesday through Sunday and only gets off on Mondays. Of course, this is assuming that his theater has a show. You see, working on Broadway is not guaranteed work. Actors might complain about downtime in their schedules, but other people […]

OK, this is a damn cool project from the folks at at Geekbrief.tv: iYule, the iPod-compatible piece of digital holiday cheer.
it’s 30 minutes of an original holiday score by Geoff Smith, with a crackling fireplace video playing, formatted for your widescreen or standard portable device. At $5 for the portable formats, or $7 for a […]

Fair warning: Since I am addressing an article based on opinion, this article, too, will be based on opinion; however, I will give references where able.
JB Williams, in an article carried by the Canada Free Press, describes several reasons why Ron Paul is dangerous to the Republican presidential nomination, the Republican party, as well as […]

OK, this is a head scratcher, and I can’t find any information on it (maybe my Google-Fu just isn’t just to snuff as of late)., but my Desktop icons have suddenly been overlayed with an image of a computer and a padlock. Not replaced - overlayed. The original icons are still there, and I see […]

Remember, remember, the fifth of November …
I wrote about my intentions to vote for Ron Paul, but I wrote them with the idea that I was in a very small, eclectic group of people. Specifically, I thought that the Ron Paul supporters were fewer in number than that of the other lower-tier candidates; however, today […]

It wasn’t too long ago that I really didn’t know too much about Republican candidate Ron Paul. Aside from the constant Digg spam, I knew little to nothing about his politics and, at the same time, I had decided not to vote in this presidential election - the year before I decided to write in […]

I am, for lack of a better phrase, absolutely pissed off at Windows Vista and the Vista team.
I’m having some serious networking issues with Windows Vista - and no, it’s not related to the network performance drop when playing media. Since yesterday, the network connection on this Vista machine has been horrible, at best. Let’s […]

Selling products online isn’t the easiest thing in the world, especially if you plan on going up against giants like Amazon or eBay, but a small group of people discovered a simple method for selling niche products online that completely avoids the big Amazon boulder: sales letters. Instead of building an e-commerce website, smart marketers […]

There are a lot of ways to make money online. Hell, the Internet has basically turned into one big shopping mall. And, just like at the mall, there are a variety of different ways to make money on the Internet, but which ones are the best?

Contracting - you may not realize it, but you have […]

Straight from the “my brain is about to melt from the overwhelming irony” department, The Pirate Bay, the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker, has stated that they have ,a href=”http://thepiratebay.org/blog/86″>filed charges against several media companies for breaking Sewdish law. This news comes after the MediaDefender e-mail leak in which 700MB worth of e-mails were leaked to […]

In news that will surprise nobody after the 700MB of leaked e-mails and recorded phone conversations, MediaDefender-Defenders - a group of, what we are assuming to be, hackers - has released the source code for the internal application used by the RIAA’s attack dog, MediaDefender.
The torrent file, uploaded earlier today, apparently contains the source code […]

As many of you may (or may not) know, Lockergnome allows you to get paid for writing quality content. Of course, the payment comes in the form of a 50/50 AdSense impressions split. Some people - like myself - have found decent success with Lockergnome, while others struggle to break the $100 mark. In an […]

Pissed off? Me? No way!

Sometime late last night I stopped being so damn lazy and got around to fixing the eternal problem of being unable to use any kind of videos on Lockergnome.
Alright, I didn’t fix the problem, per say, but now you can embed YouTube-style videos on Lockergnome and not have your blog break. Here’s how:
In the rich-text […]

An IED - Improvised Explosive Device - isn’t a complicated thing to build. In fact, looking around the place I’m living in now, I can think of about 100 different ways to blow things up. So, I have to ask:
Where the hell are all the IEDs?
Post-9/11 we, as a people, were told that there were […]

I’m fucking stressed. Anyone have any suggestions for relaxing?

Tags: stress, relax

A lot of people who suffer from having bad credit often think to themselves that they’ll never be able to buy some of the better things in life. I, too, though that with my bad credit score I would never be able to buy anything halfway decent that wasn’t already used by someone.
After looking online […]

So, I’m moving from New York City to Seattle (Actually, I’m moving from Muskegon Michigan, spending a couple of days back in my hometown of New York City, and then moving to Seattle). I decided that since this is a damn long trip and I’m not entirely familiar with the Seattle area that an investment […]

Overthrowing a government is a long, difficult, costly, and potentially messy situation. Generally, after a government is overthrown, there is a period of anarchy - which can last years - where the people of the land are hurt more than anyone else. Still, if you’re pissed off at your government and you can see no […]

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting flooded with a bunch of iPhone spam … and the worst part of it is that almost all of it is getting through my Google Mail filter (I use Google Apps to host my e-mail).
So far I’ve received:

From: “ActivateiPhoneRequest”, Subject: “iPhone Charged to Jason. Use This Activation […]

ChexSystems is an association of financial institutions which develop a database of delinquent customers. The purpose of ChexSystems is to help limit fraud and ensure that only financially responsible people can open and maintain a checking account.
Member banks of the ChexSystems network (which compromises roughly 80% of all banks in the United States) report on […]

Payday Loans are short-term, secured loans that use your direct-deposit pay as a security against your debt. Unlike other types of loans, payday loans have an extremely high percentage: in some cases as high as 500%!
If you’re considering a payday loan then there are some things you should know:

In order to obtain a loan you […]

Secured debt, unlike unsecured debt, is a debt which is secured against some collateral (usually a house, although this varies). This means that in the event the debt is not paid back, the collateral can be used by the lender to recover the owed money.
In the case of loans, the item being purchased can usually […]

Unsecured debt is money that is borrowed but not secured against anything, whereas secured debt is secured against something of value. In most cases the collateral for a secured debt is usually the borrower’s house, so in the case of a default the lending institution can sell the house to recover the losses.
There are usually […]

Building a good credit score is not as difficult as it may sound. If you’re just starting off in life, then a good credit score may only be a student credit card away, or if - like me - you have hit some bumps in the road, you just need to follow a few simple […]

Debt Consolidation is a process in which multiple debts (credit cards and loans) are consolidated (or condensed) into one larger loan. Why in the world would you take on another loan when you’re already flooded in debt?
Debt consolidation allows you to:

Organize all of your credit/loan payments into one monthly bill
Lower your monthly payments, sometimes drastically
Pay […]