I am being a horrible guest today. In my defense, I’m on a sugar crash from the 853 itty bitty desserts my hosts have fed me.
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
- Kelly Guimont:
My million dollar app idea: What Grows Near Here? Driving by miles of fields and want to know what’s in em.
@verso Sounds like a website that just says “POT.”
- Melody Joy Kramer:
The net with Sandra bullock remains the greatest movie about the Internet that had ever been made. Defend and/or discuss.
@mkramer That position is permanently held by Sneakers.
#ThatAwkwardMomentWhen you realize you have memorized your buddy’s 30+ character Wi-Fi password.
NSA Children’s Books
Reminds me of the official CIA coloring book that’s on sale at Langley.
Might route through Manhattan today on the way to Atlantic City. Anyone around? Attn: Luis Silva, in AC til Tuesday.
Ran into Greer Cheeseman at 8:45 AM. The last time that happened, we loaded a keg of beer on the bus and went to Dartmouth.
Mashups that should not exist
Human Centipede Where’s Waldo is way easier than regular Where’s Waldo
This article is what it says on the tin. No, I’m not crossposting the image.
Which is more dangerous: shaving on train or bus? Train. Any schmuck knows shaving on a bus is impossible, but train is *just maybe OK*.
Train shave tip: have enough time, lest you accidentally turn yourself into Two Face and have to go on a silver dollar-fueled murder spree.
Train shave tip: have enough time, lest you accidentally turn yourself into Two Face and have to go on a silver dollar-fueled murder spree.
Which is more dangerous: shaving on train or bus? Train. Any schmuck knows shaving on a bus is impossible, but train is *just maybe OK*.
So… hitchhiking. That’s one crossed off the bucket list.
Under the PATRIOT Act, ?no comment? and denials don?t mean shit
Under the PATRIOT Act, “no comment” and denials don’t mean shit
There’s an open question going around concerning the companies involved in PRISM data monitoring: that is, did they willingly go along with it, or did the government somehow get their data without their knowledge?
Here’s an example of how it’s running today:
Hours after the news broke, and every company bar PalTalk and AOL denied any knowledge of the program and allegations of their involvement, the Post has changed its stance. The phrase ”participate knowingly” has been removed from the article, a new passage suggests the firms were unaware of PRISM.
Attention, every journalist and analyst trying to read the tea leaves: the PATRIOT Act enables gag orders for cooperating public and private entities, and enforces them with criminal penalties. Which means that all of the above companies may have been asked or forced to provide information, and then required by criminal law to neither reveal it, nor to say one word about it in public today.
If you’ve got sources on deep background, that’s what you should be asking them.
Note to self: “the hell with it, just make the whole box” may result in a metric fuckton of noodles.
- Melody Joy Kramer:
I love this city. Curling up with a book and a mug of tea and doing laundry and enjoying the rain. What a life.
@mkramer DC and Philly are fantastic cities for bouncing back and forth. Both excellent for very different reasons, & both feel like home.
- Marco Tabini:
This feels like as good a time as any to save huge dick pictures in my Dropbox folder and call the file terrorist.jpg.
@mtabini Well, shit, you can do such things, you’re Canadian.
- Jesse A. Myerson:
Raise your hand if the news about Obama’s NSA surprised you. If your hand is now up, use it to punch your own throat again and again. #fail
- Andy Carvin:
Breathing a sigh of relief that JDate wasn’t on the NSA list.
@acarvin Unfortunately, all JDate activity is strictly monitored by The Mothers of Zion.