heh-heh-heh

[mixi] アイスな和菓子　和のしずく　季節限定「抹茶あん」が新登場: because aalfonso wants to give her his personal wa-no-shizuku. And can there be anything wrong with ice-cream wrapped in red bean paste wrapped in mochi? No? I thought not.

up late

Looking for mischief, so I must be recovering a little. Apparently it's food-poisoning season, and I drew the short straw. I'll spare the gory details, but there are both gore and details galore. Think Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood," except somatic. Bleh.

Even with this sudden few moments of coherent time on my hands, I will not be able to catch up with the backlog of LJ posts I've accrued over the last three weeks. What do you peeps do when you get behind on your friends-list?

steampunky!

Stephan Halleux (via jwz )

tivo can't say "no" to haxx0ring? oh noes!

TiVo fears new open source license will harm business - Engadget:

As if TiVo honestly needed any more reasons to fear for its life, it looks like the forthcoming version of the General Public License could actually do more "harm to its business." It the firm's most recent regulatory filing, it warned that the third version of the aforementioned license "would prohibit manufacturers of consumer appliances that use open source software from implementing technical measures designed to prevent user modifications," essentially giving the TiVo hackers of the world even fewer hoops to jump through. TiVo fears that if GPLv3 is widely adopted, it may be "unable to incorporate future enhancements to the GNU / Linux operating system into its software," which would obviously affect the outfit in a negative fashion. Notably, Novell has also spoken up about how this latest document could "disrupt its Linux distribution partnership with Microsoft," but unless something major happens rather hastily, the Free Software Foundation reportedly expects GPLv3 to be published sometime this summer.

I'm guessing it's little things like this why Apple standardized on BSD instead of GNU/Linux for OSX. OTOH, it's bogus that TiVo doesn't want people messing with SOMETHING THEY BOUGHT. And it's based off FSS/OSS, the basic spirit of which is "you can do whatever the hell you want with this." I'm surprised that they're surprised.

consider me a born-again fascist; someone should shoot this fucker

Man knew he had TB before flying to Europe - CNN.com: (via super_nyanko )

The man, who is quarantined at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Fulton County health officials had said they "preferred" he not travel, but knew about his plans for an overseas wedding and honeymoon.

how many sizes of "small" are there?

how many sizes of "small" are there?,
originally uploaded by chronovore.

No joke, just out of frame on the left here is Kit-Kat Large, a Snickers-sized candybar. But why do there need to be two small sizes of Kit-Kat?
(xposted to wtf_japan)

i want this now.

The Persistent Illusion Of Reality - Brotherly Love:

As tim_x  says, "Bro, if you're reading this: Threadless.com"