Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder, Microsoft has produced documentation on translating and writing 'leetspeak'.

OMG Th3Y aR3 0nT0 uz N0\/\/!@#$@!@!$$

Microsoft HOWTO: t3W b3 th3 k3wl3zT eV4R!

Okay, so I'm a little twisted but no one was seriously injured in this and basically, it's still awesome footage. I caught it this morning while at work doing routine checks on the cable system and had to do a double-take because it almost looked staged.

W00t! Train Versus Semi video! teh aw3s0M3st eV4r!!@#!

A freaking *8.9* earthquake hit yesterday, causing honest to gosh tsunami to sweep all along the coast for hundreds of miles, wiping out just about everyone in the way. Sunbathers, scuba divers, fisherman, _entire vacation parks with 200+ bungalows_, you name it, it wound up either in the ocean or back out of the ocean yesterday.

News reports are still working their way around to this side of the planet, but expect CNN to be all over this eventually.

See also http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.gif (before it changes) to see some of the biggest shake boxes ever...

God Smites Asians, All At Once, For Not Celebrating Christmas

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The short of it is that it's finally being settled in court that the Wachowski brothers who "made" the Matrix trilogy flat out _stole_ the idea. ...and I don't mean stole as in "heard someone talking about an idea they had and spun it off from there", I mean stole as in "had solicited manuscripts from people with an ad in the paper, told everyone so sorry no deal, and then used one of the manuscripts to make a multi-billion dollar movie trilogy'.

Yes. It's big freaking news. Why does no one know about it? Because AOL/TW is involved with the production of the picture, and it might hurt their bottom line if it was widely known that the plotline and characters were flat out stolen.

On a lighter note, the Matrix Online should prove to be a disaster of monumental proportions.

Evidence of Media Tampering even Idiots can understand

Damn.

Just... damn.

This is rough.

Wreck Kills Officer, Closes Interstate 40

“excess in freedom of speech and freedom of thought.”

This in conjunction with their announcement that they feel they should sue someone in Brazil for stating their opinion about Microsoft's business practices.

Microsoft debuts Grasping Hand of Fascism v1.0

I love it.

BTW, try not to scream when you see how much the other (Morpheus' nose-grabbers, for example) glasses by Blinde Design cost.

Agent Smith sunglasses

If you don't already have reason to vote for anyone other than the incumbent, including any household appliance that might suddenly gain sentience and make a bid for the US presidency, this might help you out.

Anyone but Bush

Even though it would mean I'd probably be out of a job, since the job market is sucking at the moment it doesn't really matter, so I'll recommend this. End users need to stop whining and understand that operating a computer requires that they actually think and read while at the keyboard instead of just clicking on all the shiny buttons. It's never going to be so simple that just anybody can use it, without it being so simple that just anybody can.

Stop Being A Victim

...show your support by printing these out as large as you can and posting them in public places (when no one's watching).

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