[PDF] 'Tchotchkes!!!' Panel 29 is also solid stuff.

I'm sure everyone can use a refresher in this day and age.

Lots of stuff on when to use Core Data and when not to use it.

Goddamn, FDR had an 80% Democratic majority in both houses?!

'MMA is the number one combat sport in today’s world. Over the past sixteen years or so it has not only opened peoples eyes to the realities of which martial art techniques work and which do not, but has also overtook boxing with regards to popularity, excitement, and caliber of fighters.'

This isn't something that hasn't already been said a thousand times, but it is interesting that it is even comes from someone with his perspective. This is a guy that really hesitates to call out traditional martial arts (and often defends some of their techniques, validly and invalidly).

How Oscos were robbed in the seventies and the effects of liquid Seconal.

Seems simple, but I remember being in that quite a few times, and it never occurred to me to do that.

'But, in all the writing and bitching on the topic, everyone seems to be missing the most significant detail of this new system. Everyone always assumes that all DRM will be broken immediately and pirated versions will appear instantly and anti-hacker measures never work. But this system (and I know saying this will immediately get me written off as an idiot, but bear with me) is the one that will finally do a good enough job of holding off pirates. It won't hold them off forever (I think) but it will hold them long enough for the game to get its sales.'

An amazing (non-fiction) story about a fight between junkies selling acid.

'The Rio Rand motel was a depot for cheap Mexican labor in the northern suburbs of Chicago, A room could be had for a hundred and sixty bucks a week, No questions asked.'

It actually takes place not far from where I was born.

It's a big to-do at my work to get a Photoshop license, so maybe this'll work for me.

'The teachings of the Pearls and their Tennessee-based No Greater Joy ministry, which brought in $1.8 million last year in sales of books, DVDs and the like, are widely known and normalized across many conservative Christian churches and home-schooling communities.'

This story really drives home just how much of a Rorschach test the Bible is. Some of it is good, some of it ambiguous, some of it outright fucked up, and people reach for what they want.

'The teachings of the Pearls and their Tennessee-based No Greater Joy ministry, which brought in $1.8 million last year in sales of books, DVDs and the like, are widely known and normalized across many conservative Christian churches and home-schooling communities.'

This story really drives home just how much of a Rorschach test the Bible is. Some of it is good, some of it ambiguous, some of it outright fucked up, and people reach for what they want.

Blog with a lot of rather practical examples.

' The Criterion Collection has just launched a channel on Hulu, on which you can now watch six features in the classic Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman series for free. Currently showing are The Tale of Zatoichi, The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, New Tale of Zatoichi, The Fugitive, On the Road, and Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold.'