And a damn funny one, at that.

In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

1. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you’re not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not grown up enough to handle a gun.

Looks like Toshiba is throwing in the HD-DVD towel

I really didn’t care who won, as long as the war ended. Seems that is about to happen. Guess I’m suddenly in the market for a Playstation 3 game system Blu-Ray player.

Of course I’ll probably just be getting all of my HD content from iTunes via AppleTV by then anyway.

How is it that a documentary about the race to top the world record Donkey Kong score can be an edge-of-your-seat thriller? Not sure, but that’s exactly what The King of King: A Fistful of Quarters is. Intense rivalry, disappointment, intrigue, redemption: it’s all there.

Maybe I’ll keep my G9.

P&S Shoot

I could learn to enjoy opera…

When Should You Keep Your Ideas to Yourself? - Marshall Goldsmith

Before speaking to your direct reports:

• Look into the other person’s eyes. Ask yourself, ‘Will my ‘added value’ make this person more – or less – committed to doing a great job?’

• If the answer is ‘less committed’, then ask yourself, ‘Does the value added by my contribution exceed the loss in commitment by this person?’

• If the answer is ‘no’ – don’t comment.

Strobist Preliminaries by Paul Duncan is a nice video intro to doing things the strobist way.

Just a reminder, if anyone’s interested in my version of a linkblog-slash-quoteblog-slash-dumpblog, I post things like that at jackbaty.tumblr.com

Advogato: Blog for apenwarr:

Git was originally not a version control system; it was designed to be the infrastructure so that someone else could build one on top. And they did; nowadays there are more than 100 git-* commands installed along with git. It’s scary and confusing and weird, but what that means is git is a platform. It’s a new set of nouns and verbs that we never had before. Having new nouns and verbs means we can invent entirely new things that we previously couldn’t do.

Another reason why Git is about to become the default SCM system at Fusionary