Author: Mark Draughn
TELEVISION DEPT.
Battlestar Galactica – The Final Ten
Battlestar Galactica starts its final run ten-episode tonight. If you haven’t been watching, you probably shouldn’t bother. No matter what the creators said on their Top 10 Things You Need To Know special, you really can’t catch up. Although, if you’d like a quick refresher, you should probably watch the snarky super-fast Catch the Frak Up!… Read more
WAR ON DRUGS DEPT.
War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage
Why do I hate the war on drugs? Radley Balko explains it for me quite nicely in his Culture 11 article, “War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage.” I highly recommend you read it. Read more
OPERATIONS DEPT.
Now With Amazon CloudFront
People used to talk about how Google was going to build a “web-based operating system.” Personally, however, I’m more interested in what Amazon is doing. We all know them as a big retail e-commerce site, but running a site that big requires an incredible amount of web-based infrastructure. For the past few years, they have been… Read more
TELEVISION DEPT.
24: Tech Review
Spoiler Alert: Spoilers for all episodes broadcast so far this season. Well, we’re 4 hours into Jack’s busy day. He’s only killed one person, and it wasn’t anyone important, but other than that, this season isn’t too bad. It has much more of a thriller feel to it this year, especially compared to last season… Read more
BASTARDS DEPT.
The Shanghai Solicitation
(Does that title sound like the title of a Ludlum novel?) While I was busy watching 24, someone sent me the following email at one of my other email addresses at a different domain (redactions mine): Dear <domain-name>: We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in… Read more