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! video. I still pretty much stand … [Read more...] about Battlestar Galactica – The Final Ten
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...] about War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage
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 commercializing their infrastructure to … [Read more...] about Now With Amazon CloudFront
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 when it just kind of went through the motions. Still, the standard … [Read more...] about 24: Tech Review
Greenfield and the Genie
Greenfield sighed. He had been reading the discussion over at Simple Justice about the attorney's ethical role in discussing taking a plea, mainly as a way to avoid getting back to thinking about what he was going to say to his own client about the plea offer; the guy was due in the office at the top of the hour.Damn. Double damn. Damn. It didn't look … [Read more...] about Greenfield and the Genie