Speaking of nerds, I recently saw the movie Revolution OS. You know that something has gone wrong with our culture a documentary about Linux, consisting mostly of interviews with aging Nerds - with much the rest being footage from CNN -, is widescreen! Btw, am I the only person who thinks that Richard Stallman's real voice sounds computer generated?

Paul Graham's essay Why Nerds are Unpopular. (via gammatron)
This guy has an uncanny, almost scary, ability to remember what high school was really like. The suburbia-bashing is a little reminiscent, for my tastes, of the environmentalists/socialists who'd like to ban single-family homes and cars and things like that, but a lot of it is dead-on.

The real story of how the Fisher Space Pen was invented.

Looks like Sprint, my former employer, is not immune to scandals these days.

Peter Bagge's Observations from a Reluctant Anti-Warrior.

Paul Victor Novarese has finally sold out and switched to a stylesheet that doesn't just look identical to the default browser styles..

Microsoft kb article about how to make the Paint program deal with file formats other than BMP. Turns out that it relies on Microsoft Office to support the file formats (as a Windows PC without office just doesn't have the capability). And even then you sometimes have to (as I did on the new PC I just got at work) force Paint to open the files for the first time before it will start to recognize them as graphics files.

The city of Tuscaloosa (home of the U. of Alabama, my alma mater) bans outdoor couches.