Does going vegan for the rights of the cute animals affect your ability to make coherent decisions?

According to AP, PETA protested the American Kennel Club by dressing up in KKK outfits. The statement they were trying to make was that there was a connection between dog breeds and racial purity. Can anyone smell the deep pile of dog shit?

Have the AKC ever burned down a house with a family of dogs while the occupants were sleeping? How many pit bull hangings because they consorted with the likes of poodles? Funny, I don't remember the Klan putting on a show where they paraded... Ok you get it.

"Obviously it's an uncomfortable comparison," PETA spokesman Michael McGraw said. But the AKC is trying to create a "master race," he added. "It's a very apt comparison."

WTF?

I can see it now. The master race of Boston Terriers hell bent on the destruction of every impure dog. Short hair, pointy ears or you face the big kennel in the sky.

Are you really fucking serious PETA? When did it become acceptable to degrade and insult people to make a point?

Need more proof that they are just bat shit crazy? Is bat shit vegan? I think it might be.

Watch this.

Apparently Comcast had a slight "programming error" during the Super Bowl in a select Arizona market. Following a touchdown by the Arizona Cardinals, viewers getting the standard definition feed were "treated" to full frontal male nudity from a porn clip being shown at the same time on pay per view. The 30 second Oops! showed a porn star doing some kind of little dance with his junk hanging out.

Just to insult all their viewers' intelligence Comcast has offered a $10 credit to all those effected by the mistake. I guess so they can now go buy the movie on pay per view and see the rest of the action. Personally I think Comcast should win best Super Bowl commercial. It probably did more for their business than a crappy ad by an agency. Go here if you really want to see the clip.

Unless you work in web development you probably have no idea what that title means, but this made me laugh out loud and I'm sure other web geeks will get a kick out of it as well.

If you haven't seen it yet, the White House website was redesigned to usher in the new president, Barack Obama. The design is nice, not overdone, and incorporates many new features including, most notably, a White House blog. However when the web development team flipped the switched on the new website they made a couple mistakes - they nuked the 2,400 line robots.txt file and they failed to implement any redirects for the old pages.

For all the non-web geeks out there, a robots.txt is like a security guard for your website that tells search engines where they can and can not go, what they can and can not include in their indexes. A 301 redirect is like a "We've Moved!" sign on the window of a business, it tells you the new location of that page, but instead of you having to drive across town it will automatically take you there.

Now upon investigation the robots file doesn't include paths to anything super secret, mostly just text versions of regular pages so it's not a huge deal, but they apparently don't care that all the new pages could be indexed by the search engines including useless search results pages. I would say the real blunder here is not redirecting the old pages to alternative or closely matching pages. So that means that every website in the entire internet that linked to any of those pages, approximately 3 million, now has a broken link. Visitors trying to follow those links will be taken to a "Page Not Found" message thereby causing confusion and making them wonder what they may have done wrong to  get to this page. Most of them will not take the time to read the nice little note about the brand new site. They also lose any ranking value those old pages may have held.

Proper 301 redirects are basic elements when it comes web development, something most developers learn in the first year of developing websites, but apparently the new government web team has no regard for the basics. This could have been easily fixed with an archives section and pointing all the old web addresses to the new archives pages. Now they're left having to explain why they nuked the official online record of the George Bush administration.

On a side note do we really need four w's at the beginning of the web address? Pretty sure they could've dropped the "www". Then again this crackpot team couldn't get the other basics right, so the possibility is slim to none.

I really wish this was a joke, some sort of April Fools, but sadly this little diddy is true. I never knew that stubby lashes was such a serious medical condition, a truely debilitating state that warrants millions of dollars in research and time for the FDA to test and approve the drug.

Now granted it was born from something useful, a glaucoma drug, but really it only has one acceptable application. It can be used to help regrow eyelashes for those undergoing chemotherapy. However I can foresee gross misuse of this drug for vanity's sake turning stubby eyelashes into a multimillion dollar business opportunity all because one corporation brought to light a "flaw" that is not really a flaw.

If I was a doctor and a normal, healthy person came into my office asking for this drug I would laugh them out of my office. This is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

So the question begs to be asked, where is the end? When does this ridiculous behavior stop?

This one boggles my mind on multiple levels.

A teacher confiscated discs from a student that contain the Open Source software Linux on them. She then went on to email the HeliOS Project, an organization that builds and distributes Linux-based computers to disadvantaged students, and accuse them of holding students back by their actions. If you haven't read about this you can check it out here and here and read the HeliOS response from Ken Starks on their blog.

I don't know what is scarier this teacher's total ignorance about Open Source, her close mindedness, or her totalitarianistic attitude she is projecting on other people's children. As an educator she should know the dangers in this mindset especially when projected on the impressionable minds of our youth. This kind of blind faith in the establishment with failure to ask questions, seek other possible answers or buck alternative ideologies simply screams religious right.

I especially love this line:

"I along with many others tried Linux during college.."

Like "trying Linux" is some kind of illegal activity done in dorm rooms and frat houses, like smoking weed or excessive drinking. Oh those naive college students and their "gateway" operating systems! Who knows, this might lead to harder Open Source software like GIMP, OpenOffice or even Ubuntu. *gasp* If she ever discovers the Open Source web community we're all going to jail... and then hell.

What this teacher fails to realize is that the Open Source movement spurs innovation and creativity; is driven by the collective knowledge and experience of the community; and inspires capitalistic endeavors. Aren't these more appropriate ideas to be teaching our children than the idea that relying only on monopolistic entities is "the only way"?