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Google Plus

If you're dying for a Google+ invitation, don't have one, & know me, lemme know.  But given how little time I have for stuff online lately, don't be expecting any content.  :/

Gerry Rafferty, RIP

 

Why do so many artists have to drink themselves to death?  Maybe Mr. Rafferty would have been better off to have continued being a busker on the London Tube for the rest of his life, but then we never would have heard songs like "Baker Street":

 

Mr. Rafferty made music that actually sounded nice.  I realize that's not the style these days, but I appreciated it then, and I appreciate it now.   Arrivederci, Gerry.  I hope you get where you're going.  

 

Had Dusty Rhodes made it another 17 months...

... he could have heard "The Giants win the pennant!" again.  :)

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(N.b. The Say Hey Kid)

We're losing our place as #1

The U.S. is #1 at paying for a violent criminal society, & working on a good police state. When you're good at something, whadya do? Export it.  :(

Sysadmin appreciation day

I think it was System Administrator Appreciation Day three years ago when I lost my job.  :(  But were I working, I'd be planning on attending local geek beer at a minimum, which I may do anyway.  :)  It's the last Friday in July: this year, that's 31 July 2009, or 2 weeks from tomorrow.  Go hug your sysadmin, if they'll let you, :) and buy them a beer or a new car or something.  Or go point them at the official web site — if they don't know about it, they'll probably be appreciative. :)

Bring me the head of the dinosaur!

The Durham Police have found the head of the decapitated Museum of Life and Science dinosaur.  Excellent.  Now I guess we need a fundraiser to get the dinosaur re-assembled.  [via Barry.] 

Edit: Story at MyNC with picture, and previous story about theft. 

J. G. Ballard, RIP

Author J. G. Ballard has died at the age of 78.

Boilerplate

...why would anybody pay more attention to Facebook's terms of service than to the other contracts we casually accept? Who reads the roughly 17,500-word "terms and conditions" contract governing Apple's iTunes Store before buying a song? Who digests Microsoft's nearly 5,500-word license for Windows Vista before booting up a new PC?

For that matter, how many home buyers read in full the terms of their mortgages before signing stacks of settlement documents?

From "Facebook Backs Into a 'Bill of Rights'" by Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post.

Patrick McGoohan, RIP

Patrick McGoohan, who played in about a billion things other than The Prisoner, died yesterday in southern California. 

I'd had no idea he was actually born a US citizen. 

Rest in peace, you old bastard. If I could cause this post to appear in Albertus (ok, "Village") -- on everyone's web browser in your honor, I probably would. 

Edit -- other posts (if you posted about this, send me your link):

Be seeing you
I Will Skip the Obvious Joke

Watch out for the Watchmen Watchers

I'm not a big comics person, but some friend made me sit down and read Watchmen a long time ago, and I've never regretted it.  So I'm also eagerly awaiting the movie.  But... just because I like the graphic novel doesn't mean I'm above making fun of it.  :) 

[Via vee_eckx.]