Awash with Ideas

Historic accord reached in bum-washing bidet toilet UI conventions / Boing Boing

It's the icons, baby!

Wed Jan 18 2017 07:57:00 GMT-0600 (CST)

"everyone is now consigned to their digital masturbatoriums to have their prejudices confirmed and partisan passions inflamed"

**"But there's one Aurelius maxim that I particularly like, though it causes extreme discomfort, damning us all, as most true things do. It could effortlessly solve anyone's anger problem, while simultaneously requiring all the effort in the world:

""Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.""**

Paper bags or plastic bags: which are best? The answer is neither. Unfortunately, reusable bags are no panacea

"Cloth bags are far from perfect. An Environment Agency report this year found that a resusable cloth bag would have to be taken out 131 times to reduce its environmental impact to that of a single-use plastic bag."

Tue Jan 17 2017 09:06:41 GMT-0600 (CST)

Hundreds of thousands of computers are lost or stolen every year. I’m not paranoid for using disk encryption, you’re just foolish if you don’t.

Sun Jan 15 2017 11:33:56 GMT-0600 (CST)

The reason for this: "Unlike years past, when guests paid for drinks, there will be drink tickets" is so they can give free ones as bribes.

Sun Jan 15 2017 10:38:52 GMT-0600 (CST)

TQ White II

Software developer interested in pretty much everything. I've always read a lot, written a lot and argued a lot. I am rarely too strongly interested in common things. I am curious and have strong opinions. I am a hard core liberal.