From the BBC — the fine print in the new version of Windows grants Microsoft the right to delete whatever it wants to from your computer, and there’s nothing you can do about it:

Sweet deal.  (Disclosure, umpteenth time: I’m an Apple shareholder.)

Sigh. Too many grown-ups not watching enough cartoons.

In an echo of the kind of paranoia that thought rock music was a communist plot, and which led some people to duct-tape their entire houses against an exaggerated anthrax threat… today, Boston called out the bomb squad to handle the Mooninite invasion.

Which consisted of — prepare to be very, very frightened now — small blinking lights in shape of cartoon characters. AAAAIIIEEEEE!

Jeebus. I mean, I’m as big a coward as there is on the planet, but there’s a bigass billboard of a Mooninite giving people the finger, right down the street from where I’m sitting, over on Pico Boulevard in Venice. And somehow nobody calls Homeland Security.

Is Al-Qaeda really going to attack by decorating its bombs with blinking lights, specifically calling attention to the bomb?

Wow. America really has to start watching Adult Swim. Anybody who doesn’t already faithfully watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force frankly deserves to panic blindly.

UPDATE: While we’re at it, here’s the trailer for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, plus a clip, because I like you and want you to be happy.

I am counting the days.

Laura Bush announced yesterday that the White House has a new pastry chef named Bill Yosses.

Read closely, and you’ll notice Laura’s official release mentions pretty much every credit the guy has… except this one:

Nice to see that at least one person in the White House knows where they’re coming from.

Maybe Laura can talk her husband into hiring the authors of, I dunno, Iraq For Dummies, The Constitution For Dummies, International Law For Dummies, or Paying The Slightest Attention To The Will Of The American People For Dummies.

Hat tip: On Deadline.

Laura Bush announced yesterday that the White House has a new pastry chef named Bill Yosses.

Read closely, and you’ll notice Laura’s official release mentions pretty much every credit the guy has… except this one:

Nice to see that at least one person in the White House knows where they’re coming from.

Maybe Laura can talk her husband into hiring the authors of, I dunno, Iraq For Dummies, The Constitution For Dummies, International Law For Dummies, or Paying The Slightest Attention To The Will Of The American People For Dummies.

Hat tip: On Deadline.

Scientists warn that we’ve got about ten years left to reverse greenhouse gas emissions, or the damage will begin feeding on itself in an irreversible cascade of doom.

Who knew Waterworld would turn out to have been a visionary film? I call first dibs on the Exxon Valdez.