Ungenius

An email from the Perry campaign yesterday about the death of Kim Jong Il repeatedly referred to the late North Korean leader as ‘Kim Jong the Second.’

An everlasting embarrassment for the State of Texas.

The details of the finished project are lacking, but it gave me an idea for my own project. I’m in the process of building a doghouse for my great pyrenees, which is quite a bit more involved than your typical doghouse - Jake is a giant among dogs.

I’m planning to install a similar flexible solar cell on the roof to drive an Arduino with two sensors - a thermister that will tell me how hot or cold it is in his house, and a rangefinder that will tell me whether Jake is currently inside the house - and a Wifi board that’ll connect to my home network and send me occasional notifications about his status. Possibly via twitter.

Not the kind of stories I need to be reading before I hit the ice to work back-to-back games tonight.

From the Statesman:

Perry is drawing $7,698 a month - or $92,376 a year - as a retired state employee. He also is paid about $150,000 a year for being governor.

You have got to be kidding me…

[We will be] pushing empty packages to the archive, so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all users machines when they do a software update.

The impetus for this change is that Oracle discontinued the operating system distribution license that allowed companies like Canonical to distribute their code. Severe security issues have been discovered, and exploited, in the version that Canonical was still able to distribute. Because of the severity of the issues, Canonical decided it is necessary to ensure that the software is removed from any deployed system.

I love that they’re doing this with an empty package.

My ass.

I’ve worked places like this…

Very Slick.

This is what happens when you screw with people and their livelihoods.

Also from Uniwatch today, news that the newly-rebranded Miami Marlins will feature an embroidered logo on their batting helmets.

I don’t know who started this tradition, but the Texas Stars picked it up last year and did it again last month. Short version: I’m a fan.

The BBC:

Never underestimate the power of Whovians