Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin (interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal)
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A Totally Redundant Web Log -- Random crapola found on the internets...
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
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Tuesday, July 07, 2026
Monday, July 06, 2026
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Church, cult. Cult, church. Big deal! So we get bored somewhere else every Sunday!
-- Bartholomew J. Simpson
Sunday, July 05, 2026
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God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Arab proverb
Saturday, July 04, 2026
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You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums.
-- The Sphinx
Friday, July 03, 2026
Quote of the Day
The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Quote of the Day
Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired, go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
-- Bill Hicks
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Quote of the Day
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Quote of the Day
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H.G. Wells
Monday, June 29, 2026
Quote of the Day
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock