Of all the good things I like about WordPress, the first thing I noticed when I installed it was how little time it took the spambots to find me.  Within minutes of switching dotCULT over to WordPress I recieve the common “refinance your house while playing poker and enlarging your penis” comments.  I’m sure that [...]

In what’s sure to be a landmark case in London, a jury is being asked to decide whether or not poker is a game of skill or chance.  The case stems from the arrest of a club owner accused of illegaly hosting poker games. Under current British law, games of chance are prohibited in a [...]

FEEDBUTTON Have you noticed that the standard RSS links aren’t in my sidebar anymore? Instead they’ve been replaced with the little icon. It’s called FeedButton and it’s a website that I run. Anyway… Today I released some new features for feedbutton. If you click on the button (the one in the sidebar), you’ll notice 2 [...]

Chalk up more bad publicity for the Wii.  First the straps were faulty (nevermind the fact that people couldn’t follow instructions, or hold on to the controller. Then it was the case of Porn on the Wii. Ignoring the fact (as the article I linked mentions) that the Wii actually does a better job of [...]

This quote comes courtesy of Time Magazine, however it was too good to NOT put out there… It’s Dick Cheney talking about “Scooter” Libby, who is on trial for lying to a grand jury. “I believe he’s one of the more honest men I know” If that doesn’t tell you anything about our government, I [...]

Today is Martin Luther King day. Many of you may have not noticed, but to us Detroiters it’s actually a rather big one. (although not big enough that I get today off of work.) Anyway, if you haven’t yet heard MLK’s “I have a Dream” speech, go Listen to it. That website has it in [...]

Those of you that know me know that I’ve been blogging since before blogging was a word. Back then we just called it writing, and not everybody had their own website. Back then only people who had something to say were blogging. Why? It cost more. My first domain name was $35, and that was [...]