CBC.ca Arts – Thieves escape with $163M of artwork in 'spectacular' Zurich heist

CBC.ca Arts – Thieves escape with $163M of artwork in ‘spectacular’ Zurich heist A trio of armed and masked men stormed into a gated Zurich villa a half-hour before the facility was set to close on Sunday and forced staffers to the ground during the daylight theft, police said on Monday. Having been to Zurich, […]

In Which I Pull My Junk Out And Slap The P2P Geeks With It

This post over at Torrentfreak.com really pissed me off. So I let fly at all the little assholes who keep claiming peer-to-peer technology is “good” for independent musical artists and labels. And I stand by what I said. Wow, that’s so awesome that p2p is so helpful to minor label artists! I mean, it’s so […]

Alba wows geeks at Oscars' tech fest – Yahoo! News

Cute story about Jessica Alba presenting the technical Oscars. The nerds are totally awesome. “Fluid effects rock and all of us who work in fluids know this,” one honoree, Nafees Bin Zafar, said earnestly. […] “For a computer geek like me, it’s really sexy to hear Jessica talk about stable, semi-Lagrangian fluid flows,” quipped Duncan […]