Joby Elliott

3 simple steps to stealing an election (and getting away with it)

posted 06/16/2009 in Iran, politics

You want to know why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shouldn't be allowed in power? The man and his cohorts can't even properly steal an election. If you think you're going to lose an election and are planning on rigging it, take note of these three simple steps you can take to not get caught at it like a chump.

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I tweet my vacations

posted 06/10/2009 in Twitter, fearmongering

Today I got an email from a coworker about some guy who speculated to the AP that maybe his house got broken into while he was vacationing because he was using Twitter to yammer about his trip. He apparently ran some sort of video editing business out of his home and the thieves took all his fancy video editing stuff. I would like to postulate the theory that maybe he just got robbed, and Twitter had fuck-all to do with it.

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Bing Travel unveils new header graphics [unimpressive]

posted 06/08/2009 in Microsoft, internet

Color me unimpressed with Microsoft's supposedly-new, supposedly-exciting travel search engine. It's being touted left and right, by some fairly respectable sources (OK, maybe Techcrunch is a hype machine), as somehow interesting. This is a view that I do not share.

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Brick oven at home

posted 06/02/2009 in baking, bread, cooking

I recently came across a post on Boing Boing about one enterprising individual who built a home-brew brick oven for making pizza. A fellow named Steven Leckart over there had the brilliant idea of building a miniature brick oven out of ceramic fire bricks inside his regular oven.

As you may have read before, I am something of an aspiring bread-baker, but have neither the space nor the monies to have my own brick oven. It's actually put something of a rain on my parade in the world of bread, because without that diffuse heat I just can't get the crust as golden as I would like. Thanks, Steven, this could be a world-changer for me!

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9 great Ubuntu wallpapers

posted 05/30/2009 in Ubuntu, wallpaper

Enjoy this handy roundup of 9 of the coolest Ubuntu desktops I could find. Handy, because everyone knows the wallpapers bundled with Ubuntu are terrible.

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