So much for thinking at Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly isn't a pussy. She approved the Microsoft settlement. As one lawyer put it, "The judge's opinion said, basically, 'You robbed a bank, you can keep the money, you can do it again, but don't use exactly the same method'." Hopefully the EU won't see it the same way, and perhaps some of the class action suits will give them a kick in the nuts. But considering their stock rose nearly 40 points in one day after the ruling, Microsoft can continue to wield their monopoly and release shoddy software for a long time.

God bless Telecommando for this:

I Pledge Allegiance
To the Flag
That Appears on my Desktop Startup Screen.
And to the Monopoly
For Which it Stands;
One Operating System
Over All,
Inescapable,
With Freedom and Privacy for none.

Someone please give my girlfriend a job so I can buy a Mac. Thank you.

I hope you all voted today. Even if you voted Republican or Libertarian, I'm at least glad you voted.

Any of you here in Chicago that haven't voted yet, be sure to watch the video tape loop explaining how to vote and use the ballot counter. Swear to God, this is a verbatim quote: "We don't want no 'chads' hanging around our city." And I don't want no tax money going toward bad grammar.