I hap­pened to see a movie on cable, Colom­biana, which struck me as being too good for Hol­ly­wood. At the end (before the annoy­ing cable chan­nel adver­tis­ing inter­rupted), I got enough of the cred­its to see the writer’s name: Luc Besson. Well, that explains it.

Seen in a job listing:

Include a copy of your résumé in text, HTML, RTF, or PDF form. If you send a Word doc­u­ment, you will not be con­sid­ered for the position.

There’s either a sports game on TV, or a large group of men is being tor­tured in the house next to mine.

Terra Naomi

I think it would be cool to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Hope­fully not at the point of impact.

Elon Musk

A higher prob­a­bil­ity exists that every mem­ber of your pro­gram­ming team will be attacked and killed by wolves in unre­lated inci­dents on the same night.

Scott Cha­con, Pro Git

I just watched part of a bad alien inva­sion movie which seemed to be about who could die of stu­pid­ity first, the aliens invaders with sur­gi­cally attached rifles (what hap­pens if their weapon mal­func­tions?) or the US Marines who were sure the alien invaders didn’t have air sup­port (I sup­pose they walked to Earth).

Scenes from a Mil­i­ta­rized Amer­ica.

About a thou­sand pro­test­ers showed up at the Vir­ginia state cap­i­tal over the week­end to protest pend­ing anti-abortion leg­is­la­tion. Cour­tesy of Style Weekly, here’s how the Vir­ginia State Police responded:

[The Agi­ta­tor]

The third pic­ture, with the two masked sol­diers (excuse me, “police”) stand­ing in front of an aban­doned sign say­ing “No War on Women” seems par­tic­u­larly appropriate.

Seen on craigslist:

We are look­ing for some­one part time with very neat hand­writ­ing who is able to write quickly but neatly.
We have the let­ter con­tent pre­pared but will require some­one to write many hand writ­ten let­ters on a weekly basis.
Please con­tact me if you might be inter­ested in mak­ing some extra cash, we are look­ing for some­one to start as soon as possible.

If ever a job list­ing cried out for an included mail­ing address, it’s this one.

There’s a video on YouTube of the only hon­est cam­paign adver­tise­ment I’ve ever seen.

Call Encryp­tion App Costs More Than Your iPhone. If you really had rea­son to encrypt your phone calls — or were on the pay­roll of the MI6 –  per­haps a $1,600 yearly sub­scrip­tion to a cell phone call encryp­tion app ser­vice would make sense.

[…]

While the app is free to down­load, both the caller and the receiver have to join the ser­vice that costs sev­eral times more than their phones. [Cult of Mac]

Alter­nately, you could buy Ground­wire for $9.99, and then spend another $24.99 on “ZRTP For Out­go­ing Calls” as an in-app pur­chase if you want to make out­go­ing encrypted calls. Sup­port for incom­ing calls is included in the basic app, and no yearly sub­scrip­tion is required. The price dif­fer­ence is so enor­mous that I can’t imag­ine any legit­i­mate rea­son why any­one would pay for the over­priced option. I there­fore must con­clude that it really is intended only for gov­ern­ment employees.