Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:23:15 pm
This year for the first time, you can watch the Super Bowl online at NBC Sports. It requires Microsoft Silverlight, and has a neat picture-in-picture feature that lets you switch between different camera views, including an aerial view of the field. The game starts at 6pm ET, so in the meantime ...

Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:44:35 pm
In the past week or so I've noticed the rise of a new spammers' tactic on Twitter, and unfortunately they're using LGF to help them do it. Whoever's running this spam campaign is retweeting my posts about LGF articles and Pages, but changing the URLs to point to spam sites or ...

Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:19:05 am
To kick off the week in grand style, this morning Andrew Breitbart is apoplectic with rage at being exposed: We have UNMODERATED comments. We delete the racist ones that we are notified of. You could have asked, asshole! See: Breitbart.com Commenters Respond to Obama Speech with Deluge of Overt Racism. UPDATE ...

Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:43:26 am
During the last election, it became a running joke at LGF that Ron Paul's odd supporters would spam and skew and vote repeatedly in every Internet poll they could find, trying to boost the Crazy Uncle's apparent popularity. This measure of popularity is completely bogus, of course, because it's trivially easy ...

Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:34:07 pm
After a campaign of incitement and harassment by French Christian extremists (including an archbishop), four people invaded a gallery in Avignon yesterday and attacked Andres Serrano's controversial photograph, "Piss Christ." Civitas, a lobby group that says it aims to re-Christianize France, launched an online petition and mobilised other fundamentalist groups. ...

Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:27:47 am
An international group of researchers has made a fascinating discovery in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia: a previously unknown human-like creature that coexisted with Neanderthals and homo sapiens in Eurasia, and interbred with us. Click to enlarge Video More at Spiegel Online: The Denisovan Code: Researchers Decipher DNA of Mysterious Human Ancestor. ...

Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:36:31 am
Forbes writer Daniel Kennedy has one of the best articles I've seen yet on the Gawker security mess, and Gawker Media's failure to deal with it adequately. Kennedy's piece supplies a lot more detail about the attack than other articles. The data breach was not limited to Gawker's user database; apparently ...

Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:04:33 pm
Here's an open thread for a beautiful Thanksgiving afternoon, with links to some interesting LGF Pages you should check out: Rep. Todd Akin: The Pilgrims Came To America To Flee 'Unbiblical' Socialism In The 1620′s Palin's reckless views on obesity Cyberspace Vulnerabilities It's Pie Day! Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie The changing landscape of online fraud: Long ...

Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:02:57 pm
Running a site like LGF with a custom-designed content management system is a constant process of finding and opening bottlenecks. If you’re lucky, the bottlenecks result from an easily addressed database design problem. Tonight I discovered a bandwidth bottleneck that negatively affected every page served by the hamsters in our web ...

Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:57:01 am
In his feverish rush to smear LGF by any means possible, wingnut hateblogger Ace of Spades makes an accusation. (Amid a whole bunch of outright lies.) I have to say this again: Charles Johnson had a bad reputation, even when he was nominally on the right, for simply stealing other ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:13:01 am
Security guy Bruce Schneier has a cautionary piece at CNN on the rush by many democratic governments around the world to grant new surveillance powers to police forces, often requiring large web services such as Gmail to have “back door” access systems — back doors that are being exploited by ...