Horrific video of police brutality

While I want my cell phone to be a phone and not a portable everything device, I have now seen a really good reason to have a video-recording phone:
Tasered UCLA student appears to be of Irani descent, i.e., Muslim (or see the LJ post version)

Mavericks Gripes: Solutions, anyone?

I have found two great annoyances with Mavericks (latest OS X release) in the past 2 days: (1) There is NO. WAY. to get a menu bar item displaying…
Anyone[*] want some pots and pans? :)

Anyone[*] want any pots and pans? We have a whole lot of pots and pans that are perfectly usable, except that they don't work with induction stoves…
I fought the car and ... I won!

My wife's car's passenger side window wouldn't open, and our mechanics determined that it was the window/mirror control switch module (which on a…