On CAPTCHAs

Mari is decidedly against the use of CAPTCHAs (short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) on any blog's commenting section. Mari is often the victim of cruel CAPTCHA rulings. It's sort of demeaning to ...

Thank You

...for making Mari's life just a teeny bit easier. Mari is a moderator at Despair. It's pretty easy. Just looking for links and deactivating people if they don't have their links up. Or if there's something wrong with ...

Posties! Rule of Thumb

Mari's been on a little PPP splurge in the last few days, but Mari's really broke (or will be), so Mari sort of has an excuse. Mari has some advice for you, posties. Mari is sure you've heard about how ...

Meteor Showers Tonight!

This year's Perseid meteor shower—which got underway this week—will light up the night for about two weeks, with the event's peak happening late on Sunday, astronomers announced. "It's going to be a great show," Bill Cooke, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight ...

Internet Fighting

No Kung-Fu required. For your third lesson in Internet Stoopidity, we will observe the dynamics of Internet Fighting. You need know no kung fu, but you may need a profanity filter. Our first example of the classic Internet Fight ...