I have to take back all the positive thoughts I was having about the second technical support guy. I know I'm annoying, but all I'm doing is cutting and pasting back their words at them and saying "Do you mean to contradict this completely?"

He told me to call support instead, and I told him, no, I like it here where I have a printed record of what you just said.

io9 has added Google accounts to their commenting

The big deal is that the gawker network is making it mandatory for you to use FB, Gmail, or Twitter as an authentication method. They're removing the option you had previously of not tying it to anything. Now you have to use a third party to get in, and be linked to another profile somewhere.

It's not popular with the IO9 posters at least. I have a blank twitter account I'd created to match my IO9 login a long time ago, so I'm just using that, but I have no fucking idea why they want access to my tweets or who I'm following. Fuck them. Also, I'm not tweeting or following anyone, so it won't get them anything.

This doesn't sound good:

Toobin: Health law 'looks like it's going to be struck down'

The Individual Mandate, at least:

CNN's legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin reports that the court's conservative wing appeared skeptical of the Obama administration's arguments in favor of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.

"This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it's going to be struck down," Toobin said on CNN. "All of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong."

"The only conservative justice who looked like he might uphold the law was Chief Justice Roberts who asked hard questions of both sides, all four liberal justices tried as hard as they could to make the arguments in favor of the law, but they were -- they did not meet with their success with their colleagues," Toobin said.

The big deal is that the gawker network is making it mandatory for you to use FB, Gmail, or Twitter as an authentication method. They're removing the option you had previously of not tying it to anything.

I thought that option had gone away a long time ago. When I thought about registering before, it was already asking me to use Facebook or Twitter without giving me a way to set up an account another way. Maybe existing users didn't have to do it?

happy birthday Noah and Grace!

Happy birthday to Noah and Grace!

Allyson, next birthday, we should drag you to Seattle. Clearly.

I SUPPORT THIS PLAN.

It must be noted that San Francisco is closer. But, in general, I fully endorse the Give-Allyson-A-Proper-Damn-Birthday plan.

Happy happy birthday birthday, Noah and Grace!

ION, a whole bunch of awesome and/or weird bookshelves:

Bookshelf Heaven: Awesome "Containers" for Books

But, in general, I fully endorse the Give-Allyson-A-Proper-Damn-Birthday plan.

I really support any plan that reduces spending time with people who make you crazy, even (ESPECIALLY) if those people are your relatives.

Wow, tommy. I am so madly in love with this right here I can't even say.