Bill Gates, you bastard

Fucking Microsoft removed its photo editor program from Windows 7! Jesus Christ on a Vespa, what sort of company removes functionality from its upgrades?

It doesn't even seem to be the case that they want to sell an extra program; they just tell users to go to the Windows Live Gallery, which apparently has some photo editing capabilities. But (a) I don't want to go to Windows Live Gallery just to edit a damn photo, and (b) from what I've read, WLG doesn't have the same editing features.

So, anybody got recommendations for a free photo editing program? I don't want anything as complicated as GIMP, I just want to be able to crop and resize, do some simple color adjustments (brightness, contrast, etc.), rotate, that sort of thing. What the Microsoft Photo Editor did, in other words.


ETA: After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I've found the kind of simple, idiot-proof program I wanted: Photo!Editor.

something even more unlikely to ever be written

Watching the recent Great Debates from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has made me crave Paul McDermott/Stephen K. Amos slash. Even more after I googled Amos and found out that he's gay.

The 2009 debate, "Money is the Root of All Evil," was wonderful. Paul and Stephen on the same team, yay! And Rich Hall was brilliant. And besides all the great stuff from the comedians, there were three cute young people in the front row wearing t-shirts that said "rigor mortis makes me hard."

(Explanatory clip below for those thinking "What. The. Fuck?")