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Twitterlinks for 2010-03-15
15 Mar 2010 No Comments
in General
Get rid of that stupid Slashdot comment section in your RSS feed
12 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Signs of the Horsemen, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: cruft, idiocy, rss, slashdot
Slashdot recently began embedding this ridiculous comment section in their RSS feed. To get rid of it, add this to your favorite ad blocking extension:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*
I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.
links for 2010-03-11
11 Mar 2010 No Comments
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The crap we go through to make machines work.
Galactica: Sabotage
11 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Cool!, Music, Video, Web Tags: awesome, battlestar galactica, beastie boys, bsg, Video
Because it technically hasn’t been everywhere, Galactica: Sabotage:
Wired also talked to the creator, Katie King.
How Times Change
04 Mar 2010 No Comments
in apple, Technology, Uhm... yeah Tags: android, apple, HTC, hypocrisy, iPhone, lawsuit, Microsoft, patents
Steve Jobs, 1996:
Steve Jobs, 2010:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
I love your products, Apple, but it’s hard to continue promoting your stuff when your strategy for a market is to patent-troll everyone else. If you can’t beat Androids on your own, maybe it’s time to innovate. And stop acting like that other huge monopoly; remember how that worked out for them?
The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide
(best headline of the year so far)
links for 2010-02-22
22 Feb 2010 No Comments
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Very interesting site of (fake) anomalies, creatures, and oddities. Like reading the X-files.
The (Second) Happiest Place in the Country
17 Feb 2010 No Comments
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Holland, MI was recently named the 2nd “Happiest Place in the Country”. Technically, they included Grand Haven, but who am I to ignore a golden opportunity like this? I’m not going to get into the methodologies of the survey, the definition of “happy”, or the value of this survey. As a former resident, I feel, however, that it’s my obligation to tell you (yeah, you) it’s unlikely you’ll be happy in Holland. (Full disclosure, I technically grew up in the confines of Zeeland, MI, not Holland itself. However, I spent much of my youth in Holland as it was, believe it or not, “town” for Zeeland kids).
I had started a long, whiny rant, but I’ll just recycle/re-purpose a comment I made somewhere else here as a commentary.
Holland has a special flavor of suck. It’s comprised predominately of middle-aged Internet noobs who think a “funny” username (e.g. HesAKenyanLOL) is cover for any racist, homophobic, fundamentalist bullshit they care to peck out with their ham-sized fingers into the comments section of a news article (see MLive, GR). They’ll invoke Ronald Reagan, the Bible, or Jesus H. Christ himself as they attempt to justify not helping someone because a single representative of that lower caste committed a crime, isn’t Christian, or is a Commie. It’s the land of not just the blatant double standard, but the land of reveling in your own hypocrisy. The area is a breeding ground of Palin-esque ignorance, the variety that smirks at its own stupidity, daring you to stoop to its level.
tldr; Living in Holland is like living inside Idiocracy.