While I disagree to San Francisco being “the greatest city in the world” (or even in California for that mater), I will admit it looks pretty sweet in Jello…
Being an innocent bystander and getting accidentally caught during someone else’s 15 minutes of fame, is kinda funny. It’s funnier still when that 15 minutes gets stretched for another minute and a half 10 years later. Luckily, I’m still just as hot now as I was then… here and in Canada. I am everywhere!
Apple’s iPod and iTunes Music Store are the kings of the hill and as such, their critics, competitors and even partners regularly take feeble swings at them both.
For example, in an apparent attempt to mitigate any dissimilarities between the writing quality of mainstream journalists and that of your average teenage blogger, a recent BusinessWeek “article” quoted Chris Gorog, CEO of Napster Inc. and disingenuous corporate whore as saying:
“The villain in the story is the iPod,” “You have this device consumers love, but they’re being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that.”
Yes Chris, people have been bored with that over 300 billion times. Swing and a miss!
Those sounds you’ve been hearing are emanating from the waters under the Golden Gate Bridge and the Ganges River in India. They are the sounds of Jerry Garcia’s laughter and of his ashes turning in the waters.
The laughter would be over the selling off of his toilet for charity. This is comedy to be sure but also very likely to be beneficial to others. But wouldn’t even the honored dead–grateful or otherwise–sicken at the thought of his surviving band-mates overturning the band’s long-standing music sharing ideology for the mere possibility of monitory gain? Follow the story over at the Internet Archive…Google is testing out a new service they’re calling Click-to-Call which offers the following:
Folks on Slashdot seemed really excited about this but… uh… I didn’t get it. This seemed like a really stupid idea to me… but I like to be thorough so I followed a few links, hoping to discover a side to this that made it… well… less stupid. Nope, this is just stupid… but the creepy thing was, everyone else seemed really excited about this too. Now don’t get me wrong–lots and lots of great things began life as a stupid idea. I applaud smart people pushing technologies without obvious usefulness. Technology needs these trailblazers. But I do intend to mock those who seem to think this has the stench of genius–most of which are either in marketing or overeager bloggers desperate to break a story. Excellent work y’all! No, really… top notch.Here’s how it works: When you click the phone icon, you can enter your phone number. Once you click ‘Connect For Free,’ Google calls the number you provided. When you pick up, you hear ringing on the other end as Google connects you to the other party.”
“…gives you a free and fast way to speak directly to the advertiser you found on a Google search results page – over the phone.
Sorry about the headline but since fear tactics work so well on the majority of you, I’ve decided to employ them for the common good. You MUST stop using Internet Explorer! It is insecure, inaccessible and, incontinent. If you are not already using Firefox or Safari or some other browser, please download one of these immediately and show those terrorist bastards that you value a little thing called liberty and stuff! I beg of you… I beseech thee… please with sugar on top… I’ll be your best friend.
Bill O’Reilly may be a disingenuous jackass but sometimes he can be as entertaining to watch as his jackass brethren. Case in point… in response to those upset about him essentially wishing a terrorist attack on San Francisco, he replied:
Now that’s just good clean fun… or perhaps McCarthyism.“I’m glad the smear sites made a big deal out of it. Now we can all know who was with the anti-military internet crowd. We’ll post the names of all who support the smear merchants on billoreilly.com. So check with us.”
Tonight, the 39th Annual CMA Awards will be hosted live from… New York City?. And someday, God willing, there will be a country music radio station there too…
Project 7th Grade is a program that issues parents free at-home drug test kits to use on their children. Testing is targeted at 7th graders in the hopes of preventing drug use rather than treating it. The website lists the benefits of the kits including: “Having a kit in your home fosters two-way communication between a parent and child”.
Debbie Moak, founder of notmykid.org, outlined the program when recently on the MSNBC show The Situation, hosted by Tucker “The Dick” Carlson. The interview is available as a podcast. Interestingly, the Journal of School Health published a study on drug testing in schools [pdf] that reported the following in their conclusion: “The two forms of drug testing that are generally assumed to be most promising for reducing student drug use—random testing applied to all students (and, therefore, also likely applied to those in any extracurricular activities, which may come close to encompassing all students), and testing of athletes—did not produce encouraging results.”. Clearly, somebody here is high…