September 2009
56 posts
“My job is so farking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up by first telling...”
– FARK.com: (4608830) Man in a van collecting stories of the recession, living down by the river,comment by McKeesport Beer Baron
Cash for Clunkers: Another Assault on the Working... →
Phil Greenspun as usual asks the obvious questions that the brains at CNBC and CNN Money won’t dare to: wouldn’t replacing old American cars (which break a lot, which generate local sales of locally produced parts, installed by local mechanics) with brand new Japanese and Korean cars (which won’t break for at least 3-5 years from now) actually hurt us more than save jobs?
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August 2009
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Win $50,000 developing an Xbox 360 game →
I hereby demand that I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 gets at least an honorary mention.
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Classic phone — wasn’t what you wanted, was it?
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James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free... →
Cry me a river.
Why is this American complaining about business practices in a different country? Easy: because it impedes his reach to buy their media markets too.
Let him bitch and moan all he wants, but there is no way he can cover the fact that BBC programming is simply superior to the crap that we have to put up with here in the states.
And I am not talking just about the news. BBC has...
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It's official: Xbox 360 Elite Price Drop →
It sucks to be the guy at Sony that approved spending all that money to improve the PS3, then cut the price. His reward for his efforts: a loss leader war with Microsoft. Ouch.
The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana →
Fascinating article on, well, yeah, the sex lives of bananas.
Stand By Me, as explained by unEZ
unEZ: Im watching stand by me
unEZ: a heart touching story
unEZ: whil weaton walks the train tracks to find the borg and save picard
An Open Letter to Amazon's Data Miners
Guys, I am a fan of your work, I really am. I love it how it doesn’t matter what am I doing in amazon.com, you somehow have figured out a way to always suggest things that do connect, the these alternatives, accessories, etc.
The problem is that you are having some consistency issues. For example, whenever I visit a product I have purchased, almost every time it tells me that I bought it,...
“A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your mother.”
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WatchThe #earworm of the day is actually a Freudian Slip: I was in a conference call with my boss and my ops manager and I started humming it, without thinking about the title. The boss asked me if I was humming that for the customer that I was complaining about just a minute or so before.
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WatchSong stuck in my head + busted deadline <> fun
iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan →
They are actually correct. There was a lot of press not so long ago about how the iPhone will never be accepted by the Japanese consumers because it is not the kind of phone that they like/want/need/whatever. Of course, it is now the #1 phone in the country.
Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC? →
As usual, Slashdot’s position is whatever means Microsoft not making money. And again, wrong.
I spend a lot of money on DLC, why? Because it is really cheap entertainment. For example, Fallout 3 was a $60 game, fine. But I played it for over 100 hours.
Then they released a DLC for a few bucks, and that meant I got another 20 hours of play out of it. Cheaper than a movie out here.
Then...
'Uh-Oh They're Here' →
The People’s Republic of Virginia strikes again: it is a felony to “identifying a police officer with intent to harass.”
Oh, wait, that actually sounds like a good thing, right? I mean, under the “Constitution doesn’t mean a suicide pact” rules, there are limits on our freedom of speech based on common sense. You are not entitled to yell fire in a crowded...
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Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format →
Finally Sony does something smart! I really hope that this works, because it means more pressure on Amazon to start opening up the format choices for the Kindle.
Clever cat earns GED on the Internet →
This is why you can’t have a pet that is smarter than you. You have a dog and your only problem is to feed and clean after him, keep him busy so he doesn’t tear down your shoes and furniture, etc. But a cat? For all you know, a cat is plotting to take over the world.
And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed →
This is just, well, moronic. They want to make a BSG movie, but it is NOT going to be connected to the SyFy rebooted franchise that just finished its normal episode run. Instead they are going to reboot the damn thing again.
Why? I know everyone is going remake crazy, but shouldn’t there be a limit on how many times you can remake a classic over a five year period? There should be a...
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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
– Carl Sagan