Wisdom From Nerdistan

Today’s par­tic­u­lar hang­over has blunted the all-encompassing rage a bit; so even I have to admit that this piece by Cory Doctorow in InformationWeek is dead on. It prob­a­bly explains why I have a grand total of 6 MySpace friends; and of those, one is myth­i­cal proto-hominid and one is a pres­i­den­tial can­di­date. Or it could be that winos aren’t known for their com­puter savvy.

Note to self…check if drunk​space​.com is taken.

Kindling

I have nei­ther the time nor incli­na­tion to rant about the Amazon Kindle. But I am amused that every bit of com­men­tary point­ing out its many flaws is met with a flurry of com­ments from the Nerdistani defend­ing it. You chumps would line up for an ass-reaming by a n 800 lb gorilla on meth if there was a com­puter chip installed…wouldn’t you.

Chris Dodd Puts One to the Republican Candidates

The more I see things like this, the more I think that Senator Dodd is my man in ’08

Freetards

Freetards, I love it.

via Fake Steve Jobs.

On the Other Hand…

This is how one writes a blog post. Coherent thoughts, and a hefty dash of anger; just how I like it.

Why Blogs Suck (Yeah, I Know…)

Sweet Cthullu Christ! This mind-numbing exam­ple of online “writ­ing” is a prime exam­ple of why blog­gers get no respect from “tra­di­tional” media. Here’s a hint for you…when you can man­age to string 2 coher­ent thoughts together with­out digress­ing into a 6 para­graph ram­ble that makes about as much sense as the Unabomber man­i­festo, then you can start think­ing of call­ing your­self a “journalist”