July 26th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk This one’s probably not going to win me any friends; but then again, I’m not in this for the popularity. As you all probably know, one of the memes being bandied about in the media in the last week is the “Apple is ‘fucking up’ by not disclosing Steve Jobs’ medical condition.” To which Apple has, so-far, replied with a firm “Steve’s medical condition is his business,” and an implied, “fuck you.” At the center of this reporting is one particular piece of shit named Joe Nocera, who reports for the New York Times. Now, here’s the thing, I know a few things about Joe Nocera and his reporting. Sadly, this is the part where many of you will tune out. But please take the time to click the link to the Deep Capture Blog in my sidebar. Deep Capture is the ongoing story of Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne’s fight against market manipulating hedge fund managers and the business media that is complicit in their attempts to fuck over publicly traded companies. At the very least read this post from Deep Capture which deal specifically with the douchebag Joe Nocera. The thing is, I am firmly
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July 23rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Continuing in the fine Gawker Media tradition of posting any old crap as long as it gets hits, The Consumerist today brings us the breaking news that people sell bull cocks as dog treats. Shocking, I know. In lieu of commentary, I bring you the sage words of Tom Waits. I was a little shocked! I know you can get just about ANYTHING in this world. You can get a whale’s pancreas if you’d want one! I can get you one! But com’on, a bull’s penis! How busy they were their whole lives. And they throw it to a dog, like that, for a snack! Now, are they available here in the Los Angeles area? They are, aren’t they? Doesn’t that make you a little weazy? Makes you wanna live a long time. Yes, Tom, yes it does.
July 23rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Masterful piece from Matt Taibbi at the rollingstone.com deconstructing the media’s coverage of the Presidential election and what the real issues in America are.
July 23rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk You heard it kids; the FSF’s cogent and well thought out arguments convinced me to buy a FreeRunner with the OpenMoko OS. No wait, I bought an iPhone.
July 23rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Hey, this is Angry Drunk’s iPhone. He has AT&T, so he’s got, like, zero bars in his own gods damned bedroom. Hope you didn’t have anything important to say. Seriously AT&T, this is fucked up. Commence the derision by the “don’t buy an iPhone” crowd.
July 21st, 2008, by The Angry Drunk In order to avoid confusion, I will henceforth refer to “Free” in the sense of the Free Software Foundation means it as “Fwee.” For a guide to pronunciation, see the scene in Lord of The Rings where Smeagol represses Gollum. The Elmer Fudd variation is also acceptable.
July 18th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Try this. Seriously Apple, get yo’ shit together.
July 16th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Mainly because the only reporting I’ve seen on it was from the losers at Lifehacker. And what tripe am I writing about? Well, another “Don’t buy an iPhone” shit-piece from none other than the unwashed freetards at the Free Software Foundation. You know, your go-to neckbeards for opinions on consumer electronics. So, let’s take a quick belt of The Gin, fire up the Ranto-Matic 5000 and take a look at what I’m sure will be a reasonable essay. iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones. Really? I guess it sucks to be in the iPhone hacking community. I mean, I don’t like you dorks and you don’t like me; but I at least acknowledge that you exist. Right off the bat these dolts conflate the iPhone, with the App Store. More to the point (and this is entirely in keeping with these zealots narrow ass world view) they dismiss the hundreds, if not thousands of developers who a) don’t give a shit about “free” software and b) might actually like getting paid for
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July 15th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk First, a “Ha!” to Dan Costa; and a kudos to Yardena Arar at PC World. One of Dan’s rampant speculations in his little iPhone hit piece that I commented on here was that the iPhone 3G would undoubtedly have a worse battery life than competing 3G phones. On the contrary, PC World ran some actual tests (what a concept) and determined that, while all 3G phones suck battery like a Hilton sister on a schwantz, the iPhone 3G sucked the least. As an aside, I really have to say I’m impressed with the quality of the PC World article. It’s factual, unbiased and moderate in tone. My gods, could there still be actual professionals out here on the interwebs. Second, fuck you to Electronista (sister site of MacNN), and I’ll be damned if I’ll link to you prats. Why the vitriol? Because this is where I got the PC World story from, but there isn’t a single gods damned link that I could find from the Electronista story to the actual PC World story. You content stealing, no credit giving pricks really piss me off. Update: Ok,
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July 11th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Apparently I have a “braying lynch mob of commenters”. Sweet! Now I just need some henchmen and things are gonna start looking up around here.
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