I rarely get a chance to write about media outlets that don’t piss me off, but if you’ve listened to the Angry Mac Bastards podcast much, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of the reporting that Jim Dalrymple is doing over at The Loop. Consequently, I was happy to read the update regarding recent [...]
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I has it. Adam Pash, Lifehacker editor, I have a message for you. You are an idiot. I highly suggest that you give up on trying to report on technology issues and go back to posting pretty pictures of people’s desks and fellating David Allen. At least you’re good at that. Someone should call up Michael Arrington and his cadre of scrotum–washers over at TechCrunch and let them know that the “irrational Apple hatred” job is already taken by Rob Enderle, and Rob does a better job of it. Case in point, today’s post from so–called Apple expert M.G. Siegler under the headline “Push Gmail Finally [...] The reasons for publishing inaccuracy–laden tripe on the web are as varied as the lack–wits who write it. Some have a political agenda to push. Some are in it for the cash. Some just get a massive erection from pissing off rational people. But amongst these miscreants are the select few who have a need, [...] If anyone is still waiting for wondrous tales of my Irish adventure, I’m sorry to disabuse you of that notion. Three days of jet–lag, training and meetings didn’t leave me much inspired to do any adventuring. So, for the terminally oblivious, the reason for the lack of activity is that I am currently in grey and dismal Ireland doing the same job I would normally be doing, but with a 150% cost of living modifier and no appreciable sleep. At any rate, the jet–lag is unlikely to dissipate any time soon. [...] Simply brilliant commentary utterly shredding the “Apple is evil” meme. Even the fucking comments are intelligent. Yet again the Rude Pundit nails it. I debated doing a proper tear–down of this piece of self–indulgent tripe from the usually a bit more astute than this Merlin Mann. It certainly has all of the tropes that send me into paroxysms of rage: Apple as cult, the implication that Snow Leopard is just a “service pack,” the inability to understand Apple’s [...]  |
 
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