This has been linked far and wide, but it can’t be disseminated far enough or wide enough. Words of wisdom.
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 The Rude Pundit finishes up his decade end retrospective. I certainly agree with the fuck you’s. Gods know I hate TechCrunch. Fuck, they’re probably responsible for at least a third of the material for the Angry Mac Bastards podcast. But yesterday, TechCrunch and Erik Schonfeld sank to an abysmal new low. In the article, which is so disjointed and pointless that it makes the average third–grader’s book report look like a master’s thesis, Shonfeld castigates DeviantART (an online artistic community composed of user–submitted works) for the fact that the one hundred millionth user submission, or “deviation” as they are styled, happens to be a gay sex story. I honestly can’t get what Shonfeld is going on about here. Is he offended by the subject matter, or just jealous that the people at DeviantArt actually produce something other than propaganda for Google and endless comedy material for those of us bagging on the CrunchPad? Or, as is most likely given that this is TecCrunch, is he just trolling for links to keep his master Arrington from busting out the cat-o-nine-tails and punishment dildo? Whatever the motivation, the article is reprehensible. Seriously, how dare a jumped up tabloid like TechCrunch criticize DeviantART. It’s true that a large chunk of the material on DeviantART is, to be The Rude Pundit continues his farewell to this shitty decade; this time slagging off on the honkeys who fucked us up. Again, I can’t find much to disagree with. Warning! Political and Local Interest content ahead! Proceed at your own risk! It’s nice to see that the United States has become a nation of panty-waisted shrinking violets. Apparently two poor fucks flying into this shit-hole of a state were detained by the cracker-jack (because that’s the box out of which they get their certifications) agents of the TSA. Of course, upon investigation, they were released. And what, you might ask, were these poor sods’ crimes? Well: Looking “Middle Eastern” Talking “loudly” in a language that some grass-fucker honkey didn’t recognize Either watching the movie “The Kingdom” or being present when the snitch was watching it (the story is idiotically unclear on this point. As an aside, “The Kingdom” is a fantastic movie and features stunts by a good friend of mine…go rent it. Getting up to take a leak. There you have it. All you swarthy fuckers better make sure to keep you mouths, and your prostrates, clamped shut, or it’s the interrogation room for you. I swear I am so sick and tired of this nation of terrified racist cunts. And don’t get me started on the comments to the article. Seriously, I Via the Rude Pundit. There ain’t much there I disagree with. Everyone’s favorite cranky old jackass Dave Winer is all a’flutter about WordPress and Tumblr implementing the Twitter API in a post titled How open standards are created. The meat of his post is a bunch of typical Winer bullshit about how wonderful it is that WordPress and Tumblr have implemented the Twitter API (which is true) and how that fact may well make the Twitter API and open standard. I’m going to ignore, for the time being, the patent absurdity of Dave’s assertion. Last time I checked, for something to be an “open standard” it had to be both open, which The Twitter API hardly is; and a standard, which I don’t think being used by yourself, and two blog hosting companies qualifies as. It’s not really that that irks me about this piece. What bugs me here is something that Winer does incessantly, and really chaps my ass. He completely misuses and conflates two different technical terms. To quote:
No, Dave we wouldn’t. The Twitter API is just that, an Application Programming Interface. FTP, HTTP and RSS The greater techno-sphere got their collective panties in a twist this weekend over the quasi-unveiling of the rumored Google Phone. I’m not going to link to any of the coverage, I’m lazy and you all can use a search engine just fine, but it behooves me as an opinionated cock-sucker and general bastard to throw in my two cents. So, what do we know about this bad boy? Basically, it’s a re-branded (or should that be “unbranded”) HTC phone running the latest version of Android. Supposedly it will be offered carrier-unlocked (no word on pricepoints) and it works on T-Mobile’s variant of the GSM spectrum in the U.S. What that means, for those who don’t understand the vagaries of cellular data networks (New York Times, I’m looking at you) is that it a) won’t be running on your precious fucking Verizon, and b) will only operate at EDGE speeds on AT&T. My take on this: “So the fuck what?” The vast mouth-breathing majority of the blogosphere is agog with comments about how this strapping young lad of a phone will “change the industry” and other such hyperbolic twaddle. The phrase “iPhone killer” has even been bandied about. The thing Continue reading I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe… This amused me. Apparently Ubuntu Linux now features a system-wide notification framework inspired by the Growl project from Mac OS X. Unlike Growl, though, Ubuntu’s notifications are bound to the upper-right corner of the screen, which apparently vexes some people. Not to worry though! Lifehacker comes to the rescue with a post linking to the Ubuntu Forums. All you have to do is follow the simple advice to move the notifications to the bottom-left corner. There is one little caveat though:
Oh Linux, you crazy bastard, don’t you ever go changing on me. |
 
 
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Hump Day Kvetching
So, you may have noticed a short-lived banner ad at the top of the page here. I (retardedly) decided to listen to the people who have suggested that I make some attempt to cash in on the not-trivial traffic I get. Unfortunately, seeing as how I’m apparently blacklisted by Adsense (probably because the content here isn’t “family-safe,” but who fucking knows; Google is a black box) I went with a lesser provider. The results were less than stellar, so I’ve pulled the whole thing. Why the fuck is this shit so difficult?