By The Angry Drunk
 Like I wrote yesterday, I’m not particularly interested in doing any sort of roundup of the announcements from Apple’s yearly Music Event held yesterday, September 1st. However, there are a few things that popped out at me that I’d like to explore. Initially I was going to do some claim chowdah analysis and break down exactly how wrong Engadget was about the supposed iTV, but there really isn’t anything new to be said there. Anyway, Joel Topolsky is already spinning the announcements to say that Apple is so totally going to make those changes, but things changed at the last minute. Whatever douche, keep spinning. What is interesting to me, and touches on the idiocy around the AppleTV, is the way that iOS was almost fetishized by the tech press during the announcement.
Continue reading The iOS Fetish
By The Angry Drunk
Last week I tallied up my predictions on the predictions being made for the annual Apple September Music event by the rumorsphere. Now that the event is come and gone it’s time to grade my performance, and the performance of the rumormongers in general. Before I begin though, I think I need to clarify what I’m up to with these rumor predictions posts. First of all, the items that I list are not my predictions. They are the predictions being bandied about by the punditsphere. Secondly, the percentage values that I assign are completely pulled from my ass, often for comedic effect. That said, let’s see how we did.
Continue reading Apple Special Event Predictions – The Results
By The Angry Drunk
 Sometimes the New Media Douchebag circus is too good for the freak-show and needs to be in the main ring. Case in point, today’s twaddle from Dave “Cranky-Pants” Winer, Dear Apple, re your boycott of Flash. Ooh, goody, goody gumdrops. It’s criticism in epistle form; my favorite thing.
Continue reading Dave You Ignorant Slut
By The Angry Drunk
For those who are unaware, Apple is holding a special event on September 1st, just like they do every September. Not being one to be left out of the fun, here’s my take on the chances of various rumors coming to pass.
Continue reading Apple Special Event Predictions
By The Angry Drunk
Cross posted from Dave Winer’s Crazy Train…
So, let’s get this straight. Uncle Dave doesn’t like the rough-and-tumble nature of blog commentary (a reasonable position to take, I hate you pricks too), but he’s too narcissistic do without the fawning admiration of strangers. What’s a New Media Douchebag to do? Well, if you’re Dave Winer, you come up with…this. Please, for the love of fuck, someone implement this so I can properly laugh at it.
Continue reading Crazy Uncle Dave (Re)Invents Comments
By The Angry Drunk
 WARNING: Political content ahead!
Sometimes I wonder if the leadership of the Democratic Party isn’t infested with Republican moles (cue the cries from the false–equivalency brigade that all politicians are horrible). If not, then they certainly epitomize the words of wisdom offered by the venerable Dark Helmet, “Evil will always win, because Good is stupid.”
Continue reading Of Muslims, Mosques and Morons
By The Angry Drunk
 Another nifty animation from The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce — this one illustrating a talk by Jeremy Rifkin, author of the Empathic Civilization. I haven’t read this yet, but I just added it to my iBooks queue.
Continue reading The Empathic Civilization
By The Angry Drunk
 So, yeah, Google put the kibosh on Wave this week and now we must endure the inevitable tsunami (Ha! A “wave” joke) of post-mortems from the tech press. See, there’s an unwritten rule in the punditsphere that says that the volume of babble produced when a product fails is directly proportional to the amount of hype from the tech press when the product was announced.
Continue reading Obligatory Google Wave Post
By The Angry Drunk
WARNING: Political Content Ahead!
MSNBC (amongst others) is reporting that, pretty much as expected, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has issued an injunction blocking the most heinous and constitutionally bogus provisions of Arizona SB 1070. While this is good news from the perspective of justice, we need to be clear on a few things. First, this is only a temporary injunction until the final court decisions are made.
Continue reading Suck It Honkeys
By The Angry Drunk
 In an effort to pep up my gin and tonics I’ve decided to sample some “premium” tonic waters. There’s really no point in shelling out for top–shelf hooch if you’re going to mix it with swill. Tonight was Fentiman’s Tonic Water (warning, hideous website ahoy).
The verdict: A fuck-sight better than Canada Dry or Schweppes.
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