Pardon the Fucking Mess

blurb

I need a drink

If you’ve vis­ited the site or looked at the RSS feed dur­ing the last twenty-four hours there’s a good chance that you saw one of a menagerie of errors. Sorry about that. This post will try to explain what the hell was going on as well as point out some changes to the way the site works.


Continue read­ing Pardon the Fucking Mess


What the Literal Fuck (Steve Jobs Resignation Edition)

picard-facepalm

I was debat­ing join­ing my myth­i­cal com­pa­triot the Macalope and adding my own froth­ing rage over this vilely offen­sive pile of syphilitic jackal dung when I made the mis­take of mean­der­ing down into the com­ments. I was not sur­prised to find the usual col­lec­tion of “hur dur Apple is so evil” bull­shit, but what really caught my eye was a mag­nif­i­cent exam­ple of the art of utter what-the-fuckery by some jack­ass with the han­dle of “joblot”.


Continue read­ing What the Literal Fuck (Steve Jobs Resignation Edition)


“V” Is a Very, Very Bad Show

anna-v-new-poster

and now for some­thing com­pletely different…

I’m going to take a bit of a depar­ture from my usual rant­ing about the tech media and pol­i­tics today to express my utter and com­plete rage at the mon­u­men­tal cluster-fuck that is the cur­rent tele­vi­sion series “V.” There will undoubt­edly be spoil­ers in this rant, so deal with that.


Continue read­ing “V” Is a Very, Very Bad Show


What New Media Douchebags Know About Economics…

NMD

…col­lec­tively couldn’t fill a thim­ble. Witness a recent dose of insi­pid­ity from Seth Grodin, who is some sort of mar­ket­ing guru or some such twad­dle. Seth makes the argu­ment that we are cur­rently expe­ri­enc­ing two reces­sions. One, the cycli­cal eco­nomic one that all sane peo­ple mean when they say “reces­sion,” and one that is noth­ing less than the death of the Industrial Era.


Continue read­ing What New Media Douchebags Know About Economics…


One Small Step…

In honor of how far we came, and in light of how far we have yet to go. Here is a record­ing of Billy Bragg’s “The Space Race is Over.”

Angry Mac Bastards Swag

Behold! The glory that is the Angry Mac Bastards thong!

Nah, just josh­ing you, but I am enjoy­ing a frosty pint of ale from the won­der­ful Angry Mac Bastards beer stein. You know you fuck­ing want one. Kudos to Melissa Findley (@Mercuralis on Twitter) for the design. It truly rocks. AMB Swag 1 AMB Swag 2

Today’s Round of Idiocy

I write this post with a heavy heart.

Have any of you ever been in the fol­low­ing sit­u­a­tion? You know a guy. He’s a smart guy, and you agree with almost all of his opin­ions, but he’s done or said some­thing so mon­u­men­tally annoy­ing that you just have to smack him around a bit for it. Well, I’ve just encoun­tered the inter­tubes ver­sion of that.

So, who’s the dip­shit in ques­tion? I’m glad you asked. It’s “Cousin Avi” of Veritas Nihilum Vincet.


Continue read­ing Today’s Round of Idiocy


Gimp Hand Update 6÷1÷2009

It’s been a while since I’ve regaled you with pic­tures of my fin­ger. Behold what almost 2 months of heal­ing hath accom­plished. Considerably less dis­turb­ing pic­tures after the jump.

New Feed Links

Just for kicks I’ve enabled sep­a­rate feed links based on con­tent types. The avail­able feeds are:

  • All con­tent
  • Just posts
  • Blurbs (the triv­ial crap that show up in the blue boxes)
  • Angry Mac Bastards Podcast Updates
  • Disqus Comments

You can find the feed links in the right hand sidebar.

Gimp Hand Update — 5÷9÷2009

Ok boys and ghouls, these things are start­ing to annoy me almost as much as they are prob­a­bly annoy­ing you, so this is the last update about my hand for a while. Enjoy the pic­tures after the fold and keep the com­ments about my flaky skin to a min­i­mum; you try keep­ing a digit under a ban­dage 23 hours a day and see if you don’t need a lit­tle moisturizing.