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Suck It Honkeys

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.

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Glenn Fleishman on the DMCA Jailbreaking Exemption →

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One of the most comprehensive, accurate and most of all, sane write-ups about the ruling by the Librarian of Congress exempting jailbreaking from the “circumvention” provisions of the DMCA. If you’re going to read one article about this, make it this one.

Gin Time: Tonic Water Tasting

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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.

Winer’s Line in the Sand

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Taking a page from the playbook of John “mother of all tools” Dowdell, Dave Winer has declared that he will no longer tolerate off-topic discussion and mindless Apple fanboyism on his precious blog. Of course, in Dave’s world “off-topic” means “doesn’t agree with my sage wisdom” and “mindless Apple fanboyism” means “in any way approving of Apple.”

Look Dave, we get it, people disagreeing with you irritates you. I mean, good gods people, don’t you know who this is? This is Dave Winer. The “proto-blogger!” Having your narcissistic and ill-thought-out bullshit pointed out to you must be agonizing. I’d suggest dispensing with comments entirely, but then how would you get your fix of sycophantic cock-sucking? A man can’t live by his achievements alone for fuck’s sake!

Flighty Whitey

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If you haven’t heard the news, Apple has delayed the white iPhone yet again; this time to “later this year” which, as we all know is Apple-talk for December 31′st.

All joking aside, if the media is looking for a story to play up the “Apple is run by incompetent designtards” there you go. Announcing a product and not being able to ship it for upwards of six months is pathetic. Where’s my press conference mother-fuckers?

I’m going to buy a Droid X out of spite.

How to Tell a Journalist From a Blogger →

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And, for completeness sake, the piece that led me to the last link. Read this and pay attention blogtards…you in particular Jizzmodo.

For the record, I’m in no way, shape or form a journalist — just an asshole with a blog.

Not All Bloggers Are Journalists →

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An extremely insightful piece on the historic and current role of the Fourth Estate.

The money quote:

In fact, I have to apologize on behalf of my entire profession for how you have been treated by a few bloggers, whom I’ll have the tact to not name here. There are bloggers who know and care nothing about real journalism, who see this profession as an opportunity for short-term gain at anyone’s expense, who find no joy in it and who dream only of fame in the now and a lucrative exit thereafter. These people are not journalists; they are self-serving scum. And they’ve royally fucked up how a lot of people see my profession.

This right here is why there is a “media” category on this blog, and a large part of why I participate in the Angry Mac Bastards.

H/T to Shawn King for pointing to the article that led to this one.

Dunning-Kruger and the New Media Douchebag

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I haven’t taken New Media Douchebag Anil Dash to task here yet, but I ran across a blog post by Anil that I couldn’t pass up. Not necessarily because the article was particularly bad (although it is) but because it’s emblematic of something that I see constantly amongst the New Media Douchebag collective. In fact, this trait may well be one of the core defining aspects of the quintessential New Media Douchebag. Specifically, it’s the utter and complete inability of the New Media Douchebag to realize that they are pontificating about a subject that the are woefully ill-prepared to discuss.

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Why Steve Jobs Is (Legitimately) Pissed at the Media

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I wasn’t present at Friday’s special iPhone 4 Press Conference held by Apple at their Cupertino Campus, but I followed the excellent live coverage from Jason Snell at Macworld. Ignoring the specifics of the announcements (spoiler: there is no fucking recall you fucktards), one thing jumped out at me: Steve Jobs was palpably angry with the media.

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