The Angry Drunk

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, a com­pul­sion if you will, to pack as much idiocy, faulty logic and inac­cu­racy into one arti­cle as they pos­si­bly can. Among these select few, the grand mas­ter is Daniel Eran Dilger and his Cavalcade of Sock – Puppets.

I nor­mally don’t seek out Dilger’s par­tic­u­lar brand of fuck­wit­tery, nor do I will­ingly read the drool­ing efflu­via from AppleInsider (one of his usual haunts), but the peo­ple have spo­ken, so I am now com­pelled to beat him up for the men­tal diar­rhea that he posted today at AppleInsider under the head­line “Why Apple is bet­ting on HTML 5: a web his­tory.”

My usual modus operandi with this sort of arti­cle is to first address the cen­tral the­sis of the piece, but, for the life of me I can’t fig­ure exactly what in the seven hells Daniel is hop­ing to accomplish

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