Funny family recap of lost, Italian style.
A parody of how scripted and formulaic our news media is.
A quick though on the iPad
Of the sites that I visited covering the iPad, the users overwhelmingly don’t like the iPad (so far). So I thought I would put up a quick thought on why it will sell like hotcakes despite its glaring drawbacks to us advanced computer users. Note that this was originally posted on this Reddit thread.
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Most redditors (including me) won’t like it (so far). But don’t forget we are advanced computer users. We know to get shit done, with the best tools and the best techniques from multiple platforms.
To put it simply: It’s not designed for the advance computer user. It’s designed for your average Joe (who has no idea that he is getting ripped off). This is not designed for getting serious work done. It’s general purpose time-killer.
It’s for people who will lay on the couch playing a quick game downloaded from the app store during the commercial break while watching the game. It’s something you take with you to kill time in your car while the girls shop till the drop. That’s why this thing will sell like hotcakes.
But for us advanced computer users, it sucks.
On Engadget's Apply fanboyism
- Shiddel: Stop, Engadget, stop.
- The iPad is a piece of junk and we know it, so run an article lambasting it's failures and be done with it.
- Alternatively, put them up in a fight, iPad vs. HP Slate, which pundits mocked at CES. Suddently that HP Slate looks pretty damn slick
- brown like dookie: Dude, they can't. It's Engadget. Do you have any idea what the implications of them writing something negative about Apple would be? I imagine it'd be the same as actually dividing by zero and result in an event like the universe exploding.
Rap video on economics. I know, I know….but watch it. http://econstories.tv
Cool video.
My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress.
Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again.
Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Kahlil Gibran (Via)
How do we determine the “truth” and “fact” when we can manufacture either one?
Or better yet, Why would you want to determine the “truth” and “fact” when we can manufacture either one?
I substitute reality for my own!
Crazy British kid thats been playing MW2 for 17 hours straight. Hilarious.
