30 September 07 - 18:26LEAVE BRITNEY^WBUSH ALONE
Apparently the dwindling supply of Bush loyalists is now so devoid of ways to save this massively failing, inherently corrupt presidency that they're resorting to making his daughter
apologize for him.
Has this ever happened in the past? I don't remember W apologizing for
his father.
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25 September 07 - 17:21Lego Millennium Falcon
I don't think I should try to walk after seeing
this 5000+ piece monster.
Must have!
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24 September 07 - 19:27Here we have a war that took the life of an 18 year old kid ... from your district, and you didn’t even know his name.
The Petraeus-worship has finally reached its
obvious conclusion.
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24 September 07 - 08:55Okay, seriously.
You guys have been
whinging about this goddamned ad for weeks now. It's a fucking ad, get over it.
If MoveOn can get this much incompetent, barely-directed rage over a single page advertisement, I should give them some donations so they can keep making more.
Stop it, you morons.
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22 September 07 - 00:22Materials science + modern news = ?
If you're Dan Rather, that equation means
all sorts of frivolity.
I assure you the best part is the misspelled and inflammatory spittle coming out of his producer's Blackberry.
For more on completely bullshit investigations by the media into a complex realm of modern engineering, consult
this article on "sexed up" crash tests. I can assure you you'll never trust the news again.
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20 September 07 - 10:01Slashdot Wins Again, Again
Guide to getting on Slashdot:
- Start strangely named, highly funded Web 2.0 scam using a precocious 12-year-old as your "hook"
- Submit press release to Slashdot in guise of article
- Press release is published on Slashdot, and mocked viciously by assorted users while VCs rush to fund you.
Seriously, I think even Digg is more resistant to this kind of dumb news.
Oh wait, I
guess they aren't.
Submitting your own articles to Slashdot?
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by superdude72 (322167) on Thursday September 20, @06:34AM (#20679257)
I couldn't help but notice that Bayscribe's (the submitter) e-mail handle is VentureBeat. So I'm assuming he wrote the article that the writeup links to? If so, that needs to be more clear in the writeup. It's not enough that the e-mail address is a tell. He isn't submitting this article as a disinterested third party who finds it interesting; he most likely wants to drive traffic to his site.
Kind of explains a lot, actually.
How very Web 2.0 Bubble...
Well, there goes 5 minutes I'll never get back.
Nice job, Slashdot! Stuff like this is why you're #1 for journalism.
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20 September 07 - 07:09Update.
In a rare update,
she was just having a brain poopy moment. This is also known as "delusional psychosis," and is covered under the DSM-IV, category "Fundamentalist Evangelism".
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19 September 07 - 07:23OW. OW OW OW OW.
So apparently they have some new host on some daytime TV show that's watched by millions. And this new host
doesn't know if the Earth is flat.
She also doesn't
believe in evolution.
Finally, the stupidity of Hollywood and the stupidity of evangelism have gotten together!
I swear my head is going to
explode.
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17 September 07 - 15:03Slashdot Wins Again
If a music provider is offering DRMed Windows Media files, they're not just Windows Media files, they're
iPod Resistant.
Apparently DRMed WMA plays on every other mp3 player ever made except for the iPod, and this is obviously a slap in Apple's face because Universal
specifically demanded it to be so as revenge for the iTunes Music Store.
Seriously, Digg would be ashamed to have this level of garbage.
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07 September 07 - 07:05The Ralph Klein Roundup.
So Ralph started his classes at MRC yesterday. He said that the media were "lazy" and that they relied on "sound bites".
This particular soundbite drove the Herald to write a 500-word news article and Global to make a six-minute story on it.
Are you guys even listening to what you're reporting on anymore? However, to the Herald's credit, they did spend a paragraph at the end by talking about Klein's office at the college.
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04 September 07 - 17:35Palm cans Foleo
It's about time.
I'm genuinely surprised the guy who originally pitched this still has a job.
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03 September 07 - 19:42Ubi's free games
You've probably heard of
Ubisoft's "free" game offer.
Here's what you might also need to know. The games display advertising at almost every non-game opportunity (loading screens, save/load screens, etc). Raving Rabbids is easily the worst of the lot, displaying ads every time you pass or fail a minigame as well as most times you even
view a minigame or finish a level.
It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that it's
the same ad, over and over, and over and over and over and over. I viewed it probably about 20 times in six minutes of playing Rabbids before I uninstalled it and started writing this entry in my head.
What gets me the most is displaying the ads when you fail -- where is it good game design to punish the user some more by also forcing them to sit through a 20 second unskippable ad? Especially when most of the minigames in Rabbids are less than two minutes long? A crippled game demo with nag screens gives me more uninterrupted gameplay than this.
I doubt anyone at Ubi even thought about this or played the finished versions, since there's absolutely no way this is helping their reputation. I'm now coming away with the impression that Ubi doesn't actually know what good game design is and will gladly abuse my trust for something they see as a gift to me. Thanks, Ubi. Thanks for giving me a $20 game for free along with the rest of your six-year-old back catalogue. Sadly, that free gift has cost you more than just one sale -- I won't touch the rest of your crap now if you think this is what I'll gladly put up with to save a twenty.
And I
certainly won't buy from your advertisers.
P.S. Whoever ported Rabbids to Windows is clearly incompetent. If I have a 360 pad installed, I can use it to get through the menus, but when I get to the game, it just dumbly ignores it until I quit the game, return to the options screen, change the 'control' setting to my 360 pad, and then resume the game. This is inexcusable.
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