Leo sold me a freakin' sweet $99 ebook reader, so he's alright with me!

Today: "Yeah, Steve screwed us, but at least he didn't post the video on YouTube."

2050: "The MPAA and RIAA led the fight to make media cheaper and more accessible worldwide."

Come to think of it, the survivors of the Confederate States of America went through the same mental gymnastics.

saw the headline in my feed and it made me chuckle. Figures it was from the onion.

Saw a graphic a few days ago about how many US bases surround Iran... Now it occurs to me that IRAN HAS SURROUNDED THE REST OF THE WORLD1!!!1!

The Social Media Twelve Steps
We admitted we were powerless over social media - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a better broadband connection can restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a All Knowing Server Admin as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless inventory of our posts.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our spulling erroz.
Were entirely ready to have The Next Thing Better Than Facebook remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Customer Service to remove our drunken posts.
Made a list of all persons we have stalked, and became willing to block them all.
Avoided making direct amends to such people wherever possible because it pretty much looks like even more stalking.
Continued to hide our personal baggage and when we were wrong to rise above the desire to ragequit.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with cute kittens as we understood Them, praying only for the power to not forward it.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to social media addicts, and to practice these principles in all our status updates.

I have a real faux Android tablet called an HPTouchPad. It's sweet!

There are a massive number of public domain PG Wodehouse books available. Always a good, light read.

From the Content Verification Program Application page:

"I understand that this tool is only for submitting notifications of alleged copyright infringement, and abuse will result in termination of access to YouTube."

So has YouTube terminated Universal's access yet?

Anyone remember the portrayal of US Fed programmers in Snow Crash? So scary it must be true!

...but that doesn't make you wrong.

Ever seen this? It was spammed to quite a few people around August 21, 2001. Sorry, I didn't think to save the headers - but I did look at them and the message seemed to originate from Bahrain.

http://pastebin.com/GaYuHHRi

analog version of Photoshop? Oh, yes, back in the day we called it

4) Darkroom

So on the way to and from work I count the number of people on cell phones talking or texting. It's really SCARY!

Today I saw this guy - while driving - pull out his iPad. One hand to hold the iPad, one hand to tap and pinch. He was driving with his elbow.

I quickly - but safely - changed lanes to get the hell away from him. I hope the person he will soon rear-end will be OK and is in need of a new car.

Wise question. Simple answer. 3rd party data collection is cheaper for the carriers.

CEO: These constant warrantless wiretap requests are a pain in the ass. It's only going to get worse.

CTO: There's a app for that, y'know.

"...not yet obvious to someone that patents and litigation do more damage..."

CEO: Are patents and litigation do more damage to free commerce than blatant and slavish copying?

Consulting Lawyer: Preposterous!

Lobbyist: Never!

CEO: OK then. Carry on.

"As for FB, my bet is still that it goes the way of MySpace before too long."

I'm hoping for something more mature, but the internet has this way of recycling ideas...

"There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl,
something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived
sub cults and replicated them at odd intervals."

I misread "Europe" so I thought NASA was sending landers stuffed with cash to bail out the EU.