Damn I miss Hypercard. But I carry on: I can now embarrass myself with HTML and JavaScript - so, in essence, life is still good!

"To the victors go the spoils; to the losers go the Scovilles?"

Ah, thanks! I guess the governmentrestrictschemicalthatcanbeusedinmethlabs...edwhenthegovernmentshutsoffhisaccesstothatchemical tag should have tipped me off.

Kudos! Excellent reference. My hat's off to you, sir or madam!

I was going to put every word on the list in a poem, but words #1072 to 1074 are impossible to rhyme.

I stand corrected! Thank you.

Tim Cook is an interesting person, and having him step up made sense.

Levinson??? Now that's strange.

Iger? Jobs respected him. The guy understands content and polish. But he doesn't understand cultivating the cult.

Cultivating...

That describes Apple in one word!
LOL

I can't believe (most of us) are arguing about this like it is physical property,

There is no scarcity here. The Twitter account could be magically duplicated and I bet Twitter would be willing to do it if both parties agreed to it.

If were gonna throw this in the courtroom then won't it be proper for 17,000 followers to have a say in this?

Let's not open that can of worms. Not today at least. I'm tired. ;(

When it comes to sex, friction is your FRIEND.

What? Life didn't even get interesting until I was at least 52. The best years of life are in your 50s when you have outlived your overweight enemies and your friends are all people you can give an eyewitness accounts of them burying bodies (and they, you). I pity you, children.

But frankly, life is pretty shitty all over and the only defense:

1) Lie to yourself saying things will get better until you believe it contrary to the evidence. (See first paragraph example.)

2) Be really really freaking thankful Its Not Worse. For example, Thanksgiving is the day I meditate on the amazing powers of my white maleness. (Cue Louis CK clip...)

Those who can't lie to themselves and are too pissed off to be grateful find various ways to induce states of not-thinking-about-it. But even that will fail eventually.

The only reason I'm alive today is, in effect, due to my terrible marksmanship and bad choice of weapons.

Check out these pix... incredibly impressive (or not?)

Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors: http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm

bwahahaha

today we can do it with iPads!

excellent post

"The key thing to remember, always, is what the federal government does: it is basically an insurance company for old people that also has an army." - Krugman

Makes me sad.

She's got some really stupid DNC advisors in her campaign. And she is stupid for taking their advice.

I guess the love affair is over for me.

Well, I was a Start Menu Organization Nazi, and it was a pain to keep trimmed down. Screw it. :(

Speak truth to power my brother.