I was less concerned about the quantity of licenses (if they want to value ubiquity over strict copyleft, I won't protest) so much as the vague "CC 3.0" license. The Font Awesome project itself mentions CC BY 3.0 so I presume (and hope) they'll use that.

That's what the default "allow acceptable 3rd-party cookies" caveat will be for. People keep the option, and Larry Page keeps the financially-induced control.

3. When I went to the new Yahoo page, I immediately thought, "Oh, shit, how'd I wind up on Facebook?"

Because Yahoo and Facebook had patent-fight sex and are now friends with benefits.* Hope you like your email, news, and flickr with extra Like buttons.

*When you say things like "We are excited to develop a deeper partnership with Facebook", it's hard for me to call you anything less.

Maybe that's the idea. Can't add "must be currently employed" to the listing? Just get people with money and social accounts instead.

Bonus: if they've already paid so much for the glasses, they won't just turn back and say no when asked for their Twitter/G+ password. Instant PR control!

I don't recall "be a barely-retch-worthy litigious asshat" was the way of the shinobi.

Running in place will never get you the same results...as running from a vacuum bubble.

Stay cited, my friends.

Curiously, it sometimes serves individuals better than states that do have citizens.

That, to be clear, is because (like the last Obama-Google+ copout that I remember hearing of (and seeing, in that case)) this is a mutual promotional vehicle for the President and Google's social network.

If it were an actual exercise in journalism or even executive-branch outreach, there'd be more tough questions from the people, more focused answers from POTUS, and less "Look at us, we're YouTube and this is a Google+ hangout! GOOGLE PLUS!!!"-ness. It's grand puffery all around, even by propaganda standards.

Perhaps that was the only way Obama and Larry Page would let YouTube get the former to say anything, but I suspect that I didn't miss much when I missed this.

Nope. They would still need a test of bucket and body physics.

"So...."? Not "Did you mean"?

Laser zombie coprocessor-cats.

(Like regular laser cats, except with less SNL and more lifespan and bra[aaaa]ins for Folding@home.)

Sounds like a plan! Just keep any bionically-enhanced commandos away from the guy and it should work.

Are you referring to DefDist or YouTube?

As soon as you saw (not clicked!) the Like button, for that matter.