Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way [American newsrooms worked] better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces.
Someone at a bar last weekend said to me, after asking for software advice, “I refuse to use a crApple.”
I asked why—ignoring the “crApple” bit—which I shouldn’t have done, because when someone says something that ridiculous it isn’t worth talking more about their computer habits. But I’m a glutton for punishment. He said, “Because it only has one mouse button.”
I laughed hard for about 15 seconds and then said something along the lines of “go fuck yourself.”
I discovered a fool-proof test for brain damage. STEP 1: Did person commission a website? THEN THEY MUST HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE. Tell all doctors.
From MSN New Zealand:
A Chinese monkey trainer who trained his animals to do martial arts reportedly got the shock of his life when his proteges suddenly turned on him.
File under: Should have seen it coming. (via Kevin Pang)
Who would choose to be there? I guess I just don’t have the type of emotional problems that require drowning myself in bad noisy music and watery overpriced drinks.
The New York Times has a ridiculous interview with Jeff Bezos about the Kindle:
Barnes & Noble claims on its Web site that the Nook has several advantages over the Kindle — for one thing, a Nook book can be lent to friends. You can forward the text to another user.
The current thing being talked about is extremely limited. You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even serially, so once you’ve loaned one book to one friend, that’s it.
You have to pick just one person? What are you saying? It’s like “Sophie’s Choice”?
It is “Sophie’s Choice.” Very nicely done.
As Paul Kafasis points out:
I don’t believe either of these people have any idea what exactly Sophie’s choice was. Sophie had to choose which of her children would be murdered. By Nazis.
It’s not every day the New York Times and the head of one of the largest retailers in the world take a moment to make a correlation between sharing books and Auschwitz horrors.
But you know, if you think about it, it really is pretty much exactly the same. I mean, sharing with only one person? Please. Take my daughter already.
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