Category: The Internet
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Crimes Against the Internets: The Re-Imagineering Blog
The internet is full-to-bursting with self-important nerds who are simultaneously obsessed beyond reason with the minutiae of their chosen hobby and convinced that they could do a better job than the people currently in charge of that hobby. This isn’t breaking news. It happens with movies, comic books, television series (somehow, Joss Whedon remains exempt),…
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Crimes Against the Internets: Valleywag
When you’re a procrastinator, like I am, and you work from home on a computer, like I do, you end up seeing a lot of stupid on the internets. Stupidity on such a level that it’s not enough to just sit back and say, “man, is that stupid;” you’ve got to go evangelical and spread…
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Frenzy
If you want to see an example of something that took me way longer than it should have, then check this out: I wrote a little utility to export my RSS Feeds list from my news reader (NetNewsWire) to html. It’s as close as I can come to a links section for the time being,…
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lol freaky commercials wtf ^__^
Speaking of Japanese Commercials: Right after I watched that one, I got a phone call from some girl whispering “seven days.” And I would’ve been a lot happier if Happiness of the Katakuris was more like this:
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A Bunch of Noise
What started out innocently enough as a search for “I Want Candy” by MC Pee Pants (second page) somehow ended up with me on the iTunes Signature Maker. It’s a java app that digs through your iTunes library and generates a file that contains snippets of your favorite tracks mixed together. It’s not exactly pleasurable…
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Checklist
One of the consequences of having a spastic attention span is that I’ve got a huge mental to-do list that grows faster than is possible for a mortal human — even one with my considerable gifts as granted me by your yellow Earth sun — to check them off. And because it’s all in me…
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Oil-guzzling babies (and, suitably, ghost dogs)
Considering how much I love Pom Poko and tanuki, and I got Taiko no Tetsujin mostly because it had dancing kitsune in it, I’m surprised I haven’t seen all of this stuff sooner: My new favorite website is The Obakemono Project, which is like a web encyclopedia of Japanese folk monsters and spirits. Each one…
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Mokuyoubi
Today there’s an SFist post about Google China and how it, apparently, proves that Google has gone from being hero to millions to as corrupt and evil a mega-corporation as :spit: Disney! Ah well, I hope I’ll be able to sleep at night knowing that every web search I do makes me complicit in tyranny.…
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Writing Too Much About iWeb
There’s a new post on SFist wherein I talk about how iWeb isn’t as cool as HyperCard. And talk, and talk, and talk — I blame ecto. I liked it enough to pay for it, and now it means I don’t have to use web browser editors for my crucial blogging endeavors. Which means I’ve…
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Not at CES
That last post turned out to be all about “Arrested Development,” so I guess this is the one that’s posting just for the sake of posting. I made a post at SFist yesterday about all the rumors around a Google PC. The story itself is kind of lame — even the rumor sites were saying…
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Uninvited
Technically you’re supposed to wait on these things until somebody passes the baton, but it’s 4 AM Pacific Time and I’m still awake browsing the internet and I’ve already seen 4 different variations of this thing 4 times tonight. Four jobs you’ve had in your life: video store clerk, working the shrink-wrapping machine at a…
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The Bob Loblaw Law Blog
Turns out there really is a Bob Loblaw Law Blog, a fact which makes me about as happy as anything on the internet can. (It doesn’t look like a fake site done as a “Arrested Development” tie-in, because a) it’s been up since November, b) if it is a joke, it’s an unbelievably subtle one,…