Category: The Internet
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Hey! BOB SAPP Please!!
Man, I’ve got to stop reading the internets. There’s no way in hell I’ve got enough time to make it through TV In Japan. It’s like being on a commuter train and the passenger before you left a box full of candy and Star Wars toys under the seat and you don’t find it until…
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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…