State of Disunion
Sure, I should probably be a good little leftie blogger and post some acidic insights about tonight's State of the Union, but I'm honestly too depressed to think about it. And what is it with the standing o-freaking-vations every 3 minutes, fercrissakes? The whole grotesque liturgy nauseates me.
I'm also trying to hold back the urge to rant about all this "looks like we’ve pretty much trashed this joint, let’s go screw up the moon" crap.
Sigh.
Forgive me, instead, if I dwell on mindless things. Like the small, simple, frankly rather pathetic pleasure to be taken from this latest message from those lovely Levenger people.
Unable to convince us to pay $19.95, or even $9.95 for the RoboCalc, they're now reduced to giving the sodding things away. Which is, as I've previously pointed out, exactly what everyone else has been doing all these years.
And then there's the heart-warming story of 17 year old Canadian Mike Rowe. Slammed, then forgiven (kind of) by the Beast of Redmond, for using the domain name mikerowesoft.com. "We take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too seriously," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said.
Finally, a must read piece in Forbes. Not often that happens these days, but Ben Fulford's "Korea's Weird Wired World" from last July is well worth the trip.
"Strange things happen when an entire country is hooked on high-speed Internet ... South Korea has gone gaga over broadband. This nation of 46 million people, packed into an area smaller than Virginia, has quickly become the world's most wired nation. Politics, entertainment, sex, mass media, crime and commerce are being reshaped by a population as online as it is offline. Some 11 million homes, or 70% of the total, have broadband."
A fair shake of scaremongering, but fascinating stuff all the same.
I'm also trying to hold back the urge to rant about all this "looks like we’ve pretty much trashed this joint, let’s go screw up the moon" crap.
Sigh.
Forgive me, instead, if I dwell on mindless things. Like the small, simple, frankly rather pathetic pleasure to be taken from this latest message from those lovely Levenger people.
Unable to convince us to pay $19.95, or even $9.95 for the RoboCalc, they're now reduced to giving the sodding things away. Which is, as I've previously pointed out, exactly what everyone else has been doing all these years.
And then there's the heart-warming story of 17 year old Canadian Mike Rowe. Slammed, then forgiven (kind of) by the Beast of Redmond, for using the domain name mikerowesoft.com. "We take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too seriously," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said.
Finally, a must read piece in Forbes. Not often that happens these days, but Ben Fulford's "Korea's Weird Wired World" from last July is well worth the trip.
"Strange things happen when an entire country is hooked on high-speed Internet ... South Korea has gone gaga over broadband. This nation of 46 million people, packed into an area smaller than Virginia, has quickly become the world's most wired nation. Politics, entertainment, sex, mass media, crime and commerce are being reshaped by a population as online as it is offline. Some 11 million homes, or 70% of the total, have broadband."
A fair shake of scaremongering, but fascinating stuff all the same.
