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January 28, 2005

But they LOVE the Jews.

Dick Cheney, Dressing Down (washingtonpost.com)

Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood. It is embroidered with his name. It reminded one of the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp. And indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults.

Man, is THIS embarassing or what? Guess you can take that "Judeo" off the front of the "Judeo-Christian values" the country was allegedly founded on.

Posted by John at 12:55 PM | | Comments (1)

Much too rich. Much too kettle black.

Scripting News: 1/28/2005

Just because we come from a young medium, doesn't mean we're young. There are certain things you learn in life, and one of them is to accept criticism, and maybe learn from it. If you deflect all criticism, it's hard to know how your work is received by others.

To quote the VRWC:

Bwah ha ha ha ha!

Posted by John at 11:45 AM |

January 27, 2005

egobooshwah

Scripting News: 1/27/2005:


Let's see, in addition to Best Technology in a Weblog, I would also give this site an award for Best Weblog, hands-down, and certainly put it in contention for Best Tech Weblog, and Best New Meme (podcasting).

Note that sole credit is now being taken for podcasting. Expect many future hissy fits over said credit.

Posted by John at 7:06 PM | | Comments (2)

January 17, 2005

More reasons to not blog

The boys

Posted by John at 9:16 AM | | Comments (1)

January 16, 2005

shodcasting

Apple's iPod Shuffle Stifles Podcasting:

Veteran podcaster and former MTV host Adam Curry said the iPod shuffle makes no sense at all -- and certainly not for podcasting.

"Apple hasn't picked up on podcasting because they are thinking about how things work from Apple to the rest of the world. They are not seeing what is happening," Curry said on his Thursday show, Daily Source Code.

This sort of booshwah reminds me the sort of "entrepreneur" type who doesn't get that your self-interest as a wage slave don't quite coincide with his. It's really a type of narcissism, and that's what I see here. Curry doesn't get that Apple may not actually believe that podcasting is necessarily the inevitable obvious end of the iPod platform. My sense is that Apple hasn't "picked up" on podcasting because the vast majority of people buying iPods are using them to listen to music, not the ramblings of frustrated middleaged pundit wannabes.

The iPod shuffle only doesn't make sense if you think that the sole purpose of the iPod platform is just Tivo for audio blogging. Otherwise it's a great idea, expands the market for Apple even further, and appears to be doing quite well.

Posted by John at 8:28 AM | | Comments (2)

January 1, 2005

Shills got soul

BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis:

She really writes about a subject near to my soul: call it citizens' marketing. Now she finds herself writing about both.

Anyone who can use the words "citizen's marketing" and "soul" in the same sentence, let alone in an approving and conjunctive fashion, is way beyond any pale you could possibly conceive.

Posted by John at 12:06 PM |

Goddamn it, flies LOVE vinegar, you asshole

Scripting News: 12/31/2004:

Before the year is over, a hearty Fuck You to all reporters who recited the list of top podcasters and left out my own humble pioneering podcast.

Gee, I wonder why they did that. Perhaps journalists are finally learning what developers have known all along.

Posted by John at 10:13 AM | | Comments (1)