What does that mean, anyway?
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Just for a break from the cynicism and pissy-ness of this morning’s posts.
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Obama's speech sets tone for Congress, campaign
Populism, right. I’ll believe it when I see it.
/cynicism
FAQ: Google’s new privacy policy - The Washington Post
Given how anti-Facebook I am for similar “integrated” information collection and use policies, I don’t really think I can exempt Google when they do the same dumb anti-privacy things.
It was easy not to use Facebook. I don’t miss it, ever. It was a pointless waste of time.
Google, though - I use their applications for productivity. Getting myself untangled from Google is going to be a bitch.
Fuck internet companies. Seems like the lot of them need Ethics 101.
Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: The Food Network Craps Out
Guy Fieri is a man who is permanently in the process of jumping the shark (seriously, have you watched his shows? seen his hair?), and now he’s hosting a show in which the entire Food Network is jumping the shark also. Rachael Ray needs to stop monetizing herself.
This is a testament to bad reality shows (is there another kind?), unnecessary “celebrities” no one remembers, and air time that would be far, far more interesting and worthwhile if it were nothing but a horrific beeping noise and static.
Newt Gingrich: History’s Greatest Team (all by himself)
Note to self: Do not be a historian like Gingrich. His Ph.D. isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
The link that talks about his inept slaughtering of the history of Cordoba is also good.
“ Price, a Harvard English professor, found that most (although not all) of the authors read e-books, but they are not dismantling their bookcases or predicting the end of books as we’ve known them. Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass) appreciates the convenience of his Kindle when traveling, but he mistrusts “any device whose continued usage depends on a vast, mysterious, and invisible infrastructure. ”
New Book, Unpacking My Library, Checks Out Writers and Their Book Collections | LISNews:
This just proves his ignorance about the world in which he lives, rather than really being any kind of comment about books.
That’s like saying that I am not going to give up my wringer because washing machines are mysterious.
“ The companies behind the tool feel Google’s hasn’t focused on what’s best for its users with Search Plus Your World. They have a good point. But the tool makes this point better than all the debates that have happened so far around Search Plus Your Word, because it shows what Google could have done to better serve searchers, if it had wanted to. ”
Remember when Google used to return real-time Twitter results? Remember when that quit? This fixes that, tries to return to the pre-Google+ days.
Brought to you by the incensed folks at Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, who wish they’d thought of having their own browsers and search engines to shove their content down our throats the same way.
Surely you didn’t think it was all about not being evil, right?
(via SOPA Opera Update: Opposition Surges - ProPublica)
Kinda would’ve been nice if the various politicians would have spent some time looking into this legislation before they all started feeling like their jobs depended on it.
