the War on Folly: Archive

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Jun 13th

“None of my investments has ever been motivated by the rate at which I would have...”

– I’m rich; tax me more - Los Angeles Times

Sep 21st

Feb 14th

Feb 9th

“But Mr. Murdoch and his lieutenants have made two significant bets: that the...”

– The Media Equation - Tilting to the Right at Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal

Dec 14th

Paul Graham bites apple

In Apple’s Mistake, PG makes the right claim that Apple’s headed for a world of hurt if they persist with the appstore shenanigans. Real geeks have an outsized sense of fair play. At least it generally outweighs their prioritizing of esthetics. Why else would they have stuck with Wintel for so long when Apple was hovering all along, all angelic and purdy. In OS X they could keep...

Dec 2nd

“So if you want a great phone you’re out of luck. Your choice is between shitty...”

– Dave Winer: Zealotry sucks, and so does the Droid

Dec 2nd

Nov 22nd

Aug 8th

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“You can yell at a cop in America. This is not Iran. And if some people don’t...”

– Bob Hebert: Anger Has Its Place

Aug 2nd

Jul 29th

“Hey Bill, I saw your man Ray Allen at a bar in Hartford on Saturday night. After...”

– Bill Simmons’ Summer Mailbag Yep, these are his readers.

Jul 14th

Wikipedia article of the day: Gropecunt Lane →

“Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words grope and cunt.[1] Streets with that name were often in the busiest parts of medieval towns and cities, and at least one appears to have been an important thoroughfare.” I’m almost inclined to believe there’s a rogue Onion writer out there fingerin’...

Jul 9th

Google's Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters →

Jul 8th

“Day One Buddhism. Because, once you see what’s really there — once you know...”

– M. Mann: Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders

Jul 7th

Jun 26th

Uncool. @msofficeus is using Word to render emails in Outlook, killing standards support. See http://fixoutlook.org and RT

Jun 24th

Jun 21st

U.S. Senate approves resolution apologizing for... →

Jun 20th

Mark Cuban's "Success & Motivation – 2009" →

Its your choice. What are you going to do?

Jun 13th

Jun 4th

Testing Google Wave: This Thing is Tidal →

Jun 2nd

May 19th

Are the Denver Nuggets legit title contenders? →

Lightning in a bottle?

May 7th

When a pandemic isn't a pandemic →

May 5th

Apr 29th

“The entertainment industry wants to retreat to the comfort of 1996. It was a...”

– Cory Doctorow (via azspot)

Apr 23rd

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"criminalizing political differences" - Google... →

291 results at the time of this search. Rorschach says hands up all those who can identify the real crime here. I mean, was a crime committed or not?

Apr 23rd

“A former Bush White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said if a probe is...”

– Obama triggers firestorm in CIA tactics case Isn’t that what should’ve given the Republicans pause when they wanted to prosecute Bubba Clinton a while back? Lying about sex » Illegal torture? Greed must be really, really good cuz Republicans really need to have it all their...

Apr 22nd

“There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that...”

– John McCain (via azspot)

Apr 22nd

In Sun, Oracle Sees a Software Gem →

Sun wins a most suitable suitor.

Apr 20th

10 years later, the real story behind Columbine →

“They weren’t goths or loners.” Just crazy Eddie Haskell types. Wshew?

Apr 15th

Wrong Tomorrow - time vs. pundits →

Separating useful pundits from self-marketing guessers.

Apr 3rd

marco: 2009 will be the year of mainstream desktop Linux. We were just a bit premature in predicting it for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Mar 26th

27 notes

Rub it in, willya

magicmolly: 68th and Amsterdam, 1:30 PM: Cute high school girl wearing a tee shirt that says, WITH AN ASS LIKE THIS I DON’T NEED BIG TITS!!!

Mar 26th

Last edition of Christian Science Monitor →

Friday, March 27, 2009.

Mar 26th