It doesnt get much better than this
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Sunday, June 24 at Sunday, June 24, 2007.
Pot, let me introduce you to the blackest motherfucker in the room:
Mubarak: Gaza takeover a coupAs we all know, Hosni Mubarak is an expert in legitimate democratic government.
The takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a "coup against legitimacy" according to the president of Egypt.
Hats off to Mr. 140,000
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, June 19 at Tuesday, June 19, 2007.
This whole controversy over White House staff using private email accounts to conduct their nefarious plots to destroy the world is predictable in its low-level goon'ery. But like most stories, the stuff I find most interesting is in the details.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House aides with Republican Party accounts, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported Monday.The White House says the accounts were set up to keep political work separate from official business, but investigators concluded White House officials used the accounts to conduct official business in a way that circumvented the Watergate-era Presidential Records Act.
The 37 accounts the Republican National Committee did save include nearly 675,000 individual messages -- more than 140,000 of them from Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser."
In this case, it is that Karl Rove has sent over 140,000 emails in the seven years he has been working in the White House. I know the dude is an evil mastermind and all, but this stuff is just otherworldly. Thats something like 50 emails a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, for seven years running. I guess sowing the seeds for the demise of earth and the rise of Xalangthor is pretty email-intensive work....
(if you do not use facebook, ignore this message completely. if you do use facebook, but aren't one of my friends, this message may be of some interest, but maybe not....)
Hello, People With Whom I Obviously Have a Close, Meaningful Relationship Because You Are A Friend on Facebook,
Just a heads up - I absolutely detest these new facebook "applications". I hate them, they make people's pages look like teengagey myspace garbage. If you are filling your profile up with them, I'm going to de-friend you. Nothing personal, its pretty likely that I think you are awesome - but I hate having to see them.
The idea is fine, and I am sure there are already some really smart applications. The facebook peeps had, broadly, the right idea when they opened up the facebook API for outside add-ons.
The problem is in implementation. Just as the first viable products to be sold to mobile phone users were crappy ringtones - hey, is that you, crazy frog? - it seems like the facebook apps, for a while, are going to revolve around stupid vapid garbage. Given the unprecedentedly viral nature of the beast, its only a matter of weeks before facebook profiles become vomit inducing patchwork clusterfucks of "Which "Friends" Character are You?" tests and flashing animated gifs of dogs that bark the "I Like to Move It Move It" song when you blink at them.
To the people filling their profiles with this crap - I love you, really, I must do, if you're my friend. But just consider for a moment that all us grownups are using facebook for a reason. It isn't a coincedence that we aren't all doing this on myspace. Facebook is smooth, sleek, fast, clean and fluid. Myspace is like a garage sale at a nursing home for the aesthetically insane. Facebook will become just like myspace if you continue down this horrible path.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - if thats what you want, feast away. I'm just not down with it, and facebooks overall utility for me is, compared with things like my job, friends, laptop and city, small enough that I'm willing to progressively ditch it as it becomes crappy.
Peace, love, and down with the hate machines,
T
Advance warning - de-friending people..."application" people
Just a heads up - I absolutely detest these new facebook "applications". I hate them, they make people's pages look like teengagey myspace garbage. If you are filling your profile up with them, I'm going to de-friend you. Nothing personal, its pretty likely that I think you are awesome - but I hate having to see them.
The idea is fine, and I am sure there are already some really smart applications. The facebook peeps had, broadly, the right idea when they opened up the facebook API for outside add-ons.
The problem is in implementation. Just as the first viable products to be sold to mobile phone users were crappy ringtones - hey, is that you, crazy frog? - it seems like the facebook apps, for a while, are going to revolve around stupid vapid garbage. Given the unprecedentedly viral nature of the beast, its only a matter of weeks before facebook profiles become vomit inducing patchwork clusterfucks of "Which "Friends" Character are You?" tests and flashing animated gifs of dogs that bark the "I Like to Move It Move It" song when you blink at them.
To the people filling their profiles with this crap - I love you, really, I must do, if you're my friend. But just consider for a moment that all us grownups are using facebook for a reason. It isn't a coincedence that we aren't all doing this on myspace. Facebook is smooth, sleek, fast, clean and fluid. Myspace is like a garage sale at a nursing home for the aesthetically insane. Facebook will become just like myspace if you continue down this horrible path.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - if thats what you want, feast away. I'm just not down with it, and facebooks overall utility for me is, compared with things like my job, friends, laptop and city, small enough that I'm willing to progressively ditch it as it becomes crappy.
Peace, love, and down with the hate machines,
T
This one is dedicated to you, Frances....
"Italian police have arrested a Russian "ninja" who had been spreading fear across farmlands in the north of the country." (BBC)
No blogging for the last two weeks - most hectic working period of my life (production of the bt100) followed by an epic visit of Arthur and the Brodie....Life and the blog-thing back to normal today....
"Italian police have arrested a Russian "ninja" who had been spreading fear across farmlands in the north of the country." (BBC)
No blogging for the last two weeks - most hectic working period of my life (production of the bt100) followed by an epic visit of Arthur and the Brodie....Life and the blog-thing back to normal today....
