I don’t know why but today was just one of those days where I wanted to relate everything back to Jersey Shore. I was all like, “Damn. Why you creatures gotta keep hating on my situation. Why don’t you go creep up on Mashable’s boardwalk?” FML.
On The iPad
Sooo, the iPad launched this week…
Apple’s new device does not support the “closed system” of Flash and many have taken this opportunity to praise HTML 5. I’ve already established myself as a bit of an HTML 5 fangirl, but when Flash offers the majority of video and gaming experiences on the web, you have to think this decision is simply removing functionality for consumers. Regardless of how sleek and elegant new devices are, they should offer more access to media, not less. I want cross-platform mobile development tools, but that doesn’t mean I want all of the past work that’s been done to go up in smoke. Make no mistake about it, the second someone comes out with a prettier phone, music player or cheap tablet, I’m sooo outta here. If this were an 80’s movie, Apple would be the beautiful popular girl that no one actually likes. I keep holding my breath for a nice foreign exchange student to win prom queen.
Bullshitting About Outer Space
I just saw this video from X Prize Foundation Chair Peter Diamandis in which he admits he did not have the initial $10M to award to the X Prize winner when the event was first launched.
Wake Up America
This guy keeps sending me weird Barack Obama birther messages and YouTube videos and I can’t help reading and clicking on them. I’m just so fascinated by it. Like whoa, as a part time tech blogger I have a huge stake in clearing up whether or not Barack Obama is a Muslim Indonesian or not. I’m a Buddhist Asian Canadian. If Barack Obama were a Muslim Indonesian, I’d probably identify with him more. Plus, the birther keeps writing the phrase “Wake Up America” before he starts in on his tirades. Because of it I think of Good Morning America and I imagine him as ABC weather anchor Sam Champion. And I think, “Sam Champion, you should be ashamed of yourself! How would strong Black lady anchor Robin Roberts feel?” But I suppose she’d chuckle smugly alongside George Stephanopoulos while Sam was forced to report from the snow in a Fargo hat.
A Mallard-y of Our Times
Every few months, when Pat Robertson decides to say something so offensive that I am reminded he exists, I reminisce on his argument against the hate crimes bill. Last year Robertson argued that protecting GLBT people from hate crimes would force us to have to protect “weird guys” who like to “have sex with ducks”, oh and also pedophiles. And then it hit me - ducks represent all that is evil in society. As delivered through the gospel of YouTube, behold ye…
Exhibit A: In Bill O’Reilly’s argument to uphold Prop 8 and ban same sex marriage, he explains, “If the California Supreme Court had allowed the gays to get married, anybody could’ve got married. You could’ve married a duck.”
Exhibit B: In Kirk Cameron’s argument against evolution, Cameron reveals an artist’s rendering of a “crocoduck” to prove that “transitional life forms do not exist” and therefore, evolution does not exist. And finally…
Exhibit C: Materialism, greed and spats…
Here’s my LeWeb and Social Media Club House slideshow.
Tuxedo Cat Hat
I’m not sure what the deal is, but in the last 2 weeks in 2 different cities, I’ve seen men wearing live tuxedo cats on their heads. I don’t think this is an anime cosplay phenomenon, but it still has a decidedly Gothic Lolita effect. I wonder if the creatures are some sort of controlling parasite.
All Your Spams are Poof
It’s New Year’s Day and a particularly aggressive set of spammers have decided to inundate ReadWriteWeb with their fake comments and irrelevant links. In the same way that military strikes like the Tet Offensive and Yom Kippur War of 1973 were launched on national holidays, so too was our latest spam comment attack. The belief is that holidays create vulnerability. However, this battle to put a link on the site actually does nothing for your Google ranking. Don’t believe me? Click “view source” or “inspect element” and you’ll see that your link is accompanied by rel=”nofollow”. In other words, we’re telling Google to ignore you. So now that that’s settled you can stop your attack and go relax with your families. Happy New Year dumb-dumbs!
