E-Dribble

This one’s for you, Bert.

Compliments of xkcd.

This just in: Twitter facilitates the spread of misinformation and lacks the ability to place comments into context.

And just after the break: Water is wet and fire is hot.

It seems the tech internet news sites are just getting around to discussing the fact that Twitter is useless as a source for receiving legitimate information.  In this instance, they’ve used the swine flu scare(I refuse to use the word outbreak in conjunction with swine flu, since there is no outbreak. Also, please take note that I won’t be attributing Proper Name status to the term swine flu.  You’re a fucking mental hemorrhoid if you don’t see the pathetic attempts of the news agencies for what they are.)

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Tanya Andersen was one of those people you heard about in recent years…  she was a disabled single mom being sued by the RIAA.  The RIAA did everything they could to destroy her but it didn’t work out the way they had hoped.  She was a likable person, the judge didn’t happen to be on their payroll and they had no evidence.  So, after a couple of years of trying to put her in the pokey, they dropped the case.

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A dude in a wizard’s outfit decides he doesn’t want to wear it anymore so he disrobes.  No big deal, but he’s in the middle of Coachella. The cops ask him to put his clothes on, but he refuses.  They plead and he holds his ground.  After roughly two minutes, the police decide to detain him, which the wizard does not approve of.  It ends in a fantastic multi-tasering of the unfortunately endowed gentleman.

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I have to admit that I don’t pay much attention to politics, but just being present and conscious in public settings ensures that you’ll pick up all the important bits of information that you need to know. For instance, did you know that Barack Obama is black? Well, half black. It looks to me like there was a honky in the woodpile at one time. I had no idea until I visited the book section of Target and saw 11 books about him in the children’s section. Obviously, it’s a big deal.

Never once think however, that I miss all the important things that occur in the administration though. I’ve got my ears to the ground, and on that note:

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First, Facebook backtracked on their partnership with TPB.  Then, Some of the big wigs got sent to the pokey.  Now ISP’s are beginning to block access to TPB.

Everyone that is surprised that an entity that facilitates illegal file sharing is being picked on.  Ok, all of you that raised your hands… you’re idiots.  Don’t breed.

Since Napster took a dirt nap, everyone that was awake understood that any system that had a hub that could be targeted…. would be targeted.

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There was a time when I thought that Twitter was one of the most insipid societal fads to come down the pipeline in my lifetime.  Then CNN set me straight.  It’s not insipid.  It’s main stream.  It’s cool.  We know this because Ashton Kutcher, Puff Daddy and Oprah say so.

You see, Ashton and CNN were in a heated race to be the first to have 1 million subscribers to their Twitter channel. You may think that it was done in good humour, but no, this was serious business.  I’m going to share some quotes from the superstar, Ashton himself.  Wondering if these came from his twits?  Don’t be silly.  You have no room for complete sentences, much less fully formed thoughts that make sense.  No sir, he went on “Larry King Live” to talk about this “battle”.  He wanted to explain why this “duel” had to happen.

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A /. user was testing the new Microsoft filter system.  Upon initial use and with the filter set to the lowest setting, the filter blocked Google.  Disabling the filter brought the Goog back.

The nerds are currently deciding via /.’s commenting system if it was intentional or not.  They’ll let you know what they decide.

As time passes, I grow as weary of Google’s tactics as I am of Microsoft.  I use both daily, so I can hardly say that I feel strongly enough to be rid of them, but I sometimes hate to think of my role in this as an enabler.

Just not quite enough to go without my OS and Google Maps.

Kevin Turner, the COO of Microsoft stated in a address at the MidMarket CIO Summit:

Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we’ve ever built. It’s also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard. It’s the safest and most secure OS on the planet today. Everything that we’ve learned in Vista will be leveraged in Windows 7, but certainly when we broke a lot of the compatibility issues to lock down user account controls, to lock down the ability to manipulate states and all the things, that was a very painful process for us to grow through, but we had to do it. And the reason that Windows 7 will be successful is because of the pain we took on Vista. Because from a compatibility standpoint, if it works on Vista, it will work on Windows 7. If it doesn’t work on Vista, it won’t work on Windows 7.

The

Safest

On

The

Planet?

I got nothing.

Remember when I told you that the Openmoko phone was dead in the water?  Well, it seems that my informants at /. might have jumped the gun and now state that the phone is actually still being developed.  Hey, you can hardly blame me.  I just regurgitate all the crap that I find.

I understand that some of you may be under the mistaken assumption that I enjoy these FOSS failures, which would be untrue.  I’m the largest proponent of open source that you will find.  However, I don’t feel that you should get bonus points for developing open source apps if you’re incompetent.  From the complaints rolling in concerning the Openmoko platform, it’s indeed being handled by idiots.  Most complaints concern the fact that the devs concentrate on  bells and whistles while users can not actually successfully make a phone call on the phone.  During the development process it remained a fact that they couldn’t make a phone call, but the interface looks prettier than it did when they couldn’t make a phone call a year ago.

I bet you couldn’t guess that I’m blogging this from my OLPC while I call my publisher on my Neo Freerunner.