E-Dribble

Lego is building an MMO for every person that spent hours upon hours building large blocks out of smaller blocks.  Some people have built incredible things with the blocks.  I was not one of those people.  Instead, my masterpieces usually looked like a multi-colored blob that were shaped roughly the same as the blocks they were made up of.

I’m hoping that cyber-me does better at block building that the real me has in the past.  I’ve signed up for the closed beta and will let you know if the people at Lego deem me worthy to assemble fake blocks together in an MMO setting.

In line with their plan of world domination, Google decided to turn GMail into a Facebook clone, with their most recent addition being “Buzz”. Most of us(myself included) found out how to turn it off. Not all were as charitable as I and began bitching in earnest.  You see, Google made it a royal pain in the ass to turn it off.  They let you think you were turning it off with the handy link at the bottom of the page when in reality you were only hiding it from your view, allowing their social network to gain users that didn’t know they were part of a social network any longer.

For those of us that despise social networking, Google has finally added the ability to actually opt out of the bullshit that is “Buzz“.

Or, it’s just another button that doesn’t do what they say.

The guys at Techdirt are making fun of the NY Times because the paper thinks that they should charge Apple users $20-30 dollars a month to be able to view the NY Times on their Apple iPad.  Techdirt regurgitates the whole paywall fiasco that the NYTimes perpetuated recently to emphasized their folly.

I think anyone willing to pay upwards of $700 for an iPhone with a weight problem will very likely pay $30 a month to read what the NY Times considers news-worthy.

While I could spend all day linking surveys hosted by entities that hate Apple and skew the numbers in their favor to make Apple’s latest must-have product look like an abysmal failure(ok, you got me.  I linked one), I’m going to pass, if only because they’re not funny.  What is Apple if it isn’t a company that inspires laughs?

Which leads me to this hard-hitting comparison:

This is the kind of fair and balanced journalism that I can get behind.

I sometimes wish I lived a hundred years ago when every woman was a lady and every man was a gentleman.  I know this to be an inarguable truth because everyone wore fancy hats.

Everybody.

Fucking everybody.

My main man, the Obamanator, in an effort put the government in charge of absolutely everything assembled a shock-troop in charge of people that sell you cellular phones.  Well, those guys are wondering why Verizon doubled their cancellation fee for data phone contracts.

Verizon’s response?  Well, they doubled the fee so the poor unwashed mobs of the world can afford to get the same incredible service that Verizon provides to the rich  bastards that pay the ETF(early termination fee).

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I thought we found the perfect use for Twitter when the incredible shock troop that is the Iranian Cyber Army took over Twitter’s home page to post notice of said takeover(Side note: if you’d like to contact the Iranian cyber army, they would love to hear from you.  They posted their GMail address on the takeover splash page, the social butterflies.).

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I’ve had a bit of fun reading about Facebook’s recent attempt to overthrow Google as the go-to place for useless shit.  You see, Facebook’s visits translate into advertising dollars. One fantastic way of increasing the number of visits is by making it practically impossible for you to secure your data, thereby making more content available for all the people that have absolutely nothing better to do than spend hours a day browsing flotsam and jetsam posted by other people with nothing better to do than to post it.

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Happy Veteran’s day to all of you that signed a portion of your life away to Uncle Sam.  And to all of you that made the somewhat humerous choice of joining the Marine Corps, Happy 234th birthday.  I would have gotten a cake, but I couldn’t find one that would fit enough candles.

While sitting here tying my shoes(well, operating the velcro, with my dexterity and problem-solving aptitude, replacing laces with velcro saved me hours a day), I got an email from one of my three followers on the blog asking where the hell I have been.  I must apologize to all three of the readers as well as the scores of visitors that found this site while searching “how to administer a suppository”(the third most popular search query).  You see, I promised my wife that she would have a finished living room to celebrate Christmas in.

I speak, of course, of the living room that I completely demolished over a year ago, while converting our loft layout into something more usable.  If you think I feel bad about it taking a year, imagine how bad I feel at the demolished bathroom that has existed for over four.

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