“They’re so close that when the Secretary of Defense visits Iraq, he is protected by Blackwater forces, not the US military. Given the elderly, criminal and mentally unstable (but, by God, not gay) recruits the Pentagon has been desperately snagging lately, I can understand the decision.”
— baratunde
September 2007
“No idea why Gates is doing this except maybe he’s figured out that Facebook is the only company with applications that are more useless and more annoying than Microsoft’s. You’ve got to hand it to Zuckerberg though. Kid has brass balls. And he’s figured out something very essential about the Valley, which is that, deep down, nobody really knows what anything is worth”
—secret diary of steve jobs
“Not to nitpick, but saying No Child Left Behind preserves local control is like telling an engineer he can take his train anywhere he likes; those rails are just guidelines.”
—pbiafm.com
“The day you spend one minute thinking about the death of democracy in Zimbabwe is the day Dick Cheney climbs a set of stairs without a defibrillator and a forklift.”
—nicholas wind (morford in disguise?)
“In fact, in their efforts to still any local democratic urges, the government of China is cracking down on reality TV shows. All those millions of Chinese casting votes on their cell phones was giving people the wrong idea. So in the name of “good taste” the government is cancelling the various offending shows.”
—wait, maybe they have something there
“I wanted to call it San Angeles, and somebody said, “I don’t get it.” I said, “You know, San Francisco and Los Angeles.” It’s bizarre: People only think about what’s under their noses until it comes and kicks them in the ass.”
—ridley scott
“You know what? Each time someone jailbreaks an iPhone, Steve dies a little inside. Are you happy now? Are you?!”
—apple updates iphone
“I mean, you’ve got to think, “Wow, those NBC execs really are independent thinkers! Stupid, sure, but independent! They aren’t Steve Jobs’ toadies! No sir! Look at the way they saw away at their noses! Their faces sure won’t ever mess with them again!”
—call him fishmeal
“You note that the Web has made channeling or illuminating the wisdom of crowds much easier …”
— i was going to link to under-arm farting on youtube, but what the hell
“I am always fascinated by the levels of bad taste that are reached through odd, and traditional techniques.”
—hüdwnkd
“A guide to the various Worders in the New Media landscape. It’s no longer just Writers and Readers.”
—worders, wave bye-bye to readers
“Soylent diesel …”
—funny-frank
“More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms”
—jesus christ. listics
“Fact-aversive Americans have been engaging in a kind of magical thinking. They have accepted a number of logical fallacies. Well-educated, thinking, generally caring, but stubborn folks blindly insist that as long as they do not know anything too disturbing (or at least no more than their daily paper will tell them) then nothing bad will happen.”
—well no wonder the front page of the chronicle is so damn cheery every day
“Well, perhaps Amazon can find a book or something about how to build a successful high-volume online store.”
—gruber: absolute #1 web-snot
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison”
—i don’t know about the overalls, like this is 2007 and we are soooo hip (a word you were so lucky to never have known) … but way cool noticing, T!
reblog from szymon
reblog from szymon
“So my advice to any business intending to take advantage of all that lovely free content out there? Play nice.”
—suw charman - always with the jokes, that suw.
“Here’s my theory: Whenever someone says something is “for the children,” one should immediately narrow one’s eyes and focus one’s mind, because you’ve just been alerted that someone is trying to pull a fast one”
—doug stych on one laptop per child
“You can’t freestyle the facts”
—chuck d tells stanford
