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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Break up!
September 20, 2008 – 9:45 pm
“New Rule: IF your company is too big to fail, your company is too big to exist. The next Prez. needs to split up huge companies like we did with AT&T.”
Agreed.
[via Reddit]
“I’m a generic piece of hardware.”
September 20, 2008 – 9:00 pm
John Gruber does a brilliant job of explaining both the difference between Apple and Microsoft and their repective products, and why Microsoft’s new ads are so bad. Here’s my favorite quote:
“Microsoft’s new ads emphasize the same message as Apple’s: that the Mac is the one and only brand-name computer in the world.”
Go read the whole [...]
No More Paper. But Not Yet.
September 16, 2008 – 11:34 pm
This is a good looking device. I like the size, I like how simple it is, and I like the way the text looks on the ‘page.’ The concept of the ebook is an attractive one to me. Paper is precious — that is, the trees paper is made from are precious, and any effort [...]
It’d Be a Miracle if He Knew How to Use One
September 16, 2008 – 4:16 pm
If the BlackBerry is a “miracle,” what does that make the iPhone?
John Gruber Hopeful
September 14, 2008 – 10:11 pm
“Lehman goes bust, Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America. Perhaps this will refocus presidential campaign coverage on the economy rather than bullshit.”
Something tells me that won’t be the case.
[Daring Fireball]
Raptor Jesus Says… [#1]
September 13, 2008 – 9:55 pm
Rudy Giuliani chants: “Drill, baby, drill!“
Thomas L. Friedman asks: “Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy?”
Raptor Jesus Says: “Verily I say unto you — The Republicans are afraid, [...]
Like Freedom but Not
September 13, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Via the New York Times:
“… the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments…”
All in the name of fighting the Terrorisms. Haven’t your heard? It’s the new Communism.
The Air Force deputy under secretary makes the argument that “this is [...]
Change with McCain? Signs Say, “NO.”
September 12, 2008 – 11:20 pm
I couldn’t have said it better myself:
“Instead of selecting someone on the basis of skills, proven experience and demonstrated competence, McCain made his choice out of pure political calculation to pander to Republican special interest groups and the news media. Instead of putting the national interest first, McCain has chosen to put his political interest [...]
