Archive for the ‘wtf’ Category
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Welcoming 2009 with video WTFery, with thanks to my friend Keith.
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Dear Author again graces us with examples of the paleolithic thinking of the old media.
The upshot is, the NY Times thinks used bookstores are the reason publishing is in a crisis right now.
Yeah, right.
This is the true sign of a crisis, when the old guard suddenly tries desperately to find ...
Posted in intellectual property, publishing, wtf | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 26th, 2008
From Dear Author we have something that just amazes me in shear economic WTFry.
We all know at the wonderful, and oh so successful, way that major content providers (MPAA, RIAA, Viacom etc.) have tried to impose 19th century "this is my widget" mentality to IP law in the digital age. ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
To be enshrined along with "we had to destroy the village in order to save it."
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."
George Bush, announcing that American Capitalism has jumped the shark.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
On Dear Author we hear of a woman who's held a funeral for her failed writing career. When I read the post my thoughts went something like this:
Sixteen rejections is a low threshold for career failure.
Can you base a career on the viability of a single novel (probably a first ...
Posted in publishing, writing, wtf | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
From Rudy Rucker's blog, a truly trippy demo. As Rudy says, "the controls do work, but it takes a while to figure them out. Like using an alien iPhone that dropped out of a flying saucer."
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
She made me do this. But here you go anyway. Of course you also want to see the high quality version.
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
My wife's birthday came in November, and today this gift box was delivered:
That's a mighty impressive box. Wonder what's inside?
Ok, packed snugly with some paper packing materials, another box. Interesting. Want to take a wild guess what's inside? Well there were a whole mess of Styrofoam ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
One of the fun things about being a libertarian is that you really have no problem coming up with really good examples of bad government intervention. It's almost a given, and I think even the most statist of both my liberal and conservative friends would agree that Sturgeon’s Law applies ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
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