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An Open Letter To Steve Jobs RE: iPad Naming

On behalf of Fujitsu (PDF), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, and Coconut Grove Intimates (now defunct, even the WayBackMachine couldn’t help me) I would like to put forth the following open letter to Steve Jobs and Apple Computers.  I shall be as brief as my predecessor.
Change your devices name. Not that big of a deal.
Look familiar to you?  [...]

I’m Doing It Wrong!

Found an article by Chris Clarke over at Coyote Crossing that explains the “magic recipe” to writing award winning blog posts.  It clearly shows that I don’t know what I am doing.  Maybe that is the reason for this blog’s abysmal readership.  Of course it could also be because I am an outrageous ass who [...]

Why I am boycotting “The Simpsons” and you should too!

So I find out today that Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, has lent her voice recording to a robo-call for a scientology event.

I can’t for the life of me figure out why she would do such a thing.  So she is a Scientologist.  Big deal.  I can only think of 3 possible scenarios:

She [...]

The Power of the Vice Presidency

Having heard part one of this on NPR’s All Thing Considered and now having listened to it again and the recently found part two I couldn’t help but pass it on.
Part 1

Image via Wikipedia

Part 2
It really points to something that I think I always knew in the back of my mind but never admitted publicly.  [...]

1/4 MAD

According to the NYT it seems with issue #500 MAD Magazine will be going quarterly.  According to editor John Ficarra:
The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every
third issue of Mad is funny, so we decided to just publish those.
I haven’t read much of the magazine lately but I do pop into their website [...]

Capitalism’s Place In America

We live in a time where it seems that corporations have more rights, and certainly more social help, than humans do in the United States. While social security, welfare, unemployment benefits, and food stamps do little to actually help the public in need Corporate America is being spoon-fed caviar at the tax payer expense.
I [...]

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