Fox News sucks, Mr. T rocks.

This morning, I was watching Fox News' guerilla tabloid journalism as they attacked Father Pfleger and continued their tired tabloid campaign to try to re-brand Rev. Wright as an anti-American bigot. It's hilarious to watch, but very sad when I remember that a lot of people back home actually think of Fox News as reliable source of information. I guess if they say "Fair & Balanced" over and over again enough times, these people believe it -- just like seems to happen if they keep repeating the flavor-of-the-week character assassinations of Obama.

But then... then!  Immediately after the interview, the following super loud WoW commercial took over and soon had me filling my empty room with screams of comedic agony.  "I'm Mr. T and this is my night elf mohawk!"

You have to see it.

Facebook relegated to "fast follower" status -- and the innovator is.. AOL??

Yesterday, AOL bought Bebo, a large online social network in the UK and Europe. AOL discussed plans to integrate AIM, their market-leading IM platform, into Bebo.

A whole 24 hours later, Facebook has now announced that they will release an IM system of their own, stepping on the toes of many companies who have spent the past year developing IM and chat on Facebook's platform.

Competing with your own customers?  Check.  Out of ideas, so you'd prefer to steal some from AOL? check.  Looks like Facebook is the new Microsoft.

"Please let me break the law from your machine"

Wow, disturbing post on Craigslist Baltimore:

I need a machine that I can remote desktop into. I need it to be a windows machine that has a fast internet connection- a decent processor (1-2 ghrtz or so), about 2 gb of ram. I will only need to use the machine for about 1 hour per day max between the hours of 9:30 am - 1:30 pm.
I will use little disk space on the machine and will just run a mildly processor-intensive program on the machine in 10 minute intervals max of 3 times a day, but probably only at 10 am and at 1 pm mostly on fridays and saturdays.
I will pay per month for this access- probably enough to pay for your monthly internet bill.
Let me know what type of machine you have- processor speed, ram, operating system and what type of internet connection you have and how much you would charge per month.
Thanks

I hope he's going to use it to take fractions of a cent off each transaction in a pool of billions!

Molly Ivins

Some of you probably know who Molly Ivins was. I learned about her when Shelly and I saw the Molly Ivins tribute on Book TV (viewable here -- but only in Real Media format, regrettably). Based on the descriptions and eulogy-ish speeches (and poem!) dedicated to her, she was totally awesome. Speakers included: Maya Angelou, Kathleen Chalfont, Gail Collins, Lou Dubose, Garrison Keillor, John Leonard, Eden Lipson, Anthony Romero, and Calvin Trillin.

I just learned that she wrote the following article before she died -- very insightful.

Molly Ivins: Not. Endorsing. Hillary.

Wisdom from Time Cube

I think maybe I should pull a Jefferson Bible on Time Cube.


here's a starter quote:

"education"
inflicts a dog brain upon
Students - ability to be
taught servitude - but
an inability to ever think
opposite of brainwashing
and indoctrination - very
unlikely to ever recover
to acknowledge

CNN covers up Obama's delegate lead?

Despite a loss in California, and despite Hillary Clinton's advantage in the race for "super delegates" (or as I call them, the approval of the establishment), Barack Obama has taken the lead in terms of delegates earned. Here's the Politico article on it from this morning at about 8AM Pacific. MSNBC reported soon afterwards, and has updated its frontpage listing as pictured here:




Of course, this was big news in the Obama mailing lists. In fact, it was actually news to many CNN-only friends of mine, just ten minutes ago -- a full six hours since Obama took the lead, CNN.com still looked like this:



Notice the "updated 1 minute ago" line... Now it's pretty well-documented time is a precious piece of this race. With every week that has gone by since December, Obama has gained ground on Clinton. For supporters of Clinton, who is practically an incumbent, the remaining primaries can't come soon enough, whereas Obamans are hoping their candidate has time to get his new and inspiring message across to challenge the establishment.

As far as I can tell, CNN.com's slow play on updating their page can only be interpreted as an attempt to buy Clinton one more day with "frontrunner" status.

Update: Now, at 3:02PM pacific, CNN (the TV program) is still talking about how Clinton has more delegates. It is still being spun as a "he won more states, she won more delegates" situation and they are still citing the numbers from some 7 hours ago.

Draw your own furniture

Draw your own furniture! This rocks. It's 3D printed after being hand-designed in just a few seconds.