Starting in 2010 I’m going to lay down arms and accept the media status quo–at least as tech industry spellings are concerned. At this point, I think it’s more harmful than helpful to spell those words differently, and I want articles I write for my sites to be as media friendly as possible.
Annoyances
In 2010 Me Write Good
8 Reasons Why Palin Sucks
Certainly there’s many reasons to dislike Sarah Palin, but here are 8 good ones that AlterNet compiled.
TV-B-Gone Nostalgia
A recent article by Matt Richtel of the New York Times entitled Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal reminded me of a gadget I purchased several years ago — TV-B-Gone. TV-B-Gone is a small keychain remote control that will turn off any TV anywhere! Your TV-B-Gone universal remote control resembles other TV remote controls, …
Blockbuster Hopefully Getting What It Deserves – A Death Blow
In reference to Don Reisinger’s CNET article on Say goodbye to Blockbuster Many, many years ago I worked for a music store called Turtles. Turtles was bought out by Blockbuster in their attempt to break into retail music sales (which failed miserably). When their takeover was complete, they made all of the Turtles employees sign …
"Artist" Chains Up Dog for Exhibit, Lets it Die!
A so-called artist chained up a sick street dog and let him starve to death as an art exhibit. Guillermo Habacuc Vargas had 2 children catch this dog. He paid the kids for this. He then chained the dog and used the dog as “art”. He told everyone not to feed this dog. The dog …
Men Rules for Women
“Dark Roasted Blend”:http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/ put together a nice list of “rules about men”:http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/05/men-rules-humor.html for women. These are my favorite: # Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down. # Ask …