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Random Ass News Links of the day (8/4/2010)

Okay so you know how last month I took a bunch of interesting stories in the news that day and wrote my opinions of them? I like doing that randomly. Except the last one was titled Random News Stories From Around The Web With Commentary Blah blah blah.. Worst title in the history of blogging. So I present to you, my new segment Random-ass news links of the day (this week, literally ass links – SFW). So enjoy:

Nike’s New Ad Campaign is Legit – This is why advertising works. If you want me to fall for your product, just throw a bunch of nice asses in my face and I’m sold. I’m more of a New Balance guy in the sneaker department, but because of that ad, I’m actually on my way to Modells right now writing this from mobile to get a pair of new Nike kicks. And they weren’t even advertising sneakers. With all due respect, Reebok was into the whole ass commercial thing first.

Google Abandons Wave – Good. I’m all for Google and like their shit, but there was absolutely no point of Google Wave. between GMail, Docs (in realtime) and Google Chat, you don’t need an extra tool for people to log in to. I waited a year to get an invite and when I finally got one, it was the most useless thing ever.

Android Is Number 1 – In Q2, Android was the top selling OS, with. It has grown 886% since Q2 last year. Apple fanboys response? “We have one device you have many” Kind of doesn’t help that you only have one carrier too… AT&T sucks.

Hmm thought I had more links. Oh well. Those will do

Someone Get Me This Shirt!

I need this shirt and would absolutely spend the insane price of $35 for it without any problem:

I would post the link to buy it, but the website is in French and it looks like they removed it.

Take 2: This is Why I Should Go to Bed

…because I half read internet stories and then post blatantly wrong information about them. Props to TC for pointing that out and making me not look like a dumbass look like less of a dumbass. I pretty much went on a tangent against something that acutally supported my argument. This is why I’m not a journalist.

In addition, I scheduled that post for tomorrow but somehow it published now. Obviously, I have no idea what I’m doing with WordPress.* I’d say it was kind of a good mistake though, because if it published while I was at work and away from my computer, I wouldn’t have noticed how stupidly wrong I was.

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*Sarcasm. I fuckin master this shit. I’m just careless.

Random News Stories From Around The Web With Commentary (7/15/2010)

18th Century Ship Exhumed at World Trade Center Site – So workers found an 18th century ship buried underground? Let me get this straight. Why didn’t they find this in the early 1970s when they dug the foundation on the World Trade Center?

Google Spent $100 Million Defending YouTube Against Viacom – Fuck Viacom and anyone who wants to sue for intellectual property damage these days. First off, Goolgle fully complies with takedown requests, so what the hell is the issue. Half the time I go to watch a Youtube video, it’s pulled down for Christ’s sake. Secondly, Viacom employees probably uploaded copyrighted videos on purpose to plant false evidence. Scumbag company. Wait a sec… $100 million on a lawsuit just to get it dismissed? Jeez! Must be nice when you turn a $3.6 billion profit in 3 months.

I Want this Fucking Thermostat – Is this thing badass, or am I just a geek? Basically you put solar panels on your roof and this thing controls everything, plus you can manage your thermostat and see power usage/ how much power your solar cells generated from anywhere on the internets. My house is facing south and bakes in the sun nonstop from 9am to 5PM, so I roast balls all day if the AC isn’t on. Really, tell the government to pay for me to install this system (they spend money out of control anyway on useless shit, so I might as well get free handouts). I’m green, bitches.

I was going to post more links but then I stopped caring.

Random News Story Commentary (7/13/2010)

Here are some random tech (and non tech) stories that have been interesting overt the past few days. Hey, wouldn’t this make a good daily segment to this blog? Yes it would, and I’m not doing it. 1) I only have 3 readers and 2) it takes up too much time. I could be sleeping or something like that. It was actually really fun to gather, so maybe I’ll do it when I feel like it. We’ll see. The stories:

Steinbrenner Dies at 80 – Jeez. First Bob Sheppard, now him? We better be winning the World Series this year in their honor. George was a generous man, a leader, wonderful businessman and truly cared about winning and his fans. R.I.P Georgie.

Consumer Reports Slams the iPhone 4 – Good. It’s a piece of shit. If you haven’t heard the news, Consumer Reports did it’s official review on the iPhone 4 and could not recommend it because its antenna issues are a real problem. According to lab tests, holding the phone in the wrong spot (AKA holding it normally) degrades the signal enough to drop a call, which explains why the jokeface Apple fanboy over at The Other Mac Blog hangs up on me 5 times whenever we have a 10 minute phone conversation. Jobs is now on suicide watch. I bet some engineer is really an Apple hater and did it on purpose. This is what happens when you only let one dude test the prototype and he loses it at a bar. Oh, and threads about the Consumer Reports review keep disappearing off of Apple’s user forums. Sweet censorship, Apple. What the hell is this, China?

Moron Wants to Send Android Phone into Space – This joker raised $2,000 from 65 people for supplies that will launch his EVO4G into space. The dude wants to launch it in a balloon, use it to take pictures and track it with GPS. First off, GPS loses signal after a certain elevation. Secondly, someone already did this on a $150 budget. I just don’t get it. The battery won’t last past 8,000 feet on that thing. I can think of 487 other uses of that money, such as alcohol, strippers, top hats or the Portfolioso is currently unemployed fund.

Nick Swisher Lost the Shit out of the Home Run Derby – Congrats to David ‘Roids Ortiz. Doesn’t matter, the derby is by far the most boring sporting event on television, I fell asleep right after the third batter in round 1. It’s almost as bad as soccer. Nick Swisher is still my boy. The real news is that Bobby Valentine predicted that Jose Ortiz would win it. Typical grandpa thing to do – take a dude with a hispanic name and randomly generate a hispanic first name (Juan Ortiz, Luiz Ortiz, Ramon Ortiz, Miguel Ortiz, whatever – same person.) And to think, I wanted that senile man to manage my team after Torre left.

Dear Google, Please Invite me to the Android AppInventor beta – If you haven’t heard of AppInventor in the news recently, it’s all the rage. Google is developing a tool to create Android Apps in your browser without knowing the java programming. It will be a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool that will allow anyone to develop an app. This is good and bad. The good is that it’s designed for educators and that supposedly, this tool can be used to access almost anything that Android can do. The bad: the marketplace is already cluttered with junk apps and this will most certainly add more. Just look at WYSIWYG web editors – they work, but they make 1995 looking junk pages. I am counting on Google to do this right though. It won’t make the most pretty or efficient apps, but it’s something to play with. I can finally get working on that Portfolioso quotes app.