I dislike jargon. It’s a silly human invention that generally doesn’t mean anything to anybody apart from marketing people trying to sell to the idiocracy. “Web 2.0″ is a term that has grated on me for some time, and I’ve decided it needs to be fired from our vocabularies. “Web 2.0″ means just about as [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
Don’t Point. It’s Rude.
At least once a month I have to log into Facebook and un-tag pictures of myself. There is a segment of the Facebook population who feels that they are doing a public service by identifying every single person in every single photo they see. It never occurs to them that the people in the photos [...]
The Future Is Now
I just noticed it. Out of the corner of my eye. Nearly unmentionable. Tucked neatly between ads for online dating and yoga mats on a sidebar, there it was:
VirginGalactic TicketsBook your flight to Space!An Accredited Space Agencywww.galacticjourneys.com/
Today is the day that tickets aboard a spaceship are now just another advertisment.
Iron Man
Last night I hit the theaters to go see Iron Man. It was one of the few times lately I’ve been able to enjoy myself, because teenagers aren’t allowed to go to the movies at 9:00 on a Thursday, and the small crowd meant that only one idiot refused to turn off his Blackberry and [...]
Comment Killa
On social networking sites I frequently notice a phenomenon of Comment Killas. You know who I mean. This is That Person who, merely by making a simple post, put a 187 on the entire discussion. Why? Because this person is a pariah, a troll, or a ticking time bomb of drama that nobody even wants [...]