I didn’t even bother to read this, it’s so ridiculous. Microsoft must have hired some wonks from the Bush administration for planning. Did you realize that the iPhone doesn’t support OFFIC? Oh my, ya’ll had better wait for the Zune phone then.
The word “clueless comes to mind. Fuck you Bill!

Microsoft slams Apple iPhone as ‘irrelevant’
Apple’s […]

Not that I would ever want to gloat about what a deviant piece of crap Windows is but it appears that some of the most important dentures, such as the ability to actually recover your files from their backup app are not available unless you buy the much more expensive version.
What’s that word… oh yeah: […]

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President
The Detroit News
Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.
Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid […]

“Microsoft says DRM-free music soon to be available to all 14 Zune owners. Steve Jobs to announce Microsoft’s next move shortly.”

I know he’s trolling for hits again by pissing off Mac users, but some other twit may then take his demented ravings to heart and decide to wait for the ZunePhone. This could bring an end to civilization as we know it.
“Johnny C” - as he is known in the troll escort business - is […]

No storms, no gator bait, just bumper cars with cripplesAnother exciting tale of reality being warped by sunshine and bad water. BTW: No tips for you!
Valet crashes amputee’s car - then hits him
Pensacola, Fla. (AP) — A valet accidentally drove an amputee’s specially equipped car through a Pensacola hospital’s front entrance, knocking the car’s owner […]

Sorry, this isn’t about Macs, but it pisses me off so much that I have to let everyone know about it.
The administration knows what would happen if the started up the draft again, so instead of doing what’s necessary at the cost of perhaps losing the next election, they are willing to risk the […]

You thought we were safe, a new month, no analog logic bombs from the sunshine state… but this would underestimate the ability of Florida’s citizenry to jump in the deep end with both ends:
Miami developer arrested after using official funds to buy watermelon statue
Fri Mar 2, 5:16 PM ET
A prominent Miami developer was arrested Friday […]

“He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar
in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said
that it was the donkey who caused that damage.”

Here’s what’s boncing about the web right now!
Mac Display Eater kills home files
PR disaster waiting to happen
A MAKER of Mac software has uncovered a “scary” anti-piracy measure in a bit of code called Display Eater.
Display Eater records motion video on your screen which you can then convert to a Quicktime movie.
However writing in his bog […]

I just checked my calendar to make sure that we are living in the 21st century.So whycome are the citizens of such an otherwise civilized country counting the dots on an airline’s new logo? Don’t they have anything better to do? Get these folks on the internet.The suprising result was that enough of these idle-brained […]

This morning at BoingBoing.com there was a clipette about how paranoid and clueless the Vancouver CA police have become about WiFi and computers.
Vancouver cops hate WiFi
Vancouver’s cops have espoused vague, technologically ignorant objections to city-wide WiFi. They argue that the ability to communicate anonymously will help criminals (cough pay-phones cough) and that WiFi is all […]

Why you don’t want to buy the cheapest computer you can find from a company that makes hardly any profit.
“Dell Laptop Burned Down My House”
On Monday morning I was heading to work like any other day.. little did I know that my home was being consumed by a raging fire. I arrived my desk to […]

“Goofy” arrested on child porn charges
Orlando, Florida - A Disney actor who plays “Goofy” and “The Beast” from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ faces 51 counts of child porn in Orlando. 
20-year-old Matthew Wendland was arrested early this morning at his apartment.  Police found explicit photos of children as young as 3-years-old, posed in pornographic positions inside Matthew’s room.  […]

Someone has an issue. It’s a new month and time for the Gator-Bait State to escalate their exploration into the netherworld of irrational behavior.
Two arrested after fight over washcloth.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a fight over a washcloth in Ponte Vedra Beach sent two people to jail.According to the St. Johns County […]

Or he’s finally dropped a parity-bit somewhere. Evidence this quote from the recent Newsweek interview:
“Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
You can read […]

Zune’s Boss Steps Down. Is the iPod Killer…Dying?
Bryan Lee, the head of the Zune project for Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, is leaving the company “to focus on the next chapter in his life,” but analysts claim it’s something fishy about his departure.
A spokeswoman for the Redmond behemoth declared that the corporate vice-president at […]

Haven’t you missed the Floridiots? I have.
It was looking like the therapy had taken good effect for a while but then these delightful pieces occurred in fark.com which is so much easier than actually doing research.So now the great state of below sealevel allows you to carry a concealed weapon even if you are […]

Can this spray really stop mobile phone signals?
Did you know that, right now, artificial electromagnetic (EM) waves could be tearing your skin cells apart and causing your face to age prematurely? Waves from televisions, mobile phones and radios are all around us. They pass through metres of concrete, so imagine what they’re doing to your […]

“I’m not paranoid, they really are trying to get me!”
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.
A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating […]

SUPRISE!
Vista is a disaster. Microsoft is so desperate to get the entertainment industry locked into its platform that they’ll destroy themselves to get there. This is an operating system that, when idle, will have to check itself every 30 microseconds to make sure nothing is still happening, and no hackers are attacking it. It acts […]

A consistent topic at holiday parties was what I thought of Windows Vista.

That’s like asking me what I think about chemotherapy or getting slapped in the face with a Toyota Celica. Resisting the urge to
blurt out “…well, it sucks” I instead claimed ignorance with a side order
of revulsion and fear.
In fact, it’s clear that Windows […]

Man Run Over, Set On Fire By Own Car
POSTED: 9:57 pm EST January 7, 2007
A 43-year-old man in Orange County, Fla., working on his vehicle over the weekend, was run over and then set on fire when the car slipped into gear.
Police said the man was working on his vehicle at the Hunter’s Creek nursing […]

The Guy in charge of enforcing environmental laws in Venice FLA takes his redneck relatives off into the swamp through a hole in the fence despite the fact that it’s protected park land he’s ripping up. So the park eats his car.
Myakka River State Park is a mostly water - it’s a river in a […]

Fla. Residents See Jesus Image In Tree
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Man-made religious decorations are a common sight at this time of year, but the image on a tree in an Arlington man’s front yard is natural and some neighbors have begun calling it a holy tree, according to a WJXT-TV report.
Neighbors near Daryl Brown’s Arlington home […]

Woman may face charges over keeping ball
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A woman may face charges after she reportedly refused to return a child’s ball that was given as a Christmas gift but then kicked into her yard by a child.
A Marion County deputy and the child’s mother say they plan to pursue charges against the […]

Walmart’s Zunes, now with porn?
It’s not the first time, nor the last, that people will find porn on (supposedly) new or recycled consumer electronics. This time it happened to a family in Southside Chicago who purchased Microsoft’s Zune from the local Walmart for their 12 year-old daughter.
The daughter, who says the box looked like […]

Small plane crashes into raw sewage tankTuesday, December 19, 2006
A small airplane apparently took a nose-dive into a tank of raw sewage near Gilroy on Monday afternoon.
Gilroy police Sgt. Kurt Svardal said authorities have no idea where the plane was from or where it was going. The aircraft came pretty much straight down into a […]

It’s not the drugs honey, it’s location, location & location.
Woman tells cop she bought ‘bad crack’
Mon Dec 18, 11:39 PM ET
HAWTHORNE, Fla. - A North Carolina woman was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just purchased wasn’t very good, authorities said.
Eloise D. Reaves, 50, approached the Putnam County […]

Ok, there’s something in the water in Redmond that causes illusions of adequacy. No doubt it’s the same stuff that Mr. Bush and his six friends have been chugging for the last few years. It’s “pretty awesome” that their piece of Zune player will have a million victims by JUNE!
Years from now when Microsoft becomes […]

Digg alerted me to this insane article from Radioandrecords.com
which is apparently a trade rag for the greed and arrogance industry.
I’ll let you click on the link and read the entire thing, but this last
paragraph says it all.

“Mechanical royalties currently
are out of whack with historical and international rates,” RIAA
executive vp and general counsel Steven Marks said. […]

Really stupid business model #233049-a:

Assume that all of your customers are criminals
Ask your distributors to raise their prices to pay for these imaginary crimes
Wonder why your sales are way down

Now the movie studios want a ‘piracy cut’ from Apple
Movie studios are demanding that Apple implements a tougher and more restricted DRM system if it […]

Gawd, it’s 6am and I’d better get a blog out. What am I going to write about? Here’s something on DIGG about Apple selling a gazillion MacBooks this month - yeah - no suprise there.
Lessee, “Leo Laport turns 50“, jeeze he’s just a kid! “New security camera can see through clothes” Promising but…
“Man […]

As an addicted Second Life fan, I was actually online when thisall happened sunday and the only thing I noticed was a pop-upannouncing that they were locking logins for a while to get rid of ahack. So I went on building my weapons and looking at virtual breastsuntil another message came up announcing that everything […]

When all else fails, you can depend on the Gator State to come up with outstanding demonstrations of - what’s the word? Oh yeah, stupidity. (PS: Drugs or alcohol may have been involved, and perhaps genetics.)
You see, alligators are free for the taking in Florida. You just go outside, locate a bit of water and […]

This is so much fun! Microsoft introduces an iPod killer that sucks and people are suprised. Here are some comments recently found on DIGG.
ZUNE can’t be used as a portable hard drive
…as O’Reilly mentioned: You can connect your Zune to a Mac, and will even see that it’s attached in the System Profiler, but that’s […]

I was getting worried. Kitty Harriss getting buried up to her neck at low tide by the citizens of Sarasota wasn’t up to their usual standards. Just because she’s a raging fruitcake and a pawn of the dark side, the ignoble end of her poilitical career was no great suprise. Fake tits and brain damage […]

GOP officials: Rumsfeld stepping down
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years as Secretary of Defense, Republican officials said Wednesday. CNN
Now we’re seeing what a mandate really looks like!

“Kitty only loses by 11 points? What do you have to do to really lose in Florida? As a guideline, Mark Foley is currently leading his opponent…”

GOP “robo-call” scandal grows, now hitting Washington state as well
from AMERICAblog by John in DC
UPDATE: Fraudulent calls hitting Virginia voters too.
In Virginia, Democratic voters are getting phone calls telling them
they’ll be arrested (Markos has the audio via the link above).
The fraudulent GOP voter-intimidation scam has now hit Washington state. Other states being targeted by the […]

I’ve just added this blog to my list. 37 Signals states:
This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, our products, products we like, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago.
Except for the Chicago part, that sounds real familiar. What brought them to my attention was this […]

You can read it in the Guardian, which has joined in the frantic barking that someone has CRACKED the iPod so that it can now play tunes that don’t come from Apple.What a crock! iPods can play mp3s’ and a stack of other formats and they always have. There’s only a problem with Microsoft formats […]

Bradenton Police Department bypassing courts in forfeitures
BRADENTON — For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes.
The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form […]

So there’s this lawyer who’s dumber than a redundant metaphor.  He buys a G5, sticks his head up his ass, then writes about it. So a Mac guy takes him to task only to prove that this lawyer is wrong about everything and should get his meds checked.
Make my day
A fellow named “Larry Bodine”, who […]

From Apple Matters - a blogsite that specialzes in hysterical, attention-getting articles - also runs a great series called “This day in Apple history.” October 6, 1997 was a particularly special date, whence Michael Dell made one of his less prescient, stupid comments:
Michael Dell offers Guidance for Apple ExecutivesGil Amelio had recently been ousted […]

It was just an iPod event
Well, maybe not ‘just’, but Steve’s standup this morning was about movies, iPods and iTunes which are all very cool, and which all support the bottom line. It’s been a while since Apple did anything for the iPod and the webs was starting to get a little testy […]