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Ubuntard.com | A chronicle of Ubuntard stupidity.

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:51:26 -0700

Yeah, mixed impressions, as below. The timing is good with the '50 ways' link, and I don't use Ubuntu myself, anymore, again, but I do recommend it, at least to get a person started. Hell, a good portion of the solutions that Google sends me to are on the ubuntuforums. I say Linux is a good thing, even Ubuntu, and that the only way to get to �ber leet is through newbville.

mental_floss Blog & Why Are People Ashamed of Being Naked?

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:30:05 -0700

From the page: "POCKETS!

posted by motorkitty "

21 Lesser-Known Open-Source Applications for Windows | ixibo

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:44:56 -0700

Animated favicon?
Sotoolad++

Consumerist - Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine - Copyright

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:37:15 -0700

If you can't open it, you don't own it, and I don't want it.

http://Phaedrus420.stumbleupon.com/review/31169552/

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:34:52 -0700

I started to type up that last comment on "Future of Twitter", and I thought I'd be clever and start to rant and cut it off at 140. My first line of thought went nowhere, so I switched to the 'care less' train, with the intention of moving on to my real problem with social networking of all kinds, which is that while listening to something like Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, I have to listen to them go on for five minutes listing their handles at 58 different sites, now with a whole paragraph at the end about tweeting 'us' at the-at-sign-followed-by-scifri.

Anyhow, joke's on me, the cut off happened just before the second full stop, so now it just looks like I'm lazy. I could have done some mangling and rewriting just to properly convey the CARRIER LOST meme that I was really shooting for, but instead, here I am typing up this crap, which is clearly doing nothing for my image, but has a certain cathartic value for me.

In short (HA!) 140 chars is not even enough text to properly make fun of a 140 char limit, so... yay?

Twitter Future - bigger than Facebook? | Globalchange.com | Twitter, People, Future, Social

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:15:27 -0700

Could someone sum up this page in 140 bytes for me? I kid, of course. The reality is that I could care less, but it would be too much effort

Keyboard and mouse going extinct? | Computers

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:29:29 -0700

No.

Edgar Allen Poe Rap - The Pit and the Pendulum Hip-Hop

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:13 -0700

-1 autoplay, -1 preload failure, +2 Edgar Allen Poe rap.

Attraction Marketing&Survey - Internet Marketing - Explode Your Business and Profits

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:38:02 -0700

I knew it felt dirty. Dig, dig, dig: "MLM" No offense, of course, but why would you (not to get personal, but so it goes) market this link through Stumbleupon, where nobody can complete the survey because they've never heard of any of those fine folks? I guess the proper response is for us to say, "Why no, I have not read that book, guess I should go do that!" I notice that 'Renegade' has made a serious effort to make sure that anyone that searches "scam" will end up right back in friendly territory. I didn't even search "scam" to learn that, either. Rather enjoyed reading "the renegade network marketer scam is not a scam," everywhere. A shame that 'they' don't put some effort into proofreading. Don't get me wrong, typos happen, but when one is bragging about their mad marketing skills (read Google-bombing 101 for only $70!) while simultaneously copy and pasting a gem like "here to saty" all over the internet, it does give one pause, especially when, nowadays, even browsers have spell check.

http://webspaza.com/a-bloke-that-looks-like-a-thumb/

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:35:23 -0700

Damnit. I'm sorry, guy, but I laughed. I tried to be offended for you, but it was futile.