Archive for February, 2007
I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen an tv spot being this powerful. (NSFW)
Note, this song is a 70′s punk remake of the Damned song, Jet boy Jet Girl. The song is pretty much about oral sex. Great vid anyway.
Ex-Gizmodo guru Joel Johnson returns to the site to rant about why he hates gadgets and early adopters.
Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don’t need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn’t do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself. Only buy new stuff from companies that have proven themselves good servants of their customers in the past. Complaining online about this stuff helps, but really, just stop buying it.
You want to know the punchline? The average Joe that makes up the market is smarter than you saps. The market-at-large waits until a clear leader emerges, then takes a modest plunge. You may think you’re making up the “bleeding edge� of “gadget pimpatude� but you’re really just a loose confederation of marks the consumer electronics industry uses as free market research and easy money.
Pretty interesting take on where Java totally blew it, which suprisingly was at the presentation level. Applets no less. Read it here. But take it for its face value, he’s just scratching Adobe’s back.
But I do like what he indirectly proposed. That Adobe drop Java like a nasty habit and support Ruby for Flex data binding (he’s a big Ruby fan).