Sarah Palin, answering a question on whether she thinks she’s qualified to be president:
And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything [...]
I used to eat at the Cthulhu takeout joint down the street. The food was ok, but, honestly, I found the messages in their fortune cookies a little offputting. Some examples:
A secret admirer will soon send you a sign of affection, in the seething form of the worm god Rlim Shaikorth, who will [...]
From Paul Graham’s fantastic piece on the iPhone App Store:
The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they’ve ever done. Their reputation with programmers used to be great. It used to be the most common complaint you heard about Apple was that their fans [...]
From a BoingBoing post about über-crank Ignatius L. Donnelly, who Charlie Pierce profiles in his book Idiot America:
“Cranks are noble,” Pierce says, “because cranks are independent. A charlatan is a crank who sells out.” It’s like the difference between kitsch and dreck–people who make kitsch are sincere. Cynical purveyors of political and cultural [...]
My favorite iPhone game, LED Football, just got better. And by better, I don’t mean that the characters on the screen have begun to resemble actual football players, or anything. No: they still look like red line segments, as God intended.
But note the up and down buttons:
See those wear patterns? They actually get worse the [...]
The new OpenOfficeMouse has been generating a lot of buzz lately, mostly because of its proud array of buttons — 18 in all — and its built-in joystick:
Now, what can you do with 18 buttons, 52 commands, and a joystick? The answer is anything you like. The ability to assign application functions to [...]
Pierre Igot discovered that the click-through behavior in Snow Leopard’s Finder has progressed from unintuitive to batshit insane:
How is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to [...]
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