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google used to be cool but now it's just annoying

2009-07-13T03:26:00.000-07:00

google used to be cool but now it's just annoying

gmail: HELL YEAH

google maps: this is real cool! i'll never use mapquest again

personalized home/igoogle: i didn't know i wanted this but apparently i do. thanks google!

google talk: dang this is pretty cool but kind of clunky and also nobody uses it so there's no real point

google video: this is real nice, maybe secretly better than youtube?? oh, you bought youtube? well i guess you can still have google video as a place for videos longer than 10 minutes, or a repository for documentaries and stuff, or maybe an itunes-like marketplace for downl... oh you're cutting off uploads? well ok then

google checkout: might be worth checking out, but i'm kind of wary of giving you my credit card number (nothing personal)

street view: uhhh this is weird but also really cool

google health: this doesn't seem to have a point and giving up my health information is really weird but i'll use this maybe?

google friend connect: seems kind of neat but unnecessary?

web browser: i thought firefox was basically the google browser since you employ a bunch of mozilla people and stuff? but the comic book makes it seem rockin so i'll give it a shot. wait, windows only?

google voice: ok your insatiable need to have control over all my information is creepy now. i shant be using your service

google latitude: no

google wave: what the fuck is this???

operating system: god just stop it already

IN THE NEWS

2009-07-12T19:36:00.001-07:00

IN THE NEWS

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is just writing Twitter fanfiction now (link)

i had a dream

2009-07-07T01:21:00.000-07:00

I had this crazy dream last night where I was in this weird cult-like church and if you walked through these stained glass windows (I guess like Platform 9 ³/₄ from Harry Potter) you were granted magic god powers, like the ability to fly

The rest of the day has just been a big let-down from that

i almost killed a man

2009-07-02T21:12:00.000-07:00

If you're not following me on twitter, you probably missed me live-twittering my jury service, which I am going to copy and paste here in lieu of coming up with something original:

gonna tweet from jury duty7:25 AM Jun 23rd from txt security made me take out my positronic brain, so embarrassing7:36 AM Jun 23rd from txt no jorts allowed? buh?8:08 AM Jun 23rd from txt theyre dividing us into judges, juries, and executioners9:09 AM Jun 23rd from txt ad with harrison ford: IN REAL LIFE THE JURY DECIDES THE ENDING9:22 AM Jun 23rd from txt gotta go, The Man wants me to turn off my cell phone9:37 AM Jun 23rd from txt excused from a trial that might result in the death penalty o_o11:17 AM Jun 23rd from txt

2009-06-26T06:04:00.000-07:00

	Ben Gibbard - Thriller

	Found at skreemr.com

technobabble

2009-06-24T02:28:00.000-07:00

i need you to hack into north korea's mainframe and deexecute the microkernals

i can't! they're barricading all captcha frequencies and retorrenting all foreign hexateredo bandwidth to a distubed cpu!

DAMN IT

wait... maybe if i disconfigure our ip ram, rechannel the arpanet bitrate and make my twitter avatar green...

yes! i've managed to retrieve a .csv with all their missile launch codes from their server!

great work chloe. upload it to my etchasketch

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music critic

2009-06-23T00:53:00.000-07:00

true life adventures

Last month I met this guy and he said he wanted to become a music critic and write album reviews and I said "Oh, you mean like for Pitchfork?" and he said "What's that?"

anime jihad

2009-06-22T00:03:00.000-07:00

Recently I was cruising the web and someone noted that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's last name kind of resembles the phrase "Animé Jihad." As a big-shot internet entrepreneur perennially on the lookout for the next big thing, I immediately seized upon this and ironically purchased the domain name ANIMEJIHAD.COM and quite ironically made an blog for it, which I will no doubt unironically regret very soon

So, what did you do this weekend?

SIX MORE YEARS

2009-06-21T00:03:00.000-07:00

oh yeah, yesterday was rubbercat.net's sixth anniversary, big fucking deal, whatever

Synecdoche, New York: The Comic

2009-06-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

Mallard Fillmore Watch

WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE.

the worst political cartoon of all time

2009-06-19T02:01:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gentleman, may I have your attention please?

Presenting...

THE WORST POLITICAL CARTOON OF ALL TIME

sluggo's dilemma

2009-06-18T00:05:00.000-07:00

am i post-modern or just ironic
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the new order

2009-06-15T23:46:00.000-07:00

THE NEW ORDER

The New Yorker = enemy of the left

David Letterman = enemy of the right

thrizzling twitter treaures

2009-06-14T23:59:00.000-07:00

I shall treasure this moment always

BO/Hrc shippers only!!!

2009-06-13T02:31:00.001-07:00

I made a youtube video about barack obama and hillary clinton (remember when they were running against each other???) as a parody of another youtube video about harry potter and hermione

You can see both videos side-by-side (probably the best way to view it) here

Also, this might help explain things if you're not a nerd

inconsolable

2009-06-12T00:47:00.000-07:00

(click for big)

sonia sodomite

2009-05-30T16:10:00.001-07:00

continued...

i just want to bring this to everyone's attention

2009-05-29T00:45:00.001-07:00

I just want to bring this to everyone's attention

hop on the BLOODwagon!!!

2009-05-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

great now everybody's trying to cash in on the vampire blog craze

names for newspapers

2009-05-17T16:10:00.000-07:00

Now that the global economy is collapsing, there has never been a better time to start a newspaper! Banks are willing to give you risky loans, you can just copy and paste everything from Reuters, and best of all, there's no longer any competition! To help you on your journalistic journey, I have prepared a list of FIFTY-TWO names for newspapers suitable for pilfering! Alternatively, they can be used for prop makers working on a period piece movie that takes place in a time when people read newspapers.

NAMES FOR NEWSPAPERS

nancy and torture

2009-05-15T22:17:00.000-07:00

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is briefed on torture by the CIA in September 2002. (Getty Images)

twitter trouble

2009-05-09T20:47:00.000-07:00

Man I like Twitter and everything but damn if this doesn't make me want to drive a train through their silicone valley offices (I assume ashton kutcher lives there???)

"Years from now, when historians reflect on the time we are currently living in, the names Biz Stone and Evan Williams will be referenced side by side with the likes of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Philo Farnsworth, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — because the creation of Twitter by Stone, 35 (right), Williams, 37, and Jack Dorsey, 32 (not pictured), is as significant and paradigm-shifting as the invention of Morse code, the telephone, radio, television or the personal computer...
... It is a new and completely original form of communication that has gained worldwide adoption and captured the imaginations of people at every level of media interest or influence...
...Right now the word revolution is spelled with 140 characters."

thanks guy who played the equivalent of squiggy in that 70s show like two decades ago

2009-05-06T08:40:00.001-07:00

BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS

2009-05-01T17:52:00.000-07:00

BREAKING NEWS

PRESIDENT OBAMA APPOINTS SIMON COWELL SUPREME COURT JUSTICE... COWELL INTERRUPTS ATTORNEY'S OPENING ARGUMENT, CALLS IT "DREADFUL"... REFERS TO THOMAS AS "RANDY"... COWELL TO GINSBURG: "GIRL, YOUR INTERPRETATION OF THE COMMERCE CLAUSE RE: GUN CONTROL HAS MORE TWISTS AND TURNS THAN AN EPISODE OF LAW & ORDER. AND YOUR COLLAR LOOK LIKE A DISH RAG"... DEVELOPING...

swine & flu

2009-04-29T23:22:00.000-07:00

"Hog & Dog" #201 - 211 are now up, featuring musings on topics ranging from Chicago politics, Twitter, and Hannah Montana. The last one, "Swine Flu," is actually a clever set-up for the upcoming spin-off comic, "Hog & God"