All the news that shouldn’t be news for July 30, 2010, Including…
$2M For A Wedding?
Poll Questions Wander Into Weeds
Vatican to Gay Priests: GTFO
It’s A Video Game.
Is Jersey Shore The Problem?
Required National Service
Kepler Smacks Down God Again
Chevy’s 4-Passenger Locomotive
Have You Ever Wanted To Run For Office?
Jailbreaking Legal - In The Nerdy Sense
…and much more!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for July 23, 2010
Moving On?
BREAKING NEWS: Iraq Not Connected To 9/11
Ted Haggard Is Back! Oh, Good.
America’s Wacky Third Party
More Family Values From The House Of Gibson
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Aliens Relieved: Jobs Admits Being Human
Non-Story Continues To Grip America
Oh, To Be Brought Down By A Craigslist Ad.
BP Can’t Stop Shooting Itself In The Foot
…and much, much more!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for Jult 16, 2010
Time For A Career Change?
Michael Steele Still Has A Job
Robert Schuller Retiring
Alleged Wife-Beater, Anti-Semite. What\\’s Not To Love?
Last Airbender = FAIL
Corporate Spin Control
A Less-Than-Stellar Showing
Girl Taken In By Douche-Bag, Dumped. This is news?
Adulteress Gone To Dogs, Claims Cousin
Vuvuzelas Silenced. Permanently? One can only hope!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 25, 2010, including:
Cities Go Mental Wooing Sports Star
Barton Apology Works Head AND Shaft
Touchdown! God Spikes Jesus!
This Is Me Not Caring
Vanessa Carlton’s Big Bi Deal
Ward, you were awfully hard on the Beaver last night…
CNN Asks: Is the Mouse Dead?
The Last Rodeo Drags On
Teenage Angst: Kill Brother Over Butter?
Infrabad: Beyond The Other End Of The Idea Spectrum
Saw Peter Frampton and Yes live at Mohegan Sun on Wednesday.
The contrast between the acts is the difference, in my eyes, or ears, between rock-n-roll and playing a lot of notes. Don’t get me wrong… Steve Howe is an agonizingly competent guitarist, and the rest of the Yes gang certainly knows what they’re doing… but… there’s a certain something lacking from the Yes performance… not sure quite what to call it.. but, I suppose one might describe the shortfall in the Yes performance in terms of the Frampton performance.
I would describe the best Frampton performances as “soaring melancholy”. There’s a goose-bump-raising quality to Frampton that’s harder to come by in, say, Yes. Frampton’s chord changes and melodies are… vulnerably … hopeful… but sad… but vital….
…whereas Yes delivered a lot of notes, and not a great deal of heart.
This was my second Frampton show, and my first in almost thirteen years. His band is tight, competent and, most importantly, playfully soulful.
Yes, on the other hand, hit the notes like they’ve been playing them forty years.
Next time, I’ll see Frampton and pass on Yes.
All the news that shouldn’t be news, including:
GOOOOOAAALLLL!
The Only Thing Missing Was Sarah Palin
Mother Theresa. Let’s Move On, Shall We?
Fool or Fox? Perhaps Just A Jackass.
The Lohan-down
The President’s Demeanor
Scary Linux Headline, Banal IRC Content.
Smith/Chan - The Unnecessary Reboot
Lights Out, Lights On, Light Up
The Sausage King of Virginia Is Dead
All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 11, 2010, including:
Christina Aguilera’s Light-Up Crotch
John Boehner Loses Remaining Touch With Reality
British Petroleum
The Burden of Birth
New, From Apple, It’s ThNew, From AppNew, FNew!
Helen Thomas
Washington man packs light for jail time.
Anonymity, Personalized Just For You!
All the news that shouldn’t be news for June 4, 2010, including:
The BP Oil Disaster
Thunderstorm Disrupts Memorial Day for Obama
Pope’s Pointless Visit to Cyprus
Al and Tipper Gore
Gary Coleman is Dead.
OpposingViewpoints: The Gaza Flotilla Clash
Google Dumps Windows, Har-Har.
Ray Stevens
Nude Maids, but that’s not the weird part.
BP: Burping Petroleum
Finally! The first 10 episodes of Moose Weintraub’s Sports Half-Minute are out as individual videos! Here’s a playlist! Watch them in order!
You can also check them out individually here:
I bought a Sony Dash. I gave it a chance. I worked my way through the tedious process of setting it up, particularly getting it to pick up photos from my own web server… Tried out some widgets… cursed the clock, because, out of nowhere, it decided I lived in California, but not in any setting I had access to… I realized that I couldn’t listen to my in-home Icecast-based “Internet Radio Station”, and finally gave up. The Dash went back to Best Buy.
What was wrong with the Dash?
Touch screen… I can’t speak for anyone else… I mean.. Maybe I’m not “capacitive” enough to make the capacitive touch screen work with a light touch, but… I found I had to kind of mash the thing to get it to work… This is a problem, because the “easel-stand-angle-thing” doesn’t lend the Dash to being pushed around. Press on screen hard enough to get a reaction, and the thing falls over. Grr.
Touch screen again… this may, actually be a software issue, but when I press a button, I want to know, right now, that you know I pressed the button, even if it’ll take you a second or two to actually do what I want done. If I can’t have tactile feedback, I need something else… an audible click, or a simple animation or something… something that acknowledges the command.
The “Sony Layer”… The Sony Dash is basically a Chumby One, running in a “container” under the supervision of a layer of Sony software. The Sony layer has a look and feel somewhat similar to what one finds on the PSP, and the PS3… but there’s something lacking on the Dash… I don’t know if it’s that the hardware can’t live up to the dreams of the software people, or if the software was rushed out… Dunno… but this reminds me of when Sony first introduced the “VAIO” line of PCs… It was essentially an attempt to “lock in” customers, and it failed. The Dash seems to try to take something open and simple (the Chumby), slather on a gooey opaque coating of piano-black, and call it a Sony.
Oh, and no battery. Duh. Here’s a giant pallet of stupid. Sony, one of the pioneers of Lithium-ion battery technology… didn’t think to put a battery in this thing.
For $200, I’m not impressed. I’d just as soon get another iPod touch and a cheap speaker-dock. … or a real Chumby for half the price.