Going too far

It takes quite a lot to offend me and overall this country is way too sensitive about a lot of things but I think the Onion may have gone a little to far now with this and this.

I'm not exactly sure how making a mockery of people with disabilities and chronic diseases is funny. I mean slam Michael for "The Secret of My Succe$s" not for having Parkinsons. The kid in the wheelchair thing is just in poor taste. Really poor taste.

I've said for a long time the Onion isn't funny anymore and it's now truer than ever. There was a time (maybe 1997) when it was actually pretty funny (kind of like how "The Daily Show" was funny it's first season with Craig Kilborn). What these "satirists" do is fire all their non-left wing writers and then proceed to slowly become totally slanted in their comedy interjecting their subtle but serious social commentary along the way. Naturally, it sucks.

Then they go and make fun of kids in wheelchairs. Har har.

Caption this®! Will these ever stop? Edition

Caption this®! "Sad Irony" edition

Caption this®! Nancy edition

Caption this®! Sweet Valley High edition!

Don't know what to think of this

Disney to acquire Pixar

I love Pixar and I want to see Disney return to the glory days but this could be really horrible for everybody involved. Incidentally, Steve Jobs is now the biggest shareholder in the Disney corporation.

For Apple Super-Geeks only...

Hey! That's not Steve Jobs!

Also check out this site for a whole bunch of links (some broken) to past Jobs/Apple keynotes!

This is the kind of thing that could occupy a whole weeks worth of evenings for me.

Admittedly a cheap shot...

Michael Moore weighs in...scale breaks.

The beatings will continue until morale improves

My dad typed this up and posted it on the wall today. I found it amusing so I thought I'd relay it to y'all...

The Designer's Stages of Grief:

1. Denial: No! They destroyed it! This is perfect...they can't be this blind! Are you sure?

2. Anger: Fine. Why not block letters on bright yellow? That'll POP! We're not putting our name on this crap...

3. Bargaining: OK, but can we at least show an option with the art added back in?

4. Acceptance: Well, let's at least give it a clean professional look...That's part of our job as designers.

5. Invoicing: A buck's a buck. Thank you very much, enjoyed working with you!

Hey check it out

A local indie pop-rock band that I actually kind of like.

They seem like normal dudes too. Which is refreshing since I picture most indie bands being made up of mascara wearing effeminate men who play 28 year-old Casio keyboards. I mean this band has a My Space web page so how seriously can they really take themselves?

Teddy

Dems attack Alito

I think I'd probably go one further than the senior Republican:
Ted Kennedy is a womanizing drunk who murdered a woman in 1969 (okay, maybe he was just too soused to swim 3ft to save her). In fact the entire Kennedy family is made up of philandering mafia goons. Their dynasty is grounds for kicking Massachusetts out of the union.

Line of Despair

I've held off giving my opinion on Brian McLaren's book "A Generous Orthodoxy" and on the specifics of the "emergent" church for some time now. It's not that I don't want to call McLaren a Looney Tune™ and a heretical Twinkie®, it's just that I feel it's important to actually read his work before I make such outrageous claims.

Anyway, here's a pretty good critique of the book and the PoMo movement in general. DeWaay is a little too "mark of the beast"/Tim LaHaye prophecy for me but I'd say I agree with 95% of what he says. Plus he quotes Francis Schaffer a lot and you really can't go wrong there.

Again, I haven't actually read McLaren's book yet but this is probably my favorite piece of wisdom:

If I seem to show too little respect for your opinions or thought, be assured I have equal doubts about my own, and I don’t mind if you think I am wrong. I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases. So wherever you think I’m wrong, you could be right.

What?

Happy Keynote Eve!

Yes indeed, tomorrow morning will bring us the annual Macworld SanFran keynote courtesy of our lord and savior Steven P. Jobs. Truly only Apple Computer, Inc. and it's co-founder could inspire such rabid anticipation for a keynote speech. Hopefully it won't be anything like last year's keynote which brought us nothing more exciting than a glorified flash drive and the still-has-yet-to-impress-me MacMini.

The word is that Apple will unveil their first line of Intel based computers—most likely a new iBook line and possibly a DVR capable MacMini. I'm still not sure about this. Do we really want Macs with that stupid "Intel Inside" logo on them? I personally don't and if I ever buy a "MacTel" you can bet the first thing I'll do is etch that little bugger off of the aluminium casing with a paper clip.

Some are even saying Apple might make the Intel Macs Windows capable. Well if they do that they may as well just sell the company over to Bill Gates right now. A Mac with Intel components, standard PC parts and a Microsoft interface becomes a $2000 pretty box at that point.

It's a long shot but I'm personally hoping for a Apple PDA based on the iPod architecture. I couldn't care less about Tivo/DVR video capability in the iPods. I wish Apple would go the direction of making them more of a serious PDA device and not just a rich-kid's toy. Besides the first Newton is still cooler than any Palm machine so I'd love to see what Apple could give us in a PDA with 2006 technology.

Who wants to die?

I've heard of tickle me Elmo but this is ridiculous...

Bludgeon me in the back of the head with a tire iron Elmo?

Apropos

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
—Stewart L. Udall