Phewf, what a day.
GM is officially on it’s way to bankruptcy. I remember hearing stories about exactly how long it could survive a strike before it went kaput, but that was all hearsay. At any rate, UAW went on strike at 11am after GM and the UAW failed to reach an agreement. GM has about a one month supply of cars in stock, so we’ll wait and see what happens. If the car industry is an indication of the national economy, I hope this doesn’t go as poorly as it could.
Remember that Sci-fi Sliders? Yeah they’ve proved that there could be an infinite number of parallel universes mathematically. Duh duh duhhhhnnnn. Maybe I’ll wake up and women are ruling a world where we’ve taught apes to talk and they tell us that they want to eat dolphins.
No cheap, urban wifi? Say it ain’t so. But not like you didn’t see this coming.
I will be using this tool to setup my upcoming new desk space in my new apartment. I also recommend anyone to use this who really hates sitting at their desk because it’s so damn uncomfortable.
I first learned about Jobs and Wozniak when I did a research paper called something like, “The history of hacking: an introduction to monopolies, politics, and phreaking.” (or something like that… it was awhile ago). I found this historical article through Fake Steve Jobs (I’m too lazy to link, just google it). They were hackers before Jobs, Woz and Gates turned evil. (Gates went first, and probably the farthest into user-rights-hell, Woz just got completely lost, and Jobs probably just figured everything was too ugly for him and then realized he could make everything pretty once again and came back… evil).
What I hope will be the ugly-evite-killer. Complete with party to-do lists.
Afternoon Edition!
An interesting article on arstechnica through digg about Verizon disclosing records to the NSA, claiming the first amendment in defense of a lawsuit. I haven’t had time to check the facts on this one too deeply, but there is a great comment on the digg page and a link to an interesting write up on the rights of corporations.
A top 25 list from usatoday about public meltdowns. Who knew famous people were this crazy? Oh wait, we all do.
I was thrown a little curveball by this article, but thought I would comment on it briefly. More and more I’m becoming a huge fan of Ron Paul, so when I saw this article I was very interested to see how it would turn out. I ended with slightly mixed feelings. I started reading expecting more information about Paul and ended up getting a lot of rhetoric about the “new media.” Don’t get me wrong, the “old media” makes me absolutely sick. I’m just not a big fan of rhetoric. So now I’m looking for a transcript of the debates because it’s looking like Ron Paul might be my man for the big “P”. More info on my findings later
And finally, some good news from Cisco. I don’t typically follow stocks as much as I probably should, but Cisco interests me because the recently acquired webEx, and I’m a regular user of that software.
Slow day at the office? I’ll say. Among other things, my SO’s company’s stock showed up in my financial feeds, so I thought I might throw that out there.
Trying to clarify the lines between funny and tasteless, the language log has a comic reversing the roles of sexuality in comedy. Unfortunately for them I don’t like it when people define life in terms of sexuality. Straight or gay, life is too broad, big and important to be characterized and subsequently (IMHO) pigeon holed by defining one’s life simply by sexual orientation, race, or creed. But rather defining it by comics and video games, that’s OK by me.
Finally, I hate taxes and so should you. A simple flash interactive of a gorgeous information visualization poster shows you why.
