Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring you.
Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to you?
Website: Fuck entirely off.
Me: (gives up, switches to computer)
Website: Oh! Hi! What can I help you with today?
Me: What are your —
Website: Hang on, I’m loading the music.
Me: Really.
Website: You’ll love it. It’s “Girl from Ipanema” arranged for steel drum and keytar.
Me: No, you don’t have to —
Website: Loading…
Me: All I want is —
Website: I SAID DOT DOT DOT.
Me: (drums fingers on desk)
Website: There we go. Isn’t that nice? It’s… what’s the word. Ethnicky.
Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?
Me: What. Are. Your. Hou. Rs.
Website: I… I don’t know.
Me: (goes to Denny’s)
Just finished Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. Great sequel minus one major contradiction. In the first book the Daemon influenced the MSM.
The personal computer of 2010 is hard to understand for novices and people who struggle with abstract concepts. Macs, PCs, all of them. Folks, it’s us, the freaks who understand drive partitioning, regular expressions, virtual disk images, task switching, and shell scripting — we’re the exception.
RT @billburton44: #questiontime will be on wh.gov soon (the video is loading now) and replayed on cspan at 8
RT @barkingmoose: I just heard Nintendo has a game system called the Wii. I’m sorry, but do they not even test these product names? Fool …
RT @BenKuchera: Best name for the iTablet yet: A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer
Power out in south end of Burlington. Thank you laptop battery.
RT @mattyglesias: Plouffe joining White House team: http://bit.ly/6rqe1K
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title: “63% of internet readers will like this comic” - originally published 1/20/2010
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Quix (http://quixapp.com/) has Pukka integration (bottom of help page) http://bit.ly/7QqfaE
Here’s one new election tool that’s being employed in the Massachusetts Senate race: Walking Edge, a smartphone application and database that tells canvassers where undecided voters and…


