Comcast fighting net netrality.

And making stupid PR mistakes in the process.

Catchup

Monday

Yesterday

Vaporized Earth

Religious Government

Who woulda thunk it?

Like one of those weight driven clocks.

Brilliant!

Reverse discrimination?

Only vegetarians need apply.

The optical media battle is...

over.

Cell phone cancer?

Maybe.

Five days...

...in a homeless shelter.

Anything can be a competition.

Speedcabling!

Privacy should be the default.

And the path back to privacy should be the least resistant. Facebook's path is apparently overgrown and requires prolonged machete use.

Green Bay needs a fun center!

Please take a moment and vote for St. Vincent's here. (It's in Wisconsin.)

Renegade fanboy?

Andrew Malcolm of The L.A. Times seems to think Ron Paul is winning.

Money and presidential candidates

Obama is winning the fundraising battle on one side while Romney spent $654,000 per delegate, compared to Huckaby's $45,000 on the other. Wonder how much McCain spent to be in first?

Denial of service?

Too frequent to be coincidence. I recall hearing about cables failing from time to time but never at this rate. Something must be going on.

Privacy.

Gone?

Obviously, the identifiers (DNA profiles, fingerprints, modern biometrics like facial shape and retina layout) of past convicted criminals have to be saved.

But what about people that are acquitted? Should they be permanently tracked? Maybe there is a lower bar for this that the prosecutor can jump over even when they fail to convict?

What about people who just need a background check for one reason or another? Do teachers, child care workers, folks applying for security clearance, etc really belong in a database whose purpose is to track criminals?

Should every identifying characteristic searched end up added to the database if it's not there already?

End of the warchest?

This article suggests that Microsoft may have to go in to debt to buy Yahoo. Here's another. I know I'm zealous in my debt dislike, but MSFT has always operated out of the buckets of cash they have laying around. You put a suit in charge last year and all of a sudden they are considering taking on debt?! I wonder if this is another crack in their dominance?

Disparate coalescence.

Ingenious.

How much something does something have to contain before you can call it what it is?

"We think customers understand that it isn't made from avocado..." - Claire Regan, vice president of corporate affairs at Kraft Foods on Kraft Dips Guacamole Flavor.

I guess the "Flavor" part is supposed to clue the consumer in?

Thanks to Raymond Chen and his home paper The Seattle Times.