Bush YOU ARE a Fascist …

Epic Online

I got an email from twitter the other day stating that I am now follow’d by EpicOnline, a.k.a Dustin Williams. A fellow Memphian. He’s rather passionate about a city that I quite frankly can’t stand to live in. At any rate, he’s on ustream.tv @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/epic-online, also you can find his blog out at http://epiconlineblog.blogspot.com.

So take a look at his blog and help out a fellow Memphian eh?

XKCD – Online Package Tracking

Being from Memphis myself, I found a veritable treasure trove of humor in this.

XKCD – Centrifugal Force

Tech-Tard-ica

Recently, Metallica invited bloggers to listen to finished tracks from their new upcoming album. Bloggers, being the people they are, posted on various blogs about what they heard. Metallica issued them all cease and desist orders demanding that the blog posts be taken down. Also there are allegations that the bloggers were given the “do what we say or you’ll never work again” treatment. I don’t like this at all. The pressure put on this group of bloggers was said to be a bit on the extreme side. Now all the blog posts, that oddly enough were mostly positive, have all been removed. Metallica complained that the tracks played in the private meeting with the bloggers weren’t “ready for prime time”. So then why were they played for anyone in the first place? There was neither a tacit agreement or signed NDA’s. I wonder what Metallica was really thinking and why are they continously freaking out over media distribution over the internet? .. Well livemetallica.com is one exception and while it has the appearance of giving to the fans, I don’t think they give a damn about the fans anymore, especially after what they pulled against the group of bloggers THAT THEY INVITED IN THE 1ST PLACE! I don’t think anyone has mentioned that Metallica has already announced that the new, yet unnamed album will be released drm free at the same time the cd’s go up for sale in stores. What’s up with all the hypocrisy James, Kirk, Lars and Robert??

I’m about to pull a “napster” and burn all my metallica cd’s, t-shirts, posters, and any other memorbilia I have of theirs. They are continuing to alienate their fans and to this end they will be obsolete in very short order. What are they going to do if they happen to be around the day that digital downloads outsell cd’s? Oh wait, that’s already happened. It’s also very sad that while they claim to have the attitude of do what we want when we want? they have obviously and continously drank the “record label” Kool-Aid and refused to sell their actual past released albums in a completely open format? Does the fact that their new album will be sold both drm free online and in stores mean that from here on out they’re willing to show a new face? Well I’m not buying it right now, so I’ll just play a wait and see on this.

Everyone knows that Metallica are TECH TARDS! They are continously trying to keep themselves in an outdated and outmoded format. They were unfortunately have decided not to embrace the current music-buying culture and stay perpetually in the stone age. Not a smart move, for a group of headbangers that are trying to stay relevant in a world which is about to push them aside if they don’t get with it, and soon.

!!UPDATE!! : on Buzz Out Loud #742 it was said that the desicion to pull the blogger’s reviews of tracks from Metallica’s new album was a desicion not made by the members of Metallica, it was made by their management agency, QPrime.

Dave Winer = Ultimate Fail

Dave, I USED to have the utmost respect for you and your work with RSS along with all your other accomplishments, but I have to ask you something. Why did you think that anyone wouldn’t get the least bit upset at you posting comments like that? I am a Republican, I don’t have a limp dick and I also have a happy wife and 2 kids to show for it.

Yeah I might have lost my cool but you fail to understand one simple thing that I already know. To say to someone that you’re either Democrat or Republican (in my opinion) represents a mindset. I would not ever insult someone’s intelligence or go out of my way to hurt anyone’s feelings or sensebilities over which political party he or she has chosen to affliate with. Oh, and be sure to read my response as well Dave.

Yes Dave, I am offended.