I hope Apple releases a water resistant iPhone so I can watch Scott Forstall do a demo in scuba gear.
“After the interview, Homeland Security reported: “Mr Bryan confirmed that he had posted on his Tweeter website account that he was coming to the United States to dig up the grave of Marilyn Monroe.
“Also on his tweeter account Mr Bryan posted he was coming to destroy America.”
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Brits barred from US after tweet | XYDO
Somebody needs to left those homeland security people know that the service is “Twitter,” and that a posting on Twitter is known as a “tweet”.
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Hat tip: Aditya Khana
“In fact it is precisely because we do live in a plural society that we need the fullest extension possible of free speech. In a homogenous society in which everyone thought in exactly the same way then the giving of offence would be nothing more than gratuitous. But in the real world where societies are plural, then it is both inevitable and important that people offend the sensibilities of others. Inevitable, because where different beliefs are deeply held, clashes are unavoidable. And we should deal with those clashes rather than suppress them. Important because any kind of social change or social progress means offending some deeply held sensibilities.”
I hope Apple releases a water resistant iPhone so I can watch Scott Forstall do a demo in scuba gear.
SOPA is to copyright violations what firebombing a perp’s neighborhood is to shoplifting.
For all the talk of the captains of the banking industry “going Galt” if we don’t love them for being job creators, it amuses me no end that the people producing something of real value (much of the best freely available content on the web) ARE. Of course, we call it by its more traditional name when it is actually people who ad fundamental value to the world going Galt, we call it GOING ON STRIKE.
Bill Maher - Irritable Bowl Syndrome. Fraser Davidson put some great graphics and music to a Bill Maher rant about football as socialism. Great stuff!