·· { Sunday, 01 June } ··

Crunchy≡

This is ultimately what happens when you allow children to take the reigns of yet another online technology magazine. Bill nails it as usual:

“For a blog as supposedly influential as TechCrunch is, acting like a petulant middle-schooler who didn’t get the reaction he was looking for is absurd.”

If I want genuinely influential and smart thinking, I’ll get it from Gruber, Airbag or Rands — not some attention seeking upstart.

·· { Saturday, 31 May } ··

Ye Olde Cuss≡

A savvy discourse on the fixation of sans-swearing — something of a popularly pious decision, if not hit-and-miss on occasion — in many fantasy novels, where gratuitous slang is seldom common:

“Tolkein created this world where people just didn’t seem to swear. Hell, some of them randomly burst out into cheerful, life-affirming song whether you wanted them to or not. And to some extent that was a valid approach. I mean, come on. Gandalf stands defiant before the balrog. He raises his staff above his head then then slams it down, screaming, “Get fucked!” It would detract a little from the mood.”